Great Film Taglines

Part 3


Introduction: Taglines (often called slogans) are catchy, enticing short phrases used by marketers and film studios to advertise and sell a movie, and to sum up the plot, tone or themes of a film. Many films have multiple taglines. Composing ad copy for posters and trailers is generally the first step in marketing a film and setting a strategic direction for the product. These 'sound-bite' epigrams are often placed on either film posters (above or below the film's title) or on the merchandise itself (DVD or video cassette box, etc.), to reinforce what the film is all about. Some films do not have a tagline at all, and instead choose to provide evocative images to convey the meaning, mood, symbolism, or setting of the film (i.e., Chinatown (1974)). Some taglines are quite obscure, unrecognizable and forgettable. Often, the best taglines are for very inferior films.

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that
"The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100 Greatest Films.



Great Film Tag Lines
(chronological, by film title - Part 3)
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"The hot-line suspense comedy." Dr. Strangelove, Or:... (1964)
"The only people who will not be STERILIZED with FEAR are those among you who are already DEAD!" The Flesh Eaters (1964)
"James Bond is back in action! Everything he touches turns to excitement!" Goldfinger (1964)
"The loverliest motion picture of them all!" My Fair Lady (1964)
"A Riot! A Ball! A Romp! A Gasser! A Swinger! A She-Bang! A funny movie...? You bet it is!" Cat Ballou (1965)
"A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution" Doctor Zhivago (1965)
"Go-Go For a Wild Ride With the ACTION GIRLS!" Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
"The movie with something to offend everyone." The Loved One (1965)
"The film that will satisfy every over-sexagesimal adult!"
AND
"In gorgeous and shocking ASTRAVISION and SEXICOLOR!"
Orgy of the Dead (1965)
"The Happiest Sound In All The World!" The Sound of Music (1965)
"Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!" Thunderball (1965)
"A girl wilder than a peach orchard hog!" The Girl From Tobacco Row (1966)
"For Three Men The Civil War Wasn't Hell. It Was Practice!" The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
"They're young...they're in love...and they kill people." Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
"The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform." Cool Hand Luke (1967)
"This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future." The Graduate (1967)
"No ordinary love story..." Romeo and Juliet (1968)
"Pray for Rosemary's Baby." Rosemary's Baby (1968)
"The Ultimate Trip."
AND
"An epic drama of adventure and exploration."
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
"Not that it matters, but most of it is true." Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
"A man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere!" Easy Rider (1969)
"Every father's daughter is a virgin." Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
"Unchanged men in a changing land. Out of step, out of place and desperately out of time."
AND
"Nine men who came too late and stayed too long..."
The Wild Bunch (1969)
"He Rode The Fast Lane On The Road To Nowhere." Five Easy Pieces (1970)
"M*A*S*H Gives a D*A*M*N." M*A*S*H (1970)
"Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven."
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
"You don't assign him to murder cases. You just turn him loose." Dirty Harry (1971)
"A $32,000,000 chase turns into the American thriller of the year!" The French Connection (1971)
"Name Your Poison." McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
"It's Scrumdiddlyumptious!" Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
"Life is a Cabaret" Cabaret (1972)
"This is the weekend they didn't play golf." Deliverance (1972)
"It's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory." Play It Again, Sam (1972)
"To avoid fainting, keep repeating 'It's only a movie...It's only a movie...'" The Last House on the Left (1972)
"They transplanted a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body!" The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
"Where were you in '62?" American Graffiti (1973)
"In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people." Badlands (1973)
"Pass the warning. A psychic thriller." Don't Look Now (1973)
"Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is The Exorcist." The Exorcist (1973)
"They'd never forget the day he drifted into town." High Plains Drifter (1973)
"You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it on the streets..." Mean Streets (1973)
"Due to the horrifying nature of this film, no one will be admitted to the theatre" Schlock (1973)
"...all it takes is a little Confidence." The Sting (1973)
"Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did." Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
"See it before you go swimming."
AND
"Don't go in the water."
Jaws (1975)
"Adventure in all its glory!" The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
"Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic" Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
"The damnedest thing you ever saw!" Nashville (1975)
"a different set of jaws" The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
"Spine Shattering - Bone Blasting"
AND
"She's A One Mama Massacre Squad!"
T.N.T. Jackson (1975)
"The most devastating detective story of this century." All the President's Men (1976)
"If You've Got A Taste For Terror... Take Carrie To The Prom." Carrie (1976)
"There's no body in the family plot." Family Plot (1976)
"Television will never be the same!" Network (1976)
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot." Rocky (1976)
"A film that could only be made in South America, where life is CHEAP!" Snuff (1976)
"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." Taxi Driver (1976)
"A nervous romance." Annie Hall (1977)
"Thank you Neil Simon for making us laugh at falling in love...again." The Goodbye Girl (1977)
"Where do you go when the record is over..." Saturday Night Fever (1977)
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Star Wars (1977)
"The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92." Suspiria (1977)
"A new musical-comedy-horror show." Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
"Your eyes... Your ears... Your senses... will be overwhelmed." Days of Heaven (1978)
"The Night HE Came Home." Halloween (1978)
"The seed is planted...terror grows." Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water."
AND
"One good bite deserves another."
Jaws 2 (1978)
"You'll Believe A Man Can Fly!" Superman: The Movie (1978)
"In space no one can hear you scream." Alien (1979)
"More entertaining than humanly possible." The Muppet Movie (1979)
"The human adventure is just beginning..." Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
"Thank God It's Only a Motion Picture!" Airplane! (1980)
"He's the highest paid lover in Beverly Hills. He leaves women feeling more alive than they've ever felt before. Except one."
American Gigolo (1980)
"They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God." The Blues Brothers (1980)
"The snobs against the slobs!" Caddyshack (1980)
"The Adventure Continues..." The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
"Pathetic Earthlings... Who Can Save You Now?" Flash Gordon (1980)
"Beyond fantasy. Beyond obsession. Beyond time itself...he will find her." Somewhere in Time (1980)
"Back when you had to beat it before you could eat it..." Caveman (1981)
"To my darling Christina, with love..."
AND
"The Biggest Mother of Them All!"
Mommie Dearest (1981)
"The creators of JAWS and STAR WARS now bring you the ultimate hero in the ultimate adventure." Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
"Man has made his match ... now it's his problem." Blade Runner (1982)
"He is afraid. He is alone. He is three million light years from home." E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
"It's Awesome! Totally Awesome!" Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
"They're here..." Poltergeist (1982)
"At the end of the universe lies the beginning of vengeance." Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
"Man is the warmest place to hide." The Thing (1982)
"What do you get when you cross a hopelessly straight starving actor with a dynamite red sequined dress? You get America's hottest new actress." Tootsie (1982)
"A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now." TRON (1982)
"Nobody Does Him Better" Octopussy (1983)
"He loved the American Dream. With a Vengeance." Scarface (1983)
"Come to Laugh, Come to Cry, Come to Care, Come to Terms." Terms of Endearment (1983)
"They're not just getting rich...they're getting even." Trading Places (1983)


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