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Posted by l.hammersley on 10/17/06 18:37
"Tracy" <sistermoonconstant@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Covenant wrote:
>> Okay...
>>
>> It may be a cowboy movie, or it may be an *American war of independence*
>> film, or one of those *Alamo* type movies...
>>
>> Point is, I ony saw it on TV when I was about 10 (over 30 years ago!)
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>> But one scene sticks in my head cos it may have been my first exposure to
>> TV
>> violence..
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>> Some guy comes into this room/tent/something...
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>> And all the rest of the guys in there are playing cards.
>> And this one guy has done something horrendous (Nope, dunno what!)
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>> And he gets well stabbed up (But surounded by the pother guys so you see
>> nothing..)
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>> BUT while they are stabbing him up they are singing or whistling, "John
>> Brown's Body"
>> and the scene ends with a shot of a card table (with a gratuitous ace of
>> spades showing) and a knife having the blood wiped off onto the
>> tablecloth...
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>> Any ideas???
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> Apparently, 43 films use that tune!
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> Can you go from here?:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
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Could you give us more information such as the victims blood group or what
other cards the poker players were holding when they stabbing took place?Was
the table cloth patterned or was it just one colour (what colour?)and what
material was it made off?
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