Great Film Entrances

Sheriff Ali (Omar Sharif) in Lawrence of Arabia

Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter

Liz in Cleopatra.

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in "The Third Man".

OT, but also Liz in her Special Guest Appearance on Arthur Hailey’s Hotel.

Streisand in Funny Girl and Julie in SOM.

Indiana Jones

James Bond first appearance.

The one and only Bette Davis - here's one from The Letter

Ginger (Sharon Stone) in Casino. It's a few minutes-long intro narrated by the DeNiro character. This clip doesn't show it, but I love the scenes where she's tipping people: the valet parking guy (who gives her coke) and the casino worker (woman) who cashes her out at the end of the night (takes Ginger's chips and gives her cash).

John Wayne in The Searchers

And as I remember Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate

Gable in Gone with the Wind.

R1

Could be the best ever

Tim Curry's entrance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Sweet Transvestite!

Audrey

Now THIS is an entrance.

Patti Lupone;

Bruce:

Jane Greer in Out of the Past.

Patti Lupone:

She'll get you for that, R18!

Rita Hayworth in Gilda

Perfection:

Ripoff;

Jason Isaacs as Zhukov in The Death of Stalin

R24 and R25 this is how it’s done.

Kate Winslet in Titanic

I have several favorites.

John Wayne, [italic]Hondo.[/italic] John Farrow captured perfectly the essence of John Wayne.

R30 here.

Here's another fave: Barbra and her STUNNING hat in [Hello, Dolly![/italic] I will never tire of her arch expression as she turns and greets the film audience for the first time (@00:1:08).

Unfortunately I wish it wasn't so obviously a double when Julie flies in at the beginning of Mary Poppins. It wasn't: so long a drop and Disney had plenty of experience with wires at that time. Look at the basketball game in Absent Minded Professor. Julie could have done it. It's a bad moment.

What a dump!

Bea Lillie in TMM. Rocky Horror copied it.

Margaret Hamilton and Billie Burke in TWOZ.

The showboat in the '51 Showboat.

"That wont be necessairwy..."

R30/R31 again.

I think this is my all-time favorite character intros. Sutherland, Gould, and Skerritt are pitch-perfect here.

And I have always gotten a flirty vibe from Sutherland and Gould in this scene; their screen chemistry is hot.

Katharine Hepburn on her elevator in "Suddenly, Last Summer"—

C’mon, the granddaddy of all entrances, John Wayne in Stagecoach.

How the fuck has Harold/Leonard Frey from The Boys in the band not been named yet? For shame....

Bogart, CASABLANCA.

Marilyn in Some Like it Hot.

Marilyn in The Seven Year Itch.

Brando in "Streetcar." Mumbling, scratching, sweating, and flexing. Working class hotness.

Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard'.

Jodie Foster walking down the hall to meet Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter and he is just standing there. Creepy.

Gene Wilder, clopping about with a cane before launching into some surprise tumbling.

Madeline Khan - What's Up Doc ?

Garbo laughs! (well, not in this clip).

This features the beginning of the famous hat gag that was a constant source of wonder to Billy Wilder (who had a plaque for inspiration in his office which read, "What would Lubitsch do?")

R24 that wasn't exactly perfection. Bette's exaggerated expression as she exits the lift looks like she's about to take a shit

Liz Taylor's entrance into Rome in "Cleopatra" is the absurd acme of the type.

Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot."

Grace Kelly in Rear Window

On a related topic, a great entrance on TV……Jed Bartlett in the first episode of The West Wing.

I like Laura Dern emerging from the shadows in “Blue Velvet.”

Anne Bancroft entering the room to meet the Elephant Man.

The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland. As a child, she scared the shit out of me and remains imprinted in my brain.

R57, you mean the Queen of Hearts, of course? She terrified me too!

I vote for the original animated version of Cruella Deville.

Not sure if it counts as an entrance, as we have already seen her out Dorothy's window, but the Wicked Witch of the West is matched only by Darth Vader.

And unlike Vader, the Witch is a law unto herself.

Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.

Godzilla in, well, Godzilla.

Bruce the Shark in JAWS.

Kim Novak in VERTIGO.

