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Howard Hawks Function-Movement Relationship Chart　The date is the day the data was collected in 2014.

■ "FIG LEAVES" 70 minutes 5/28
Scales, nuts, and hourglass become an alarm clock. Trees become pillows. Snoring becomes the sound of a saw. Feet are for scratching. Water surfaces become mirrors. Snoring vibrates to disturb the water surface. Nuts are for throwing at people's faces. Stone slabs are for throwing, and also for newspapers, and also for breaking. Food is for putting in eyes. Tables are for banging. Plants and trees sway in the wind. Dinosaurs exhale smoke, and also become commuter buses. Commuter buses are full, so women are forced to give up their seats to show that women's rights are not established. Stones are for throwing. Snakes open and close their mouths, and also become chatty women. Teeth are for cutting thread. Clothes are for rubbing apples. Bathtubs are for people to stand in. The reason for having her call her husband is to make him hang up the phone, anger his colleague, and demonstrate how to "discipline" his wife, then have him strangle her when she arrives, causing her to panic and beg for money. Her chest is for hitting. The towel is for throwing. The bag is for dropping. The restraint is for cleaning clothes. Her face is for the mirror. The burner is for emitting smoke. The magazine is for burning people's clothes and emitting smoke. The phone is for dropping. The clothes are for taking off and stomping on. The reason for having her cross the main street is to have her run over by a car and doused with water from a water cannon, and also to have her meet the designer. The sidewalk is for people to sit on. The hat is for throwing. The wife spins around so the designer won't notice. She waves her hands to hit him in the face. The diamond is for sparkling. The chair is for hanging clothes. The gown is for passing. The shawl is for throwing and flailing, and also for tearing and flailing. The picture frame is for hiding. Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. Ears are for fiddling. Knees are for the chair. The neighbor's lamp breaks so that the sick husband can be sent to repair it, get drunk, come back with a hickey, and make his wife angry. Caps are for throwing away. The clock is wound to tell the time. The clock hands are moved forward. The lamp tassels are for tearing off. Whispering is for leaving hickeys. The wife is for going back and forth. The husband turns his back and goes out into the hallway so that his wife doesn't notice him. Shoes are for dropping. Turning over in bed is for showing his wife the hickey. Lamps are for turning on and off. Chairs are for people to sit on. The statue is for his wife. The brim of the hat is for flipping up. The wife receives a coat from the designer so that the jealous neighbor can steal the coat, cause a fight between her and the wife, and have the husband eavesdrop to make them reconcile, and also to make the wife angry when she loses the coat and go to work. The coat becomes a trumpet. The pawn ticket is swapped. The table is for people to sit on (only once). The pipes are put on the arm and hammered to fall onto the legs. The woman crosses her legs to show them off. Smoking a cigarette prevents the candle from being turned into a match. The card is attached to the foot and shaken, and also to be torn up. The shawl is to be thrown down. The wife stares into the mirror so as not to notice her husband. The show is so the husband finds out. The wall and chair are for people to hide. The carpet is pulled to trip people. The shins are for kicking. The designer trips because he is mesmerized by the woman's legs. The piano? becomes a doorbell. The wardrobe is for scattering clothes. The woman next door goes out so that the husband can eavesdrop on her showing the coat to the wife and making her angry. The coat is to be thrown down. The broom is for sweeping up snakes. The party is so that the wife will beg for clothes.

■ "A GIRL IN EVERY PORT" (1928) 64 minutes 6/3
Yachts are for splashing water. Sails are for swaying in the wind. Boats are for emitting smoke. Cigarettes are for emitting smoke and for throwing away. Going to meet a woman is because you can't go on a date. Notes are for erasing. Policemen are for bumping into. Trees are for swaying in the wind. Windmills are for turning. Bicycles are knocked over so that a sailor can tend to the woman and check her bracelet. Walls are for people to lean on. Tables are for people to sit on. Liquor bottles are held in a reverse grip. Clothes are for kicking. A woman fights with a man so that she can meet a sailor in the waiting room. Knees on chairs. A woman is made to sit on a man's lap so that her garter can be checked. A woman is thrown down. Doors are for stabbing knives into. Windows are for people to come and go. Tripping is for encounters. Chairs are for sitting on and crushing. The band's music accompanies the brawl. The table is to be overturned. The handsome man gets beaten up so that the sailor can come to his aid. The baton is to be twirled. The hat is to be thrown. The bar fight is to have the handsome man's ring mark imprinted on the sailor's chin, and to have the police arrest the two and have the sailor pay the handsome man's bail. The furniture is for people to lean on, and so that a fight can't be fought. The trees are to cast shadows. Falling into the sea creates a splash, and so that the sailor can come to the handsome man's rescue, and so that the handsome man's cigarette is dampened so that he can get a cigarette from the sailor and light both of their cigarettes with one match. The sailor can't swim so that the handsome man can come to his rescue. The clothes are to be wrung out. The match is to exhale smoke. Staring out at the sea is to push the policeman into the sea. The coin is to be slid. The chair is for people to rest their feet on. Provoking a fight is to make someone's sprained finger heal. The bills are for putting on the shoulders, and for throwing away. The barrels are for people to sit on. The hats are for identifying people. The clothes are for throwing down. The rooms are for getting mixed up. The chairs are for people to sit on. The mother is away so that the child can explain what happened. The mother goes to the back room so that the child can give the money in the meantime. He laughs because he has a toothache and can't laugh. The toothache is to make the two of them go their separate ways. The tiara is for sparkling. The hat is for putting money in. The high dive is to splash water on the sailor and have the woman dry his wet coat, making them closer. The hat is for floating on the water. The matches are because you can't get them. The burlap sacks are for throwing down. The sailor goes to buy beer so that the handsome man and the woman can be alone together in the meantime. The sailor turns his back so that he can hide his tattoo in the meantime. The sailor is made to repair the high heels so that the woman behind him can seduce the handsome man. The sofa is for people to sit on. Analogies don't work. Doors are for people to lean against. Blankets become pants. Walls cast shadows. Women go to the bedroom of handsome men to warn sailors of their infidelity. People poke each other in the chest to bump their backs against each other. Pillars are for people to lean against. Handsome men are attacked so that sailors can rescue them.

