hand me my purse will you Danny go
convey that something up without her
lipstick some of the following date back
to the beginning of modern cinema but
they’ve sensationally stood the test of
time my mouth’s bleeding Bert welcome to
watchmojo.com enjoy it I look forward to
it it’s the one thing I have to look
forward to and today we’re counting down
our picks for the top ten memorable
movie characters of the pre 1970s
for this list we’ve looked at films and
film characters appearing up to and
including 1969 where are you this much
trouble at the end a ranking the most
memorable regardless of the genre in
which they appear only one character is
allowed from any certain movie however
this is part of a series of videos
exploring memorable movie characters
throughout the decades the broom may we
have it please and take it rude oh thank
you so much number 10 Rick Blaine
Casablanca put that gun down Lily I
wouldn’t like to shoot you but I will if
you take one more step Humphrey Bogart’s
first real stab at a romantic leading
role is really one to savor is looking
at you kid Rick Blaine is the proprietor
of Moroccan wartime melting pot Rick’s
Cafe American based in the eponymous
city of Casablanca Rick there are many
exit visas sold in this cafe but we know
that you never sold one that is the
reason we permit should remain open I
thought it was because I let you when it
roulette that is another reason he’s
also a hard man to read in terms of his
political persuasions and an even harder
one to read in terms of intimate
emotions at least initially all the gin
joints in all the towns in all the world
she walks into mine but Blaine’s tough
exterior encases a softer side which
selflessly shines through in the end
we’ll always have Paris
number nine Dorothy Gale The Wizard of
Oz Toto hide repeating were not in
Kansas anymore
the main protagonist in The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Gale is the innocence of youth
incarnate are you a good witch or a bad
witch who me I’m not a witch at all
initially she’s a distracted young girl
who dreams of a more exciting existence
than her own somewhere over the rainbow
way
when that wish comes true however she’d
sooner follow the yellow brick road
right back to where she started and
spend her whole life in Oz a land of
fantasy the pigtailed blue frocked red
slippered look is an icon in itself
she’s wearing the ruby slippers she gave
up there’s no place like home but
there’s nobody like Dorothy there’s no
number 8 Hal 9000 2001 a Space Odyssey
good evening day hey do it huh
everything’s running smoothly and you
own up too bad created by legendary
science fiction author and inventor
enthusiast arthur c clarke directed onto
film by a fast emerging Stanley Kubrick
Hal 9000 has quite the heritage your
turn the first antagonist to make our
countdown howl which stands for
heuristic we programmed algorithmic
computer is the robotic controller of
the discovery one spacecraft I am
putting myself to the fullest possible
use which is all I think that any
conscious entity can ever hope to do
voiced by Douglas rain and visually
represented by an imposing red eyed
camera lens house an example of the
inherent dangers with artificial
intelligence and an icon for all time
and space open the pod bay doors help
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do
that
number seven Count Dracula Dracula I am
Dracula and I welcome you to my house in
the 20th century vampires were an
altogether different breed to the Edward
Cullen archetypes we enjoy in the 21st
century
and more than one actors portrayal set a
scarily high standard listen to them
children of the night
what music today me whether portrayed by
Bela Lugosi as one of universals most
iconic monsters or Christopher Lee in
the Hammer horror films Dracula is one
deadly dude fighting his way into horror
movie history
the count is an undisputed Lee classic
villain don’t kill me let me live me
punish me talk to me but let me live he
sleeps in a coffin he hunts his prey at
night he harbors a quite literal blood
lust as nightmarish as they come we
couldn’t forget that face even if we
wanted to number six
Norman Bates psycho well a boy’s best
friend is his mother continuing in the
villainous vain Alfred Hitchcock’s
eponymous psycho Norman Bates as a bad
guy is hard to beat ah now if this girl
Marion crane we’re here you wouldn’t be
hiding a widget no not in she paid you
well no the keeper of the keys of the
Bates Motel he runs the place with his
mentally ill mother it’s not as if she
were a maniac when Marion crane stops by
however the Bates cover story begins to
unravel and Bates himself becomes more
and more blatantly unhinged
she wouldn’t harm a fly but he
definitely would I hope they are
watching they’ll see they’ll see and
they’ll know and they’ll say she
