I’m tempted to ask - how can you be a main character if you’re killed up front? But, I’ll play along:
The Big Chill
(yes, he was already dead, don’t nit-pick).
Wumpus wrote
Like Laurence of Arabia for one.
Maureen wrote
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Actually, he doesn’t go boom. Watch a fourth time, please.
Citizen Kane!
Sunset Boulevard, right?
I was just about to correct you, then recalled the “Heaven” scene that comes before roll credits. Terribly sorry.
The Sand Pebbles
Bridges of To-Ko-Ri
Citizen Kane was one movie I had in mind. The other one involved a swimming pool.
Re: Casino. Bill H. is correct. Robert DeNiro does not bite it.
CASINO SPOILER:
Watch the end of the movie.
“No matter what the Feds or the papers might have said about my car bombing, it was amateur night. … [The metal plate under the driver’s seat] was the only thing that saved my life…” Later you see a paramedic putting a living De Niro in an ambulance saying, “You sure were lucky, mister.”
jsc1953 figured out the pool one while I was writing my post!
Bad Lieutenant
And man, if he hadn’t died at the end…ooooh, I’ve never disliked a character so much!
Great film, great performance. Nasty, son-of-a-bitch character.
No… they have the scene with the little kid putting Chuck’s hat on the edge of the fountain, the creepy guy picking up the bottle of blood, and the lot of them heading off to repopulate the earth.
All That Jazz. IIRC, the last shot is of someone zipping up the bodybag over Roy Scheider’s face.
Von Ryan’s Express
The Wolfman
Frankenstein
The Mummy
The Hideous Sun Demon
Dracula
Carlito’s Way
Dr Strangelove
Old Yeller.
The Life of Brian
Spartacus
Pennies from Heaven
Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
Who’s the main character? Some of them obviously survive to go down into the bomb shelter, or at least, that’s how I took it.
I’ll cast my vote for ** 2001: A Space Oddessy**
King Kong
On the Beach, everybody dies in that one!