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The Palm
Beach Story (1942)
- the frenzied opening credit montage of confusing,
mystifying marital vignettes without dialogue (unexplained until
film's end)
- the two unzipping of gown romantic scenes between
Gerry and poor struggling inventor husband Tom (Joel McCrea)
- the character of the hard-of-hearing "Wienie
King" (Robert Dudley)
- the madcap scenes on the southbound train to
Florida when scatter-brained, fortune-hunting, runaway wife Gerry
Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) experienced the Ale & Quail Club
- an unruly group of aging sportsmen and millionaires
- the wacky character of crackpot billionaire J.D.
Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee) and his yacht, with
pithy, funny one liners: "Chivalry is not only dead, it's
decomposed!" and "That's one of the tragedies of this
life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are
always enormous!"
- Hackensacker's oversexed, oddball heiress sister
Princess Centimillia (known as "Maude") (Mary Astor)
- the "Goodnight Sweetheart" serenade
scene
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Paper Moon (1973)
- the early sequence in Gorham, Kansas in the mid-1930s
at a gravesite for the funeral of Essie Mae Loggins: the coincidental
meeting of the deceased mother's young and precocious, orphaned
9 year-old Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), and fly-by-night Bible-selling
con-man Moses "Moze" Pray (Ryan O'Neal) - a family
acquaintance (and her suspected 'father')
- the diner scene in which Addie (while
eating a Coney dog and drinking a Nehi soda) convinced Moze to
let her accompany him on the road; she argued that the $200 given
to him as compensation for the DUI car accident that killed her
mother be given to her: ("We got the SAME jaw!" and "I
want my $200"); she demanded the money, or she would report
him to the police; he agreed to remain with her until he earned
back the money to pay her
- the scene of Moses' first unethical swindling
by selling Bibles to recent widows, while representing the Kansas
Bible Company and claiming the deceased husband had ordered the
Bible; Mozes' first victim was Pearl Morgan, who bought a $7
Bible; from the car, Addie shrewdly watched the scam and realized
how he was cheating and manipulating widows to make money
- the image of the young Addie in their shared hotel
room their first night, smoking in bed (Moses:
"You're too young to smoke, you're gonna set this whole place
on fire (long pause in the darkness) I now owe you $103.72 cents" -
she corrected him: ".74") - she frequently cussed
- Addie shrewdly suggested increasing the Bible
price in certain circumstances, such as "12 dollars" for
widowed Marie Bates (Yvonne Harrison) - paid for by a friendly
lawman (Ed Reed), and conversely giving Bibles away free of charge
to poor clients, such as Elvira Stanley (Eleanor Bogart), but
charging "24 dollars" for rich widow Edna Huff (Dorothy
Forster)
- the scene of Addie's con of an unsuspecting salesgirl
Miss Bramwell (Dejah Moore), claiming that she had given the
vendor a $20 bill rather than a $5; Addie also swindled a distracted
cotton candy salesman (Desmond Dhooge)
- the romantic entrancement of Moses at a carnival,
in the Harem Slave show tent, for gold-digging, good-time girl
and exotic dancer Miss Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn); Addie
took an immediate jealousy-fueled dislike for Trixie
- in a hilarious scene with a priceless monologue,
Trixie tried to cajole Addie on a hillside to come down to the
car and sit in the back seat - Addie refused and insisted on
taking her place in the front seat; eventually Addie agreed to
sit in the back, when Trixie predicted that Moze would tire of
her and she would soon be on her way: ("You don't have to
worry. One of these days, you're gonna be just as
pretty as "Mademoiselle," maybe
prettier. You already got bone structure. When I was your age,
I didn't have no bone structure. Took me years to get bone structure.
And don't think bone structure's not important. Nobody started
to call me "Mademoiselle" until I was seventeen and
gettin' a little bone structure. When I was your age, I was skinnier
than a pole. I never thought I'd have nothin' up here. You're
gonna have 'em up there, too. Look, I'll tell you what. Want
me to show you how to use cosmetics? Look, I'll let you put on
my earrings, you're gonna see how pretty you're gonna be. And
I'll show you how to make up your eyes. And your lips. And I'll
see to it you get a little bra or somethin'. But right now, you're
gonna pick your little ass up and you're gonna drop it in the
back seat and you're gonna cut out the crap - you understand?
