5 Favorites #89: 5 Favorite Death Scenes

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Death in the movies is inevitable, especially if you're a villain. Let's take a look at our favorite on-screen death scenes.

What are your 5 Favorite death scenes?

Written by: Wesley Lovell - Jul 31, 2012 (2:00 pm) | Filed under: 5 Favorites ( Leave a comment )

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Greg
August 1st, 2012 - 10:28

I can’t think of 5 more off the bat; but, the one notable death scene I can think of that everyone has missed is Marlon Brando in “The Godfather.”

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- Mike Kelly
  August 1st, 2012 - 12:07
  
  The Godfather had a slew of great deaths, which also included Sonny’s at the toll booth, Sollozzo and Capt. McCluskey at the restaurant, Apollonia’s car bombing, Moe Green with the glasses, the garrotting of Luca Brasi and Carlo among others. Brando’s heart attack was very realistic especially with the little grandson legitimately scared by Brando’s orange peel fangs and spraying of the dead Don with insecticide.
  
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William Edwards
August 1st, 2012 - 07:26

Piper Laurie in Carrie
Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage to India
Al Pacino in Scarface
Oliver Reed in The Devils
Mink Stole in Female Trouble

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Peter J Patrick
July 31st, 2012 - 23:44

I can’t top some of those already mentioned, but to add a few more in chronological order:

Men

Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front
Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities
James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces
Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah
Mako in The Sand Pebbles

Women

Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall
Maureen O’Hara in The Long Gray Line
Lilli Palmer in The Counterfeit Traitor
Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment
Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage to India

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- Mike Kelly
  August 1st, 2012 - 06:54
  
  I hated leaving Jimmy Cagney off my list. You and Robert listed his two greatest death scenes, and he was memorable also in The Roaring Twenties and Public Enemy. He knew how to die with panache.
  
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Mike Kelly
July 31st, 2012 - 19:49

Psycho (Shower Scene)
Dr. Strangelove (Major Kong rides the bomb.)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Col. Nicholson – “What have I done” – falls on the detonator)
King Kong (His demise)
Bonnie and Clyde (Their dance of death)

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- robert L
  July 31st, 2012 - 20:23
  
  forgot about King Kong – good choice
  
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robert L
July 31st, 2012 - 18:37

King and I
White Heat
Anne of a Thousand Days
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Butterfield 8
Goodbye Mr. Chips

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