wouldn’t even have a flag in classic
Hitchcock fashion Norman Bates sends a
literal shiver down your spine
number five the man with no name the
dollars trilogy I’m Miguel I hear you’re
hiring on VIN I might just be available
you might think it would be difficult to
remember a man with no name but who
could forget this classic Clint Eastwood
role you people need a new sheriff
a quiet stoic character but seriously
vengeful there’s an incomparable
mysteriousness to him which was only
heightened by Eastwood’s insistence that
some of his original lines be cut from
the final scripts you see in this world
has two kinds of people my friend those
with loaded guns who dig in the first of
Sergio Leone’s dollars trilogy he’s
referred to as Joe hey Joe I have
prepared a leg on the way you asked me
to be sitting out in the back here we do
empty coffins for the second it’s Manko
his name is a man co and in the third he
occasionally goes by blondie
wait blondie listen blondie no matter
what you call him fat asses just don’t
get any better
all I ever did it’s your choice number
four the Tramp the Tramp franchise
an absolute icon of the silent film era
the Tramp has higher aspirations than a
social class affords him and that’s what
makes him hilarious almost always
depicted as being somewhat out of place
he’s as lovable as he is laughable one
of the most impressive things about the
Tramp surrounds his conception while
working on the 1914 film Mabel’s strange
predicament Charlie Chaplin was speedily
told to Don some silly makeup
he cobbled together this most memorable
of looks in a matter of minutes the man
was a genius
number three Mary Poppins Mary Poppins
shit switch clothes not when she said
boobs a character that very nearly never
made it to the big screen at all Mary
Poppins was made internationally famous
by Disney but was initially created by
British writer P L Travers in every job
that must be done there is an element of
fun you find the fun and snap the jobs a
game Travers was extremely reluctant to
allow her nanny a cinematic adaptation
but aren’t we glad she relented in the
end for a spoonful of sugar helps the
medicine go down the medicine go down
miss go down Poppins is pure family fun
and an expert umbrella oh it’s a jolly
holiday with you bet
gentlemen like you off you go vanish and
breathe that’s me there ain’t no amount
of made-up words that can ever really do
this character justice
she’s supercalifragilistic
expialidocious Lee amazing number two
Kong King Kong
you
our runner-ups the central character to
a groundbreaking epic a movie that was
way way ahead of its time an impossibly
giant ape with a legendary status within
the story’s own narrative
he has since become a film industry icon
in general
captured and taken from his home on
Skull Island
the giant gorilla is eventually
showcased as the eighth wonder of the
world
to Broadway audiences before the famous
NYC rampage scene Beauty kills the Beast
but will remember it for generations to
come
yeah things got it oh no it wasn’t the
airplanes it was beauty kill the Beast
before we unveil our number-one pick
here are some honorable mentions with
the sound of music
you you want the moon just say the word
and I’ll throw a lasso around and pull
it down
hey that’s pretty good idea I’ll give
you the moon all right how take it what
do you think of me
what do you mean you’ve known me nearly
all your life you must have formed some
opinion of me well I always thought that
you were very nice person did you know I
was an alcoholic
what
madam-ji huh James Todd Jay oh please
stop let me go I can’t bear it we must
find that woman number one James Bond
the James Bond franchise
the subject of the longest continually
running film series to date James Bond
is never likely to be forgotten
not least because of his iconic intro
line Mr Bond James Bond the mi6 super
spy was first played by Sean Connery and
dr. know and since 1962 he’s been busy
shaking not stirring but generally
stunning cinema audiences on an
impressively regular basis with another
five Bond films coming before 1970 alone
a medium dry martini lemon peel shaker
not stir but of course he talks the talk
and walks the walk he gets the best
gadgets the guns and he always gets the
girl yeah one of the most beautiful
girls I’ve ever seen thank you but I
think my mouse is too big no it’s the
right size for me that is the guys
colossal II cool with the music to match
and an immeasurably memorable movie
character
do you agree with our list you’re trying
to seduce me which character from before
the 1970s did we forget for more top 10s
that you’ll also remember in 50 years
time published every day oh yeah load up
and shoot be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com I think this is the
beginning of a beautiful friendship
