A Movie Scene Quiz

29. The Secret Garden (duh!)

Recap:

G = A scene involving Gardening (a garden being "A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit." (But, no farming, such as cultivation of crops, please.)

1. Dark Victory (Bette Davis is tending her garden when she realizes she is going blind.)
2. American Beauty
3. Being There (Peter Sellers plays Chance the gardener)
4. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5. The Godfather
6. Minority Report
7. The Last Emperor
8. Soul Food
9. Saving Grace
10. Friday (Stanley mowing his lawn and Miss Parker watering her garden)
11. Gods and Monsters
12. Mrs. Miniver (the stationmaster grows a breed of rose which he names for Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. M. later finds the wounded German pilot in her own rose garden)
13. Sitting Pretty (the nosy neighbor pollenates roses with a feather)
14. The Big Sleep (first scene takes place in a greenhouse amidst General Sternwood's orchids)
15. The Days of Wine and Roses (one of the most harrowing scenes of a desperate alcoholic that I've ever seen)
16. Return to Me(Minnie Driver's character has a beautiful flower garden behind the family restaurant)
17. Indecent Proposal (Woody begs Demi to tell him about that one night while in their vegetable garden)
18. In the Heat of the Night (slaps all around while in the greenhouse)
19. Steel Magnolias
21. Green Card (1990), Brontë
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Samwise is Frodo's gardener
23. The Karate Kid (1984), Mr Myagi
24. Swimming Pool (2003), Marcel
25. Spoorloos (1988), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu's character; you'll never look at your flowerbed the same way again!
26. Far From Heaven (Dennis Haysbert as the gardener)
27. All That Heaven Allows (Rock Hudson as the gardener)
28. Born Free (Elsa has an encounter with the elephants in the vegetable garden)
29. The Secret Garden (duh!)

30. To Kill a Mockingbird

31 The Constant Gardener

I'm gonna post this one and duck.

32. The Bible (Eve picks an apple off the tree in the Garden of Eden)

GROAN!! The made you do it, Roberta?

33. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

33. Gone to Seed
34. Caddy Shack (Bill Murray plays a gardener)

35. The Magnificent Seven

After all hell breaks loose and four of the Magnificent Seven are killed, there comes a time of reflection as the villagers look around and see so many dead, mostly banditos, but also a fair amount of villagers and, as mentioned, the four dead heroes from the north of the Rio Grande.

It is a time of sadness, but there is hope for the future. The banditos have been slain and the villagers begin to look forward to a future of happiness and prosperity.

The three remaining of the "Seven" say their goodbyes and mount their horse to ride away. Charles Bronson, Yul Bryner, and this persistent kid -- a kid who relentlessly nagged his way into the group -- are the three warriors who prepare their exit.

As they ride off Bronson and Bryner stare straight ahead with looks of grim determination etched onto their weather-hardened faces. But the kid has a confused look and as they pass this hot-looking Mexican babe working in a garden he eyes her curves and thinks about the possible romantic rewards which would be bestowed upon him if he stayed behind.

He glances at the two hardened cowboys, back to the soft, voluptuous girl, back to the cowboys, one more look at the girl, and then he turns his horse around and starts riding toward her. She smiles and begins to unearth her carrots with a renewed vigor.

The cowboys turn around and see the horny kid getting off his horse and approaching the gardening woman, and they smile.

Then they make that clicking noise that cowboys do to stimulate their horses into a faster pace and the horses start running, leaving little puffs of dust behind them, and the music starts blaring as the words THE END appear on the screen.

I don't recall a dry eye in the house during that memorable and touching scene.

36. Intolerance (the Hanging Gardens of Babylon)

The "kid" was, of course, Horst Buchholz, the German James Dean.

I bet Calmity Jane knew that, and I bet she was infatuated with the guy.

Thanks for the info, Joe.

Wouldn't it be great if everyone added descriptive detail the way that Gus did for "Magnificent 7"?

I must say that Gus's attention to minor details is unsurpassable.

I just noticed a slight mixup in the numbering here. Here's a recap:

Gardening

1. Dark Victory (Bette Davis is tending her garden when she realizes she is going blind.)
2. American Beauty
3. Being There (Peter Sellers plays Chance the gardener)
4. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5. The Godfather
6. Minority Report
7. The Last Emperor
8. Soul Food
9. Saving Grace
10. Friday (Stanley mowing his lawn and Miss Parker watering her garden)
11. Gods and Monsters
12. Mrs. Miniver (the stationmaster grows a breed of rose which he names for Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. M. later finds the wounded German pilot in her own rose garden)
13. Sitting Pretty (the nosy neighbor pollenates roses with a feather)
14. The Big Sleep (first scene takes place in a greenhouse amidst General Sternwood's orchids)
15. The Days of Wine and Roses (one of the most harrowing scenes of a desperate alcoholic that I've ever seen)
16. Return to Me(Minnie Driver's character has a beautiful flower garden behind the family restaurant)
17. Indecent Proposal (Woody begs Demi to tell him about that one night while in their vegetable garden)
18. In the Heat of the Night (slaps all around while in the greenhouse)
19. Steel Magnolias
21. Green Card (1990), Brontë
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Samwise is Frodo's gardener
23. The Karate Kid (1984), Mr Myagi
24. Swimming Pool (2003), Marcel
25. Spoorloos (1988), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu's character; you'll never look at your flowerbed the same way again!
26. Far From Heaven (Dennis Haysbert as the gardener)
27. All That Heaven Allows (Rock Hudson as the gardener)
28. Born Free (Elsa has an encounter with the elephants in the vegetable garden)
29. The Secret Garden (duh!)
30. To Kill a Mockingbird
31 The Constant Gardener
32. The Bible (Eve picks an apple off the tree in the Garden of Eden)
33. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
34. Gone to Seed
35. Caddy Shack (Bill Murray plays a gardener)
36. The Magnificent Seven
37. Intolerance (the Hanging Gardens of Babylon)

No, he was too boy-like for me, aside from the large age gap.
Here is Horst Buchholz as a young lad

CJ,

At the time you were a child, Horst Bucholz was hosting an astrology show on German television.

On a more positive note, Bucholz spoke several languages fluently. He also enjoyed a long, happy marriage (from 1958 until his death in 2003.) He is survived by his wife and two adult children.

I remember him mostly from an old Haley & John Mills movie, Tiger Bay.

Looks like we might need to start a Horst Buchholz thread.

38. Little Shop of Horrors (1960 and 1986) (florists should count, shouldn't they?)

I'm going to accept "Little Shop of Horrors", joefromchicago, since we've already strayed from the subject -

G = A scene involving Gardening (a garden being "A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, (But, no farming, such as cultivation of crops, please.) ----

by including gardens, and not the actual gardening. (But NO scenes in floral shops unless the leading character is a florist or a person who works in a florist's shop. )

(I aim to please. )

39. Calendar Girls

One of the characters has a husband who is a gardener, who dies early in the movie. He wrote a speech he never got to deliver in which he said, "The flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire. Every stage of their growth has its own beauty, but the last phase is always the most glorious. Then very quickly they all go to seed." That's what gives the women the idea for the calendar.