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has selected as the 100 Greatest Films |
Greatest Movie Death Scenes
(chronological by film title) - Part 3
Intro | Part
1 | Part 2 | Part
3 | Part 4 | Part
5 | Part 6 | Part
7 | Part 8 | Part
9 | Part 10
Part 11 | Part
12 | Part 13 | Part
14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20
Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25
| Film Title | Description | Example |
| Scarlett O'Hara's (Vivien Leigh) shooting (in the face) at point blank range and killing an armed Union deserter (Paul Hurst) on the staircase, who threatened rape ("Regular little spitfire, ain't ya"), in order to protect the plantation household of Tara |
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Gunga Din (1939) |
Gunga Din's (Sam Jaffe)
death while blowing a bugle to warn British troops of an ambush |
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| The nostalgic, deathbed
scene in which elderly schoolmaster Mr. Charles Chipping (or "Mr.
Chips") (Robert Donat) refuted the remark that he had been
a lonely man without children, with: "I thought I heard you
say 'twas a pity, a pity I never had children. But you're wrong...I
have...thousands of them...thousands of them...and all boys!", and then closing his eyes while smiling, as the camera rose
up when he passed on. He dreamily remembered many schoolboys filing
past to repeat their names at call-over, while the music of the
school song swelled in volume in the background |
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| Rough gangster Eddie Bartlett's (James Cagney) memorable death scene in the snow on the steps of Community Church in the arms of Panama Smith (Gladys George), with her epitaph: "He used to be a big shot"; the image evoked Michelangelo's Pieta |
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| The twisted, melting death of the green-faced Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) from a dousing with a bucket of water thrown by Dorothy (to put out the burning Scarecrow), and her screams of: "I'm melting! I'm melting. Who would have thought that some little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!" |
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| Earlier, the death of
the Wicked Witch of the East, being crushed by Dorothy's (Judy Garland)
farmhouse, with only her feet (and the Ruby Slippers) protruding
from under the structure |
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| Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier)
carried a dying Cathy (Merle Oberon) in his arms to her bedroom
window, where they looked out on the moors and Peniston Crag where
they played together as children. Before slumping into his arms
after breathing her last breath, they made a pact to be together
for eternity. She promised to wait for him there in death until
they were reunited again one day: "Heathcliff, can you see the
Crag over there where our castle is? I'll wait for you 'til you
come"; in the film's last image, their ghosts were seen walking
up to the Crag |
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The Mark of Zorro (1940) |
In the thrilling, magnificent dueling scene (one of the best in cinematic history) between Zorro/Diego de Vega (Tyrone Power) and cruel villain Capt. Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) in director Rouben Mamoulian's adventure-swashbuckler, Pasquale was killed by a lethal parry - when he fell to the floor, he dislodged a framed painting that revealed a scratched 'Z' on the wall |
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| Devoted housekeeper Mrs. Danvers' (Judith Anderson) death by fire in Manderley mansion as she scurried around inside and the burning roof caved in on top of her, as someone commented: "Mrs. Danvers - she's gone mad!" |
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| Charles Foster Kane's (Orson Welles) death after murmuring: "ROSEBUD" from giant lips (in close-up), and his grasping of a snow globe |
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High Sierra (1941) |
During a suspenseful manhunt high up in the Sierra Mountains, police pursued aging gangster Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Humphrey Bogart) in a doomed last stand when his 'tarnished angel' friend Marie (Ida Lupino) refused to call out to him as she told the authorities: "He's gonna die anyway, I'd rather it was this way. Go on, all of you, kill him, kill him..."; after Earle had been shot dead when he called out to Marie in the open - she sadly repeated the word "Free" for Roy's "crash out" after the mongrel dog Pard had licked his hand; the film ended with a blurry fadeout on Marie's tear-stained face as it filled the frame before a pan up to the mountains |
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The Little Foxes (1941) |
The death of estranged husband Horace (Herbert Marshall) as he climbed the stairs and suffered a heart attack behind wife Regina (Bette Davis), in a famous deep-focus shot |
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Bambi (1942) |
The traumatic, off-camera death of Bambi's mother, and Bambi's searching and cries of "Mother, where are you?" in a raging snowstorm when she didn't respond; also the words of Bambi's father, the Great Prince of the Forest: "Your mother can't be with you anymore" |
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| Rick Blaine's (Humphrey Bogart) self-defense shooting of Major Heinrich Strasser (Conrad Veidt) in the hangar of the foggy airport in order to protect Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) and Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) from being detained by Strasser's phone call to the control tower during their departure; Captain Renault (Claude Rains) delivered the immortal line afterwards: "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects" |
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