# Help me ID all the movie endings in this poster
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566
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**Created:** [November 22, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566 "2010-11-22T19:56:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/1 "2010-11-22T19:56:30Z")
So I’ve just ordered a print of the movie poster for Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending (which I haven’t even seen.) It’s a collage of 52 great film endings:
[ ](https://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g84/harobed216/Movies/Posters/?action=view¤t=hollywood-ending-0931.jpg)
I’ve identified most of the movies, but a few have me stumped so I thought I’d call on you guys for help! I won’t post the ones I’ve IDed already so you guys can have the fun of filling out the whole list if you want. Have at it!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/2 "2010-11-22T21:04:20Z")
Here’s the ones I think I got:The Shining, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dirty Harry, The Great Escape, Pulp Fiction, Animal House (?), Cleopatra (?), Being There, The Graduate, The Birds, Chinatown, The Bicycle Thief, Thelma and Louise, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Gone with the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, An Officer and a Gentleman, Rocky, Some Like It Hot, The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz, It’s a Wonderful Life, Modern Times (?), Double Indemnity, Casablanca, The Seventh Seal, Pretty Woman, The Sound of Music, Psycho, Sunset Boulevard, Shane, Field of Dreams, Paths of Glory, High Noon, Bonnie and Clyde, The Philadelphia Story, Scarface, The Magnificent Seven (?), Citizen Kane, Planet of the Apes, Rebel Without a Cause, Frankenstein, The Maltese Falcon
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/3 "2010-11-22T21:41:43Z")
From left to right :
First row : Singin’ in the rain, ? ? Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Second row: Dirty Harry, The Great Escape, ? ? Gladiator, Being There, The Graduate
Third row : The Birds, ? ? (guess : Chinatown), ?, Thelma and Louise
Fourth row : Bridge on the River Kwai, Gone with the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, An Officer and Gentleman
Fifth row : Rocky, Jaws, Some Like it Hot, It’s a Wonderful Life, ?
Sixth row : The Godfather, The wizard of Oz
Seventh row : ?, Casablanca, ? ? ? ?
Eight row : ? The Sound of Music, Psycho, ?, Sunset Boulevard
Ninth row : Shane, ?, Paths of Glory, High Noon, Bonnie and Clyde
Tenth row : Scarface, ?, ?, Citizen Kane, ?
Eleventh row : Planet of the Apes, ?, ?, Frankenstein (or Bride of Frankenstein), ?
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/4 "2010-11-22T22:07:35Z")
Bottom row - Between Planet of the Apes and Frankenstein is “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
Further up on the right boarder, just below Chaplin is “Dr. Strangelove.”
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### Author:  [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/5 "2010-11-22T22:33:16Z")
Awesome, thanks guys! You’ve helped me out on a couple of them. It looks like I’m just missing one now:
[spoiler]First row : Singin’ in the rain, Ordinary People, The Shining, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Second row: Dirty Harry, The Great Escape, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, Being There, The Graduate
Third row : The Birds, Chinatown, the Bicycle Thief, Thelma and Louise
Fourth row : Bridge on the River Kwai, Gone with the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, An Officer and Gentleman
Fifth row : Rocky, Jaws, Some Like it Hot, It’s a Wonderful Life, Modern Times
Sixth row : The Godfather, The wizard of Oz
Seventh row : Double Indemnity, Casablanca, Annie Hall, Seventh Seal, Pretty Woman, Dr. Strangelove
Eight row : Notorious, The Sound of Music, Psycho, [???], Sunset Boulevard
Ninth row : Shane, Field of Dreams, Paths of Glory, High Noon, Bonnie and Clyde
Tenth row : Scarface, Magnificent Seven, Cool Hand Luke, Citizen Kane, Philadelphia Story
Eleventh row : Planet of the Apes, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Rebel Without a Cause, Frankenstein, Maltese Falcon
I’m not 100% sure of The Sound of Music. How confident are you on that one, detop?
[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/6 "2010-11-22T22:38:33Z")
That sure looks like the “Climb Every Mountain” finale from “The Sound of Music” to me. It’s odd seeing it in black and white.
