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of All Time by the Writer's Guild of America |
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of All Time by the Writer's Guild of America (part 4, by reverse ranking) |
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Film Title (Year and Director) |
Scriptwriter(s) and Original or Adapted Source Material | Memorable Line of Dialogue
(Performer/Film Character) |
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The Wizard of Oz (1939; dir. Victor Fleming) |
Screenplay by Noel Langley and Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, adaptation by Noel Langley, based on the novel by L. Frank Baum | "Toto, I have a feeling
we’re not in Kansas anymore." — Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale |
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Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (2004; dir. Michel Gondry) |
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth | Joel Barish (Jim Carrey): "Is there any risk of brain damage?" Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson): "Well, technically, the procedure itself is brain damage, but on par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss." |
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Gone With the Wind (1939; dir. Victor Fleming) |
Screenplay by Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell | "You should be kissed and
often, and by someone who knows how." — Clark Gable as Rhett Butler |
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The
Shawshank Redemption (1994; dir. Frank Darabont) |
Screenplay by Frank Darabont, based on the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King | "Get
busy living, or get busy dying." — Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne |
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North by Northwest (1959; dir. Alfred Hitchcock) |
Written by Ernest Lehman | "I’ve got a job, a
secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders that depend
upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself
‘slightly’ killed." — Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill |
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946; dir. Frank Capra) |
Screenplay by Frances Goodrich
& Albert Hackett & Frank Capra, based on the short story "The
Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, contributions to the screenplay
by Michael Wilson and Jo Swerling |
"Big—see! I don’t
want one for one night. I want something for a thousand and one nights,
with plenty of room for labels from Italy and Baghdad, Samarkand . . .
a great big one!" — Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey |
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962; dir. Robert Mulligan) |
Screenplay by Horton Foote, based on the novel by Harper Lee | "There’s a lot of
ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away
from you. That’s never possible." — Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch |
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On the Waterfront (1954; dir. Elia Kazan) |
Screen story and screenplay by Budd Schulberg, based on "Crime on the Waterfront" articles by Malcolm Johnson | "You want to know what’s
wrong with our waterfront? It’s love of a lousy buck. It’s making
love of a buck — the cushy job — more important than the love
of man. It’s forgetting that every fellow down here is your brother
in Christ." — Karl Malden as Father Barry |
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Tootsie (1982; dir. Sydney Pollack) |
Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal, story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart | "Look, you don't know
me from Adam, but I was a better man with you, as a woman, than I ever
was with a woman, as a man. Know what I mean?" — Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey |
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Pulp
Fiction (1994; dir. Quentin Tarantino) |
Written by Quentin Tarantino, stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary | "I ain’t through with
you by a damn sight. I’m gonna get Medieval on your ass." — Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace |
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The
Apartment (1960; dir. Billy Wilder) |
Written by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | "I guess that’s the
way it crumbles—cookie-wise." — Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter |
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962; dir. David Lean) |
Screenplay by Robert Bolt and
Michael Wilson, based on the life and writings of Col. T.E. Lawrence |
Jackson Bentley (Arthur Kennedy): "What attracts you personally to the desert?" T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole): "It’s clean." |
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The Graduate (1967; dir. Mike Nichols) |
Screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, based on the novel by Charles Webb | "I want to say one word
to you. Just one word . . . Plastics." — Walter Brooke as Mr. McGuire |
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Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick) |
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Peter George and Terry Southern | "Gentlemen, you can’t
fight in here. This is the War Room!" — Peter Sellers as Pres. Merkin Muffley |
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Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969; dir. George Roy Hill) |
Written by William Goldman | Sundance Kid (Robert Redford): "I can’t swim." Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): "Why, you crazy—the fall'll probably kill you." |
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The Godfather Part II (1974; dir. Francis Ford Coppola) |
Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Mario Puzo’s novel "The Godfather" | "I know it was you, Fredo.
You broke my heart. You broke my heart." — Al Pacino as Michael Corleone |
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Some Like It Hot (1959; dir. Billy Wilder) |
Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond, based on "Fanfare of Love", a German film written by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan | "Nobody’s perfect." — Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding |
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Network (1976; dir. Sidney Lumet) |
Written by Paddy Chayefsky | "I’m as mad as hell,
and I’m not going to take this anymore!" — Peter Finch as Howard Beale |
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Sunset Boulevard (1950; dir. Billy Wilder) |
Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr. | Joe Gillis (William Holden): "You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big." Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson): "I am big. It’s the pictures that got small." |
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Annie Hall (1977; dir. Woody Allen) |
Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman | "A relationship, I think,
is—is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or
it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark." — Woody Allen as Alvy Singer |
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All About Eve (1950; dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) |
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on "The Wisdom of Eve", a short story and radio play by Mary Orr | "Fasten your seat belts.
It’s going to be a bumpy night." — Bette Davis as Margo Channing |
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Citizen Kane (1941; dir. Orson Welles) |
Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles | "Mr. Kane was a man who
got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something
he couldn’t get or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn’t have
explained anything. I don’t think any word can explain a man’s
life." — William Alland as Jerry Thompson |
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Chinatown (1974; dir. Roman Polanski) |
Written by Robert Towne | "Course I’m respectable.
I’m old. Politicians, public buildings, and whores all get respectable
if they last long enough." — John Huston as Noah Cross |
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The Godfather (1972; dir. Francis Ford Coppola) |
Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by Mario Puzo | "Luca Brasi held a gun
to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature
would be on the contract." — Al Pacino as Michael Corleone |
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Casablanca (1942; dir. Michael Curtiz) |
Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison | "Of all the gin joints
in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine." — Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine |
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