in every old movie ever

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"look, don't get sore, see?"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

"say, what's the big idea?"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

"oh, a wise guy, eh?"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

that one shot of police cars and motorcycles zooming out of the station, with the sirens blazing

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

the heroine has a little sister who makes morbid comments all the time, until the humorless matronly mother figure comes to drag her off to her piano lessons

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

The heroine wears an amazing satin dress.

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

"lets not have a row"

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

cop: "now, take it easy, charlie, just take it easy"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

"say young Jimmy, how would you like to take a ride in a *real* firetruck?"

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

"Oh, can't you see?"


"You don't even know your own mind."

mamieOrourke, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

They never had to visit the loo. How big were their bladders?

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

"Why i aughtta..." (brandishes fist)

guy in vest pushes up window in tenement window, scratches armpit, takes stoagie out of mouth "Hey, you kids! Scram"

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

(the first three up there are from His Girl Friday fo sure??)

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

"listen you mugs, don't you know who i AM?!"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

"now you get that son of a bitch ____ on the phone and you tell him ____"

Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

*spinning newspaper headline*

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

"Say, I didn't mean nothin'"

the pinefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

"what's in the bag?"

"nuthin'"

"well let's have a *look* at some o' that nuthin!"

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

double-take

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

"Thanks, mister!"

Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

"Aw pops, ya got wax in yer ears."

Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

slap!

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

lights cigarette - repeat x200

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

"Now you listen to me!"

"Why I oughta...!"

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

maid opens the door only to find angry heiress throwing lamps

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

"that's another fine mess..."

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

"you ain't just whistlin' dixie!"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

detective: "i think you dropped this $100 bill."
snitch: "what hun--- oh. uh, thanks!"

Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

"Get ahold of yourself you dizzy dame!"
SLAP!

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

old drunk sitting in bar declares in a very dignified tone that he will never touch the stuff again, turns to window and sees something bizarre, turns back to bar and asks for another drink "and fast!!"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

"Say, Trudy?"
"Yes, Dirk?"
"I-I don't suppose you'd want to go to the picture show with me on Friday would you?"
"Why yes Dirk, I'd love to!"
"R-really?"
"Certainly! Pick me up at eight?"
"Sure! You bet! Oh boy... see you at eight!"
(Dirk leaves, Trudy whispers to some football players)
"I think Dirk may be a communist. Be there at eight with bats."

Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahahahaha

Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

*Proper* man trying to get tough with street character/gangster: "Now see here!"

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Someone who's not Peter Lorre doing a Peter Lorre impression.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

"I'll shoot him, pa, he's my dog."

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

"darling, make love to me"

"don't be ridiculous!"

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

"It's the end of the worlds I tellsya! The end of the world!!"

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

"Well what on earth could be the matter?"

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

"Just what the devil do you mean ringing here at this hour?!"

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Movie, Man!

the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

"Operator, get me ____"

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

"oh PLEASE go and get him, tell him it's an EMERGENCY!"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

"Young Jimmy here saw the whole thing, didn't yer Jimmy"
"Sure did, pop"

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

"leopard? no sir, ain't no leopard been see'd around these parts in more'n thirty years, i reckon."

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

"I'm worried about that boy."

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

"Calling all cars"

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

The entire script of this movie to thread

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

see also: It Happened One Night

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

JD, that is hardly every old movie.

Bloke takes off his uniform cap, scratches his head with the same hand that's holding the cap, then replaces cap on head.

also

"Come come, officer. I'm a respectable man."

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

comedy involving a big jar labeled LARD

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah yeah yeah, tell it down at the station.

Book 'im, boys.

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 16:30 (three weeks ago)

Crime boss getting a shave in the chair, our gumshoe catches him off guard to ask a few interesting questions

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 18:36 (three weeks ago)

‘Where can we get in touch with you?’

‘You can reach me at my club. It’s number is Chelsea 123.’

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 18:50 (three weeks ago)

re: fast dialogue. Whilst watching the 1931 Front Page I had to use all my powers of concentration to follow the dialogue or get hopelessly lost within seconds.

Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 18:55 (three weeks ago)

Same for me with His Girl Friday, which unsurprisingly is derived from the same theatrical source material.

clapton cocaine bust (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:46 (three weeks ago)

||this thread is mainly for examples, not discussion||

Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:49 (three weeks ago)

Ha, keep doing that, sorry. Still getting over this nasty cold

Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:50 (three weeks ago)

merry christmas to you too

Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:50 (three weeks ago)

Evil curmudgeon tries to take over, dismantle, destroy and permanently poxy fule ILX.

Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 19:58 (three weeks ago)

soda jerk puts towel over his shoulder, asks 'what'll it be, bub?'

