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You may have to think for a minute, but it won’t hurt. I promise.
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Soooo many to choose from, but I’m going with the scene that chokes me up no matter how many times I see it.
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Casablanca.
The part where the Nazis start singing the German anthem and Paul Henreid instructs the band to play La Marseillaise. The French patriots stand, sing… and drown out the Germans. A simple, poignant moment where good triumphs evil.
It’s classic.
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If you’re young… and you’ve never seen Casablanca? Please do so immediately. It’s the perfect movie.
Drama, romance, humor, war.
Love, loss and sacrifice. I don’t care how many times I watch it… it never disappoints.
Now you.
What’s your favorite old Hollywood movie scene?
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Off the top of my head, I’m going more light-hearted. Bringing Up Baby, when Katherine Hepburn loses her shoe, walks “lopsided” and says, “I was born on the side of a hill!”
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Love that movie! It’s silly, but I still laugh…
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One of my faves!! I’m super into 1930s/40s screwball comedies!!
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I’m old and have never seen Casablanca…
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Wow.
How is this possible?
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i haven’t seen it either and i’m old as well.
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Wow. I grew up watching it… and still watch it.
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High Noon: The final scene. Gary Cooper drops that tin star in the street and that’s it.
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My husband would probably agree with you…
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I have to go with the Third Man, almost at the end of the film, when Holly Martins finally kills Harry Lime through the sewar grate in the street. It was wonderful because Harry Lime is a scumbag!
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Don’t think I ever saw that one.
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The best thing about that film is the cinematography
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Well I think you need to watch it, it’s a great film.
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The last scene in It’s a Wonderful Life.
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That’s a great one!
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It is. I’ve loved it since I was a teenager. 💕
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This is my answer too. When George Bailey returns to a house filled with friends and neighbors giving him money and learns he’s “the richest man in Bedford Falls,” I get choked up each and every time.
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If you don’t, I don’t want to know you.
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I do too!
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Before I read more than the headline, the scene that jumped into my head was from the same film – the ending scene with “Major Strasser has been shot! Round up the usual suspects”, and “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” But the one you picked brings tears to my eyes. A bit of trivia for you: the character who approaches Captain Renault at the end of the scene and says “Your winnings, sir” was played by Marcel Dalio (uncredited). When he arrived in the US in 1940 he spoke no English. Dalio played Rosenthal in the 1937 French film La Grande Illusion. He was the only survivor of WW II in his family. The rest were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
I’m not sure I can pick a single favorite. But I agree, everyone should see Casablanca.
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I didn’t know that. But the next time I watch it I’m going to look for him. Thanks.
Casablanca has so many great scenes…
We’ll always have Paris.
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He’s at the end of the clip you posted.
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I know it well.
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I love the, Should i kiss her scene between George & Mary on the phone in It’s a wonderful life,
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That’s a classic.
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Truly, there a are a lot of scenes ftom different films I could share that resonate, but that us my favorite
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I have way too many favorites from that era. My favorite from Casablanca is the ending.
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Classic.
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I agree with you. This anti-Nazi scene in Casablanca is my favorite old Hollywood movie scene, too. Another scene that gets me is from The Man who Shot Liberty Valance when we discover it was Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) and not Ranse Stoddard (Jimmy Stewart) who shot Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) . – “When legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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I’m generally not a western fan, but yes…. that’s a good one.
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In the Thin Man there’s a scene where Nora is serving cocktails to people of dubious pasts and she is as generous as can be. Makes me smile thinking about it.
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We just watched one of those the other night..
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Gone With The Wind after Rhett leaves. Scarlet is on the stairs trying to figure a way to get him back and says, “I’ll think about it tomorrow. After all, Tomorrow is another day!”
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It certainly is.
Good one!
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If we’re doing black and white movies, hmmm. You picked a good one. I’d probably go with a Billy Wilder movie, maybe “The Apartment” when Shirley MacLaine returns.
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Jack Lemmon, right….?
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Yep.
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Humphrey Bogart and the leeches in African Queen. A brilliant film!
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Ack! That makes me cringe every time.
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Great scene though in a wonderful film
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