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/7 "2010-11-22T23:43:02Z")
> [@Corporate\_Hippie](#):
>
> Awesome, thanks guys! You’ve helped me out on a couple of them. It looks like I’m just missing one now:
>
> [spoiler]First row : Singin’ in the rain, Ordinary People, The Shining, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
> Second row: Dirty Harry, The Great Escape, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, Being There, The Graduate
> Third row : The Birds, Chinatown, the Bicycle Thief, Thelma and Louise
> Fourth row : Bridge on the River Kwai, Gone with the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, An Officer and Gentleman
> Fifth row : Rocky, Jaws, Some Like it Hot, It’s a Wonderful Life, Modern Times
> Sixth row : The Godfather, The wizard of Oz
> Seventh row : Double Indemnity, Casablanca, Annie Hall, Seventh Seal, Pretty Woman, Dr. Strangelove
> Eight row : Notorious, The Sound of Music, Psycho, [???], Sunset Boulevard
> Ninth row : Shane, Field of Dreams, Paths of Glory, High Noon, Bonnie and Clyde
> Tenth row : Scarface, Magnificent Seven, Cool Hand Luke, Citizen Kane, Philadelphia Story
> Eleventh row : Planet of the Apes, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Rebel Without a Cause, Frankenstein, Maltese Falcon
>
> I’m not 100% sure of The Sound of Music. How confident are you on that one, detop?
> [/spoiler]
Pretty damn sure.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/8 "2010-11-22T23:55:58Z")
> [@Corporate\_Hippie](#):
>
> I’m not 100% sure of The Sound of Music. How confident are you on that one, detop?
I’m 99% sure of that one. The only other possibility I can think of would be _The Inn of the Sixth Happiness_, which also ended with a scene of a group of children being led through a mountain pass. But _The Sound of Music_ is a much better known movie.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/9 "2010-11-23T00:02:37Z")
To be picky, these aren’t all film endings. The one with the dropping bomb (not to give it away to anyone who hasn’t looked yet) does not happen anywhere near the actual end of the movie. It isn’t even the last iconic scene. So _humph_.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/10 "2010-11-23T00:40:21Z")
I saw this earlier and made a two part version of this for identification purposes:
[Part 1 (the top half)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28949748@N06/5199539091/sizes/l/in/photostream/)
[Part 2 (bottom)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28949748@N06/5199537059/sizes/l/in/photostream/)
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### Author:  [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/11 "2010-11-23T00:42:45Z")
That’s really handy, Sampiro. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/12 "2010-11-23T08:10:02Z")
> [@Corporate\_Hippie](#):
>
> Awesome, thanks guys! You’ve helped me out on a couple of them. It looks like I’m just missing one now:
>
> [spoiler]First row : Singin’ in the rain, Ordinary People, The Shining, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
> Second row: Dirty Harry, The Great Escape, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, Being There, The Graduate
> Third row : The Birds, Chinatown, the Bicycle Thief, Thelma and Louise
> Fourth row : Bridge on the River Kwai, Gone with the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, An Officer and Gentleman
> Fifth row : Rocky, Jaws, Some Like it Hot, It’s a Wonderful Life, Modern Times
> Sixth row : The Godfather, The wizard of Oz
> Seventh row : Double Indemnity, Casablanca, Annie Hall, Seventh Seal, Pretty Woman, Dr. Strangelove
> Eight row : Notorious, The Sound of Music, Psycho, [???], Sunset Boulevard
> Ninth row : Shane, Field of Dreams, Paths of Glory, High Noon, Bonnie and Clyde
> Tenth row : Scarface, Magnificent Seven, Cool Hand Luke, Citizen Kane, Philadelphia Story
> Eleventh row : Planet of the Apes, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Rebel Without a Cause, Frankenstein, Maltese Falcon
>
> I’m not 100% sure of The Sound of Music. How confident are you on that one, detop?
> [/spoiler]
Is the missing one From Here To Eternity?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/13 "2010-11-23T09:09:33Z")
> [@WotNot](#):
>
> Is the missing one From Here To Eternity?
Yes
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### Author:  [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/14 "2010-11-23T18:12:22Z")
> [@WotNot](#):
>
> Is the missing one From Here To Eternity?
That’s it! Thanks guys, now I can hang the poster on my wall with pride.
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### Author:  [@el\_gato\_volador](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_gato_volador)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-all-the-movie-endings-in-this-poster/561566/15 "2012-02-06T02:50:52Z")
I googled this poster, hoping to find one for sale as I used to have it hanging in an edit suite I used to work in, and found this thread. The Chaplin frame is identified as being from Modern Times. It’s actually the ending scene from City Lights. Love this poster and hope to find it reasonably priced so I can hang it in my home office!
Cheers,
egv