Historical Movie Lover Gifts

Paul Scofield.

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

Leslie Caron.

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

Star Wars vs Star Trek

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

"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.'

Buster Keaton

Jimmy Cagney.

"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..."

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

Two men in love, sitting in vintage champaign glasses

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

Old Wine in an Old Bottle

I'm Spartacus.

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

Queen Kong

"Homes on Holmes"

Martin Scorsese

Stan Laural & Oliver Hardy.

'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."

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

King Kong

Jack Nicholson

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

Lumiere brothers caricature

Movies through the decades.

Fred Astaire

Ask Sadie! I just read an article where Daisy Ridley said J.J. Abrams wrote drafts for Episode VIII and Episode IX. And then Rian Johnson THREW THAT OUT and went a whole different direction. This makes me lose all faith in Star Wars. Am I overreacting? **Actual reader question. Excellent question. This reminds me of the time I saw Gone with the Wind on opening day. I was the invited guest of an elderly veteran of the Civil War. He couldn't stop yammering about how seceding from the union didn't