■ "FAZIL" (1928) 74 minutes 5/29
The ground is to scatter smoke. The execution is postponed by a worship song to demonstrate the strength of faith. Clothes are to flutter in the wind. The woman offered is to show no interest. Tea is to change the scene. Hair is to be played with. The water surface is a mirror. The gondola song is to unite the woman and the prince. Pillars are for people to lean on. The prince returns to his country because he does not. Faces are mirrors. Jewels are to sparkle. The bridge casts a shadow on the two in the gondola. Newspapers are to hide faces. High dives are to allow kissing underwater and to create bubbles. Wheels are to rotate. Kissing in a car or boat is to avoid collisions with cars or boats. Boats create splashes of water. Gloves are to be thrown down. Backrests are for people to sit on. The woman orders the servant to look at her to be informed of the custom. The Frenchman kisses the woman's hand and is invited to the party to make the prince jealous, causing him to return home and the woman to chase after him. The phone call to decline is an invitation call. The woman is whipped to enforce custom. The prince's absence is to allow him to reunite with the woman in the harem. The cigarette is to exhale smoke. The clothes are for pulling at each other. The feet are for stomping. The women's fight is to have the prince mediate and reunite with the woman. The prince scolds the woman's male friends to dismantle the harem. The clothes are for throwing away. The woman goes back and forth. The sounds of the flute and drums are to torment the woman. The bars are for casting shadows. The second wife is to anger the Frenchman and have him reclaim the woman, and also to have the Frenchman shoot the prince and kill him. Reading a book is to feign composure. The wall is for casting shadows. The gun is for hitting people. The Frenchman knocks the prince unconscious to make the woman who witnesses it faint as well, hindering the pursuers and allowing for a final shot of the woman lying on the ground with the prince on top of her. A rock is placed on the bed. The gun is used to produce smoke. Blood is used for falling. The subordinate sends the Frenchman away to leave the woman alone. The ring is used for poison.

■ "THE DAWN PATROL" (1930) 108 minutes 11/28
Engines roar. Scarves flutter in the wind. Machine guns, hit planes, and airplanes emit smoke. Telephone calls from headquarters are to instruct the major on his temperament. Pencils are for fiddling. Chimneys emit smoke. Airplanes cast shadows on the roof. Trees sway in the wind, project silhouettes, and lick the foreground of the frame. Engine noises are to count returning planes. Propellers roar. Cigarettes emit smoke. Chairs are for resting feet on. Packing is unnecessary. Desks and counters are for people to sit on. Candles flicker in the wind. Fireplaces emit smoke. Asking about the spelling of words is to point to repetitions in letters to bereaved families. Pencils are for tossing. Walls are for striking matches. Fireplaces are for throwing matches away. Names on the blackboard are erased. He falls asleep from drinking because he's carried upstairs, and also because he's instructed to drink at the end to fall asleep, given his low tolerance for alcohol. Walls are for people to lean against. Snoring is loud. No coffee refills are needed. Replacement soldiers die in battle. No enemy intelligence documents are taken. Propellers rotate. No complaining is allowed. Airplanes are for people to cling to. Rags are for smashing. Records are not played because pronunciation is corrected. His best friend is shot down so that he can sing with the German prisoner who shot him down, allowing the inexperienced soldiers to be reprimanded before his best friend is returned. The captain leaves without seeing his best friend's final moments because he isn't dead. Motorcycle backs are for people to sit on. Trucks are for avoiding. The ground is for scattering smoke. Trees block people from the camera. Machine guns scatter smoke. Losing a battle is to have the enemy pilot deliver the boots, allowing him to take revenge on the captain and his best friend, and to have the returning soldiers recount the end of an inexperienced soldier's life. The boots are to be thrown from the plane. The fog is to create a roar. The sound of bombs falling is to create a roar and to scatter smoke when they explode. The ground is to be shot and to emit smoke. Attacking the toilet is to put on the pants. The machine gun is to create a roar. The plane is to be crashed and set ablaze, emitting smoke. The captain is shot so that his best friend can save him. The gun emits smoke. The wings are for people to sit on. The plane is for people to cling to. The cannon emits smoke and scatters smoke into the air. The oil is to blind people and cause an inverted landing, turning the pilot upside down (inverted landings are common in aviation movies of this period). The telephone is to interrupt conversations. The noise is to create silence. No one can interrupt. The medal is to be handed over. Garbage is there to scatter. Cigarettes are there to be thrown away. Clothes and hats are there to be dropped. Matches are there to be broken and tossed in the palm of the hand to predict the number of returning planes. Signals are there to be missed. Airplanes spin and fall. The best friend's younger brother is a replacement soldier so that he will be killed in action during a dawn reconnaissance mission, causing conflict between the colonel and the best friend and sending the colonel on a death mission. The fortune-telling is there to be wrong. The walking stick is on the hat rack. The colonel has a bottle to get a clue. The colonel doesn't let the best friend drink alcohol so that he will rebel, drink, and oversleep, and also so that the best friend will talk in his sleep and reconcile with the colonel. Singing is there to stop singing. Newspapers are there to be thrown away. Trains are there to scatter smoke. Sirens are there to blare. Trees are there to hide cannons. The mission is dangerous and should be carried out alone so that the best friend will accept it, then the colonel will take over and kill him so that the best friend can succeed the colonel. Trains, railways, industrial complexes, and other enemy bases are to be blown up and released into the smoke. Stairs are to cause people to fall like dominoes. Scaffolding is to cause people to fall from it. Speakers are to fall. Aircraft are to be punctured. Airplanes are to follow falling aircraft (like a pair of birds, they huddle together before flying away). Gasoline flames on the runway. Torches are to be thrown down. Soldiers wait for the colonel to receive news of his death. Personal belongings are to be thrown from the plane. Hats are to be taken off. Orders are to be repeated.

