Name This Movie

[Onaflag]

This has been bugging me for a long time. I remember the scene very well, but have no idea what movie it's in. It goes like this:

4 or 5 guys are in a room. There's some conversation about how lighters never ever light on the first try. They make some kind of bet where one of the guys had to put his finger under a paper cutter or something like that while another guy would try to light a lighter on the first try.

If I remember right, if it lights, all is cool. If it doesn't, off with the finger. Naturally, it didn't light and the finger came off. they took him to a hospital to have it reattached.

What friggin movie is that?

Onaflag..........

[eric5148]

Hitchcock, right? I can't remember the name either.

[Onaflag]

I could have sworn John Travolta was in it. For a short time a long time ago, I thought it was Pulp Fiction until I became a huge fan of Pulp Fiction. That's the problem. I thought it was something else until I realized it wasn't.

Onaflag..........

[nothumb]

Well, they do this in Four Rooms, but it's a tribute to another program, I think it was actually a TV show. Look up Four Rooms on imdb and check trivia.

NT

[Freakin]

Four Rooms. It was zippos specifically, and it had to light 10 times in a row.

You're welcome.

Freakin

[nothumb]

Yeah, it's from an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

NT

[bort411]

They reference and recreate this in the movie "Four Rooms." It was one of the TV Hitchcock episodes, not a movie. Not sure about the title, though.

[Freakin]

Regardless of what it was a tribute to, I am almost certain that it's Four Rooms that OP is thinking of.

Freakin

[nothumb]

Regardless of what both of you said, you are toooooo sloooooow, and you weren't even sure. /images/graemlins/cool.gif

Bitches.

NT

[captZEEbo1]

"The fourth room, Quentin Tarantino's "Man From Hollywood" is based on a short story by Roald Dahl called "Man from the south"; in which the man who does the bets is actually insane."

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0113101/trivia

I couldn't remember the name of the story, but knew it was Roald Doahl.

[Freakin]

Well dammit, I was sure. It took me longer to get my post out cause I had originally written out a rather verbose description of the whole scene, then decided that anyone who hadn't seen it yet would have it ruined by my thoroughness. So forgive me for being helpful (and by forgive I mean suck my balls). Mainly I'm just mad at you for beating me....

B

[nothumb]

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I actually refrained from looking this up initially just to get my response up faster, then went and checked, and then talked trash about it.

'NT'
(one letter away from NIT)

[Freakin]

ni han

[ethan]

There's a movie version of the Dahl story. I saw it it Jr High. The guy's lighter has to work 10 times in a row - if it does he gets a car, if it doesn't he loses the thumb.

Was the Hitchcock presents show in color? If so then I guess that's what I saw, I just don't remember seeing hitcock as part of it.

[eric5148]

The Hitchcock was in b&w.

[ArchAngel71857]

Four Rooms

-AA

[usmfan]

Just FYI. The version that I first remembered when I read the OP was the eighties' redux of Hitchcock Presents. Stevn Bauer was the gambler and Melanie Griffith was his wife. John Huston was the old guy and Kim Novak was his wife. Just a little tidbit.