Posted on 10/20/2015 3:48:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A car with two people inside plunged off the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf late Saturday, officials said.
Both people were rescued by emergency crews and were transported to a hospital. The condition of the two were not immediately known.
The incident was reported at 8:20 p.m. near the Santa Cruz Lifeguard Headquarters.
Officials said the driver went over an 8-inch parking block and tore through a 4-foot rail before falling about 20 feet into the ocean.
Witness Christina Patrick said she saw the car driving all over the pier before it went off.
Nearby lifeguards swam to the vehicle, described by witnesses as a white sedan, to rescue the two people in the car.
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Murder/suicide?
So. Was it the car or the driver? If he had shot someone would it have been the gun or the shooter?
It is the one and only movie by Steve King that I enjoyed. I read the book and it didn’t compare to the movie. It was a great psychological film. I had to watch it when home schooled and write an essay on it.
MARLOWE: Mmm.
OHLS: Oh I almost forgot, there's a guy in it.
- The Big Sleep
Great movie.
Yep, one of my favorites.
I'll have you know I've waited years for a car to go of a pier so I could post that.
I love it. It's not like movies where you know everything that's going to happen. If you don't pay attention for a few minutes, you are lost.
Yep. Then they cut the movie to confuse it even further. There’s a scene in the dead guy’s apartment where there body is gone. But in another version, Bogart discovers the body laid out on the bed. Turns out there was a Gay lover in the mix, the one who shoots the wrong guy later.
Crazy movie.
I never saw her in another movie, but that Martha Vickers was something else.
The book store had porn?! Where?
The book store babe was Dorothy Malone, who totally stole the scene. I think Martha Vickers was Bacall’s drug-addled slut sister in the movie.
Howard Hawks wired Chandler to ask the question. Chandler later wrote in a letter to his English publisher that he was "hooted at" for not being able to provide a good answer.
In "The Big Sleep," Owen Taylor's death was called a suicide in newspaper accounts. Though Marlowe seems to disbelieve those accounts, no other explanation for Taylor's death is ever provided.
Actually, the suicide explanation works very well. Taylor knew he would be caught and prosecuted for killing Geiger, and he should have figured out what a complete idiot he had been to fall in love with Carmen. Also, driving off a pier is much more consistent with suicide than with murder.
Chandler could have confirmed the suicide in a couple of sentences, but I guess he just forgot.
Anyway, I think it's more likely that Brody killed Taylor.
Carmen said Brody killed Geiger. I don't think she would protect Taylor, but she might want to "get" Brody, but that assumes her brain was working well enough to lie.
No, he originally goes to the book shop that is fronted by a woman named Agnes. He suspected it was a front, so he had done research at the library and stumped Agnes. Then he goes across the street to Dorothy Malone, to check and see if she would fall for the same trick. And yes, she did steal the scene. Oh, and how about the lady taxi driver?
Yes, she wasn't in much of the movie, but how about the scene at the beginning when she tries to sit in Marlowe's lap, while he's standing up?
LOL, yeah, you know the movie. And I forgot about Agnes and the “Argentine-Egyptian ceramics.”
And yeah, the taxi driver - every time I see the movie I do a double-take. Can you imagine 40’s movie audience response?
-PJ
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