| Description | Movie | Year |
| A Confederate soldier is wounded in action, then returns to his family in their ruined home. | |
| A young woman is saved from certain death as the ice floe on which she has fainted breaks apart and drifts toward a waterfall. | |
| A bespectacled young man hangs perilously from a large clock's hands on the side of a skyscraper. | |
| Two former friends fight to the death in Death Valley over a cache of gold coins. | |
| Czarist troops massacre a revolting citizenry on the steps leading to the Odessa harbor. | |
| As American troops depart a French village in WWI, a young soldier and a French peasant girl search for each other. They embrance and the soldier promises to return. | |
| To celebrate Thanksgiving, a starving prospector in Alaska boils his own boot and eats it for dinner. | |
| A young Parisian woman removes the mask of a mysterious organist to find him horribly disfigured. | |
| A dejected young train engineer, rejected by his girlfriend, sits on a train engine crossbar, bobbing up and down as the train pulls away. | |
| A singer performs Dirty Hands, Dirty Face and Toot, Toot, Tootsie and speaks film's first words. | |
| A female robot is brought to life by a mad scientist, using a captive young woman's likeness. | |
| On a hazy moonlit night, a farmer and a city vamp tryst in a marsh, where the vamp tempts the farmer to murder his wife. | |
| A tracking shot of a monolithic New York skyscraper enters through a window showing row upon row of identical desks. | |
| A young German WWI soldier reaches from his trench for a butterfly, while a French sniper takes aim. | |
| A formerly blind flower girl, now able to see, realizes her benefactor is a Tramp. | |
| A doctor instills life in a corpse via lightning strike, screaming 'It's alive!' | |
| A ruthless gangster cruelly mashes a half grapefruit in his girlfriend's face. | |
| In a trademark Busby Berkeley musical scene, over 100 swimmers and bathers form various geometric highlights, including a human water fountain. | |
| An inexperienced chorus girl is sent out on opening night, where she has 'got to come back a star.' | |
| Renouncing her throne, a monarch is exiled from Sweden and stands silently at the bow of her ship. | |
| After a newspaperman fails repeatedly at hitchhiking, his heiress companion uses a different limb to flag down a car. | |
| A poor girl, attempting to impress a well-to-do suitor, hosts a disastrous dinner party. | |
| A parade of people crowd themselves absurdly into a tiny stateroom aboard the S.S. Americus. | |
| A pair of elegant dancers perform a beautiful routine to Cheek to Cheek. | |
| A factory worker, driven slightly berserk by trying to tighten nuts at a breakneck pace, lies on a conveyor belt and finds himself dragged into the factory's enormous gears. | |
| A beautiful Parisian courtesan attempts to feign good health for her lover, but eventually succumbs and passes away. | |
| A young woman, going blind and dying, goes quietly to bed as she feels the end coming. | |
| Heathcliff reuintes with his beloved Cathy on her deathbed and stays with her as she expires. | |
| A Southern belle in antebellum Georgia descends the stairs at a plantation barbecue and notices the handsome man at the bottom undressing her with his eyes. | |
| A woman races to the open-air hospital in Civil War-era Atlanta for a doctor, only to find hundreds of wounded and dead soldiers baking in the sun. | |
| An Indian water carrier blows his bugle as a warning to the British troops he serves moments before being shot. | |
| A Senator from small-town America delivers an exhausting, patriotic filibuster on the Senate floor. | |
| An outlaw seeking revenge for the murder of his brother and father holds up the title vehicle. | |
| A young girl, scarecrow, tin woodsman and lion skip along a brick road singing a song about their destination. | |
| An aspiring, Hitler-like despot performs an adoring dance with a globe. | |
| As workers clear away the 'junk' of a deceased tycoon, a childhood memento is revealed, clarifying the meaning of the tycoon's final word. | |
| | Description | Movie | Year |
| A sexy cardsharp seduces a hapless snake expert whom she plans to fleece. | |
| As police lead away a femme fatale, a detective muses about a statuette that 'dreams are made of.' | |
| Two lovers in WWII Morocco part on an airway tarmac so that she and her husband might help the French Resistance. | |
| A police captain and a barkeep walk into the fog, opining that they may have begun 'a beautiful friendship.' | |
