# greatest entrances in movie history **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469 "2019-03-24T21:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/41 "2019-03-25T01:41:25Z")
Sean Connery as King Richard in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/42 "2019-03-25T01:47:25Z")
Priscilla Presley in **The Naked Gun**. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpuNDAtLBI8) (first 30 seconds) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/43 "2019-03-25T01:55:32Z")
…the camera following a a tumblin’ tumbleweed, then heading into a supermarket, while Sam Elliott sets the tone with his absent-minded narration, until we see The Dude, wearing sunglasses, sandals, an open bathrobe, pair of shorts and a bowling shirt, about to buy some half-and-half (by check) for his beloved White Russians… ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/44 "2019-03-25T01:59:18Z")
Grace Kelly in **Rear Window**. She’s so beautiful, she takes my breath away. Harold (Leonard Frey) in **The Boys in the Band** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vRS4uSAP9qs/maxresdefault.jpg "The Boys in the Band Harold's entrance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRS4uSAP9qs) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/45 "2019-03-25T02:00:41Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > I’ve always loved [Kenneth Branagh’s entrance as Henry V](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnk1fbGNWrM). Great use of light and shadow, that _very_ tall door, the way all the proud and powerful English lords and nobles bow their heads as the King walks past, and of course the wonderful Patrick Doyle score. Come to that, I’ve always thought Derek Jacobi’s Chorus had a great entrance in the Prologue to Act I. Lights a match for the “muse of fire” lines, then flips a guillotine switch to light up a prop-strewn backstage when telling the audience _For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o’er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass:_ The Chorus’s Prologue is the only passage of Shakespeare that I’ve ever committed to memory, since I left school. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/46 "2019-03-25T02:03:59Z")
[Bowie as Tesla in The Prestige](https://youtu.be/PF76qlwWM8s) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/47 "2019-03-25T02:06:14Z")
Blade’s arrival in the first \*Blade \*movie. All the big, bad blood covered vampires becoming terrified when they realize who he is, before he does anything but stand there. “It’s _him!_” “The Daywalker!” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/48 "2019-03-25T02:48:31Z")
Margaret Hamilton (as The Wicked Witch of the West) in _The Wizard of Oz_ (1939): Bette Davis in \*The Letter\* (1940): Tatsuya Nakadai in \*The Sword of Doom\* (1966): Ron Ely as \*Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze\* (1975) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Tk1Q-5M2-qA/hqdefault.jpg "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (opening titles)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1Q-5M2-qA) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/49 "2019-03-25T03:40:13Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > …the camera following a a tumblin’ tumbleweed, then heading into a supermarket, while Sam Elliott sets the tone with his absent-minded narration, until we see The Dude, wearing sunglasses, sandals, an open bathrobe, pair of shorts and a bowling shirt, about to buy some half-and-half (by check) for his beloved White Russians… Good post/username combo there. Been a while since I’ve seen it but I Nicholas Cage in “Snakeyes” springs to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/50 "2019-03-25T04:06:28Z")
Each of the Beatles individually in _Yellow Submarine_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/51 "2019-03-25T04:14:06Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > …the camera following a a tumblin’ tumbleweed, then heading into a supermarket, while Sam Elliott sets the tone with his absent-minded narration, until we see The Dude, wearing sunglasses, sandals, an open bathrobe, pair of shorts and a bowling shirt, about to buy some half-and-half (by check) for his beloved White Russians… A more spectacular entrance from _The Big Lebowski_ is J[ulianne Moore’s as Maude Lebowski.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMbc1Q2OQ4) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/52 "2019-03-25T04:45:32Z")
[Barbara Stanwyck in _Double Indemnity_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D76YDNS1m00) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/53 "2019-03-25T05:36:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A more spectacular entrance from _The Big Lebowski_ is J[ulianne Moore’s as Maude Lebowski.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMbc1Q2OQ4) I thought about that one. Or Bunny’s first appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/54 "2019-03-25T05:58:29Z")
Jason Isaacs as General Zhukov in “The Death of Stalin”. It is fair to say he makes an impression. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/55 "2019-03-25T06:16:53Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Jason Isaacs as General Zhukov in “The Death of Stalin”. It is fair to say he makes an impression. Cool! I just had that DVD mailed to me on Netflix a few days ago. Now your post whetted my appetite for it all the more. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/56 "2019-03-25T06:20:53Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:44, topic:831469”] Grace Kelly in **Rear Window**. She’s so beautiful, she takes my breath away. [/QUOTE] Definitely. One of my favorite “desert island movies”, and that scene is all the better to the unexpected first time viewer. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/57 "2019-03-25T06:49:19Z")
Alex in _A Clockwork Orange_ deserves a mention. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/58 "2019-03-25T07:25:53Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Barbara Stanwyck in _Double Indemnity_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMbc1Q2OQ4) Pssst, hey, your Barbara Stanwyck link leads to the Maude Lebowski clip in your other post. I’d look up the clip I think you’re trying for, and post a link to help out, but my phone already ate 3 attempts to post a link of my own in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/59 "2019-03-25T10:28:35Z")
> [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](#): > > Alice Krige as the Borg Queen in First Contact. Great example! Here ya go: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqG_JjiROk0) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/60 "2019-03-25T10:41:02Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Blade’s arrival in the first \*Blade \*movie. All the big, bad blood covered vampires becoming terrified when they realize who he is, before he does anything but stand there. > > “It’s _him!_” “The Daywalker!” Yeah! Everyone’s drenched in blood, and Blade is spotless in his leather outfit. Very cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469.md?page=4)