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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 thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

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

"Housekeeping?!"

Marilyn Monroe - Spot the Difference

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

All-Verbal Westerns

"You funnin' me, bub?"

Did you ever get that feeling in the moonlight?

Two men in love, sitting in vintage champaign glasses

"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

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

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

"Homes on Holmes"

Queen Kong

I'm Spartacus.

'I want a brain, but I'd settle for buns of steel!'

"I'm just gonna reach in my back pocket real slow-like and turn off my ringer."

'...tonights main feature is silent and in black and white.'

Movies through the decades.