You're gonna ruin it, ain't ya? Look, I don't wanna wipe you
out. And I don't want you wipin' me out, you know. So, I'm gonna
level with you, okay. Now, you see with me, it's just a matter
of time. I don't know why, but, somehow I just don't manage to
hold on real long. So, if you wait it out a little, it'll be
over, you know. And even if I want a fella, somehow I manage
to get it screwed up. Maybe I'll get a new pair of shoes, a nice
dress, a few laughs. Times are hard. Now if you fool around on
the hill up here, then you don't get nothin'. I don't get nothin'.
You don't get nothin'. So how 'bout it, honey? Just for a little
while. Let ol' Trixie sit up front with her big tits")
- and later, the scene of Addie ingeniously devising
a scheme to separate Trixie from Moses by having her bed Floyd
(Burton Gilliam), their front-desk hotel clerk
- the tearjerking scene of young Addie being dropped
off at her relative Aunt Billie's (Rose-Mary Rumbley) place in
St. Joseph's, MO; as he removed her luggage, she left him an
envelope with a picture of herself in his car - it had been taken
at the carnival of her sitting on a 'paper moon' (a crescent
moon swing) - her objective was to be reunited again with him
on the road
- shortly later in the film's conclusion, the scene
of their reunion -- Addie ran away from her Aunt's place, so
that she could continue swindling and grifting with Moses on
the road; she ran after him with her bag and found him only a
short way down the road (he had paused and had second thoughts
after he had found her 'paper moon' picture); at first, however,
he told her: "I don't want you ridin' with me no more" -
she firmly disagreed and retorted: "You still owe me $200!" -
and although he was outraged with her, they both found themselves
jumping onto his dilapidated, brakeless
Model T farm truck that began rolling away
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The Party (1968)
- in Blake Edwards' slapstick-improvisational comedy,
Peter Sellers portrayed Hrundi V. Bakshi, an unknown Indian actor
(in a big-budget production of Son of Gunga Din about
a dark-skinned bugler who refused to die) who was the cause of
a massive premature explosion that ruined the set (before filming
commenced) when he went to adjust his sandal strap and stepped
on the dynamite plunger
- the film's premise: because of a clerical mistake,
Bakshi was
inadvertently placed on a list of invitees to a lavish Hollywood
dinner party at the home of studio head Fred "General" R. Clutterbuck
(J. Edward McKinley), rather than being blacklisted
- the many sabotaging mishaps experienced by the bumbling,
polite, but accident-prone Bakshi at the lavish party, including
rinsing mud from the flower bed off his shoe that was quickly lost
in a flowing indoor water canal in the home and ended up on the
hors d'oeuvres platter ("Well, I'm on a diet but the hell with
it")
- further mishaps: while mingling with other guests,
listening to a story told by a congressman about a robbery and
mistaking it as a joke: ("They took the gold watch that your
father left you? I'm sorry. It is utterly fantastic. What a wonderful
thing for anyone to do. Take everything, including the father's
watch. It's wonderful, wonderful. I tell you, tonight is one big
round of laughter. All fun and laughter"); his meeting up
with cowboy screen-star "Wyoming Bill" Kelso (Denny Miller)
during a game of pool and later accidentally shooting him in the
forehead with a toy gun (with harmless rubber-suction cup projectiles);
Hrundi's awkward waltz-dance with one of the hip guests who wasn't
pleased with his old fashioned moves and quickly quit when the
music stopped ("That was a short dance...And they don't go
on for long, do they? Yes, we just started, and well, anyway, thank
you very much...Perhaps we can dance again later... if your carnet
du bal is not full up"); the feeding of a demanding caged
macaw bird with "Birdie
Num Num" and dropping the pellets on the floor, the accidental
activation of a lighted control panel (for the intercom PA system
which broadcast his chicken impersonation, the pool's fountain (a
urinating cherub), and a retractable moving bar), the stinky caviar
hand-shaking sequence
- Hrundi's very low seat at the dinner table, and the