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:00 (three weeks ago)

🎄

Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:00 (three weeks ago)

in every movie with a christmas scene: everyone sings carols together without self consciousness

Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:01 (three weeks ago)

tough cowboy orders a shot of rotgut whisky, puritanical missionary woman orders a Sarsaparilla

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 20:07 (three weeks ago)

american couples say “darling” to each other

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:06 (two weeks ago)

They don't anymore?

The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:16 (two weeks ago)

"Darling" is generally sarcastic these days, I think.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:57 (two weeks ago)

I use it all the time.

The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:57 (two weeks ago)

One must live as campily as possible.

The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:58 (two weeks ago)

Cab driver: "Where to, Mac?"

jmm, Sunday, 28 December 2025 17:10 (two weeks ago)

"Just drive"

a stadium filled with people in cheesecloth shirts (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 December 2025 18:23 (two weeks ago)

or “Follow that car”

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 28 December 2025 18:45 (two weeks ago)

"Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times (about It's a Wonderful Life) etc"

It's more a kind of "there were mammoths when the pyramids were built" thing, but I find it striking that Crowther's career was long enough to shit all over It's a Wonderful Life and also Bonnie and Clyde. It feels as if those two films belong to two different geological eras.

I learn from the internet that he was asked to retire in the wake of Clyde. His face looks exactly like his name sounds.

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 28 December 2025 21:47 (two weeks ago)

Rex Reed's career has spanned long enough for him to review Georgy Girl and Poor Things (rave and pan, respectively).

Josefa, Sunday, 28 December 2025 23:36 (two weeks ago)

lol

Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 December 2025 00:38 (two weeks ago)

old drunk sitting in bar declares in a very dignified tone that he will never touch the stuff again, turns to window and sees something bizarre, turns back to bar and asks for another drink "and fast!!"

Alternatively, town drunk sees something bizarre, looks at the bottle he's drinking from, throws bottle away.

Donald Crump (Tom D.), Monday, 29 December 2025 07:45 (two weeks ago)

two weeks pass...

"See ya in the funny papers!"

Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 19:21 (two days ago)

Office doors with frosted glass windows and someone's name painted on them

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 19:25 (two days ago)

Shenanigans on a train!

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 19:27 (two days ago)

XP the opening scenes show the occupant walking into his first day on the job and they're still stencilling his name on the door. He quickly gets fired and the stencil artist has to start over

Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:04 (two days ago)

Crossing the road by striding out into heavy traffic, causing passing cars to screech to a halt and angrily toot their horns

one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:07 (two days ago)

Key plot point revolves around not being able to get to a payphone

one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:09 (two days ago)

A caller must be kept on the phone, in order to trace the call.

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:37 (two days ago)

ha I just watched High and Low for the first time the other day and wondered how old that device is

rob, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:44 (two days ago)

"Boy am I glad to see you!"

"Aren't you a sight for sore eyes"

rob, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:45 (two days ago)

Bartender wiping down bar.

"What'll it be?"

The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:47 (two days ago)

Guys being flirty with the telephone operator

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:48 (two days ago)

"See ya in the funny papers!"

Old-timey leave-taking phraseology

Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:53 (two days ago)

Bartender wiping down bar.

"What'll it be?"

"Whisky. Straight."

one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:34 (yesterday)

Crossing the road by striding out into heavy traffic

this is me pretty much everyday

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:45 (yesterday)

Crossing the road by striding out into heavy traffic, causing passing cars to screech to a halt and angrily toot their horns

Or, crossing lane by lane as traffic continues to speed past.

visiting, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:47 (yesterday)

"Can I cash a check here?"

"Not a problem, sir."

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 00:50 (yesterday)

Pseudo-scientific explanations for female behaviour proffered by middle-aged male clinicians (or complete amateurs) - 'schizophrenia' (i.e. MPS), nymphomania, hysteria etc.

one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 01:43 (yesterday)

iirc that wasn't exactly exclusive to the movies.

visiting, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 02:31 (yesterday)

whatever the diagnosis, some fresh sea air will be prescribed. especially if it creates dramatic tension by pulling our character away from the action to convalesce at the seaside

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 07:48 (yesterday)

You're suffering from the vapors. I'm going to prescribe a week of sea vapors.

Josefa, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 13:36 (yesterday)

I wish doctors still prescribed fresh sea air.

Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 13:39 (yesterday)

"Taking the waters."

Cf. Casablanca: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 13:58 (yesterday)

Pseudo-scientific explanations for female behaviour proffered by middle-aged male clinicians (or complete amateurs) - 'schizophrenia' (i.e. MPS), nymphomania, hysteria etc.

There's a great bit in camp classic The Bad Seed (1956) featuring a very confident lecture on the state of modern psychology delivered by...a surgeon.

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 14:14 (yesterday)

"Taking the waters."

Cf. Casablanca: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."


"B-b-but...."

Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 15:02 (yesterday)

We're in the desert.

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 20:00 (yesterday)


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