In this article we’re going to review some of the most memorable telephone moments in TV and movie history.

The telephone plays a very important part in our lives. Without it we wouldn’t be able to communicate with people outside of shouting distance from our bedroom window. But the telephone has played a very important role in TV and the movies as well. Some of the most memorable scenes in movie history have revolved around the telephone.

In the movie Casablanca just towards the end, Rick says his farewell to the girl he left behind and sends her on her way with her husband to America. After they leave, Major Strassa of the Gestapo arrives to find out that Victor Lazlo and his wife are on the plane heading for America. Strassa heads for the telephone at the airport to warn of their departure. He picks up the telephone and begins to speak into it. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) tells him to put the phone down several times. Strassa then pulls a gun on Rick but Rick shoots him first. Strassa falls slowly to the ground, still holding the receiver of the phone in his hand.

Then on TV we had the great and funny show Laugh In with Lilly Tomlin doing the bit about the rude telephone operator. She’s place her call by starting off, “One ringy dingy…two ringy dingy…”. And the attitude of this woman towards the people placing calls makes you laugh even more today because of how rude telephone operators of today really are. She was way ahead of her time.

While on the other hand, Sam is off to an East Coast College leaving his loved ones behind. His girlfriend Mikaela Banes is not going with him as well because she could not afford the college and neither is his beloved car Bumblebee going along with him as the college does not allow freshmen to bring a car to the college. Now, Sam is alone at college while Mikaela is working at a motorcycle repairing workshop. Bumblebee wrecks Witwicky’s garage and ultimately has to leave the house.

In the movie “Sergeant York” after Gary Cooper (York) comes back to the states as a hero and is given a warm welcome in New York City, he gets a call from his mother back home. It is the first time she has ever used a telephone. She tries to talk to him but can’t hear because she’s not close enough to the phone. Finally her daughter tells her to get closer to the phone and she asks Alvin the famous question “Alvin, when are yuh commin’ home?” There wasn’t a dry eye in the theater when they showed this.

Alfred Hitchcock

Known as one of the greatest thriller directors of all time, he was born in London in 1899. His plots used many mistaken identity themes and he also made cameo appearances in most of his films. He often used blond haired leading ladies, and fashioned plot points around bathrooms. Some of his most famous films were Shadow of Doubt, Dial M for Murder, and Psycho, truly one of the greatest entertainment Hollywood legends

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