1. Clark Gable in "Gone With the Wind ": "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
2. Buster Keaton standing perfectly still while the wall
of a house falls over upon him; he is saved by standing exactly in the location of
an open window, in "Steamboat Bill, Jr. "
3. Charlie Chaplin being recognized by the blind girl in "City Lights ."
4. The computer Hal 9000 reading lips, in "2001: A Space Odyssey ."
5. The singing of "La Marseillaise" in "Casablanca ."
6. Snow White kissing Bashful & Dopey on the head in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
7. John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth in "True Grit" and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands.
8. Jimmy Stewart in "Vertigo ," approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions - better than he knows.
10. Gene Kelly singin' in the rain in "Singin' in the Rain."
11. Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France, in "Pulp Fiction ."
12. The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Georges Melies film "A Voyage to the Moon ."
13. Pauline (Pearl White) in peril, tied to the railroad tracks, from the 1914 serial, "The Perils of Pauline."
14. A boy running joyously to greet his returning father, in "Sounder."
15. Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in "Safety Last ."
16. Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway in "The Third Man ."
17. An angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire."
19. A homesick North African (Moroccan) man named Ali, sadly telling a barmaid Barbara (posing in a doorway) that what he really wants is not sex but couscous, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul."
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