in every old movie ever

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.

Fistfights generally pretty tame/dull in Golden Age movies.

― 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

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

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

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

"Why, I oughta pound you!"

Aw, don't be a sap.

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.

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

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.

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

Car chase, speedometer goes all the way to 70.

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

^otm

preferably George Segal and Elliot Gould if at all possible

one guy in a hat slugs another guy in a hat

then takes the hat

racket ball one is brilliant

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

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