Women wearing hats.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
And gloves, anywhere and at all times.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 April 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
Anyone, arriving at anyone's home or place of business at any time of day, will be offered a drink or the opportunity to fix themselves one. The wetbar may be more or less fully stocked depending whether this is a millionaire's study or the office of the Chief of Police, but an ice bucket with tongs is invariably present.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 July 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
Hot-cha! Hot-cha! Twenty-three skidoooooo!
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 July 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
a fistfight where everyone just slaps each other
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 July 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
Foreign professor in a bow tie
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 15 July 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
My friend needs information or they'll die! I must physically move myself to them to pass it on in the nick of time.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 16 July 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand)
Fistfights generally pretty tame/dull in Golden Age movies.
― chap, Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Declarative sentences beginning with "Why,...!"
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
Barman ducks as a glass or bottle smashes into the wall/mirror behind him (Westerns section).
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 16 July 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
good one!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 16 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
lol read that as Batman
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 17 July 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
Yeah everything is funnier in costume
― Evan, Monday, 17 July 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
distressed woman has heard quite enough and screams, "get out!"
― clouds, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
"Say, Jimmy, you just might be on to something with that idea. You're a regular Albert Einstein!""Wow, Albert Einstein... gee, thanks, Professor! (pause) Who's Albert Einstein?"
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 July 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
A rider on a galloping horse is shot. Both go down; the human stays down while the horse struggles to its feet.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, 24 July 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
With stock library 'Neigggh!' dubbed in slightly out of time.
― chap, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJmMoCdjE4
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
Also, the footage of the galloping horse is sped up just enough to tip it into the uncanny valley, and the coconuts intended to give the sound effect of horses' hooves are in full use.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
Plucky kids put on a show.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
Any scene in a jungle anywhere in the world features Australian kookaburras laughing on the soundtrack
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 31 July 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
Lol
― Awaiting On U-Haul: Alfie's Best of Stig O'Hara (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 July 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
Two characters have conversation; director has somehow contrived to have them both facing camera.
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
Character asked simple question. Gazes into middle distance and recounts entire life story.
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Life story is flashback running for several minutes or perhaps nearly the entire length of the film. The person who asked the question hardly bats an eye and only grows more fascinated.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 July 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
bonus points if this is staged using an eye-watering split-diopter lens
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
UK edition: Drunk batchelor falls down stairs and wakes the landlady who tells him to pack and leave
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
Married couples sleeping in seperate beds (surely been mentioned?)
Watched All About Eve last night and it's chock full of these.
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
I was watching an old movie ("The Gilded Lily" with Claudette Colbert) and right on cue in the first reel a transit cop gets pushed to the ground, the next shot shows him sputtering, fuming, pushing his cop cap back on his head and stating (I quote):
"Oh, a wise guy, eh?"
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
another variant: mirror hung in unlikely location permits us to see both faces even with characters facing each other.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 August 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
― chap, Sunday, July 16, 2017 4:48 PM (three weeks ago)
every fistfight in an old movie seems to start with someone turning his back as if he's about to walk away, then abruptly turning around and knocking the other guy down
i suspect this would not actually be a wise move in real life
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 7 August 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
I guess by old, you mean '30s and '40s. If it's a late-'60s/early-'70s romance involving young people, there will be snow, and there will be frolicking in the snow. Maybe snow angels, maybe tumbling around, maybe a pretend snowball fight. As they frolic, something that sounds like the Association will play on the soundtrack.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/S8tncYfSFzI/hqdefault.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 7 August 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
As action or antics spill into a bar or performance space: "Wow, are they part of the show?" "Boy, those sure are some crazy costumes!" "Say, that's a pretty cool new dance!" etc.
― if you steeleye spanshine (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
i'm imagining all those ADR'ed over the actual scene which probably has not been shot with sync sound
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
those fuckin... the old phones
― flappy bird, Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
Lip reading cons in the day room, visiting area or on the factory floor.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
A bottle of hair tonic.
― henry s, Sunday, 12 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
flypaper gets stuck to hands. one of the lesser scenes in kane.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
Shabby alcoholic (ex-)doctor who will remove stray bullets from hoodlums for the price of a bottle of bourbon.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
the other week i watched "the bride came c.o.d.", a 1941 comedy with james cagney and bette davis that felt like the ultimate "old movie" as defined by this thread. someone even gets to say "oh, a wise guy, eh?"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
also includes an angry heiress, spinning newspaper headlines, and that one shot of police cars and motorcycles zooming out of the station, with the sirens blazing
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:07 (three years ago) link
Must watch this!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
Bonus points for police motorcycles with sidecars
― dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
I caught an old film on daytime TV last week that actually featured a monocle popping out in shock, can't remember what it was though...
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
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, 22 June 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
― chap, Sunday, July 16, 2017 5:48 PM (four years ago)
The fight at the end in Uncle Silas stands out, seems brutal for the era
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
An expression of a hunger for hamburger sandwiches and French fried potatoes.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
And one of them having at least one foot on the floor.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 June 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
"Why, I oughta pound you!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Aw, don't be a sap.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link