'Frankly, My Dear' Is Top AFI Movie Quote

Channel 5 Cincinnati ^ | June 22, 2005

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LOS ANGELES -- Rhett Butler said it best -- "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

That parting shot in 1939's "Gone With the Wind" topped the list of the American Film Institute's best quotes from American movies.

Clark Gable's line beat out a pair of Marlon Brando classics -- "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" from "The Godfather" and "I coulda been a contender" from "On the Waterfront."

Judy Garland's realization in "The Wizard of Oz" -- "I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" -- was fourth.

In fifth place was "Casablanca" and Humphrey Bogart's "Here's looking at you, kid."

"Casablanca" led the list with six quotes.

[Junior]

Ian Malcolm: Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.

[beyond the sea]

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Great list ....... but damn.......... where are:

1. Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch."

2. "I can't swim!"

3. "What, are you kidding me, the fall will probably kill you!"

4. "I work for Mr. E. H. Harriman of the Union Pacific."

5. "Who are those guys? I couldn't do that, could you do that?"

6. "What happened to the old banks?"

7. Guns or knives, Butch? Guns or knives?"

And many more from one of the funniest movies EVER........ Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.