\u201cTake him to the tower, and teach him the err-or of false pride.\u201d \u2013 Gunga Din <\/em>(1939)<\/p>\n Runner-up<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u201cDesire. Love. Grief. Ambition. Believe me, life is so much simpler without them.\u201d \u2013 Invasion of the Body Snatchers <\/em>(1956)<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t pray. Kneeling bags my nylons.\u201d \u2013 Jan Sterling, Ace in the Hole <\/em>(1951)<\/p>\n Joe Gillis: (narrating) \u201cIt\u2019s dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out\u2026 ever so gently. Funny how gentle people get with you once you\u2019re dead.\u201d<\/p>\n Runner-up: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cJust us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!\u201d \u2013 Norma Desmond<\/p>\n Honorable mention: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA Maharajah came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. He later used it to strangle himself.\u201d \u2013 Eric von Stroheim as Norma Desmond\u2019s butler<\/p>\n Best <\/strong>description of a lady love by heartsick thug in a film noir classic:<\/p>\n \u201cVelma. She was cute as lace pants.\u201d \u2013 Moose Malloy in Murder, My Sweet<\/em> (1944)<\/p>\n Best <\/strong>line about romance in a film noir classic.<\/p>\n When asked if he\u2019s ever been in in love, Detective Dana Andrews replies, \u201cDame got a fox fur out of me once.\u201d \u2013 Laura<\/em> (1944)<\/p>\n Best <\/strong>film noir buzz off line:<\/p>\n \u201cOh, go fry an egg!\u201d<\/p>\n Best <\/strong>gay porn film title:<\/p>\n Yank My Doodle Dandy <\/em>(year unknown)<\/p>\n Worst\/best <\/strong>B movie title:<\/p>\n Dracula Blows his Cool <\/em>(1980)<\/p>\n Worst\/best <\/strong>B movie:<\/p>\n Glen or Glenda <\/em>(1953). \u00a0Worst\/best <\/strong>B movie dialogue:<\/p>\n He:\u00a0 Hey, baby, can I drive you home?<\/p>\n She: You got a car?<\/p>\n He:\u00a0\u00a0 No, a whip.<\/p>\n – Hell on Frisco Bay <\/em>(1955) \u201cShe\u2019ll be dead before the sound gets there.\u201d<\/p>\n A sharpshooter with a long gun explaining his plan to Texas Sheriff Ben Johnson in The Sugarland Express <\/em>(1974).<\/p>\n Best <\/strong>pretentious but mostly true pronouncement about the arts:<\/p>\n \u201cThe sorrows of life are the joys of art!\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 John Barrymore in Twentieth Century <\/em>(1934)<\/p>\n Best <\/strong>overlooked set-up-the-tension line:<\/p>\n Everyone knows the angry, \u201cWe don\u2019 need no stinkin\u2019 badges\u201d line from Treasure of Sierra Madre<\/em>. But what tees that up so well is when the head bandito, who has come across Humphrey Bogart making his way down the mountain from his gold mining camp, purrs, \u201cYou are one man and six burros, senor.\u201d \u201cEven the glistening sun on the beach is the result of dead shells. The glitter of putrescence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 I Walked with a Zombie <\/em>(1943)<\/p>\n Best<\/strong> movie come-on line:<\/p>\n \u201cThis happens only once to a man. Only once can he reach up his hand and touch the stars. At first, I thought I\u2019d dreamed you. (lowering his voice<\/em>) Help me to understand that I\u2019m not dreaming. Take me to walk with you, along the stars.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 Frederic March, Trade Winds<\/em> (1938)<\/p>\n Best<\/strong> bit of insight into female psychology from Katie Hepburn:<\/p>\n He: \u00a0\u00a0Can a man like a woman against his will?<\/p>\n She: \u00a0Of course he can. That\u2019s the very nicest way to be liked.<\/p>\n![\"body-snatchers\"](\"http:\/\/johnknoerle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/body-snatchers.png\")
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\nBest <\/strong>line of dialogue in a film lousy with good dialogue:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/em>Edward D. Wood\u2019s biopic about his irresistible attraction to angora sweaters is even funnier and more bizarre than his more famous clunker Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/em> (which never once mentions a Plan 9!)<\/p>\n
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