In Popular Culture
- "Colonel Bogey" was whistled as an insult by Michael Redgrave in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes, probably the first time it was heard in a film.
- It has been used in other films, including The Parent Trap, Caveman, The Breakfast Club, The Day of the Jackal, Short Circuit, The Bridge on the River Kwai (perhaps the most famous use), and The Card (1952).
- Actor John Candy used "Colonel Bogey" as a signature theme tune during his television and film career.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)