sailing through the air of his plate of cornish-game hen (that
became impaled on the tiara of a female guest who was revealed
to be wearing a wig), the knocking of the drunken waiter-servant
into a plate glass window, the setting off of lawn sprinklers,
the clogging-flooding of the upstairs toilet and bathroom (with
a toilet paper roll that never stopped unwinding), the appearance
of a retractable pool that many guests (including Bakshi) fell
into, the soapy washing of a baby elephant (led by teenagers from
a love-in, and painted with psychedelic colors and various 60s
slogans such as Chicken Little Was Right) that caused the AC system
to blow mountains of soap-suds bubbles throughout the mansion
- Bakshi's infatuation with Michele
Monet (Claudine Longet), producer C.S. Divot's (Gavin MacLeod)
latest aspiring French actress-starlet
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Pass the Gravy (1928) (short)
- the slapstick engagement party-dinner scene with
next-door neighbor Schultz (Bert Sprotte) (who raised chickens)
as the guest of honor, in which hapless, freckle-faced son Ignatz
(Spec O'Donnell) - instead of using the $2 dollars given to him
by his cantankerous father Max (Max Davidson) to purchase chicken
for the meal, pocketed the money, killed the neighbor's prize-winning
cock-rooster named Brigham, and it was roasted for dinner
- during
the meal in a hilarious and tense sequence, the boy attempted to
signal and communicate the error he had made to his father (the
rooster's "First Prize" metal identification ring was visible
on the drumstick leg on Schultz's plate), without alerting
Schultz himself; only Ignatz, his sister (Martha Sleeper) and her
fiancee (Gene Morgan) were aware of the problem, and they frantically
tried to pantomime to Max, and chaotically ended up playing 'football'
with the drumstick
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Pat and Mike (1952)
- the scene of outdoorsy
athlete and college phys-ed instructor Pat Pemberton (Katharine
Hepburn) being criticized for her lack
of coordination on the golf course (and advised to tense up her
gluteal muscles in order to help her golf-stance) by screechy
Mrs. Beminger (Phyllis Povah), and her retort after twice pushing
her into a chair before hitting nine teed-up golf balls in a
row: ("If
you could possibly lift the needle from that long-playing phonograph
you keep in your face....Watch this. Will you excuse me? (She
struck nine golf balls) (To Mrs. Berninger) You know what you
can do with your gluteal muscle? Give it away for Christmas")
- the scene of sports promoter
Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) telling Pat: "A
lady athlete properly handled - always a market...I don't think
you've ever been properly handled"
and her retort: "That's right, not even by myself"; and
then as she walked away across the golf course
green, he commented on her figure: "Nicely
packed that kid...There's not much meat on 'er, but what's there
is cherce"
- their concluding decision to get married:
"Together, we can lick 'em all"
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
- the normal outfit of the quirky and nerdy man-child
Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) character (tight and small gray
flannel suit, white shoes, a large red bow tie, with lipstick,
etc.)
- the cartoon-like toy/contraption-filled environment
of Pee Wee's home and the Rube-Goldberg breakfast routine he
had created - in which he woke up and had breakfast completely
made for him (pancakes, two eggs and bacon shaped like a happy
face), topped off with Mr. T cereal
- Pee-Wee's worship of his ridiculously over-gadgeted
beloved bicycle (customized and complete with plastic lion's
head on the handle-bar)
- the scene of Pee Wee's argument with his neighbor
Francis Buxton (Mark Holton): ("I know you are but what
am I?"),
and "PeeWee!" ("That's my name, don't wear it out!")
- his famous remark after tumbling when he attempted
to perform too many tricks on his bike, and told a group of young
male onlookers: "I
meant to do that!"
- his Rebel Without a Cause
(1955)-inspired warning to love interest Dottie (Elizabeth
Daily): "There's things about me you don't know, Dottie.
Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand.