The Technicolor camera prowls through the crowded interior of Ernie’s restaurant with it’s brilliant crimson flocked wallpaper when suddenly our eye is drawn to a slash of emerald green silk hanging over a blond woman’s chair. Her back is to us but she’s getting up. In the bar, James Stewart watches her pull her shawl over her black gown as she seems to glide out of the restaurant toward him. Not wanting to make eye contact, he turns away, but turns back again to steal a close look at her face. She pauses as her husband says something to the host and Stewart get’s a lover’s view of her profile and immaculately dressed hair. She is gorgeous. She wafts out of the restaurant. It was just a few moments, but he’s already in thrall to a sexual fascination with her perfection.

Garbo in Camille. A woman exits a flower shop with a bunch of camelias and gives them to someone in a waiting carriage, saying 'For the lady of the camellias." There is a cut to inside the carriage and we see Garbo's beautiful face accepting the flowers and smelling them.

Actually “Camille” is a B&W movie I wish had been filmed in Technicolor. I would be all for colorization as long as it was advertised and as long as it was done properly with Technicolor level saturation (instead of pallid washes) and a real attempt to recreate the actual colors of sets and costumes.

Robert Morley in "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?"

Scarlett in GWTW

Rita Hayworth in Gilda

Nocturnal Animals

Tony Goodfellow in 50 Man Gangbang

Dorothy Faye as the MUTHER of all movie stars!!!!

R39 - perhaps the greatest of them all ( and many are pretty great)!

It was Hamilton's stunt double Betty Danko who was catapulted up through the floor, back to the camera. It was Victor Fleming's insistence that the disappearance be filmed in one shot, that required Hamilton to do that. ...And the rest is history.

The Hamilton Munchkinland accident happened on December 23, 1938. Two days before Christmas. I think about that every year, on Christmas Eve Eve.

George Kennedy in "Charade"

R73 what do you mean? That they filmed the Wicked Witch's death in reverse? What's the Munchkinland accident?

R67, Scarlett's reveal at the start of GWTW is good, but her entrance at Ashley's birthday party, in the famous red dress, is the one we clamor for.

Oded Fahr in The Mummy. I took my kids to see thatv4 times because of him.

Oh, R75.

Not a movie, but an entrance I really loved was when Obama gave the news conference about killing Bin Laden. He walked out there like a total badass to announce that.

[quote] Indiana Jones

Marion Ravenwood’s drinking game in Raiders of the Liat Ark was almost a feminist statement in the 80s.

....and then he ruined it by doing that childish cartwheel as he left the podiun. Very bad look!

Harold (or as Emory called him, "Hally", The Boys in the Band.

Crawford as Sadie Thompson in "Rain." Trying to post the vid, but I don't seem to have the necessary expertise. I'll try....

R82, that’s one of the best.

Are we forgetting Kate Hepburn “Deus ex machina” entrance in Suddenly, Last Summer ? Certainly has to be in contention for a ribbon…

R85, see r39.

Myrna Loy and Asta in “The Thin Man.”

Scarlett O’Hara dressed like a harlot in red at Melanie’s party. I don’t even remember if that was in the book.

[quote] Myrna Loy and Asta in “The Thin Man.”

Asta the pooch?

I glanced at the headline and read it as "Great Film Erections."

Now THAT would be a terrific thread!

So many great ones here.

One of my favorites is George Sanders scaring the shit out of Joan Fontaine. He enters through the window!

Katharine Hepburn coming down on her elevated chair in “Suddenly Last Summer”.

[quote] Katharine Hepburn coming down on her elevated chair in “Suddenly Last Summer”.

A popular choice. R39 and R85 also selected it.

R59 that was her sister the Wicked Witch of the East (also portrayed by Margaret Hamilton) who flew by Dorothy's window in the tornado and then the house landed on her:

It really was no miracle, what happened was just this

The wind began to switch the house to pitch

And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch

Just then the witch to satisfy an itch

Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch

And oh what happened then was rich

The house began to pitch, the kitchen took a switch

It landed on the wicked witch in the middle of a ditch

Which was not a healthy situation for the wicked witch

Who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch

At what was once the wicked witch

Faye Dunaway in BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) her third film and first leading role.

The beginning of the movie opening with a close-up of her luscious lips and then zooming out practically screams "A star is born!"

And she did become a superstar as a result and was Oscar-nominated for this role.