Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Turner Classic Movies today is playing a bunch of good movies, and today I watched Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

It's got a really weak cast (sarcasm alert!), Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier, but otherwise is very good.. It's basically the story of the parents of a white girl who brings home a black man she is engaged to. It's a very honest, smart movie that could not be made today even though they have tried to re-make it. The Politically Correct police would have never allowed this movie to be made because it's so honest.

It's very quotable, the most oft quoted passage seems to be Sidney Poitier's speech to his father,

"You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you're supposed to do! Because you brought me into this world. And from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don't own me!"

But today another passage really caught my attention. It's a quiet scene where Sidney Poitier's mother is talking openly and honestly to Spencer Tracy -

"What happens to men when they grow old? Why do they forget everything? I believe those two young people need each other. Like they need the air to breathe in. Anybody can see that by just looking at them. But you and my husband are -- You might as well be blind men. You can only see that they have a problem. But do you really know what's happened to them? How they feel about each other? I believe that men grow old. And when the -- when sexual things no longer matter to them, they forget it all. Forget what true passion is. If you ever felt what my son feels for your daughter, you've forgotten everything about it. My husband too. You knew once...but that was a long time ago. Now the two of you don't know. And the strange thing...for your wife and me...is that you don't even remember. If you did...how could you do what you are doing?"

Now Key Largo is playing - I could just sit up all day watching these movies.