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

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

"say, what's the big idea?"

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

"oh, a wise guy, eh?"

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

The heroine wears an amazing satin dress.

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

"lets not have a row"

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

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

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

"Oh, can't you see?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

*spinning newspaper headline*

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

"Say, I didn't mean nothin'"

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

double-take

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

"Thanks, mister!"

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

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

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

slap!

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

lights cigarette - repeat x200

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

"Now you listen to me!"

"Why I oughta...!"

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

maid opens the door only to find angry heiress throwing lamps

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

"that's another fine mess..."

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

"you ain't just whistlin' dixie!"

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

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

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

hahahahahahahaha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"darling, make love to me"

"don't be ridiculous!"

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

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

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

"Well what on earth could be the matter?"

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

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

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

Movie, Man!

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

"Operator, get me ____"

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

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

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

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

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

"I'm worried about that boy."

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

"Calling all cars"

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

The entire script of this movie to thread

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

see also: It Happened One Night

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

comedy involving a big jar labeled LARD

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

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An expression of a hunger for hamburger sandwiches and French fried potatoes.

― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:28 (three years ago)

Married couples sleeping in seperate beds (surely been mentioned?)

And one of them having at least one foot on the floor.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 June 2022 00:59 (three years ago)

"Why, I oughta pound you!"

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:37 (three years ago)

Aw, don't be a sap.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:38 (three years ago)

My recollection is that every film set in New York until the modern era starred people who looked like this and dressed in these clothes (from Wolfen), but it could be Six Days of the Condor, The French Connection, Ghostbusters, Kramer vs Kramer, literally every film shot in New York):
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_67/wolfen_blu-ray_/960__wolfen_06_blu-ray__blu-ray_.jpg

Everybody was older then. Was it cheaper to film in New York in the winter?

Do people still go to psychotherapists in films? As with the greatcoats, literally every Oscar-baity film shot in the last half of the 1970s was about a professional couple who were splitting up and they were both in therapy. Because it was the "me" decade, which has led to the hilarious spectacle of people who grew up in the "me" decade complaining on the internet that kids nowadays are self-centered.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:22 (three years ago)

Let's try that again:
https://i.imgur.com/glQ2loB.jpg

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:23 (three years ago)

NB I'm not shitting on Wolfen. It's a mess, but it was shot at a particular time in New York's history that feels alien today:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmZmZjIzZjgtNWExZi00ZDY0LTkxNDItYzlhZTUzYjYwYmYwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzk5MDQ0NA@@._V1_.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YO_9LKblcJw/UGSBFpQNsyI/AAAAAAAAAec/KcKbLAwg1EM/s1600/bronx.jpeg
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wolfen-new-york-city-bridge-twin-towers-world-trade-center-albert-finney-edward-james-olmos.jpg
https://www.framerated.co.uk/frwpcontent/uploads/2021/07/Wolfen10.jpg

It's like a visual representation of the first two Talking Heads albums.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:30 (three years ago)

Cary Grant does some scary driving along an incredibly twisty road, complete with shots of water crashing against cliffs below.

― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:39 (three years ago)

nine months pass...

Car chase, speedometer goes all the way to 70.

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:35 (two years ago)

two somewhat middle-aged men - one married, the other newly divorced - discuss the situation while playing a very indoor racket ball game

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:50 (two years ago)

^otm

― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:54 (two years ago)

preferably George Segal and Elliot Gould if at all possible

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:00 (two years ago)

one guy in a hat slugs another guy in a hat

then takes the hat

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:00 (two years ago)

racket ball one is brilliant

― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:19 (two years ago)

Yet another opportunity to mention Patriot on Amazon Prime: Let me Walk You Through Our Donnely Nut Spacing

― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:31 (two years ago)

I'd also like to see Ryan O'Neal and John Cassavetes playing racquet ball, maybe I can ask the AI to create that scene & dialogue

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:36 (two years ago)

one year passes...

Town's sheriff is cowardly and ineffectual.

― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 19 August 2024 03:25 (one year ago)

three months pass...

If there's an outdoor funeral, then it must be raining at some point.

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 November 2024 02:50 (eleven months ago)

Speeding-car effect achieved by severely undercranking the camera, such that the car seems to be traveling at a cartoonish 150mph

― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 23 November 2024 16:33 (eleven months ago)

lol, love that one.

― the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 23 November 2024 18:19 (eleven months ago)

Piss-poor back projections seen from inside supposedly-moving vehicles

― chucky's in love (Matt #2), Saturday, 23 November 2024 19:36 (eleven months ago)

Kids and cops hitching a ride by standing on a car’s running board.