■ "THE CRIMINAL CODE" (1931) 96 minutes 5/15
The table is for people to sit on (3 times). The bartender moves aside to help with the shot of the young man coming out. The girl he's hitting on has her back to help with the shot of the prosecutor coming out. She lifts her skirt to pull it down. The cigarette is for exhaling smoke. He tells her to sit down to refuse. The table is for people to lean on. The lawyer not knowing modern language or criminal law is to show his incompetence. The lawyer is for getting the good-looking young man in prison. Footsteps are for making noise. The wall is for people to lean on. Checkers are for scattering. The mother's death makes the young man scream, call the guard, and direct the guard to explain the feud between him and the vengeful man. Matches are for throwing away. The prisoners' chants are for the warden to suppress them. Shoes are for striking matches. Sitting is for standing up. Window frames are for people to sit on. Dust is there to fly. Machines are there to make noise. Walls and statues are there to cast shadows. The young man faints so that a doctor can see him, reunite him with the warden, make the warden remember him, and make him the warden's driver. The daughter comes to call her father for tea so that she can meet the young man. The young man peels fruit so that the daughter can hand him a knife and then give it back to him. The stolen handkerchief is there to be returned. Spotlights are there to shoot through things. Tables become ashtrays. The throat-slitting man is made to shave his beard so that he can instruct the warden on his character. Armrests are there for people to sit on. The escape is so that he can inform on someone and take revenge, and also so that the informant can be entrusted to the warden, allowing the daughter to be temporarily evacuated and preventing the warden from protecting the young man. The back of a truck is there for people to sit on. Collars are there to flutter in the wind. Trains are there to emit smoke. Walls become blackboards. The ground becomes notepads. Time becomes faces. Cups are there to be smashed. The tea acts as a sleeping pill. The parole offer is intended to lure the young man into the warden's office, cause a disturbance to lure the warden out, and then have the avenger kill the informant, making the young man a witness and locking him in the basement. The informant asks the young man to go and check on the riot so that the big man can kill him in the meantime. The bars are to project a cross-shaped shadow. The big man's knife is held in a reverse grip. The chants are to ring out. The servant is to testify to the avenger's innocence. The book is to be thrown aside. The match is to be dropped. The wall is for people to lean against. The cane is for people to poke. The young man loudly rejects the informant so that the other prisoners can hear. The newspaper is to be rolled up and used to hit someone. The knife hidden in the young man's food is to be used by the avenger and to make the avenger resolve to take revenge. The riot is to get him locked in the basement. The siren is to ring out. The machine gun is to emit smoke and also to roar. The avenger has the gun so he can throw it down, surrender, and kill the guard with a knife. The guard picks up the gun so he can turn his back and be killed by the avenger. A person becomes a shield.