convey that something up without her
lipstick some of the following date back
to the beginning of modern cinema but
they’ve sensationally stood the test of
time my mouth’s bleeding Bert welcome to
watchmojo.com enjoy it I look forward to
it it’s the one thing I have to look
forward to and today we’re counting down
our picks for the top ten memorable
movie characters of the pre 1970s
for this list we’ve looked at films and
film characters appearing up to and
including 1969 where are you this much
trouble at the end a ranking the most
memorable regardless of the genre in
which they appear only one character is
allowed from any certain movie however
this is part of a series of videos
exploring memorable movie characters
throughout the decades the broom may we
have it please and take it rude oh thank
you so much number 10 Rick Blaine
Casablanca put that gun down Lily I
wouldn’t like to shoot you but I will if
you take one more step Humphrey Bogart’s
first real stab at a romantic leading
role is really one to savor is looking
at you kid Rick Blaine is the proprietor
of Moroccan wartime melting pot Rick’s
Cafe American based in the eponymous
city of Casablanca Rick there are many
exit visas sold in this cafe but we know
that you never sold one that is the
reason we permit should remain open I
thought it was because I let you when it
roulette that is another reason he’s
also a hard man to read in terms of his
political persuasions and an even harder
one to read in terms of intimate
emotions at least initially all the gin
joints in all the towns in all the world
she walks into mine but Blaine’s tough
exterior encases a softer side which
selflessly shines through in the end
we’ll always have Paris
number nine Dorothy Gale The Wizard of
Oz Toto hide repeating were not in
Kansas anymore
the main protagonist in The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Gale is the innocence of youth
incarnate are you a good witch or a bad
witch who me I’m not a witch at all
initially she’s a distracted young girl
who dreams of a more exciting existence
than her own somewhere over the rainbow
way
when that wish comes true however she’d
sooner follow the yellow brick road
right back to where she started and
spend her whole life in Oz a land of
fantasy the pigtailed blue frocked red
slippered look is an icon in itself
she’s wearing the ruby slippers she gave
up there’s no place like home but
there’s nobody like Dorothy there’s no
number 8 Hal 9000 2001 a Space Odyssey
good evening day hey do it huh
everything’s running smoothly and you
own up too bad created by legendary
science fiction author and inventor
enthusiast arthur c clarke directed onto
film by a fast emerging Stanley Kubrick
Hal 9000 has quite the heritage your
turn the first antagonist to make our
countdown howl which stands for
heuristic we programmed algorithmic
computer is the robotic controller of
the discovery one spacecraft I am
putting myself to the fullest possible
use which is all I think that any
conscious entity can ever hope to do
voiced by Douglas rain and visually
represented by an imposing red eyed
camera lens house an example of the
inherent dangers with artificial
intelligence and an icon for all time
and space open the pod bay doors help
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do
that
number seven Count Dracula Dracula I am
Dracula and I welcome you to my house in
the 20th century vampires were an
altogether different breed to the Edward
Cullen archetypes we enjoy in the 21st
century
and more than one actors portrayal set a
scarily high standard listen to them
children of the night
what music today me whether portrayed by
Bela Lugosi as one of universals most
iconic monsters or Christopher Lee in
the Hammer horror films Dracula is one
deadly dude fighting his way into horror
movie history
the count is an undisputed Lee classic
villain don’t kill me let me live me
punish me talk to me but let me live he
sleeps in a coffin he hunts his prey at
night he harbors a quite literal blood
lust as nightmarish as they come we
couldn’t forget that face even if we
wanted to number six
Norman Bates psycho well a boy’s best
friend is his mother continuing in the
villainous vain Alfred Hitchcock’s
eponymous psycho Norman Bates as a bad
guy is hard to beat ah now if this girl
Marion crane we’re here you wouldn’t be
hiding a widget no not in she paid you
well no the keeper of the keys of the
Bates Motel he runs the place with his
mentally ill mother it’s not as if she
were a maniac when Marion crane stops by
however the Bates cover story begins to
unravel and Bates himself becomes more
and more blatantly unhinged
she wouldn’t harm a fly but he
definitely would I hope they are
watching they’ll see they’ll see and
they’ll know and they’ll say she
wouldn’t even have a flag in classic
