30 Things I Love About Old Movies

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1 Spinning Headlines
2 Calendar pages torn away to mark passage of time
3 “Say, what’s the big idea?”
4 Window shopping
5 Sleeper cars on trains
6 Dry, witty butlers
7 “That’s swell!”
8 “Try and get some sleep”
9 Steamer trunks
10 Silk pajamas
11 Suspenders on fat men
12 Double takes
13 Seltzer bottles
14 Hobos with bindlestiffs
15 Wisecracking taxi drivers
16 Character actors with interesting faces
17 Guns being pulled from suit jackets
18 Backstage dressing room scenes
19 “Nights on the town” montages
20 Thin mustaches
21 A woman pressing the back of her hand to her forehead
22 Cigarette holders
23 “Why you . . .!”
24 Dream sequences
25 Flashbacks
26 “You big lug”
27 Telephone exchange operators
28 Men named Vance, Cyril, Pendleton, Sammy
29 Women named Gladys, Myrtle, June, Dorothy
30 Dotted lines across maps to depict long journeys

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