■ "SCARFACE" (1932) 91 minutes 5/17
The milkman and janitor are there to tell the time. Crackers are there to be thrown away. A fallen bra indicates the nature of the party. Cigarettes are there to exhale smoke. Whistling is there to make a sound. Blinds are there to cast shadows. Guns are there to be thrown away. The party becomes a murder scene. Aprons are there to be thrown away. Articles are there to be crumpled up and thrown away. Chairs are there to place newspapers on. Coins are there to be thrown around. The gangsters in the barber shop are wearing cloths on their heads to take a shot of them on the spot. Badges are there to strike matches. Matches are there to be thrown away. Reports are there to be thrown away. Getting arrested is to be released. Fingers are there to strike matches. Walls are there for people to lean against. Going to see the boss is to meet a woman and to demonstrate the boss's character. The sister kisses a man when she comes home late, in order to anger her brother, get money from him, and have their mother scold her. Cars are for people to sit on. The monkey show is to introduce the bodyguard to the sister, and also to get the bodyguard's old coins. Coins are for throwing. Trees are for swaying in the wind. Window frames are for people to sit on. Spittoons are for throwing and breaking glass. Pillars are for people to lean on. Pens are for breaking. Toothpicks are for throwing away. Resistance is for being subdued. Gangsters ask their secretary for a pen in order to steal the boss's pen. Paper is for throwing. Beer is for spilling. Bars are for blowing up and emitting smoke. Guns are for emitting smoke. Failing to kill the enemy boss is so they can kill him in the hospital. Bosses are for throwing down. Machine guns are for turning the pages of a calendar and for blaring. Stairs are for showing the legs of a woman coming down. The reason why subordinate gang members touch the boss's gown, borrow his pen, smell his cooking, seduce his woman, or light his match is because they don't respect him. Cars are for dropping people off. Telephone receivers are for holding upside down. The secretary answers the phone so as not to transfer it. Telephone receivers are for throwing down. Fingers are for snapping. Flowers are for instructing the attack on the flower shop. Neon lights are for messages. A woman comes to the apartment to show the neon lights and shutters. The reason for arresting gang members is to interrupt their kiss with the woman, move them to a restaurant, have a rival gang attack them, have the gang members get their hands on the rival gang's machine gun, retaliate against the enemy, enrage the boss, make them plan to eliminate the gang members, then fail to do so so the gang members kill the boss, have the gang members go into hiding with the boss's woman until things cool down, and in the meantime, have the gang members marry the bodyguard to enrage the gang members, have them kill the bodyguard when they return, and then have the gang members arrested on suspicion of murder. The beer barrels are shot through to make holes and the beer is to get on the secretary's pants. The clothes are to be thrown down. The chairs become clothes racks. The desks are for people to sit on (3 times). The cartridge boxes are to be thrown down. The windows are to be shot and broken. The chairs are to be knocked over. The beer barrels are shot through to make them get on the secretary. The water pitchers are to be thrown and break the glass. The walls, doors, and windows are to be shot through to make holes. The cues are to be shot down. The guns are to be thrown. The truck is crashed into the truck bed to make the barrels roll out and into the skylight of a house, making the woman scream. The road signs are to project a cross shape. The machine guns are to emit smoke. The stairs are for people to fall down. The water towers are to be knocked down to spray water. The telephone poles are to be knocked down. The patterns on the beams form a cross. The cigarettes are to be thrown away. The light forms a cross. They watch the play to be summoned. The bowling lane becomes the scene of the murder. The woman smokes a cigarette not for the boss, but to get a light for a subordinate. The tray is to be dropped. The drunkard fires a gun to reunite the bodyguard with the gangster's sister and to instruct the gangster not to flinch. The condiment container becomes a gun. They dance to show the gangster his sister dancing with a man, angering him so he will take her home and then have a rival gang attack them on the way back. The bricks are to be shot and broken. The slope is to make the car fall and emit smoke. The phone is to identify the culprit. The glass in the door is to be smashed with a fist. The table is to rest one's feet on. The pot is to emit smoke. The railing is to cast a shadow. The room number forms a cross. The phone is to be answered for the first time. The spotlight shines. The objects on the table are to be swept off. The sister stands and loads the bullets so she will be shot. The sister gets shot so the gang will forget to close the steel door and fire gas grenades inside. The sofa becomes a bed. The gas grenades are to spread smoke. The door is to be smashed down with an axe.

■ "TIGER SHARK" (1932) 77 minutes 11/29
The water surface is rippling. The waves are roaring. You can't drink from a water bottle. The edge of the ship can be used as a pillow. A club is for beating people. You give water so that you turn your back and let them hit you, then retaliate and push them into the sea to be eaten by sharks. People are thrown into the sea to create a splash. Fishermen faint so that sharks can eat their left arm. A ship's whistle is blaring. A prosthetic arm is for scratching your back. The water surface projects shimmering light onto the land. A woman passing by is mesmerized. Women don't come to see you off. Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke (many times, forcefully). Names are meant to be mispronounced. Railings are for people to climb over. Ships are for exhaling smoke. Guitars are for holding cigarettes. The soles of feet and walls are for striking matches. The song is meant to foreshadow the fisherman's fate and to prompt the old man to tell the story of someone whose limbs were bitten off. The boat is meant to create spray. The sardines are meant to turn into sharks. The gun is meant to emit smoke and to create spray when shot at the water's surface. The spear is thrown to entangle the rope around someone's leg and cause them to fall into the sea (twice). The old man dies after having his leg bitten off by a shark, bringing the girl and the fisherman together. The hat is meant to be hastily removed. The net is meant to sway in the wind. The fog is meant to rise. The chair is meant to shake. The burlap sack is meant to identify a person and to be dropped. The stairs are meant for someone to lean against. The cigarette pack is meant to be crushed and thrown away. The table is meant for striking a match and for someone to lean against. The money is meant to show the woman the prosthetic arm. The story about the insurance money and the landlady is meant to expose the fisherman's lie. The hat is meant to be thrown away. The table is meant for someone to sit on. The stairs are meant for someone to tumble