I've really loved this movie since I stumbled upon it while channel surfing many years ago. Saw it on the Late Late movie on TV . I haven't seen it for a while, but I know there was a cute catch-phrase Steve McQueen used a couple of times in the movie. It was "...banjos and ..." Can anybody out there fill in the blanks for me?
share"Banjos and Bells". Or "Bells and Banjos".
shareit's Banjos and Bells which Natalie Wood explains to Steve McQueen is what she was also told was the feeling one got from being in love or the act of making love. McQueen at the film's end waits for her outside of Macy's playing a banjo
and jingling bells; wearing a sign that reads BETTER WED THAN DEAD. it wins
him her heart
Actually...to clarify...
When Angie & Rockie are hiding out in Rocky's dad's upholstery shop, Rocky turns on the radio, and Jack Jone's recording of the song plays as "source" music. Johnny Mercer's lines in the lyric - just before Angie turne off the radio - are
I could fall in love with the proper stranger - if I heard the bells and the banjos play...When Angie turns off the radio - out of frustration with the sentiment, she says
"That's what love is...banjos and bells...As she and Rocky talk she tells him she used to try to pick out the people who lived alone - like, on the subway, or wherever she was - and they always had glassy eyes
"...like they were...you know...DEAD."
Actually, Jack Jones sings "if I heard bells and banjos ring."
Natalie Woods then says "...bells and banjos playing..."