Things you shouldn't understand...You don't want to get mixed
up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel"
- his delighted perusal of Mario's Magic Shop (trying
on X-Ray Spex, and at one point putting on an oversized ear and
yelling, "WHAT?
WHAT?")
- his anguished realization that his overly-chained
red bike had been stolen - and collapsing in a bike store - causing
a row of bikes to topple over
- his feverish questioning of Francis in an oversized
bathtub - and PeeWee's offer of gum - that turned out to be "trick
gum,"
- the long basement meeting
with Pee Wee's friends to discuss the loss of his bike, including
a large detailed map and scaled model, and exhibits to look at;
the crazed Pee Wee began by presenting evidence: "This box contains
over 217 bits and pieces of information, evidence. Exhibit A:
A photograph of the victims, my bike and me. Exhibit B: Another
photograph. What's missing from this picture? It's just me --
WITHOUT MY BIKE!...Exhibit C: The horn I was picking up at Chuck's
Bikeorama when my bike was actually stolen! (He honked the horn
loudly) Exhibit D: (He asked Jimmy) Jimmy what is this? Too late!
(Then he asked Chip) Chip!...(Chip identified a pen) Exactly!
I bought this pen exactly one hour before my bike was stolen.
Why? What's the significance? I DON'T KNOW!"; finally after over
three hours and only now discussing Exhibit S, Pee Wee was reminded
that they were wasting valuable time and maybe he didn't know
what all of it was supposed to mean; Pee Wee was incensed: "Supposed
to mean?! I think everyone here knows what this is supposed to
mean. When you've gone over something again and again and again
and again like I have, certain questions get answered.
Others spring up! The mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks
back! It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that
someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and
knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting!"
- Pee Wee's search for his bicycle during a tour
of America after a sham fortune-telling gypsy named Madam Ruby
(Erica Yohn) told him it was in the Alamo's basement
- while hitchhiking, Pee-Wee's helping of a fugitive
con Mickey (Judd Omen) to escape the law by pretending to be
his wife, and telling an officer when asked to step out of the
car: ("Why don't you take a picture? It will last longer")
- his crashing the car and strolling around in
total darkness (cartoonishly, only his eyes were seen)
- Pee-Wee's startling and hysterical encounter with
the ghost of deceased trucker Large Marge (Alice Nunn)
- Pee-Wee's nightmares about the fate of his bike
(e.g., eaten by a T-Rex, destroyed by clown surgeons)
- Pee-Wee proving over the phone that he was in
Texas (he shouted "The stars at night are big and bright...",
and a crowd sang back: "...deep in the heart of Texas!")
- Pee-Wee's visit to the Alamo in San Antonio, the
tour, and his question: "Where's the basement?...Aren't
we gonna see the basement?"
and his astonishment when informed: "There's no basement
at the Alamo"
- spoiled child actor Kevin Morton (Jason Hervey)
growling at his director: ("Doesn't it look like I'm ready?
I am always ready! I have been ready since first call! I am ready!
ROLL!")
