Mid-movie spoiler: The detective falls in love with a portrait of the dead woman, who turns out not to be dead.
Laura (with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews)
Mary Astor shoots Clark Gable and he winds up with Jean Harlow.
Red Dust (remade as “Mogambo,” with Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly)
Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea BOTH turn out to have twins.
Palm Beach Story! Don’t forget the Weinie King!
The lecturer is actually a male organ
Kentucky Fried Movie (with Bill Bixby?)
Now, here are some spoilers of my own.
BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS
Cousin Marek is really a god. Esther is really a witch. Bear eats a message and gets set free.
George finally gets his comeuppance.
Lily doesn’t marry Selden. She pays all of her bills and it really does kill her.
Dr. Messinger dies in the Amazon River. Tony Last reads Dickens to Mr. Todd and eventually dies in South America.
Rose of Sharon gives birth to a corpse. She nurses and saves a dying man.
Abel Magwitch is the sponsor! Abel gets arrested by the boat police when he returns to England.
Firmin has a few thousand drinks, then gets shot by the Chief of Rostrums.
The pequeninos killed Pipo and Libo as a favor – they thought Pipo and Libo were being honored. They were incorrect.
Carrie becomes famous. Hurstwood becomes dead.
MOVIES…MOVIES…MOVIES…MOVIES…MOVIES…MOVIES
Mike stands in the corner. Heather drops her camera. Her student loan director finds the footage.
After Barbara Stanwyck shows up crying, Gary Cooper doesn’t jump off of the building after all.
Gary Cooper puts up his dukes and knocks Dana Andrews silly. Barbara Stanwyck gets mushy. The professors rejoice.
Carole Lombard gets her skies crossed. Robert Montgomery gets her back. Hitchcock gets embarrassed.
Ethan Embry never does give her that note, but Jennifer Love Hewitt finds it anyway. They smooch in an airport.
Jack Lemmon doesn’t REALLY kill his wife.
Steve McQueen never escapes.
William Holden does.
TV…TV…TV…TV…TV…TV…TV…TV…TV…TV…TV
Sam never leaps home.
Deformed sailor-man eats spinach and beats up this big dude. He wins the heart of a skinny lady.
Funny bunny tricks bald guy with a speech impediment.
Teenager with green slime on her head becomes a big MTV star.
GENERAL…GENERAL…GENERAL…GENERAL…GENERAL
Pro wrestling is scripted.
Orenthal Simpson is guiltier than hell.
O.J. didn’t really send all those e-mails to Jim Rome.
Cecil Adams is the world’s smartest man.
Ed Zotti isn’t named “Cecil.”
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Great thread!