Classic Cinema Aficionado Gifts

'Business was slow, slower than a fat tortoise with a limp. The phone hadn't rung for so long I thought it must be out of order. The new competition was good, very good. Who was this 'Google' guy?'

Herman Mankiewicz

The Pride of Frankenstein

'I must warn you, I'm the fastest gun west of the Rie Grande.' 'WOW! Unfortunately, we're five miles east of the Rio Grande.'

Here's Looking At Euclid.

Comedy Cafe

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

Marilyn Monroe - Spot the Difference

Star Wars vs Star Trek

Buster Keaton

Jimmy Cagney.

"You funnin' me, bub?"

"Citizen Kane first draft... Citizen Kane By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz Int. Kane's bedroom Kane's old voice Call a freaking ambulance! Rosebud..."

Did you ever get that feeling in the moonlight?

A 1920's film director with hand-cranked camera and megaphone.

David Niven caricature

"And make sure you get my daughter home before sunrise..!"

I'm Spartacus.

"Then leave the horses head in the Futon." Middle-class mafia

"Homes on Holmes"

Queen Kong

'Because it was there, Dave, because it was there.'

"Whatcha watching, Dad?"

To paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," "Of all the comic strips in all the newspapers in all the world, you walk into mine." ? ? ?

Movies through the decades.

'I'll be the back yard cutting firewood. Have you seen my protective goggles?. . .Well, luckily I kept my old hockey mask!'

King Kong

After selling his life story, with movie and merchandising rights, Zorro had a new mark.

Fred Astaire

"Well, the hills were alive with the sound of music...I'm sure!"

"This is the best part of the movie."

Gene Tierney caricature

Marilyn Ghost

'Here's looking at you, kid...'

Romy Schneider