David Wallechinsky - The Book of Lists

Films worked on include: The Quiet One (1948); The African Queen (1951); The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Georgia, Georgia (1972); Poetic Justice (1993)

Moby Dick (1956); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Hangmen Also Die (1943)

The Killers (1984); Barfly (1987); Lonely at the Top (1993)

Beat the Devil (1954); The Innocents (1961)

And Now Tomorrow (1944); Double Indemnity (1944); The Unseen (1945); The Blue Dahlia (1946); Strangers on a Train (1951)

Westworld (1973); Coma (1978); The Great Train Robbery (1979); Jurassic Park (1993); Rising Sun (1993)

You Only Live Twice (1967); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968); Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Today We Live (1933); Road to Glory (1936); To Have and Have Not (1945); The Big Sleep (1946); Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

A Yank at Oxford (1938); Three Comrades (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); The Women (1939); Madame Curie (1943)

Pedro Paramo (1967); Muneca Riera (1971)

The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Third Man (1950); Saint Joan (1957); Our Man in Havana (1960); The Comedians (1967)

City Streets (1931); Mister Dynamite (1935); After the Thin Man (1937); Another Thin Man (1939); Watch on the Rhine (1943)

The Spanish Earth (1937); The Old Man and the Sea (1956)

Pride and Prejudice (1940); Jane Eyre (1944); A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)

Rage in Heaven (1941); Forever and a Day (1944); The Loved One (1965); Frankenstein, the True Story (1973)

The Cotton Club (1984); Ironweed (1987)

Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987); King Lear (1987) 20.

The Last Picture Show (1971); Falling from Grace (1992)

Death of a Salesman (1951); Let’s Make Love (1960); The Misfits (1961); An Enemy of the People (1977); Everybody Wins (1990)

The Entertainer (1960); Tom Jones (1963); England, My England (1995)

Suzy (1936); A Star Is Born (1937); Weekend for Three (1941); Saboteur (1942); The Fan (1949)

Horse Feathers (1932); Sitting Pretty (1933); Florida Special (1936); Boy Trouble (1939); Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

The Birthday Party (1968); The Go-Between (1971); The Last Tycoon (1976); The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981); The Trial (1993)

Pygmalion (1938); Major Barbara (1941); Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)

Zabriske Point (1970); Paris, Texas (1984); Silent Tongue (1993)

Barefoot in the Park (1967); The Sunshine Boys (1975); The Goodbye Girl (1977); The Lonely Guy (1984); Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986); Lost in Yonkers (1993)

The Forgotten Village (1941); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1949); Viva Zapata (1952)

Brazil (1985); Empire of the Sun (1987); The Russia House (1990); Shakespeare in Love (1998)

The Killing (1956); Paths of Glory (1957)

I Accuse (1958); Suddenly Last Summer (1959); Ben Hur (1959); The Best Man (1961); Caligula (1980)

King Kong (1933)

Ticket to Paradise (1936); It Could Happen to You (1937); Five Came Back (1939); I Stole a Million (1939); Let’s Make Music (1940)

The Dark Angel (1935); Our Town (1940); Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Baby Doll (1956); Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Three Ways to Love (1969)

What Gary Cooper actually said to Walter Huston in The Virginian (1929) was, ‘If you want to call me that, smile.’

Johnny Weismuller’s first Tarzan role was in Tarzan , the Ape Man (1932). He introduced himself to co-star Maureen O’Sullivan by thumping his chest and announcing, ‘Tarzan’. He then gingerly tapped her chest and said, ‘Jane’.

In fact, James Cagney never uttered this line in any of his roles as a hard-boiled gangster. It has often been used by impersonators, however, to typify Cagney’s tough-guy image.

Charles Boyer cast seductive glances at Hedy Lamarr throughout Algiers (1938), but he never did make this suggestion. Delivered with a French accent, the line appeals to many Boyer imitators who enjoy saying, ‘Come weez mee…’