Comedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed

Comedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed

by Larry Langman, Paul Gold
Comedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed

Comedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed

by Larry Langman, Paul Gold

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Overview

Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a staple of movie dialogue since the advent of talkies. Collected here are over 4,000 of the best comedic lines from the movies. The compilers of this book have tried to bring together some of the funniest, wittiest and most outrageous snatches of dialogue on film over a sixty year time period.

For each entry the authors set the quotation in context, provide the name of the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by a broad range of categories, such as politics, food and eating, gambling, and many others. A title index and a name index follow the body of the book..


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786411108
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 05/29/2001
Series: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, T
Edition description: ALTERNATE
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Flushing, New York’s Larry Langman has been an instructor of film history and English for over twenty years. He has written more than a dozen books on film. Paul Gold, a mathematics teacher, lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgmentsix
Introductionxi
Accidents2
Actors and Actresses4
Adultery and Affairs7
Aging14
Ambition19
Ancestry21
Animals and Insects21
Appearance25
Army34
Art and Artists38
Assassins and Hit Men39
Babies40
Bachelorhood42
Battle of the Sexes43
Body Beautiful48
Bosses52
Bravado53
Business and Businessmen56
Captivity59
Children60
Cleanliness64
Clothing66
Communication70
Con Artists77
Courage79
Courtroom80
Cowardice82
Crime and Criminals84
Cultures90
Dance91
Dating93
Death96
Detectives101
Diplomacy103
Disguise104
Divorce106
Doctors107
Domestics109
Drink110
Eccentrics117
Education121
Ethics and Morality125
Etiquette and Manners127
Family131
Fear134
Fighting137
Flirtation138
Food142
Friendship149
Gambling151
Gender152
Generation Gap159
Government160
Happiness162
Health164
High Society and Socialites167
Honesty and Dishonesty167
Honeymooners169
Husbands and Wives170
Ideals and Convictions177
Incarceration179
Incompetence182
In-Laws184
Innocence185
Intelligence191
Journalists194
Languages196
Law and Lawyers198
Lawmen (Western)201
Life and Living202
Literature206
Love208
Marriage211
Marriage Proposals218
Media220
Miserliness222
Money223
Movies227
Music231
Names233
Nationalities238
Nature241
Navy242
Old West243
Outlaws (Western)245
Pain246
Parents247
Philosophy251
Places253
Police258
Politics and Politicians261
Poverty264
Prejudice267
Prostitution269
Psychiatry271
Religion274
Revenge277
Rivalry277
Romance280
Rooms284
Royalty286
Sales and Salespeople288
Science and Scientists289
Secretaries290
Seduction290
Self295
Sex299
Show Business311
Sleep and Dreams314
Spies and Spying315
Sports317
Structures321
Stupidity322
Success and Failure326
Suicide327
Supernatural328
Transportation331
Travel332
Vanity334
Villains and Villainy337
War339
Wealth344
Widows and Widowers346
Winners and Losers347
Work and Workplace349
Writers and Writing354
Youth356
Name Index361
Title Index381
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