jacobean

If anyone has seen And Then There Were None from 1974, Richard Attenborough's going purple and then crossing his eyes in a bizarre schoolbaoy fashion has got to be the worst and most amusing death scene.

Also watching the Stone Killer last weekend - a man in an upstairs window was shot and expertly threw his gun away from him before falling onto a barely concealed mattress

Jim

I always thought that Stewart Grainger 'died' very convincingly.

Try to watch Sir John Mills as an RAF spy 'dying' in 'A Cottage to Let'. It's pretty unusual! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Good morning boys.

Steve Crook

Yes, in The Stone Killer, everyone in an upstairs window or balcony, no matter how many bullets they were hit with, they always fell forwards out of the window/balcony.

I liked the one in The Enforcer (1976) (The one where Dirty Harry was teamed up with Mary Beth Lacey). As they arrived at Alcatraz Island there's a baddie in a watch tower. For some reason, rather than shooting at him, Callahan decides to knock him off the tower with a water cannon. But the water cannon just about gets to the left hand side of the tower and the baddie dives off the right hand side, screaming.

In the climactic scene of the same film, Harry shoots at the chief baddie, who's holed up in a different watchtower, with a bazooka. But as Callahan fires the bazooka the cabin on top of the tower vanishes shortly before the missile hits it. We just see the bare platform for a few frames, then there's an explosion and then we see the platform in flames.

Steve

DB7

The rail signal hitting Alec Guinness on the head in The Ladykillers does it for me. Also an honourable mention to the many ironic deaths in the Amicus anthologies.

smudge

Yes Jim, I recall that death scene in COTTAGE TO LET as quite remarkable...

There are some stunners in the Bonds ; one of the most appalling being an overweight Curt Jurgens' death in SPY WHO LOVED ME. Then there's the ludicrous Wint & Kidd scene at the end of DIAMONDS and (more recently) that naff scene in the hotel in TOMORROW NEVER DIES with Schiavelli (?) - terrible.

But for malevolent mirth my absolute cracker (whilst tipping my hat to the multitudinal knocking-off in THE LADYKILLERS [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ) is the sight of dear, sweet Joyce Grenfell being topped by a pair of knitting needles through the neck in Hammer's version of THE OLD DARK HOUSE. The wonderful expression on her face never ceases to make me chortle.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

SMUDGE

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Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

jacobean

Yes there were a few crap deaths in the Amicus films.
One that springs to mind is in the Vault of Horror - I remember the joke hammer sprouting from Terry Thomases head.

Hackett

Brandon Lee in "THE CROW" 1994.

Aenima

Oooucha!
Check those blanks.

What was the Hitchcock film where they just couldn't kill the guy. I'm sure they tried sticking the characters head in a gas oven or something like that. I remember seeing and interview with Hitchcock where he said that he wanted to convey how difficult it really is to kill someone in fight (with or without oven!).

I'll 'av 'arf

Hackett

"TORN CURTAIN" 1966. Paul Newman and Mary Poppins place Wolfgang Kieling on a high setting in a warm oven until done.

Diane Blackwell

LOL! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Peter Stenning

Goldfinger getting sucked out of his Lockheed Jetstar and in the same film during the pre credit sequence when Bond throws an electric fire into a bath full of water and electrocutes the guy he's fighting.

"Shocking, positively shocking." And then later still when he kills Odd Job again using electricity in Fort Knox.

Alec Guinness in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" when he falls on the plunger which detonates the charges placed around the bridge. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

If you go to the movies enjoy your film and please take your litter away with you

Harbottle

Tony Hancock in the Bowmans [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Shadwell

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] Well for the most bizarre deaths imaginable, it would be difficult not to mention the guvnor, Vincent Price particularly in his role as the abominable Dr Phibes. He's at his best however in the role of a Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart in "Theatre of Blood" where he dispatches his critics while quoting Shakespear, and always as they die, usually quite horribly, he adds in hammy one-liner. One of my favourite movies and one in which Vincent obviously enjoyed doing. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

Time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man...

TheLurkerKIng

Deliberate or indeliberate?

Deliberate
"Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter"
The man ran over by a wagon. Watch what happens to the man's arm, when Captain Kronos (Horst Janos) picks up the man to check on him. Oh, god! That had me ROTFL!

Indeliberate
"Siren of Bagdad"
Towards the end of the film, the uncredited stunt man shot off his horse by an arrow to the stomach. I don't know whether it was the way he cried out, or the way he fell off his horse, but another ROTFL! moment.

jacobean

Some of the deaths by the zulu warriors in Zulu (1963) were a bit hammy as well. I don't know if there is any truth in the rumour that some of them were wearing the new wristwatches they received as payment for acting in a film set in the 19th century.