| Blaine,
Richard "Rick" (actor - Humphrey Bogart) |
| "Isla, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take
much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a
hill of beans in this crazy world. Some day you'll understand that.
Now, now. Here's looking at you kid." |
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Movie: Casablanca, 1942 |
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For more information:
Casablanca at
Greatest
Films |
 |
Recommended viewing:
Casablanca
starring Humphrey Bogart |
| Butler,
Rhett (actor - Clark Gable) |
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" - movie
"My dear, I don't give a damn!" - book |
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Movie: Gone With the Wind, 1939 |
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For more information:
Gone With the Wind
at Greatest Films |
 |
Recommended reading:
Gone
With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
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Recommended viewing:
Gone
With the Wind starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh |
| Dubois,
Blanche |
| "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
(as she is taken off to an institution) |
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Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1947 |
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Recommended reading:
A
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams |
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Recommended viewing:
A
Streetcar Named Desire starring Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Vivian
Leigh, and Karl Malden |
| Friday,
Johnny (actor - Lee J. Cobb) |
| "Where are you guys going?" Wait a minute?
I'll remember this! I'll remember everyone of ya! I'll be back;
don't you forget that. I'll be back." |
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Movie: On the Waterfront, 1954 |
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For more information:
On the Waterfront
at Greatest Films |
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Recommended viewing:
On
the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando |
| Helmer,
Nora |
| "Now that life together between us two could become
a marriage. Goodbye." |
|
Play: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879 |
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For more information:
The Ibsen
Center |
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Recommended reading:
A
Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| Joad,
Tom (actor - Henry Fonda) |
| "I'll be ever'where--wherever you look. Wherever
they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever
they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why,
I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--I'll be in the way kids
laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when
our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why,
I'll be there. See?" - book |
| Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fella ain't got a
soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul - the one big soul that
belongs to ever'body. Then...then, it don't matter. I'll be all around
in the dark. I'll be ever' where - wherever you can look. Wherever there's
a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop
beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're
mad - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's
ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin'
in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. - movie |
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Novel: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
Movie: The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 |
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For more information:
Steinbeck:
The California Novels
Center for
Steinbeck Studies |
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Recommended reading:
The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
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Recommended viewing:
The
Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda |
| Lecter,
Hannibal "the Cannibal" (actor - Anthony Hopkins) |
| Movie: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having
an old friend for dinner. Bye." |
| Novel: "I have no plans to call on you Clarice,
the world being more interesting with you in it. Be sure to extend
me the same courtesy. I have windows. Orion is above the horizon
now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be again before the
year 2000. (I have no intention of telling you the time and how high
it is.) But I expect you can see it too. Some of our stars
are the same. Clarice. -- Hannibal Lecter |
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Novel: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, 1988
Movie: The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 |
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For more information:
The Silence of the Lambs
at Greatest Movies |
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Recommended reading:
Red
Dragon by Thomas Harris (introducing Dr. Lecter)
The
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris |
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Recommended viewing:
The
Silence of the Lambs starring Jody Foster and Anthony Hopkins |
| Spade,
Sam (actor - Humphrey Bogart) |
| "Yes, Angel, I'm going to send you over. The chances
are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll
be out in twenty years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang
you, I'll always remember you." - to Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary
Astor) when turning her over to the police |
|
Movie: The Maltese Falcon from Dashiell Hammet's 1929
novel |
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For more information:
The Maltese Falcon
at Greatest Films |
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Recommended reading:
The
Maltese Falcon by Dasheill Hammet |
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Recommended viewing:
The
Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet,
and Peter Lorre |
| Starret,
Joey (actor - Brandon de Wilde) |
| "Pa's got things for you to do, and Mother wants you.
I know she does. Shane. Shane. Come back. Bye,
Shane." - movie |
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Movie: Shane, 1953
Book: Shane by Jack Shaefer |
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For more information:
Shane at Greatest
Movies |
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Recommended viewing:
Shane
starring Alan Ladd |
| The
Time Traveler |
| "Really and truly I do. I only want half an hour.
I know why you came, and it's awfully good of you. There's some magazines
here. If you'll stop to lunch I'll prove you this time traveling
up to the hilt, specimen and all. If you'll forgive my leaving you
now?" |
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Novel: The Time Machine, H.G. Wells, 1895 |
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For more information:
The
Time Machine, e-text version
H.G. Wells |
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Recommended readings:
The
Time Machine and the Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
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