Tasty Tagline: The Polar Express

This holiday season... believe.

Tasty Tagline: Isle of the Dead

Will keep you screaming!

Quotable Quote: Dumbo

"Here is a baby with eyes of blue, straight from heaven, right to you. Or - straight from heaven up above, here is a baby for you to love."

~ Sterling Holloway as The Stork in Dumbo (1941)

Tasty Tagline: The Talk of the Town

Screen comedy so gay...

Drama so thrilling...

Love so exciting,

It will be the talk of YOUR town!

Memorable Monologue: The Big Sleep

"You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, barely I eat and my sleep is so near waking it's hardly worth a name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a new born spider."

~ Charles Waldron as General Sternwood in The Big Sleep (1946)

Tasty Tagline: Kitty Foyle

The natural history of a woman.

Tasty Tagline: Till the Clouds Roll By

The mammoth musical of Jerome Kern's dramatic life story!

Tasty Tagline: The Grapes of Wrath

The thousands who have read the book will know why we will not sell any children tickets to see this picture!

Tasty Tagline: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

It's a grand new idea for fun!

Memorable Monologue: The Best Years of Our Lives

"I didn't see much of the war... I was stationed in a repair shop below decks. Oh, I was in plenty of battles, but I never saw a Jap or heard a shell coming at me. When we were sunk, all I know is there was a lot of fire and explosions. And I was ordered topsides and overboard. And I was burned. When I came to, I was on a cruiser. My hands were off. After that, I had it easy... That's what I said. They took care of me fine. They trained me to use these things. I can dial telephones, I can drive a car, I can even put nickels in the jukebox. I'm all right, but... well, you see, I've got a girl."

~ Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Year of Our Lives (1946) 

Tasty Tagline: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Their love was a flame that destroyed!

Tasty Tagline: It's a Wonderful Life

It's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love!

Quotable Quote: Miracle on 34th Street

"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."

~ Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Loveable Laugh: Once Upon a Honeymoon

Who knew the saxophone was so bloody hilarious?

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Dazzling Dance: Hellzapoppin'

Here's a swingin' Dazzling Dance from waaaay back in the day!

Memorable Monologue: The Great Dictator

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

~ Charlie Chaplin as Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania in The Great Dictator (1940)

Tempting Trailer: Lassie Come Home

What? What is it boy? You want... you want the Cin-Obs to watch... watch the trailer of this 1943 classic? Good dog. Now go get your bone and quit the shenanagans.

Memorable Monologue: It's a Wonderful Life

"Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was - why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that?

Why - here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You - you said - what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars?

Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be."

~ James Stewart as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1947)

Tempting Trailer: Casablanca

Does it get any more classic than this? Here's lookin' at another Tempting Trailer!

See also: Tantalizing Trivia: Casablanca

Delightful Dialogue: Citizen Kane

Charles Foster Kane: You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Thatcher: Don't you think you are?

Charles Foster Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.

Thatcher: What would you like to have been?

Charles Foster Kane: Everything you hate.

~ Orson Welles and George Coulouris in Citizen Kane (1941)