Classic Movie Enthusiast Mugs

Man in top hat and tails waiting to cross road, traffic lights read 'Don't Dance'.

'Heart transplants, yes. Brain transplants, no.'

'Not guilty by reason of a 1947 Bela Lugosi movie, Your Honor.'

Did you ever get that feeling in the moonlight?

The Mummy's curse

"OW!!! - I keep biting my lip...!"

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

"What's a nice plaice like you, doing in a girl like this...?"

"Hey buddy, you got a spare oil can?"

'It's alright as quests go, but it doesn't have Lassie in it...'

"Where is Liz Taylor in my hour of need?"

'Have your girl get back to my girl.'

'Grandpa hasn't trusted any politician since Jimmy Stewart played in 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington'.'

Have you seen Dorothy lately? She's sooo over the rainbow!

"You funnin' me, bub?"

"Excuse me... We're looking for the Black Lagoon."

Robert Mitchum

"We'll always have Paris. ... Wait, was that you?"

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.

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

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

Two men in love, sitting in vintage champaign glasses

The Scarecrow Gets A Brain From Igor

'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."

All-Verbal Westerns

"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.