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 24 November 2024 08:38 (eleven months ago)

The Western Electric model 302 telephone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_302_telephone

― Josefa, Sunday, 24 November 2024 14:48 (eleven months ago)

Then cut to switchboard operator:

‘Let me try to connect you’ . Puts jack plug into switchboard.

‘I’m sorry sir, the number’s engaged. Would you like me to hold?’

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 24 November 2024 17:21 (eleven months ago)

Old man runs inside, dons his old military uniform and comes back outside brandishing an antiquated weapon at some modern-day threat.

― felicity, Sunday, 24 November 2024 18:00 (eleven months ago)

two months pass...

Motorist turning steering wheel wildly back and forth while driving in front of rear-projection, as if road is zig-zaggine

― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 25 January 2025 21:21 (eight months ago)

...zagging

― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 25 January 2025 21:21 (eight months ago)

Then when they stop turning the wheel the projection takes a really sharp turn

― Evan, Saturday, 25 January 2025 22:03 (eight months ago)

four months pass...

the biggest worry a woman has in the workplace is a run in her pantyhose

― adamt (abanana), Saturday, 14 June 2025 13:57 (four months ago)

People swinging themselves onto moving trains as they pull out of the station, in contravention of every health and safety regulation imaginable

― submission drift (Matt #2), Saturday, 14 June 2025 14:41 (four months ago)

And coppers jumping onto the back or side of a moving car to chase the suspect.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 14 June 2025 14:46 (four months ago)

three months pass...

Models whose job is to put on clothes in department stores and walk around a bit so rich ladies can decide whether they would look good in that.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 09:46 (two weeks ago)

Been watching a lot of Old Movies lately and the amount of smoking is unbelievable. People lighting up on planes, spacecraft, in surgery(!), everyone doing it everywhere and anywhere. Absolutely gross.

― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 12:41 (two weeks ago)

Seem to remember some pretty great doctors smoking in a hospital content in The Day The Earth Stood Still #onethread

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 13:20 (two weeks ago)

I remember seeing actual doctors smoking in a hospital emergency room in Spain in the early 2000s. Certainly that had been prohibited in US hospitals for a long time by then.

― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 October 2025 13:27 (two weeks ago)

A character coughing means they're dying of consumption or some other incurable disease.

― so far so noir (Matt #2), Monday, 13 October 2025 21:34 (one week ago)

A "nightclub" where customers sit at tables and watch costumed performers dancing.

― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 13 October 2025 21:42 (one week ago)

A character coughing means they're dying of consumption or some other incurable disease.

In modern movies, coughing blood = you dead and throwing up = you pregnant.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 13 October 2025 21:45 (one week ago)

plate glass window being carried across the street.

just park as close as you can in the first place!

― encino morricone (majorairbro), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 04:35 (one week ago)

In modern movies, coughing blood = you dead

raining blood = you shred

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:03 (one week ago)

To find out what's going on you get a newspaper from a sidewalk stand, and you have to kind of thwack the folded-up paper with the back of your hand.

"See? It's right there in black and white."

Helps if you have a pencil behind your ear as you say this.

― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:23 (one week ago)

Newspaper is then immediately thrown into a nearby bin without anyone reading beyond the headline. Also, item of interest is always the banner headline on the front page.

― so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:40 (one week ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi8COKSTJ1Q

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:44 (one week ago)

Not necessarily old old movies, but on a similar tip:

- Picking up the phone and going "YEAH?!", listening for 3 seconds, saying "Okay" and hanging up without another word.
- Promptly switching off the TV once the top-line newsreel is announced. Better yet if control of the TV had been wrested from people who had previously been watching a ball game.

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:48 (one week ago)

Alternatively, watching big news unfold on a demo TV in the window of a TV shop.

― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:55 (one week ago)

To find out what's going on you get a newspaper from a sidewalk stand

For the full effect the newspaper seller has dwarfism

― so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:12 (one week ago)

the seller gets onto you for grabbing and reading without paying so you begrudgingly toss a few coins at him

― andrew m., Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:20 (one week ago)

or...

Street urchin selling newspapers. Cop/PI/suspect takes one from him, starts reading it and is about to walk off with it when the seller tugs his sleeve for the dime he owes him.

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:17 PM (three years ago)

― andrew m., Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:23 (one week ago)

People paying for things in general by extracting a wad of banknotes from their pocket and rudely tossing a couple of them onto the counter, then stalking away

― so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:23 (one week ago)

Newsboys are saying "extry extry read all about it"

― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:26 (one week ago)

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