# Famous scenes from movies most people haven't seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612 "2011-04-25T02:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/61 "2011-04-27T00:06:04Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > I think Jimmy Cagney’s “Made it, ma! Top of the world!” counts, although it’s not a super famous scene. This is sort of meta: Almost everyone knows _of_ that scene, but very few have seen it, much less the actual movie. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/62 "2011-04-27T00:15:43Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > You shut your mouth! He was just talkin’ about De Niro. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/63 "2011-04-27T00:19:24Z")
I’m guessing most people have seen Charlie Chaplin making the potatoes dance. I wonder how many have actaually watched _The Gold Rush_ in its entirety. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/64 "2011-04-27T01:15:03Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I’m guessing most people have seen Charlie Chaplin making the potatoes dance. I wonder how many have actaually watched _The Gold Rush_ in its entirety. I already mentioned this scene in post #51. After seeing your post, I doubled checked to see if I had misremembered. I have seen The Gold Rush and I remembered correctly. As I mentioned in post #51, they were dinner rolls, not potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/65 "2011-04-27T01:52:02Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > I already mentioned this scene in post #51. After seeing your post, I doubled checked to see if I had misremembered. I have seen The Gold Rush and I remembered correctly. As I mentioned in post #51, they were dinner rolls, not potatoes. As an aside, Chaplin stole that gag. Here’s [Fatty Arbuckle doing it 8 years earlier](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fxydAUrWc). No doubt Fatty stole it too. (Chaplin did the gag much better, though. I’ll give him that.) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/66 "2011-04-27T02:50:18Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > That being said…who the hell as seen From Here to Eternity other than that scene? It’s one of my favorites, but I’m more familiar with pre-1960’s movies than current movies anyway. I suck at trivia these days. If Anne Hathaway or Hugh Grant are in the movie, I won’t know the title. I think more people have seen Marlene Dietrich singing “Fawwing in wuv again” (or a parody of it) than have seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/67 "2011-04-27T16:52:34Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Hitler melting down in _Downfall_. If there were a contest scored on a ratio of people who have seen the scene / people who have seen the movie, I suspect this would win 1st place. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/68 "2011-04-27T18:07:44Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > If there were a contest scored on a ratio of people who have seen the scene / people who have seen the movie, I suspect this would win 1st place. I saw that movie before that clip became big. My hope is that the popularity of that Hitler clip inspired a lot of people to check out Downfall. It is a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/69 "2011-04-29T18:27:04Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > I saw that movie before that clip became big. My hope is that the popularity of that Hitler clip inspired a lot of people to check out Downfall. It is a great movie. But why would I want to see a movie where Hitler rants about vuvuzelas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612.md?page=3)