| A suave, married European lights two cigarettes, one for himself and one for the spinster whose life he has changed on their South American cruise. | |
| A wrongly suspected terrorist and the actual criminal grapple atop the Statue of Liberty. | |
| George M. Cohan energetically performs the title song-and-dance number, including use of the stage walls to perform backflips. | |
| Forced to share an apartment, a young woman and an Army sergeant fall in love on the steps of their building while she discusses her plans to marry her older boss. | |
| A sultry young woman instructs a privateer on the proper way to whistle. | |
| A touching, silent homecoming for a serviceman who has been away from his wife and children for four years. | |
| Under the blazing desert sun, a pair of lovers duel to the death beneath Squaw's Head Rock. | |
| A vixen alluringly performs the bawdy 'Put the Blame on Mame' in an Buenos Aires casino. | |
| A young man and woman listen together on the phone in Bedford Falls, while the man at first protests, but finally admits his love for, the young lady. | |
| A town's worth of people gather Christmastide and chip in to pay a despondent man's rent, closing with a joint singing of Auld Lang Syne. | |
| A dark government agent and the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy kiss--repeatedly--while maintaining a conversation about dinner and checking phone messages. | |
| An Irish sailor confronts his lover and her crippled husband in an abandoned amusement park's house of mirrors. | |
| A trio of prospectors in the Mexican wilderness grow increasingly tense until the younger two want to turn back, leading the elder to relentlessly belittle them. | |
| A mousy young legatee in the mid-19th century, realizing her lover wants her only for her fortune, exacts her revenge. | |
| A writer in post-war Vienna, looking for his deceased friend, is startled to see the friend staring back at him from doorway across the street. | |
| On a long, tree-lined street, an American waits for a Czech young woman as she leaves her lover's funeral; she arrives, walking silently toward, then past, without word or gesture. | |
| A deluded gangster believes he's on 'top of the world' as he is riddled with bullets and the chemical plant he sought to rob blazes around him. | |
| A Broadway actress throws a birthday party for her boyfriend, which she turns into a 'bumpy night.' | |
| A former silent film star descends the staircase of her mansion in madness, 'ready for her close-up.' | |
| A poor but aspiring young man confesses his love to his beautiful young cousin at a dance; she pulls him to the balcony for a passionate kiss. | |
| A brutish man, remorseful after a spat with his wife, yells out her name in the courtyard of their New Orleans apartment. | |
| A western sheriff writing his will and standing alone on main street are intercut with shots of a clockface and a group of outlaws arriving in town to face the sheriff. | |
| A movie star dances and splashes his way down the street during a downpour while performing the title number. | |
| A violent mob henchman flings a pot of scalding coffee in his moll's face. | |
| A soldier and his base captain's wife make love on a beach in Hawaii in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. | |
| The title gunslinger rides off into the distance as young Joey calls out after him to come back. | |
| Two brothers sit in a New York cab, where the elder pursues his union boss' criminal ends while the younger laments the demise of his prizefighting career, leaving him a bum. | |
| A murderous preacher explains the struggle between hate and love--the words tattooed on his knuckles. | |
| In a confrontation between good and evil, a villainous reverend lurks outside an elderly widow's farmhouse as she sits in silhouette holding a rifle. | |
| The sexy new upstairs tenant in a married book publisher's building cools herself over a subway vent, causing her white dress to billow. | |
| Following the rescue of his niece from the Comanche, a loner cowboy stands framed in silhouette in his family's farmhouse doorway. | |
| After allowing the Israelites to leave Egypt, Pharaoh pursues his former slaves; to make their escape, Moses parts the Red Sea. | |
| | Description | Movie | Year |
| A WWII British colonel in a Ceylon army camp refuses to permit his officers to do manual labor, instead engaging in a power struggle, remaining in the hot sun for days in protest. | |
| Two chain-gang prisoners (one white, one black) desperately chase a moving freight train. | |
| In a long, unbroken take, a bomb is planted in a car in a Mexican border town, which then slowly approaches the border checkpoint. | |