down. Shaving the mustache under his nose is for the cigarette trick. The cigarette is for swallowing and then spitting out. The cigarette is for throwing away. The hat is for throwing down. The tie is for having someone tie it for him. The table is for people to sit on. The cigarette pack is for slamming down. The prosthetic arm is for stabbing people. The stairs are for making people tumble down. The old man is for being chased out by the fisherman. The head is for scratching. The shoes are for striking matches. Shaving the mustache under his nose is for the cigarette swallowing trick. The cover is for throwing down. The hat is for throwing down (he throws it down impressively). The clothes are for rubbing apples. The stairs are for people to lean on. He asks his best friend to make his dress so that he can be alone with the woman. The name is for making people call him by a different name. Polishing and ironing his shoes and prosthetic arm is to announce the fisherman's marriage. The iron is for exhaling smoke. The hat is for taking off. The prosthetic arm is for hooking rings (grotesque). Candles are there to flicker in the wind. Dances are there to make you fall, and for your best friend to dance with a woman in your place. Pillars are there for people to lean on. Classes are there to hit and put down. Ears are there to hold cigarettes. Caregivers are there to take turns. Doors are pulled so they can be pushed open. Floors are there for people to sit on. Feasts are there so they can't be taken home. Fishermen get drunk and fall asleep so they can leave their wives and best friends alone. Laundry is there to flutter in the wind and to be wrung out. Sailing is there so they can dock and be greeted by their wives. Robes are there for people to cling to. Staring at women so they can be knocked over by baskets. Passersby are there to say hello. Campfires and pots are there to emit smoke. The surface of the water is there to sparkle. Grass is there to flutter in the wind. Rocks are there for people to lean on. Fishermen cook so they can leave their best friends and wives alone. Tuna are used to be caught (in a purely documentary style), and also to hit people, causing them to fall and lose their hats. Fishing hooks are used to hook people around the neck. Chairs are used as hat racks and also as clothes racks. Single-line fishing is used to injure a best friend and have his wife tend to him. Mouths are used to pull out corks. Matches are used to throw away. Butts are used to kick. Doors are used to close and cast shadows. Plates are used to spin and grab, and also to break. Slapping someone's shoulder is used to make them swallow a cigarette (it's shot in a long take so it really looks like they're swallowing it). Gunshots are used to ring out, and also to stop ringing. Coins are used to run down fingers. Kissing is used so that a fisherman witnesses it and pushes the best friend into the small boat. People are used to drag. Spears are used to stab boats into the hull and cause them to flood, and also to drag fishermen into the sea and have their legs bitten off by sharks. Oars are used to hit sharks. To die surrounded by a woman is so that I can write songs.

■ "TODAY WE LIVE" (1933) 110 minutes 5/19
The ship emits smoke. The ship's whistle sounds. Glass becomes a mirror. The father's military service leaves his daughter without income, forcing her to rent out the mansion and meet the tenant. The tea is drunk so the man can carry the table and the sugar shortage illustrates poverty (the tea is not drunk). The man is made to fiddle with the rifle and pipe to anger the woman. The chair is for people to lean on. The lattice casts shadows. The wall is for people to lean on. The trees cast shadows. Clothes are thrown down. The table is for people to sit on (5 times). The young man is in his underwear so he can escape to the next room and the woman can talk alone with her brother. The feet are for knocking on the door. The candle flickers in the wind. The ring is for exchanging and returning to the woman. The time signal sounds. Glasses are to be thrown into the fireplace and smashed. Bicycles are for people to lean against. Bicycles going in different directions are to get the woman to change her destination and go with the man. Walls are for leaning bicycles against. Cockroaches are to make the woman and the young man crawl under the bed. Walls are for casting shadows. The young man goes out to buy alcohol to leave the woman and his brother alone (the alcohol is not drunk). Candles become matches. The woman puts on stockings to show her legs. Tea is to be thrown away. The false report of the man's death is to get the woman engaged to the young man. Clothes are for dressing. Hats are for throwing away. Faces become mirrors. Paper is for crumpling. The typist is made to complain so that she doesn't have to. Stairs become beds, for people to sit on. Mist is to roll in. Light becomes a staircase. Machine guns are to roar and emit smoke. Airplanes are to crash and emit smoke. The propellers are there to make a noise. The clouds are there to gather. The lamp is there to cast a shadow. The whiskey is there to signal the death of a comrade (the whiskey is not drunk). The woman is there to organize the shelves in the hallway so that she can dramatically reunite with the man. The road becomes a bed. They go out drinking so that they can help the young man who is sleeping on the road, take him home, let the man know that the young man and the woman are living together to make him jealous, have the young man fly a plane to test his courage, and then have him fly a ship to build trust. The desk is there to rest their feet on. The cockroaches are there to fight. The desk is there to strike a match. The matchbox becomes the cockroach's home. The chair becomes a clothes rack. The propellers are there to rotate. The spotlight is there to emit smoke. The bomb is there to emit smoke. The factory is there to collapse. The enemy attacks from behind so that they can shoot their allies with machine guns. The plane is there to crash. The unexploded ordnance is there to demonstrate the young man's courage. Cockroaches are there to be killed in battle, buried, and used for jam sessions by the soldiers. Gifts are there to be thrown away. Boats are there to create spray. Flags are there to flutter in the wind. Cannonballs and torpedoes are there to create spray. Ships are there to be blown up and emit smoke. The boats are used to blind the young man and make him commit suicide. The handshake signifies the young man's blindness. Doors are there to hold letters. Candles are there to be lit and then extinguished. Desks are there for people to lean on. Torn paper is there to scatter and throw away. Rain is there to cast shadows. Scraps of paper are there to be dropped. Pencils are there to be thrown down. The man is made to volunteer for a difficult mission so that the young man and the woman's brother, upon hearing this, will charge into enemy ships and marry the woman to the man. Doors are opened to let in light. The woman is sleeping so that the young man can steal a peek at her sleeping face, and so that she won't stop the sortie. The rain is to make the men's mission more difficult. The mines are not deployed so that the men can charge into the enemy ships. The ships are to sink and foam up.

