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It Was Just an Accident [2025]

1. Motif of stray dogs.
2. After telling the security guards he doesn’t have any cash on him, one of them helpfully produces a mobile credit card reader and punches in the amount of the bribe.
3. Box of sweets for the nurse.

Quantum of Solace [2008]

1. “Hello. We’re teachers on sabbatical and we’ve just won the lottery.”
2. Tripping him on the stairs “accidentally.”
3. Literally at the end of his rope.

3 other things.

Save the Tiger [1973]

1. Garters for his socks.
2. “You want something?”
“Yes … I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I want to see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Hear Billie Holiday sing ‘Fine and Mellow.’ Walk in that kind of rain that never washes the perfume away. I want to be in love with something. Anything. Just an idea. A dog, a cat, anything. Something.”
3. He slips him the envelope of cash and tells him to do it Sunday, while Phil is out fishing.

Nightshift [1981]

1. Telephone conversation in the lounge.
2. Eating a meal at her desk.
3. Glass cleaner.

Barbary Coast [1935]

1. They gallantly carry her across the muck of the street.
2. Fake eye-patch.
3. A character with the name of “Knuckles” Jacoby.

A House of Dynamite [2025]

1. Surrender or suicide.
2. A brief moment alone at the window before he is hustled out of the room.
3. “Bad knees.”

Red Sun [1971]

1. He kills a single mosquito with his sword.
2. Sleeping on the floor in the whorehouse.
3. “I think you’re one hell of a man.”
“I think you are one son of a bitch.”

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953]

1. “Laryngitis,” she says apologetically.
2. A glass of straight vodka.
3. Surrounded by a group of men shaking strands of diamonds in her face.

3 other things.

Frankenstein [2025]

1. Descending the grotty stairs in bare feet.
2. He admits he never pondered the organ where the soul is located.
3. “Victor, you only listen when I hurt you!”

A Single Man [2009]

1. “If itʼs going to be a world with no time for sentiment, itʼs not a world that I want to live in.”
2. A request for Tanqueray; she says she likes the color of the bottle.
3. Slipped into the bread bag, a personal note with money enclosed.

3 other things.