| A San Francisco detective and his lover embrace after he transforms her into a replica of his deceased love, bringing back a swirl of memories bathed in neon green light. | |
| A spectacular chariot race occurs in ancient Rome between the titular hero and his nemesis. | |
| A Madison Avenue businessman is lured to a rural Indiana cornfield, where he is pursued by a cropdusting plane. | |
| An upright bassist in a jazz band, having disguised himself as a woman to flee the mob, finally reveals to a potential suitor that he is not a she--but the suitor is unfazed. | |
| A beautiful blonde is brutally stabbed by an old woman while taking a shower in her hotel bathroom. | |
| An impetuous British officer in WWI Cairo contemplates a reassignment while gazing at a lit match; as he blows out the match, the screen cuts to a vivid sunset. | |
| A British officer, leading a group of Arab soldiers, blows up and loots a Turkish train in the desert. | |
| As two men look on from a Bedouin watering hole, a black-clad Sheik rides in slowly from the distance, first appearing only as a shimmering speck in the distance. | |
| A middle-aged intellectual first glimpses a pretty young blonde girl sunbathing in her backyard in a two-pieced flowered bathing suit and his smitten. | |
| An 18th-century British rogue enjoys a ravenous meal with a lusty woman, serving as foreplay for their evening. | |
| The camera swoops in over beautiful mountains to a meadow where a young Austrian novice sings the title song. | |
| A pair of romantically-involved Depression-era outlaws are ambushed, their car and their bodies riddled with bullets. | |
| A directionless young man decides to interrupt the wedding of the young woman, screaming her name; the two ride off on a bus, exhilirated but unsure of their future. | |
| Enlightened by a monolith, a prehistoric ape learns to use animal bones as tools, throwing one in the air; a match-on-action cuts from the bone to a spacestation in the future. | |
| Two turn-of-the-century outlaws, escaping a posse, must jump off a cliff into a river, when one admits that he doesn't know how to swim. | |
| Two motorcyclists ride away from a New Mexico town with their new lawyer friend, who wears a gold football helmet. | |
| As the title group of outlaws robs a bank in a Texas town, a gun battle ensues, killing numerous townspeople in a temperance march. | |
| A famous 4-star general in WWII gives a bombastic speech in front of an enormous American flag. | |
| In the near future, a British punk and his gang rape and torture of a middle-class couple while singing 'Singin' in the Rain.' | |
| A member of a drug ring is pursued by a New York detective in a car-and-train chase, with the detective eventually gunning down the criminal at the top of the train depot stairs. | |
| An Atlanta businessman on a trip to the wilderness plays banjo with a mentally challenged young hillbilly. | |
| On the day of his daughter's wedding, a mafia boss listens to requests for favors from various patrons. | |
| A possessed girl uses a crucifix in a distinctly unholy manner and swivels her head 360 degrees while yelling obscenities. | |
| A private detective snoops around a Los Angeles reservoir, where a goon slices his nose, which he 'likes breathing through.' | |
| When the vindictive nurse at an asylum refuses to allow the patients to watch the World Series, their rebellious leader pretends the game is on anyway in a contest of wills. | |
| An underdog boxer trains in montage, running through the Philadelphia streets and up the stairs of an art museum, arms raised in triumph. | |
| A dangerously unhinged loner cabbie talks to himself in the mirror and plays with his gun, but he's 'the only one here.' | |
| A New York paint store clerk dons a white leisure suit and dances to the music of the Bee Gees at a discotheque. | |
| A lieutenant colonel bombs a Vietnam beach in order to surf there, unleashing the smell he loves in the morning. | |
| An unhinged writer at a snowbound Colorado hotel uses an axe to break down the door of the bathroom where his wife and son hide, terrified. | |
| An archaeology professor steals a golden idol from a South American jungle and is nearly crushed by a giant boulder. | |
| To demonstrate a man's ability to be fooled, a blonde woman fakes an orgasm at a deli. | |
| A German businessman and his accountant type out, in close-up, the names of the Jews whom the businessman intends to save from the Nazi death camps. | |
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