The 10 best last lines ...

[Maurice]

"Rosebud"
Orson Welles 'Charles Foster Kane'
CITIZEN KANE (1941)

"He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"
Marlene Dietrich 'Tanya'
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)

[charliekane]

"Rosebud"
Orson Welles 'Charles Foster Kane'
CITIZEN KANE (1941)

"He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"
Marlene Dietrich 'Tanya'
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)

To be pedantic, 'Rosebud' is actually the first line in Citizen Kane. The last bit of dialogue is 'Throw that junk.'

But, how about:
'Give her my love - when she's not listening'
(technically not the last line, which is ''Oh he's forgotten his sandwiches.')

'It's life, lad - it might make you laugh at your age, but one day it'll make you bloody cry.'

[jimw1]

[jimw1]

The Duellists

You have kept me at your beck and call for fifteen years. I shall never again do what you demand of me.
By every rule of single combat, from this moment your life belongs to me. Is that not correct?
Then I shall simply declare you dead.
In all of your dealings with me, you'll do me the courtesy to conduct yourself as a dead man.
I have submitted to your notions of honor long enough. You will now submit to mine.

[jimw1]

To Kill a Mockingbird


I was to think of these days many times. Of Jem, and Dill, and Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson, and Atticus.
He would be in Jem's room all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

[Moor Larkin]

Seen one, seen 'em all......

[Steve Crook]

Seen one, seen 'em all......

The disclaimer originated with the 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin. Princess Natasha's character was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina sued MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed. Princess Irina and her husband Felix Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded $127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM. As a preventative measure against further lawsuits, the film was taken out of distribution for decades. Prompted by the outcome of this case many studios began to incorporate an "all persons fictitious" disclaimer in their films in order to try to protect themselves from similar court action.

Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

The disclaimer originated with the 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin. Princess Natasha's character was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina sued MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed. Princess Irina and her husband Felix Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded $127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM. As a preventative measure against further lawsuits, the film was taken out of distribution for decades. Prompted by the outcome of this case many studios began to incorporate an "all persons fictitious" disclaimer in their films in order to try to protect themselves from similar court action.

Steve

The most unnecessary use of this disclaimer is The Greek Tycoon. I can't imagine why anyone would think a film about a Greek shipowner marrying the widow of an assassinated US president would have any basis in fact

[GRAEME]

The most unnecessary use of this disclaimer is The Greek Tycoon. I can't imagine why anyone would think a film about a Greek shipowner marrying the widow of an assassinated US president would have any basis in fact

Is I Walked With a Zombie the first example of an onscreen joke based on the disclaimer: "Any similarity to actual persons, living, dead or possessed, is purely coincidental"?

[orpheum2]

"He used to be a big shot" Gladys George to a cop bent over Cagneys body on the church steps in "The Roaring Twenties".

[cassidy]

"He used to be a big shot" cassidy to britmovie forum, post 7.

"He used to be a big shot" Gladys George to a cop bent over Cagneys body on the church steps in "The Roaring Twenties".

[cinemal]

From 'The Professionals' (the western not the TV series)

Ralph Bellamy to Lee Marvin: "You b*****d"
Lee Marvin: "Yes sir, in my case an accident of birth, but you, you're a self-made man"

[judylou]

After all, they shoot horses, don't they? .............. One of the saddest films I have ever seen!

[billy farmer]

Good old Watson, the one fixed point in a changing age, there's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind has never blew on England yet, it will be cold and bitter Watson, and a good many of us may wither before it's blast, but it's God's own wind none the less, and a greener better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror (1942).

[m35541]

"Any problem, son?"
"No old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's alright now".

or

"Only the farmers won. They always win".

or

"It ain't like it used to be but it'll do"

[cassidy]

I think you'll find that the closing line from The Magnificent Seven was "Only the farmers won, we lost, we always lose"

"Any problem, son?"
"No old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's alright now".

or

"Only the farmers won. They always win".

or

"It ain't like it used to be but it'll do"

[Steve Crook]

"Any problem, son?"
"No old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's alright now".

And the one from For a Few Dollars More should really be
Mortimer: Any trouble, boy?
Monco: No, old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now.

But the one from The Wild Bunch is right

Steve

[Arfur Teacake]

The Killing of Sister George

"Mooooooooooooooo"

[charliekane]

We didn't solve anything - we just picked up the pieces.
(Nigel Patrick in Sapphire)

'My memoirs !'
(Dennis Price in Kind Hearts and Coronets)

[Steve Crook]

Sweeney! (1977) - you've always got to respect a film with an exclamation mark in the title

Last Lines:
Carter: [angrily, to Regan] They didn't kill him. You killed him!

Steve