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"take a hike, buddy"

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

All the cops are Irish.

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Exaggerated direction-changing skidding-to-a-halt approach to a streeet corner during a chase scene, often accompanied by protagonist having to hold onto his hat to stop it falling off as he careers off in his new direction.

Ha ha "The Sting" is one of my fave movies

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

banana peels

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Have we really not had "heroine tied to railroad tracks" yet?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Tracks tied to heroin, railroaded.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

"hey kid, how'd you like to make a fast buck?"

― bsj30 (bsj30), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

"what's in it for me?"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

"sorry pops, i look out for number one!"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

really lanky british bobby blowing whistle

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Scruffy street youths who all turn out to be fantastic tapdancers.

Garbage can lid used as percussion.

― Mayor of Dutchtown (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

its funny how lots of these quotes can immediately be attributed to a specific sex.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

"I like you kid, ya got SPUNK"

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Exotic music is used to signify femme fatale.

Or a gay man, as in The Maltese Falcon.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

Overlong scene in apartment of bubbly wife/girlfriend trying to tell husband/boyfriend about some funny story or movie or friend of hers and husband being bored and sarcastic.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Fred Astaire is a big fan of "Now listen here a minute".

― The Other Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

"Leave me go!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

extensive use of stock footage (even in for-the-time-big-budget hollywood movies) for anything miltary-related.

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

A mixture of innocence and passion make up what Ball of Fire is about. At times, this is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a giant ball of fire.

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Film of countryside shown through the window of a 'moving' car or train.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

frame flutter

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

everything is either mysteriously devoid of color or somehow three times as colorful as the real world

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Children always behave well, except in presence of an evil person.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Jovial, fat policemen who can only run about 10 feet before stopping for breath. (UK films only)

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Unpublished writers can afford personal servents who work out of their penthouses.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Constant drinking.

Falling in love with the singer at The Kit Kat Club.

Four single girls living in a room with a double bed with stockings draped over every surface.

Going for a night on the town by walking down a conveyor belt as neon signs flash tantalisingly by.

Men standing about with their hands in their trouser pockets.

Typewriters.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Journalists are witty, quick-talking, cynic, and charming.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but WE ARE!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

the word "town" to mean "city"

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Frustrated caller repeatedly pressing receiver shouting "hello, hello" into mouthpiece.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

"Why you yellow..."

"Say what does a guy have to do to get served around here?"

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

In fact, starting a sentence with "Say..."

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

"I didn't say nuttin' Johnny, honest..."
"Why you yellow..."
BANG!

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Death scene:

"Say, who turned the lights out?"

Birth scene:

"Get me hot water... and lots of it."

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

You're a BUM, Johnny. ...and you always were.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

(OK, I'm just thinking of things Phil Hartman would have said...)

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Starting a sentence with "Why", especially useful in courtroom scenes:

"Why, I can't quite recall now..."

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

the modern day version of "Get ahold of yourself you dizzy dame!" was on Emmerdale the other night as "Cop on to yourself sandra" (or something very like it)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

The silhouette of a sinister individual beind a frosted glass window. (see also shadows).

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

(J.D has never relinquished his ownership of this thread, but Dadaismus is starting to give him a run for his money)

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

No, I think J.D's first three posts in particular PWN!

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

HUH! OMG! SHE...(had an abortion, can't have kids, got pregnant before they got married, had a child out of wedlock, etc.)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

"I didn't say nuttin' Johnny, honest..."
And the variant

"I wouldn't kid you about a thing like that, honest I wouldn't"

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:54 (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"

"Go on, beat it"

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

"Now, don't take things the wrong way, Charlie."

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

VINTAGE CLOTHING

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

"When a fella like me meets a girl like you..."

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

PERIOD HAIRDOS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

"Say, that's a pretty smart mouth you got on you there. You better watch that."

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

it's funny how whenever some guy's trying to defend himself the other dude's always named charlie.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

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