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[Mike in Seattle]

The World Is Not Enough

Elektra King: There's no point in living if you can't feel alive.

Definitely not a classic movie, and, really, such a so-so line in the vast array to choose from...

GWTW - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Citizen Kane - "Rosebud!"
Maltese Falcon - "It's the stuff dreams are made of."
After the Thin Man - "Are you packing?" "Yes, dear, I'm putting away this liquor."
Anna Christie - "Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby."
Jazz Singer - "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet..." (The actual first words spoken in film history, in the first talking picture in history, spoken by Al Jolson).
King Kong - "It was beauty killed the beast."

 

[HadleyH]

Sort of inmortal if not Golden Era




"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

The Goodfather 1972

 

[Diamondback]

"Tonight Luca Braci sleeps wit' da fishes."

 

[Blackthorn]

I love this one:

Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

Casablanca can most certainly hold it's own against Gone with the Wind. If I had to pick a favorite movie (it would be hard) Casablanca would be at the top of my list (ahead of Gone with the Wind).

I agree so very much.

 

[HadleyH]

i found one of my favorites ever lol


"It's alive! It's alive!"


Frankenstein 1931

 

[Diamondback]

One I try to live by:

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to others, and I expect the same from them."--J. B. Books (John Wayne), The Shootist

 

[HadleyH]

"It's Alive! It's Alive!" ~~~~~~~~~~ lol lol lol lol lol

 

[Leading Edge]

"Life is a banquet and most poor fools are starving to death."
-Auntie Mame

Rosalind Russell expanded by the exuberance of the sentiment on a gently curved staircase - peerless

 

[Edward]

A few more recent classics:

"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"

"All right ramblers, let's get ramblin'."

"...so what you do is, you cut off one of his fingers. The little one. Tell him his thumb's next. After that he'll tell you if he wears ladies' underwear."

Reservoir Dogs

"OhGod, Heather - bullimia is so 1987."

Heathers


The talk of Bond reminds me of my favourite line in the (Daniel Craig, not David Niven) Casino Royale (which I finally saw for the first time this weekend):

"Shaken or stirred?"

"Do I look like I give a damn?"

lol Beautiful little encapsulation of what the Broccolis were shooting for with this reboot of the franchise.

 

[klind65]

I recall a line in which the words and meaning are nothing special -but the delivery by one of the best - WOW! : "What a dump"! uttered by Bette Davis in ....uh oh....what film, someone....anyone?? Anyway, it was one of those moments of cinema that lingered with me.

 

[Wally_Hood]

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From, perhaps, the finest Western satire. Burt Lancaster portrays the perfect psychopath. The dialogue is liberally sprinkled with wit and humor. Lancaster's maniacal smile and egomania makes Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo ("Kiss of Death" 1947) appear to be harmless.

Erron: You saved my bacon back there. If you'd've been a little slower, you'd've stood to be a lot richer.

Train: Maybe I didn't think of that.

Erron: Too bad you never knew Ace Hanna. Shot my old man in a stud poker game when I was just a kid. Ace felt so bad he give me a home. Ace used to say three things: Never trust anybody you don't have to trust; never take any chances you don't have to take; never do any favors you don't have to do. Ace live long enough to know he was right. He lived thirty seconds after I shot him. . . . You know, that's the first time I ever told anybody the story of my life.

"Vera Cruz" (1954) Joe Erron (Burt Lancaster) and Ben Train (Gary Cooper).

Vera Cruz is one of my all-time favorite movies. Burt Lancaster steals the show; IMO Coop sort of acts like Coop, recycling his laconic persona, but is the counterbalancing solidity against Lancaster's over the top character.

George MacCready does a great job, too.

Does anyone else have the feeling that the Lancaster gang somehow influenced the look and feel of The Wild Bunch?

 

[Wally_Hood]

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

 

[Naphtali]

. . . Does anyone else have the feeling that the Lancaster gang somehow influenced the look and feel of The Wild Bunch?

Everybody who was anybody was in the cast. Some people have attempted to soil my perception of the movie by claiming it was a primordial spaghetti Western. A pox on them.

The only part of the movie that is unbelievable is the ending -- the code. No way! I turn the movie off shortly after Cooper says, "Just like you gave Ballard."
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How could no one have mentioned the classic exchange in "Our Man Flint" (1966, James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb).

In a restaurant's toilet Gruber has an automatic pistol to the back of Flint's head. Flint looks in the mirror to talk.

Flint: Hans Gruber. Hitler Youth. 1936.

Gruber: Ah yes, Mr. Flint. But I'm a much nicer person now."

 

[klind65]

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

Oh, this is one of my favorites too and I've used it on many an occasion.

 

[MisterCairo]

I quoted this in the thread on wearing Sunday best, but I truly believe it to be one of the great lines in cinematic history, for its encapsulation of all the nuance and meaning the film conveys:

"Put on your Sunday best kids, we're going to Sears!"

- Mike Brady, A Very Brady Movie

 

[LisaFreemontSt]

I quoted this in the thread on wearing Sunday best, but I truly believe it to be one of the great lines in cinematic history, for its encapsulation of all the nuance and meaning the film conveys:

"Put on your Sunday best kids, we're going to Sears!"

- Mike Brady, A Very Brady Movie

LOL! I love that movie! I am not ashamed to admit it.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine".

Casablanca (1942)

 

[C-dot]

I recall a line in which the words and meaning are nothing special -but the delivery by one of the best - WOW! : "What a dump"! uttered by Bette Davis in ....uh oh....what film, someone....anyone?? Anyway, it was one of those moments of cinema that lingered with me.

You are thinking of Beyond the Forest (1959).

Liz Taylor quotes it in the beginning of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Speaking of, a few great lines:

"You take the trouble to construct a civilization... And what is it? What does the trumpet sound? Up yours."

"Martha, will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?"

"In my mind you're buried in cement right up to the neck. No, up to the nose - it's much quieter."

[Martha has changed into an embarrassingly tight and revealing outfit]
"Why Martha! Your Sunday chapel dress!"

"I mean, a man can put up with only so much without he descends a rung or two on the old evolutionary ladder, which is up your line. Now, I will hold your hand when it's dark and you're afraid of the boogeyman and I will tote your gin bottles out after midnight so no one can see but I will not light your cigarette."

lol

 

[John in Covina]

I love when George says : Good, Better, Best, Bested!

 

[Spitfire]

From Dr. Strangelove:
"You are not allowed to fight in here - this is the war room!"
(from memory - but still!!! )

And man, do I love this one (From The battle of Britain):
Squadron Leader Canfield - played by Michael Caine:

"The engine's overheating, and so am I! Either we stand down, or blow up! Now which do you want?"
(Then they get the order, they take off - and minutes later Canfield goes down in flames.)