# Great movie/TV segments with little/no dialogue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086 "2015-07-02T22:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/41 "2015-07-04T15:19:19Z")
Many of the best Lucy bits are essentially dialogue-free. Do they say much of anything in the candy factory caper? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/42 "2015-07-04T15:29:53Z")
In the “little dialogue” category: [Pale Rider Shootout Clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQuKXGOoqUc) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/43 "2015-07-04T15:49:17Z")
A lot of movies made prior to 1929 have great non-dialogue scenes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![satogata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@satogata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satogata)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/44 "2015-07-04T15:53:16Z")
The [music booth scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBpnnii3YuI) in **Before Sunrise**. All shy and sweet awkward glances while a Kath Bloom song plays. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/45 "2015-07-04T16:25:49Z")
From **Frasier:** [Niles gets ready for Valentine’s Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XN-J_0nYhI) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/46 "2015-07-04T17:15:02Z")
> [@Sasori](#): > > Not only in France, but also in Germany. They had to cut out a whopping seven minutes before it could be shown in the cinemas. Thankfully, it has been restored in all its glory. > > You will find an hommage to that silent scene in Jean-Pierre Melville’s _The Red Circle,_ where the burglary at the jeweller’s is also silent. Originally, Melville was supposed to film _Rififi,_ but gave Jules Dassin the script out of friendship, because Dassin was in a hard place after beeing denounced by Edward Dmytryk and kicked out of the US by the HCUA. There is a similar near-silent heist scene in _Topkapi_, Dassin’s own follow-up/spoof of _Rififi_. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086/47 "2015-07-04T17:49:29Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > There is a similar near-silent heist scene in _Topkapi_, Dassin’s own follow-up/spoof of _Rififi_. And working backwards through the loop from that one, the prequel to the unmade sequel that was to be the remake of _Topkapi_, the remake of _The Thomas Crown Affair_, had a wonderful sequence with little dialogue as they tried to corner Crown in the museum filled with doppelgangers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-tv-segments-with-little-no-dialogue/724086.md?page=2)