Comedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres,Topically Arranged and Indexed » (ALTERNATE)

Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a staple of movie dialogue since the advent of talkies. Collected here are over 4,000 of the best comedic lines from the movies. The compilers of this book have tried to bring together some of the funniest, wittiest and most outrageous snatches of dialogue on film over a sixty year time period.

For each entry the authors set the quotation in context, provide the name of the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by a broad range of categories, such as politics, food and eating, gambling, and many others. A title index and a name index follow the body of the book.

Author Biography: Flushing, New York's Larry Langman has been an instructor of film history and English for over twenty years. He has written more than a dozen books on film, including Destination Hollywood (2000, $46.50) and The Media in the Movies (1998, $65). Brooklyn's Paul Gold is a mathematics teacher.

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Collects 4,256 funny lines from American movies, arranged into 117 categories such as adultery, gender, money, police, show business, and vanity. For each entry, the authors set the quotation in context and provide the name of the actor, the movie, and the year of release. This is a paperbound reprint of the clothbound edition published in 1994. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)