- the cameo appearance of heavy metal rock group
Twisted Sister
- Pee-Wee's escape from the Warner Bros. studio
lot where his bike was eventually located as a prop for a film
- ensnaring Santa Claus, Godzilla, and swinging across a ravine
on a bike and yodeling like Tarzan
- Pee-Wee's hilariously deep-voiced cameo in a Hollywood
movie about his own story, when he took the role of a red-uniformed
bell-hop and delivered a PA announcement: ("Paging
Mr. Herman, Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call")
- the evocative closing shot as the silhouettes
of Pee-Wee and Dottie bicycled sedately in front of the kissing
Hollywood versions of themselves
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The Philadelphia
Story (1940)
- the very funny, extended opening argument prologue
scene (without dialogue) in which alcohol-abusing ex-husband
C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) grabbed and palmed heiress and
rich socialite Tracy Lord's (Katharine Hepburn) face and forcefully
pushed her backwards into the doorway of a grand estate and to
the floor (out of the frame), after she had broken one of his
golf clubs into two pieces, and tossed him out of their home
- the film's witty dialogue: ("The prettiest
sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying
its privileges")
- Dexter's continuing antagonism toward his male
rival George Kittredge (John Howard), who was about to marry Tracy:
"You don't look as well as when I last saw you, Kittredge. Oh,
you poor fellow. I know just how you feel...Why, you don't look
old enough to get married. Not even the first time. And then
you never did"; when Tracy insulted him, Dexter replied: "That's
the old redhead, no bitterness, no recrimination, just a good
swift left in the jaw"
- tabloid reporter-journalist Macaulay "Mike" Connor's
(Oscar-winning James Stewart) drunk scene with Dexter,
when Mike asserted:
"Are you still in love with her?...I don't know, I-I can't
understand how you can have been married to her and still know
so little about her?...But when a girl is like Tracy, she's one
in a million"
- the champagne drinking and moonlight poolside
swimming rendezvous scene between tipsy heiress/bride-to-be Tracy
and Mike when he made a marriage proposal
to her: "There's a magnificence in you, Tracy...A
magnificence that comes out of your eyes and your voice and the
way you stand there and the way you walk. You're lit from within,
Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you. Hearth fires and
holocausts...No, you're made out of flesh and blood. That's the
blank, unholy surprise of it. Why, you're the golden girl, Tracy,
full of life and warmth and delight. Well, what goes on? You've
got tears in your eyes") - and then after some unexpected
and melodramatic kissing, she exclaimed softly: "Golly",
then took a breath and kissed him a second time - she stood in
his arms, her cheek against his chest, overwhelmed and amazed
at herself and starting to shake:
"Golly Moses"
- the surprise wedding finale when Tracy married
former husband Dexter at the last minute - and the freeze-framed
last image
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Pillow Talk (1959)
- the many shared party-line phone scenes, filmed
with vertical and other split-screens, between carefree, philandering,
bachelor playboyish neighbor and songwriter Brad Allen (Rock
Hudson) (who pretended to be drawling Texan Rex Stetson to hide
his real identity) and virginal interior designer career girl
Jan Morrow (Oscar-nominated Doris Day)
- their famed bathtub scene implying that they
were in the same bathroom and playing footsie with each other
- across screens; during one phone encounter, Jan extended her
foot and flirted: "You'll find that most people are willing to
meet you halfway - if you let them"
- and his additional pretense, when he (as Brad)
told Jan on the phone that he suspected that Rex was gay: ("Must
I spell it out?...There are some men who just, uh, they're very
devoted to their mothers, you know, the type that likes to collect
cooking recipes or exchange bits of gossip") -- with the
additional subtext of Hudson's real-life homosexuality -- but
then she urged Rex to prove his manhood during their next date:
("Rex, don't you find me attractive?...Well, then, why haven't
you ever?...All the times that we've been going out together,
you've been a perfect gentleman...You have. And I appreciate
it, really I do...But ...well, being such a perfect gentleman
and all, it's not very flattering"); when he called their
relationship a "friendship," she had to prove him wrong
with a kiss: ("Is that all it is with us, a friendship?");
he responded: ("Ma'am, that's a direct question. l think
it deserves a direct answer")
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Split-Screen Bathtub Flirtations
"Must I Spell it Out?"
