Classic Cinema Enthusiast Gifts

'I know modern movies are filled with violence and sex, Dad, but those old movies have people smoking in them.'

James Dean

"Bette Davis to Leslie Howard in 'Of Human Bondage'"

"When are you going to get up off your ass and start putting on the ritz."

It's not every night you go see King Kong.

'The Second World War? That's the one in black and white, right?'

Busker Keaton.

Clark Gable

Margaret Rutherford.

'It's been forty years, Wendell -- Annette Funicello is NOT going to answer your letter!'

"You know I can totally hear your internal monologue, right?"

"It's a sad day when we have to sell off National Treasures."

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

Herman Mankiewicz

King Kong uses fly spray against the pesky planes on top of the Empire State Building

Comedy Cafe

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

Star Wars vs Star Trek

"Gone with the wind with cats" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "Me neither, who cares—let's take a nap."

"Housekeeping?!"

'I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore.'

Jimmy Cagney.

Did you ever get that feeling in the moonlight?

"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..."

"You funnin' me, bub?"

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, in all the solar systems, in all the galaxies, in all the universe, she walks into mine.

All-Verbal Westerns

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

Queen Kong

"Homes on Holmes"

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

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

I'm Spartacus.

David Niven caricature

King Kong