■ "VIVA VILLA!" (1934) 108 minutes 5/25
The ground is for scattering smoke. The trees are for posting leaflets. The chimneys are for emitting smoke. The hats are for taking off. The land is confiscated so that the boy's father can be whipped and the boy can become a revolutionary. The ground is for casting shadows. The trees are for tying and hanging people. The stones are for counting. The soil is for gripping. The walls are for hiding. When the boy kills the whipping man, the knife is held in a reverse grip. The barrels are for rolling. The walls are for casting shadows. The bars are for casting shadows. The guns are for emitting smoke and for making gunshots. The trumpets are for dropping. The witness stand becomes a morgue. The indictment is shown to indicate that the person cannot read. The serf trial is to judge the rulers. The compact is given to the judge so that it will belong to the soldiers. Trains are for spewing smoke. Certificates are for throwing. Pillars are for people to lean on. Peeping is for getting your butt slapped. Touching a woman's butt is for getting punched. Checkpoints on trains are for letting journalists in. Windows are for breaking and for people to get in and out. Light becomes a streak. Rifles are for raising. Hats are for waving (very often). Talking with your brother is for dramatically alerting your sister. Trees cast shadows. Waving is for getting married. Taking off your hat is for not taking it off. Being told not to take off your hat is for taking it off in front of a woman. Horses are for throwing people off. Butts are for kicking. Conflict is for reconciliation. Pots are for exhaling smoke. The roof of a train is for people to sit on. Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. Shards of glass become razor blades. False reports are for coming true and for worsening relations between revolutionaries and generals. Hats are for knocking off. Knees become chairs. Dancers are there to make the revolutionary cheat on his wife and beat her. Tables are for people to sit on (5 times). Walls are for people to lean against. Trumpets are played because they are not allowed to play them. Letters are to be torn up. Face sculptures are to be broken. Weddings are held to have a bank robbed and the couple banished due to lack of funds. Gates are to be climbed over. They are not shot. Kneels are there to grab the dirt. Wills are not written. Ink is to be spilled. Politicians are killed to make the revolutionary start a second revolution. Neon lights are to make the lights flash. Under beds, coffins, tiles, and beams are to hide guns. Machine guns are there to make the noise. People are impaled. Tables are for people to stand on. Clothes are to wipe the blood. Scarves become bandages. Revolutionaries struggle with nobles so their subordinates can shoot the women. They visit nobles' mansions so their subordinates can shoot and kill the women and take revenge on their brothers. Beams are for bumping heads. Cigarettes are for not inhaling and also as ignition devices. Bombs are for exhaling smoke. Matches and oranges are for throwing away. Oranges are for attracting ants. Honey is for smearing on faces and also as an execution tool. Statues are for people to cling to. Tables are for making holes. Bundles of money are for throwing, dropping, and throwing away. Mirrors and candlesticks are lowered to prevent them from being lowered. Bathrobes are for throwing. Visiting the butcher shop is for being killed. Umbrellas are for barriers. Reporters are present at shooting scenes to fabricate the revolutionary's last will and testament. Rain is for pouring down. Drums are for beating.

■ "TWENTIETH CENTURY" (1934) 90 minutes 6/8
Tables are for people to sit on (twice). Chairs are for resting feet on. Scripts are for throwing down. Blinds are for casting shadows. The floor becomes a bed. The secretary picks up the documents to show her butt. Gum is for not being able to chew. Understudies are not used. The stage becomes a canvas. The desk becomes a pillow. The fired man is made to tell the director the safe combination to let him know he wasn't fired. The chair becomes a bed. The cane becomes a gun. The script is for slamming down. The woman is for making people angry. The pin is for stabbing someone's butt, and also as a souvenir. The floor is for people to sit on. The stairs are for people to sit on. The star is for directing the great actress. The foot is for closing the door. The bell rings. The umbrella is for pressing a button. Touching one's head is for touching an ornament and being surprised. The woman shouts so that she can be overheard. The hat is for throwing down. The neon light flashes. People don't jump off anything. The desk is for resting one's feet on. The eavesdropping is so that the woman will expose the eavesdropping and leave the man. The clothes are for tearing. The door is for people to lean against. Posters are for splashing paint on and smashing. Buckets are for throwing and breaking glass. Brushes are for slamming. Stand-ins are for failure. Signboards are for not being able to strike matches. Bags are for identifying people. Trains are for spewing smoke. Noses are for growing. Objects the train passes over are for casting shadows. Saliva is for glue. Stickers are for sticking and being impossible to remove, and for rolling up. Windows, hats, backs, and lampshades are for stickers. Walls are for people to lean on. Alcohol is for not being able to drink. Boxes are for slamming. Checks are for tearing up. Hats are for sitting on and dropping. Train whistles are for blaring. Chairs are for people to sit on. The Passion Play is for needing funds, forcing a madman to write a check which is then invalidated, and for a man to act out a contract for a woman, and for scouting actresses. Water is for pouring over your head. Hats are for being used as a cushion. The madman's eccentricities are kept secret so the men won't find out. The pen is for stabbing people. The gun is for dropping things. The armrest is used as a pillow. The man is shot because he wasn't actually shot, and also to get the woman to sign the contract. The madman writes checks, and also to shoot the man. The hat is for throwing away.