Hitchcock fashion Norman Bates sends a
literal shiver down your spine
number five the man with no name the
dollars trilogy I’m Miguel I hear you’re
hiring on VIN I might just be available
you might think it would be difficult to
remember a man with no name but who
could forget this classic Clint Eastwood
role you people need a new sheriff
a quiet stoic character but seriously
vengeful there’s an incomparable
mysteriousness to him which was only
heightened by Eastwood’s insistence that
some of his original lines be cut from
the final scripts you see in this world
has two kinds of people my friend those
with loaded guns who dig in the first of
Sergio Leone’s dollars trilogy he’s
referred to as Joe hey Joe I have
prepared a leg on the way you asked me
to be sitting out in the back here we do
empty coffins for the second it’s Manko
his name is a man co and in the third he
occasionally goes by blondie
wait blondie listen blondie no matter
what you call him fat asses just don’t
get any better
all I ever did it’s your choice number
four the Tramp the Tramp franchise
an absolute icon of the silent film era
the Tramp has higher aspirations than a
social class affords him and that’s what
makes him hilarious almost always
depicted as being somewhat out of place
he’s as lovable as he is laughable one
of the most impressive things about the
Tramp surrounds his conception while
working on the 1914 film Mabel’s strange
predicament Charlie Chaplin was speedily
told to Don some silly makeup
he cobbled together this most memorable
of looks in a matter of minutes the man
was a genius
number three Mary Poppins Mary Poppins
shit switch clothes not when she said
boobs a character that very nearly never
made it to the big screen at all Mary
Poppins was made internationally famous
by Disney but was initially created by
British writer P L Travers in every job
that must be done there is an element of
fun you find the fun and snap the jobs a
game Travers was extremely reluctant to
allow her nanny a cinematic adaptation
but aren’t we glad she relented in the
end for a spoonful of sugar helps the
medicine go down the medicine go down
miss go down Poppins is pure family fun
and an expert umbrella oh it’s a jolly
holiday with you bet
gentlemen like you off you go vanish and
breathe that’s me there ain’t no amount
of made-up words that can ever really do
this character justice
she’s supercalifragilistic
expialidocious Lee amazing number two
Kong King Kong
you
our runner-ups the central character to
a groundbreaking epic a movie that was
way way ahead of its time an impossibly
giant ape with a legendary status within
the story’s own narrative
he has since become a film industry icon
in general
captured and taken from his home on
Skull Island
the giant gorilla is eventually
showcased as the eighth wonder of the
world
to Broadway audiences before the famous
NYC rampage scene Beauty kills the Beast
but will remember it for generations to
come
yeah things got it oh no it wasn’t the
airplanes it was beauty kill the Beast
before we unveil our number-one pick
here are some honorable mentions with
the sound of music
you you want the moon just say the word
and I’ll throw a lasso around and pull
it down
hey that’s pretty good idea I’ll give
you the moon all right how take it what
do you think of me
what do you mean you’ve known me nearly
all your life you must have formed some
opinion of me well I always thought that
you were very nice person did you know I
was an alcoholic
what
madam-ji huh James Todd Jay oh please
stop let me go I can’t bear it we must
find that woman number one James Bond
the James Bond franchise
the subject of the longest continually
running film series to date James Bond
is never likely to be forgotten
not least because of his iconic intro
line Mr Bond James Bond the mi6 super
spy was first played by Sean Connery and
dr. know and since 1962 he’s been busy
shaking not stirring but generally
stunning cinema audiences on an
impressively regular basis with another
five Bond films coming before 1970 alone
a medium dry martini lemon peel shaker
not stir but of course he talks the talk
and walks the walk he gets the best
gadgets the guns and he always gets the
girl yeah one of the most beautiful
girls I’ve ever seen thank you but I
think my mouse is too big no it’s the
right size for me that is the guys
colossal II cool with the music to match
and an immeasurably memorable movie
character
do you agree with our list you’re trying
to seduce me which character from before
the 1970s did we forget for more top 10s
that you’ll also remember in 50 years
time published every day oh yeah load up
and shoot be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com I think this is the
beginning of a beautiful friendship
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