Proving Him They Had More Than a Friendship
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The Pink Panther (1963)
- in this particular tale, Blake Edwards'
caper comedy - the first film that introduced the long-running
comedy series, it began with the title: "Once Upon a
Time...," a
priceless gem was presented to sultan Shah of Lugash's young
daughter (who would later grow up to be beautiful Indian
Princess Dala (Claudia Cardinale)); the camera zoomed into
the diamond; a slight discoloration flaw in the large pink
diamond - a leaping panther - led it to be dubbed "The
Pink Panther"
- the feline cartoon character of the Pink
Panther appeared to perform antics with the lettering during
the introductory opening credits (this was the debut of the
famous animated feline with his various funny antics) accompanied
by Henry Mancini's classic jazzy-bluesy music
- the film's twisting plot regarded the pinkish
diamond - the object of desire by suave, white-monogrammed
glove-dropping playboyish jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton
(David Niven) aka The Phantom, who had just recently struck
again in Rome, Italy; Sir Lytton wished to steal the Pink
Panther jewel from its owner - by romancing the adult Princess
Dala (Claudia Cardinale), while helped by Clouseau's unfaithful
wife Simone (Capucine) who was conspiring behind Clouseau's
back (as Lytton's lover); everyone was staying at an exclusive
Northern Italy ski resort where all the main characters were
clamoring to get their hands on the 'Pink Panther' after
rebels had taken over Lugash and demanded that the Princess
turn over the jewel
- the amusing character of bumbling, heavy French-accented
Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers); he first appeared
impatiently sitting at his desk in Paris; he rose, spun a
huge world globe, glanced out the window, and confidently
pronounced that they needed to find the first female "link" to
the Phantom: "We must find that woman." He was
swiftly thrown to the floor after touching the rotating globe
a second time; just then, his wife Simone entered - the actual
'woman' in question; Clouseau was unaware that she was the
Phantom's accomplice and lover, who often warned the robber
about Clouseau's whereabouts
"We must find that woman!" (his
own conspiring wife Simone)
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Spinning Globe
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- the scene in Clouseau's
bedroom with Simone, of the Inspector playing
his expensive Stradivarius violin (after he
stepped on it and destroyed it, he blithely quipped: "It's
no matter. When you've seen one Stradivarius, you've seen them
all")
after numerous attempts to have sex with the very deceptive Simone
(who was continuing to hide both Lytton suitors from him)
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Sir Charles with Princess
at Ski Resort
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Sir Charles with Nephew George
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- the classic hide-and-seek scene in which Simone
juggled two suitors in her resort bedroom: she had to divert
Clouseau's attention from both Lytton and Lytton's American
indebted playboy nephew George (Robert Wagner) (pretending
to be a college graduate) who were hiding - George in her
bathtub in her bathroom, and Sir Charles under her bed; when
Clouseau came into the room angrily asserting: "That
phone call was a ruse", he stumbled onto the floor -
as she asked:
"Are you hurt, my darling?"; both Lyttons found it
impossible to sneak out of the room
Both Lyttons Hiding in Simone's Bedroom
Sequence
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- the costume-party scene in Dala's Roman villa,
in which the bumbling detective wore a heavy suit of armor
and chastised a Sergeant dressed in the zebra costume for
wearing stripes:
"How dare you drink whilst you're on duty!...Any more
behavior like this, and I'll have your stripes!"
- the scene of both Sir Charles and George robbing
a safe in similar gorilla costumes (a take-off of the Duck
Soup (1933) mirror scene), and finding the safe empty;
when discovered by Clouseau at the crime scene, they escaped
and a wild car chase scene ensued through Rome's streets
until all the vehicles collided into one another and created
a big pile-up
- both of the Lyttons were incarcerated, and
George admitted his dishonesty in pretending to be a college
grad; his father reacted: "A certain amount of dishonesty
is bound to beget a certain amount of dishonesty"; Clouseau
spoke to both jailed inmates and accidentally put both of
his fists into pots of porridge as he threatened them: "You're
going to be here for the next 20 years"
- in the film's conclusion, Princess Dala (who
had stolen the diamond for herself) and Simone hatched a
plan to frame Clouseau as 'The Phantom' and save Sir George
(Dala: "I'd gladly sacrifice it to save Charles...To
save Charles, we must prove that someone else stole it")
- at the end of the trial, Clouseau was called
to testify on the stand as a defense witness; he was implicated