■ "Barbary Coast" (1935) 89 minutes 5/20
The fog is there to make it rise. The hat is there to wave. The whistle is there to make it sound. The sea is there for people to jump into, and the toll the woman is there for the reporter to pay. The luggage is there to throw down, and to throw things over. The boat is there to make it rock. The man with the eye patch is there to tell the reporter who the woman is marrying. The feather on the hat and the scarf are there to flutter in the wind. The water is there to make it shine, and to make it ripple. She cries to touch up her makeup. The death of her fiancé is there to start the movement. The gunshot is there to make it sound. The mud is there to carry the woman. The Chinese are being chased, and the reporter is being dragged into the mud. The table is there for people to sit on (6 times). The drunkard is there to be beaten and carried out. The cigarette is there to exhale smoke. The bartender spills the drink because he is staring at the woman. Her face is in the mirror. Music is meant to stop. Guns are meant to emit smoke. Hats are meant to fly up. No knocking is meant to stop. Shawls are meant to be thrown down. Chairs become hat racks. The mayor is meant to anger the boss and make him buy up all the clothes. Clothes are meant to be thrown. The little man loses at roulette so that he gets beaten up, has his bodyguard shoot him in the back so he can be acquitted in court and have his newspaper published. Baskets are meant to be thrown down. Chairs are turned upside down in the saloon. The saloon becomes a courtroom. Canes become knives. Chinese hair becomes the judge's hair. The printing press is meant not to be destroyed. Typefaces are meant to be destroyed and picked up and dropped again. Glasses are meant to be thrown away. Railings are meant to cast shadows. Thunder is meant to rumble. The woman is sent on a long journey so that it rains, delaying her and leading her astray into the poet's hut. The rain dries her underwear and leaves her in her underwear. The fog is to hold the poet back, get him to the casino and reunite with the woman, and also to make him lose all his money at the casino and become a waiter. The poet is given whiskey to dramatically alert the woman when she comes in. The bag is to be thrown up. The sequins are to sparkle. The spittoon is to be polished. The apron is to be thrown. The wall is to cast shadows. The little man puts up flyers so that he and the company owner will be killed by the bodyguard, giving birth to journalism, and also so that the bodyguard can be hanged. The flyers are to be torn up. The ears are to hold the pen. The bodyguard walks the streets so that he can be hanged. The mud is to make noise. The hat is to be thrown away. The poetry collection is given to the woman to let the boss know of the poet's existence. The man with the eye patch returns the money so that the poet can gamble again. The large sum of money is left behind to indicate that the poet and the woman do not care about money, and also so that the man with the eye patch can steal it and then return it. People are there to cast shadows. Pillars are there for people to lean on. Windows are there for people to go in and out. Fog is there to hide people. The oarstop on the boat is broken so that the poet can row the boat on his knees and be shot by the gangsters. Under the bridge, pillars are there for people to hide. Bags are there to be dropped. The woman says goodbye to the poet so that the boss can eavesdrop.

■ "CEILING ZERO" (1935) 94 minutes 4/23
The pilot abandons the plane and escapes to avoid being fired. Fog and clouds are there to gather. Searchlights are there to cast light. Cigarettes are there to exhale smoke. Window frames are there to cast shadows. Flares are there to exhale smoke. Pencils are there to turn dials. Desks are there for people to sit on (they sit about 15 times). Chairs are there to rest feet on. Plates are there so they aren't polished. Documents are there to throw down. Voices are there to overlap. Pencils are for breaking and throwing away. The daughter's landing is for comparing to the pilot's landing. Gloves are for slamming into the ground. People are for bumping into people and making them roll over and sit at the inspector's feet. Flying upside down prevents the license from being renewed. Blinds are for casting shadows. Clothes are for throwing away. The pilot is made to turn away and shake hands with an old friend so that he will turn around and meet his daughter. The age difference between the pilot and his daughter is so that the pilot will protect his daughter's boyfriend. Fingers are for snapping. Cigarettes are for being taken and then taken back. People become dogs. Hats are for covering people's mouths. Matches are for throwing away. Bills are for throwing away. Tables are for people to lean on. Winning bets are meant to be lost. Pillars are for people to lean on. Hands are tucked into collars so that you can get a kiss. The boss dances with his daughter in the restaurant so that the pilot and his wife can talk alone. The henpecked husband calls his wife so that he can get his daughter home in the meantime. The desk is for striking matches. The flightless seagulls indicate the depth of the fog. The pencils are for throwing things down. The propellers are for making noise. The cigarettes are for throwing things down. The daughter suddenly refusing kisses is to cause a fight between the pilot and her boyfriend. The gum is to prevent him from chewing it. Poor visibility and radio malfunctions are to cause his best friend to die in an accident. The man who refuses to become co-pilot is to expose the relationship between the pilot and the boss's wife. The fence is to be hit by the plane and burst into flames. The plane crashes, scattering smoke and flames everywhere. He doesn't wear a hat so that he can wear one. He gives his daughter the house keys so that she won't be present at the scene of his death. He doesn't renew his license so that he can kill the pilot. The henpecked husband's death is to give the pilot the opportunity to take off while the boss is away, and also to make the pilot feel guilty so that he can take off. The young man is the test pilot for the de-icing device so that the pilot can take off in his place and crash. A handshake is for punching someone. People are for being carried. Data is for crumpling up and throwing away. Licenses are for tearing up and then patching together.

