sirphobos wrote: ↑November 20th, 2023, 5:36 pm I looked through the wikipedia entries for Columbia films from 1930-1939, and the following have characters named "Barnes" or "Burns" or "Barney"
My Son is Guilty 1939 | Barney
it's all yours 1937 | Barnes
Lady from Nowhere 1936 | Barnes
If You Could Only Cook 1935 | Burns
The Westerner 1934 | Barnes
Cocktail Hour 1933 | Burns
Three Wise Girls 1932 | Barnes
The Good Bad Girl 1931 | Barnes
I'm about 3/4 of the way through "It's All Yours" and I don't think it's gonna be this one. I didn't find a script anywhere for it, so I've opted for the youtube "fast playback"
Did a quick search on a few TV/Movie script search engine, the one that worked the best was PopMystic (can filter results by year range).
I was able to search for 'the other side of the hill' and get Lost Horizon (1937) as a result (just wanted to make sure it really could go as far as the 30s).
I couldn't find anything for :
"rehearse our roles"
"reverse our roles"
"if so"
"you may be right"
Then I took one of your proposition (Lady from Nowhere), watched a clip on Youtube and searched for an exact quote to see if I would get a result.
I searched for "I'm afraid it was my fault" (said around the 10 min mark in the movie) and didn't get any results in the movie.
I know none of this helps - but just wanted to point out that it seems there's some movies missing in these databases, specially older movies.
I'm still optimistic that this will be identified someday, but while it may be old media, it might not be a movie. I don't think older TV shows are all properly transcribed and searchable.