Classic Movie Devotee Mugs

'I recently saw the Maltese Falcon for the first time in years, and I didn't like it nearly as much as I expected to. Because of that, I find I'll now have to rethink my whole life.'

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

'I don't believe it. Five minutes after he gets the darn thing, he has an arrest!'

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

"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?!"

A huge shark is about to attack a small fishing boat and one of the guys is saying 'Listen... there's that creepy music again' as an orchestra of fish, crabs and an octopus play the theme from Jaws.

Marilyn Monroe - Spot the Difference

"If you wish to manifest here, you'll have to change. We don't allow anything past 1950."

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

All-Verbal Westerns

The Scarecrow Gets A Brain From Igor

"You funnin' me, bub?"

'Come quick: Rin Tin Tin is on TV again...'

"'Tis but a scratch — in America, I'd still have to go in for work today."

Two men in love, sitting in vintage champaign glasses

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..."

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

Old Wine in an Old Bottle

I'm Spartacus.

"Homes on Holmes"

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

Queen Kong

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