Depardieu in the French Cyrano rattling off 20 insults in poetry in the tavern.

   The moment in 12 Angry Men when Lee j. Cobb pulls the photo of his son from his wallet, tears it up, cries, and whispers (no won't give the plot away after 49 years.)

   Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles taking off Dietrich.

   The battle on the ice, from Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky.

Every scene in Lady with the Little Dog (1959) - beautiful.

   A cliched classic,DESERVEDLY, the Odessa steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin.

   Marx Brothers film (which one?) where Harpo eats a whole plate of diced vegetables, one die at a time, at top speed, without a miss.

   Keaton, when a house collapses all round him, but because he was in the doorway, he remains unsxcathed.

   Too many. I'll be back.


   Ivor