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

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

Tracks tied to heroin, railroaded.

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

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

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

"what's in it for me?"

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

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

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

really lanky british bobby blowing whistle

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

"I like you kid, ya got SPUNK"

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

"Leave me go!"

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

frame flutter

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Unpublished writers can afford personal servents who work out of their penthouses.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

b-b-but WE ARE!!

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

the word "town" to mean "city"

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

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

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

"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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

"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 (eighteen years ago) link

"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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

VINTAGE CLOTHING

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

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

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

PERIOD HAIRDOS

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

"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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

"whatdya tryin' to do, bub - kid me?"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

... this seems to have exclusively turned into a 30s gangster/ 40s noir thread

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"Why I can remember, even when we were kids in school...Remember?"

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"Say, I gotta hand it to ya, that was some number you pulled on me back there"

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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