Films to Help Remember Phone boxes

Cigarettes, hats & gloves, phone boxes…where did you go? Here’s an aide memoire for phone boxes…let us know of more!

All the President’s Man [Woodward to Deep Throat: “We talked about Wallace.” DT: “This is different.”]

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy [main image…Vale Baxter (or so he thought)]

The Apartment  [see below: “She looks just like Marilyn Monroe!”]

Dr Strangelove [“If you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone; you’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”]

The French Connection [Popeye in the subway, tailing ‘Frog One’: “I don’t care how many bartenders you got sick, i told you I’m not working that joint. That’s right…same to ya, buddy.”]

Get Smart

Glengarry Glen Ross [Phones everywhere, trying to sell dirt…]

Goodfellas [Jimmy reacts badly to news that Tommy has been whacked; he takes it out on the phone box. Talk about shooting the messenger…]

I Know Where I’m Going! [see image at foot]

The King of Comedy [Rupert Pupkin, on the half-hour: “Jerry Langford, please…oh, i’ll call back later.”]

The Maltese Falcon

North by Northwest

The Rainmaker [jury-tampering pranks…]

Ransom

Séance on a Wet Afternoon

The Servant

The Silent Partner [‘We’re partners, you and I…”]

Sorry, Wrong Number 

Sunset Boulevard

Superman

Withnail & I

(and don’t forget those phony Chinese food boxes…)