# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/81 "2019-03-26T00:04:43Z")
[Tony Manero strutting down the street in _Saturday Night Fever_.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVEqy6K18Yo) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/82 "2019-03-26T00:20:03Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in the first Pirates movie.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdrCPr3gDQ) This is one of my favorites, establishing the character so beautifully in a few moments–especially [these ten seconds](https://youtu.be/dvdrCPr3gDQ?t=66). ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/83 "2019-03-26T00:23:36Z")
Rick’s first appearance in _Casablanca_. An hand reaching for a check,a signature of approval on the check, a tap on a chess piece, pick up a cigarette - pan to Rick’s face. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/84 "2019-03-26T02:05:47Z")
Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Not one great entrance, two. (Just watched it.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/85 "2019-03-26T02:08:11Z")
^ Don’t you worry, nevah fear, Robin Hood will soon be hear. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/86 "2019-03-26T02:35:18Z")
[Mongo!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNJla8WvoY) ---
**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 26, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/87 "2019-03-26T02:37:45Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Do you know how many _decades_ it was until I realized Dracula walks **through** that gigantic spiderweb? :smack: I just watched a longer version of the clip, and never realized that Dracula’s castle was [infested with armadillos (1:45)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjDfOAhtWwo)! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/88 "2019-03-26T02:47:10Z")
^ 1. That is a magnificent set. But it seriously needs the services of an exterminator. 2. Renfield is scarier than Dracula. Run, Count! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/89 "2019-03-26T02:49:38Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I just watched a longer version of the clip, and never realized that Dracula’s castle was [infested with armadillos (1:45)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjDfOAhtWwo)! Of course–[Dracula was pretty posh](https://www.bradford-delong.com/2011/10/hoisted-from-comments-the-armadillos-of-castle-dracula.html). (Go there, do that, [get the tee-shirt](https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2226988-transylvanian-armadillo-society).) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/90 "2019-03-26T02:55:23Z")
[Not sure this counts, but this is the first time the character was shown as he really was.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMOURHEMpY) (Doubly impressive for the technology of the day.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/91 "2019-03-26T02:57:06Z")
^^ So, did the Count spread leprosy throughout the countryside? ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/92 "2019-03-26T03:04:23Z")
Great swinging entrance w/bonus narration: [Burt Lancaster in The Crimson Pirate](https://youtu.be/aLV0Ye2hIjk) ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/93 "2019-03-26T03:07:42Z")
[Tarzan, The Ape Man](http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/320405/Tarzan-The-Ape-Man-Movie-Clip-He-s-Taken-Her-.html) (1932) has a pretty swinging entrance too. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/94 "2019-03-26T12:28:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > If we include Frankie, we can hardly neglect [_I am…DRAcula_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqr3yzr64V4), can we? It’s a great entrance, but it’s not THE entrance – we already saw the character in the crypt. Interesting thing – in the original film, although we see coffins crack open and wavering hands emerge from them, and one of the “wives” sitting up in the coffin we never actually see any of the vampires getting _out_ of the coffins. I suppose there’s some reason for it, but it’s not clear to me. Maybe they couldn’t do it gracefully. But the Spanish version shows Drac getting out of HIS coffin. I’ve commented on the armadillos before, as have many others. There’s also what looks like an opossum. at 0:3 in the clip below. Maybe Browning thought the armadillo and opossum looked like oversized, misshapen rats. What gets me is the bee with its own miniature coffin (at 0:39) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YSmSuiMNbDI/maxresdefault.jpg "Dracula (2/10) Movie CLIP - Dracula's Wives Awaken (1931) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSmSuiMNbDI) ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/95 "2019-03-26T17:16:29Z")
The T-Rex in _Jurassic Park_. First the goat disappears. Then the eye of the dragon. Then…what we all came for. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/96 "2019-03-26T19:02:14Z")
_The Wrath of Khan_ again, but [Kirk’s entrance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tWmSckE40). The movie opens on the bridge of the _Enterprise_, with all our favorite characters there except Kirk. Instead, some young Vulcan woman is in the center chair. We have no idea who she is, where we are, or what’s going on. Over the course of the next three minutes, the ship comes under attack, the regular cast members are killed one by one, and finally the Vulcan prepares to abandon ship. Then, we hear Kirk’s voice off-screen, “All right, open her up.” A wall splits open and Kirk, in silhouette, strides in. Freakin’ brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/97 "2019-03-26T19:13:53Z")
The Accountant in Drive Angry as the truck full of hydrogen leaps over the hill into the camera. Been awhile since I’ve seen it and it might not be the first time he is shown. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/98 "2019-03-26T19:25:22Z")
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the original _Ghostbusters_. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/99 "2019-03-26T20:08:39Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > _The Wrath of Khan_ again, but [Kirk’s entrance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tWmSckE40). > > The movie opens on the bridge of the _Enterprise_, with all our favorite characters there except Kirk. Instead, some young Vulcan woman is in the center chair. We have no idea who she is, where we are, or what’s going on. > > Over the course of the next three minutes, the ship comes under attack, the regular cast members are killed one by one, and finally the Vulcan prepares to abandon ship. > > Then, we hear Kirk’s voice off-screen, “All right, open her up.” A wall splits open and Kirk, in silhouette, strides in. > > Freakin’ brilliant. And a great swerve too. The rumors that Spock would die in this movie were all over the place. Killing him off in the opening scene throws the viewer for a loop and sets up a guy punch when he actually does sacrifice himself later on. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/100 "2019-03-26T21:13:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Interesting thing – in the original film, although we see coffins crack open and wavering hands emerge from them, and one of the “wives” sitting up in the coffin we never actually see any of the vampires getting _out_ of the coffins. I suppose there’s some reason for it, but it’s not clear to me. I’d say vaguely inspired by the original book, as these things often are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469.md?page=6)