When movie fans talk about their favorite films, they most often mention one or two particular scenes that they never tire of watching. This witty and engaging volume catalogs more than 500 of the most memorable scenes in movie history. Organized by theme, it recounts the best scenes featuring everything from accountants and adoption to whistling and windows. This diverting work proves to be an indispensable guide for anyone who has ever used a movie reference to illustrate a point or express their feelings.
When movie fans talk about their favorite films, they most often mention one or two particular scenes that they never tire of watching. This witty and engaging volume catalogs more than 500 of the most memorable scenes in movie history. Organized by theme, it recounts the best scenes featuring everything from accountants and adoption to whistling and windows. This diverting work proves to be an indispensable guide for anyone who has ever used a movie reference to illustrate a point or express their feelings.
Sanford Levine, a Brooklyn-based writer, has written a number of screenplays and a television episode of Father Dowling. A former taxi driver, salesman, dispatcher, managing editor, and journalist, he is also the author of a mystery series in which the main character writes an advice column with the premise that any problem can be solved by a scene from a movie.
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Table of Contents Introduction Accountant Adoption Alien Termination Ant Arithmetic Baby Bad Teachers Ballet Balloon Ballpoint Pen Bank Robbery Bar Room Baseball Bathtub Beach House Bicycle Bird Blackmail Body in Car Trunk Brain Tumor Briefcase Bus Stop Business Card Button Car Chase Card Cat Cemetery Christmas Card Cigar Cigarette Case Cliff Jumping Clock Cooking Cutlery Dentist Disappearances Dueling Elevator False Teeth Feather Fishing Flower Fluttering Drapes Food Mushing Funny Walk Greed Haircut Handcuff Hanging Heart Attack Hitchhiking Hitler Horseplayer Hunchback In¿delity Invitation Refusal Job Interview Laughing Library Marching Band Marriage Proposal Memory Men's Room Mine Cave-in Mirror Model Airplane Movie Theater Museum Name Mispronunciation Neck Brace Opera Orchestra Panhandling Parking Meter Pickpocket Plagiarism Poison Prison Psychiatrist Restaurant Running Sagging Shoulders Shadow Shaving Shoe Shopping Skiing Slow Dancing Spider Steambath Stuttering Suicide Swearing Swimming Pool Tango Telephone Train Train Station Umbrella Vampire Viagra Whirlpool Whispering Whistling Window Epilogue Index
