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'She came at me in sections . . . .


. . . more curves than a scenic railway."

What a great line.

I love this movie! And the Girl Hunt Ballet is wonderful parody.

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This was made while Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer books were best sellers and the Girl Hunt sequence is a great parody.

I'm the kind of guy, when I move - watch my smoke. But I'm gonna need some good clothes though.

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Some may not get the reference but the "bone, and a rag, and a hank of hair" is taken from a Rudyard Kipling poem called "The Vampire". The point was that the man who was killed at the start of the ballet was trying to warn Rod Riley that the blonde was a "vampire" or "vamp", which was a term used for a dangerous woman that used seduction to lure men into danger or death.

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An old expression...I didn't realize it came from Kipling.

I'm the kind of guy, when I move - watch my smoke. But I'm gonna need some good clothes though.

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The bone looked like a pig femur.

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