Best Film Deaths Scenes

Best Film
Deaths Scenes

Part 9

Film Title	Description	Example
Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (1965)	The scene of go-go dancer/stripper thrill-seeking, bad-girl leader Varla (Tura Satana) throwing Rosie's (Haji) switchblade knife a long-distance into the back of mini-skirted Billie (Lori Williams) as she walked away and told them she was leaving the gang. Her back arched as she staggered before falling dead to the ground
Cul-de-Sac (1966, UK)	In the conclusion of this macabre black comedy, gruff-voiced gangster thug Richard or Dickie (Lionel Stander), mortally-wounded in an accidental occurrence, attempted to hold a machine-gun on the mismatched married couple: effeminate, introverted, emasculated and bald businessman George and his attractive, younger promiscuous French wife Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac), but fell down dead
A Man for All Seasons (1966, UK)	The scene of Sir Thomas More's (Paul Scofield) execution and his poignant words to his executioner: "Be not afraid of your office: you send me to God", in director Fred Zinnemann's Best Picture-winning film of Richard Bolt's adaptation of his own play
Torn Curtain (1966)	In Alfred Hitchcock's political/spy thriller, the lengthy murder sequence in a farmhouse kitchen involving the difficult killing of a Soviet agent - German "bodyguard" Hermann Gromek (Wolfgang Keiling) - using a soup kettle, a butcher knife (thrust into his shoulder), and finally by forcibly dragging his head into a cast-iron gas oven in order to gas him (with the fingers of his hands expressing his excruciating death), by American physicist and secret double agent Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) # 5	The last look between the two doomed outlaws Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) followed by a revolutionary, graphic ambush-death scene with their bodies jerking and writhing rhythmically and orgasmically from the blizzard of bullets
Cool Hand Luke (1967)	Escaped chain-gang prisoner Luke (Paul Newman) looked out one of the church windows toward the Captain (Strother Martin) and other sheriffs in an eerie red light reflected from their cherry-tops. Ultimately unbroken and with a cocky, assured but cool smile, he mocked the Captain with the famous film line: "What we've got here is a failure to communicate", and was tragically shot in the throat and silenced forever by the crack-shooting Boss with no eyes. Flooded by a reddish glow, Luke died in the back seat of the Boss' car viewed through a rain-spattered car window - his face wore the familiar grin - a sign of the victory of his spirit over death
You Only Live Twice (1967)	007 British agent James Bond (Sean Connery) fought to the death with brutish, tall, muscular, blonde SPECTRE bodyguard Hans (Ronald Rich) over access to the control room's self-destruct "exploder button" key. Bond needed to destroy the Bird One intruder spacecraft, launched by masterminding SPECTRE No. 1 villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's (Donald Pleasence) that was just five seconds away from intercepting another American rocket in space. (US officials were poised to initiate a nuclear attack on the suspected Russians, Blofeld's ultimate plan to "inaugurate a little war." Bond flipped Hans over his shoulder (after a missed punch) directly into Blofeld's piranha fish-pool tank within his secret hideout. It was filled with voracious piranha fish (with razor-sharp teeth). As Bond looked down at the feasting fish, he quipped: "Bon appetit." The hungry fish were demonstrated earlier in the film, when redheaded SPECTRE agent Helga Brandt (Karin Dor) was punished for not killing Bond. Similarly, she was plunged into the piranha pool when Blofeld stepped on a foot pedal and she was dropped into the water.	Helga Brandt Hans
If... (1968, UK)	The violent, vengeful and bloody finale in director Lindsay Anderson's violent and controversial coming-of-age drama about youth rebellion - it was an armed shoot-out and revolt by rebellious students from the rooftop of an oppressive, conformist English boarding school (a symbolic microcosm of a repressive Establishment-oriented society) during a Founder's Day ceremony; the attack was led by rebellious, anti-authoritarian anarchist Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell in his debut film role); he was joined by other boys and an unnamed coffee-house waitress/girlfriend (Christine Noonan) who coldly shot the Headmaster (Peter Jeffrey) between the eyes while he pleaded: "Boys, boys, I understand you. Listen to reason and trust me, trust me!"
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	The senseless, grim death of sole survivor Ben (Duane Jones) by a shot in the head from a redneck in a lynch mob when he emerged into the daylight; also the scene of Barbara's (Judith O'Dea) death by her own zombified brother Johnny (Russell Streiner)
Pretty Poison (1968)	The two bewildering and disturbing murders committed by "pretty poison" high school senior - a perky amoral and corruptible blonde named Sue Ann Stepanek (Tuesday Weld): the first when she sat on the body of wounded plant nightwatchman Sam (Parker Fennelly) and cold-bloodedly drowned him - with her dress hiked up as she pumped him up and down (almost orgasmically); and the second - a matricide when she shot her dissolute, critical and disapproving mother (Beverly Garland) at point-blank range as she ascended the stairs carrying a breakfast of pancakes
Romeo and Juliet (1968)	The deaths of the two young star-crossed lovers (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey) from different houses (Montague and Capulet) by poison and dagger stabbing ("Oh, happy dagger")
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	HAL 9000's (voice of Douglas Rains) cold-blooded murder of the astronauts during hibernation - the only sign of death being registered on computer terminals; also, the scene of Frank Poole's (Gary Lockwood) death by cutting off his oxygen supply as he momentarily flailed around in space; also the scene of a pleading HAL's own lobotomizing death as he sang: "Daisy, Daisy'" as Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) removed the higher-function memory cards; and the aging death of Bowman in a bed in front of a monolith - and his resurrection as a "Star Baby"
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)	Bambi's stomped death - the punchline in this very short film - made by a student at the Art Center of Design in Los Angeles
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	Outlaws Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid's (Robert Redford) heroic last-stand charge into a hail of bullets and insurmountable odds - with a freezed-frame and transformation to sepia
Easy Rider (1969)	The shotgun-blast deaths of both bikers Captain America-Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) by a redneck, and the final pull-back helicopter view of Wyatt's burning bike by the side of the road