in all of the thefts, and possibly guilty because Simone
had purchased expensive clothes and a mink coat; as Clouseau
pulled out his handkerchief, attached to it was the jewel
planted there by Simone - implicating him as the Phantom;
on his way to jail, he was swarmed by women and envied by
two Italian policemen who believed that he was the Phantom
and now a national hero; when asked: "Tell me, lnspector,
Signor Phantom, all those robberies, how did you ever manage
it?", Clouseau delightfully took credit and admitted: "Well,
you know, it wasn't easy"
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The Flaw in the Pink Diamond - a "Pink Panther"
Opening Credits
"The Phantom" Strikes in Europe (Rome)
Gem in High Demand
Clouseau's Broken Stradivarius
Costume Party
Two Lytton Gorilla Thieves Stealing From Dala's Safe
Vehicle Collision Pile-Up
Both Lyttons in Jail
Both Fists Placed in Pots of Porridge
During the Lytton Trial, Clouseau Was Framed as the Phantom
Jewel Thief
Clouseau: "Well, you know, it wasn't easy"
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The Pink Panther Strikes
Again (1976)
- the many destructive duels between foolish Inspector
Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and his manservant Cato Fong (Burt Kwouk)
- the character of twitching and increasingly insane
Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) - Clouseau's boss and nemesis
- who was obsessed with killing him
- the scenes of numerous failed assassination attempts
upon Clouseau's life
- the scene of Clouseau's hunchbacked Quasimodo
disguise that inflated him and carried him over Paris and dropped
him into the Seine River
- also the scenes in which he displayed his prowess
and skill on parallel bars in an English country home's gymnasium
and dismounted by vaulting down a staircase, and then as he conducted
an investigation ("There is much more going on here
than meets the ear"), completely destroyed an expensive Steinway
piano when swatting a bug ("What is the price of one piano compared
to the terrible crime that's been committed here?"), burned his
hand in the fireplace ("My hand is on fire") and almost shot
Superintendent Quinlan (Leonard Rossiter) when he saluted him
(with a vase on his hand), knocked himself backwards, and fell
into a gun rack
- the bedroom scene when Clouseau was surprised
by Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down)
in his bed, and a corpse in his bathtub ("There is a beautiful
woman in my bed, and a dead man in my bath")
- the various word and sight
gags, including the innkeeper scene in which Clouseau had a mangled
French accent with the elderly
Bavarian innkeeper-hotel clerk (Graham Stark): ("Tell me,
do you have a rheum?...Zimmer...That is what I have been saying,
you idiot. Reum. Zimmer")
- and the dog
scene in which Clouseau asked the innkeeper: "Does
your dog bite?" -
when told no, he petted the "nice doggie" dachshund
that snarled and bit him - and retorted back: "I thought
you said your dewg did not bite!" - with the innkeeper's
reply: "Zat...
is not my dog!"
- his many desperate and inventive attempts to
cross a drawbridge and moat into Dreyfus' gothic Bavarian castle
- and the scene of Clouseau (posing as a dentist)
attempting to administer a dose of laughing gas (nitrous oxide)
to Dreyfus to extract a bad tooth - and poking him in the eye
("I don't normally make castle-calls in the middle of the
night")
- and then intoxicating both of them with an overdose, marked
by uncontrollable laughter
- and the dissolving castle scene in which the bumbling
Clouseau zapped Dreyfus with his own malfunctioning "doomsday
machine" - and the lower half of Dreyfus' body vanished when
it was 'erased' as well as much of his castle
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(2003)
- the memorable introduction of pirate Captain Jack Sparrow
(Oscar-nominated Johnny Depp) as he sailed into Port Royal, Jamaica
while standing and balancing himself on the crow's nest of a ship
in a seemingly dramatic, heroic entrance to a swelling score, but
quickly revealed to be in a sinking dinghy - when he reached the
wooden pier, only the very tip of the mast was showing above water,
and then, in a perfectly-timed move, he stepped
onto dry land from the submerged boat
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
- the howlingly bad dialogue
and acting, especially by Eros (Dudley Manlove): ("Because
all you of Earth... are idiots!", "Your stupid
minds! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!")
- the pathetic attempts to exhibit 'The Ghoul Man'
character (Bela Lugosi, who passed away during filming, portrayed
by chiropractor Tom Mason) by covering the lower part of his
face with a cape throughout the film
- the shooting death ray at 'The Ghoul Man' (a reanimated
corpse) and then when his cape was removed, his rapidly-decomposed
skeletal remains were revealed
- the laughable special effects and cheap sets (i.e.,
the shoddy cockpit of the plane), and the bad continuity (day
and night alternated within scenes)
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