Has there been a movie where the title was not mentioned during the movie?

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I don’t think this is true. Of course, the one-word titles end up being used – “Goldfinger”, “Thunderball”, “Octopussy”, and “Moonraker”, and they deliberately (and clumsily) worked “From Russia with Love” (written), “For Your Eyes Only”, and (worst of all) “A View…to a Kill” into the scripts, but I don’t think anyone ever actually says:

** Diamonds Are Forever

Live and Let Die

The Spy Who Loved Me

Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service**
outside of their respective theme songs.

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Yeah, that’s why I said “most.” And nobody says “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” in that film’s theme song- it’s an instrumental (and a darn good one, too).

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No Country for Old Men never has the title specifically stated.

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I assume you’re going to exclude silent films.

But there are still many. For instance:

After the Thin Man
The Big Sleep
To Have and Have Not
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Frenzy
Bringing Up Baby
Gold Diggers of 1933
Take the Money and Run
Sleeper
Blazing Saddles
Touch of Evil

To dispute Ebert’s claim, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is a fine film where they say its name.

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American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Charlie Wilson’s War, Road to Perdition, Shattered Glass, Idiocracy, On the Waterfront, Alien Nation, Johnny Mnemonic, The Parallax View, Owning Mahowny, Field of Dreams, The Thirteenth Floor

That’s a bunch of random stuff from looking at my DVD shelf (and movies I saw recently.)

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They shoehorned the words “some kinda star trek” into Star Trek: Generations, but that’s the only time in, what, ten (?) Trek movies that those words were uttered. So there’s nine movies where the title wasn’t mentioned.

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Actually this is uttered, when Bond meets up with the North Korean bad guy again (who now appears…Scandinavian?) who he thought was dead. “So you lived to die another day…”

I only remember this because I think I was in the theater with Elendil’s Heir’s sister, as a bunch of people burst into applause at this.

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I think a much shorter list would be films where the title is mentioned.

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That was First Contact, actually.

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As to movies with no print titles, Fahrenheit 451.

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The title is spoken Dangerous Liaisons, though in the singular.

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The singer in the Filet of Soul restaurant does a version of the theme song which includes that lyric.

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theme sings I ain’t gonna count, even if they shoehorn them into the flick.

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Only Angels Have Wings
**It Happened One Night
All the King’s Men
From Here to Eternity
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
A Man for All Seasons
In the Heat of the Night
Midnight Cowboy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Chariots of Fire
Terms of Endearment
Shakespeare in Love
American Beauty
The Gay Divorcee
Lost Horizon
Le Grande Illusion
Heaven Can Wait
Miracle on 34th Street
12 Angry Men
How the West Was Won
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ** (Dr. Strangelove is mentioned, but not the rest)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
A Clockwork Orange
American Grafitti
Dog Day Afternoon
Apocalypse Now
All That Jazz
The Big Chill

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It’s in on-screen text, you know, “a civilization gone with the wind.”

Another movie that bucks Ebert’s rule, the title of Goodfellas is spoken as almost an emotional payoff near the end.

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Plus, sequels are all out. You aren’t going to see somebody saying “this is Rocky III” on screen.

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I remember you. It was that scene where that Raiders of the Lost Ark guy was teaching Luke how to drive.

You also had the titular line in Out of Africa, didn’t you?

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You’re probably right. It’s been awhile. Nonetheless, the general point most people are making still stands: Very few movies quote their titles verbatim. I guess I’ll have to add Bond movies to the ones that do, along with movies with proper nouns for titles.

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IMDB has keywords for various aspects of movie plots. “Title Spoken By Character” is one of those keywords. The fact that the tag is ‘title spoken’ and not ‘title not spoken’ suggests to me that the latter is the default, while the former is something rare enough to be worth noting. Here’s the keyword list: Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "title-spoken-by-character" - IMDb

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That was me, playing a barista. It was the scene where Karen Blixen goes to a coffee shop and asks for two lattes for her and Hans; one with Sumatra beans and one with Africa beans. Unfortunately, we’d had a busy morning.