■ "THE ROAD TO GLORY" (1936) 101 minutes 3/17
The pot and chimney are for emitting smoke. The ram is for burning paper. The cigarette is for emitting smoke. The woman crosses her legs to show them. The table is for people to sit on. The bottle is for throwing to extinguish the lamp. The cannon is for scattering smoke (it's used extensively). The airship bombing is to lead the fleeing woman to the lieutenant's house. The skylight is for touching the woman's legs. The windows are for people to go in and out. The blast is for extinguishing and relighting the candle, illuminating the woman's face. The rain is to indicate that the enemy bombing is over. The old soldier is to demonstrate the captain's competence. The puddle is for shining. The whistle is for stopping. The water bottle is for throwing down. The flare is for flickering. The gun is for emitting smoke. The barbed wire immobilizes the soldier to highlight the bravery of the lieutenant who went to his aid and the ruthlessness of the captain who shot him. The wall becomes a notepad. The shoes are to be thrown to extinguish the lamp. The candles are to flicker in the wind. The sound of digging in the tunnel indicates whether or not there is an explosion. The relief soldier is to be blown up. Napping is to make him talk in his sleep. The desk is to rest his feet on. The saber is held in a reverse grip. The saber is to transmit vibrations. The helmet is to protect the buttocks. The church becomes a hospital. The woman is given a tray with a towel on it in the hospital so that she will turn around and hit the lieutenant with it, making their reunion more dramatic, and also to show how busy the woman is. The sergeant has the soldiers throw away their belongings to prevent them from throwing away the old soldier's bugle, and the captain asks the lieutenant to get a memento for the woman to let the lieutenant know that the captain and the woman are lovers. The captain comes to the lieutenant's room to deliver orders so that after the lieutenant leaves, the captain will find the rosary that he gave to the woman. Reinforcements keep coming one after another so that each time they can give a speech to their superior officer. The door is opened so that the command post on the desk can be blown away by the wind to the fireplace. The fireplace is to burn the command post. The sergeant gets drunk so that the orders can be blown away. The building is there for people to hide in, and also to collapse. The telephone lines are laid so that the telephone lines can be cut so that the sergeant, who returns to repair them, can be shot by the enemy, frightening the old soldier and keeping him behind. The soldier who returns can be made to throw a grenade, demoted to the rear, and then blown up along with his son. Also, the sergeant, who is shot and mortally wounded, can be made to take the blame for the old soldier's mistake. Having the old soldier throw a grenade is to dramatically create a shock when the two confess their feelings after the lieutenant is hospitalized, reunited with the woman, kissed, and then, thinking they were seen by the colonel, the colonel is actually blind. The lieutenant's face is reflected in the mirror. The pipe he's holding is to make him drop it. The doctor ordering the nurse to hold the patient is to dramatically create a reunion between the nurse and the lieutenant. The observation post's mission is to make the old soldier the blind colonel's "eyes," causing the two to die in the explosion and become heroes, and also to have the old soldier blow the trumpet.

■ "COME AND GET IT" (1936) 97 minutes 6/14
The chimney is to emit smoke. Alcohol is because they can't drink. The liquor bottle is to be thrown. The pot is thrown onto the table so that the man can knock out the angry workers. The pot is to emit smoke. People are for clinging on. The hat is for hitting people. The chair is for resting feet on. Trees are cut down to scatter snow. Gloves are to be thrown down. Tables are for striking matches. Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. Matches are for throwing away. Bombs are for scattering snow and logs. Log piles are for collapsing down. Slopes are for rolling logs down. Rivers are for splashing water. Clothes are for throwing down. Tables are for people to sit on. Hat brims are for smashing down. Cards are for throwing down. Shells are for throwing across. The bean-throwing game is for bringing men and women together, and also for letting the men win big to anger the boss and get the women to put sleeping pills in their drinks. Pillars are for people to lean on. Parasols are for casting shadows on the women's faces. Inviting men to dinner is for giving the women a chance to put sleeping pills in their drinks. Cards are for throwing away. Paying for train fare is to prevent them from taking sleeping pills. Alcohol is the sleeping pill. Glasses are for smashing. The bottle in the woman's hand is held in a reverse grip. The chair is for hitting people. The stairs are for making people tumble down. The handrail is for casting shadows. The liquor bottle is for hitting people. The tray is for smashing heads and for discus throwing. Glasses and mirrors are for breaking. Light bulbs are for shaking and shattering. The boiler is for destroying. The hat is for throwing down. Footsteps are for making noise. The bars are for iron bars. The man gives the woman a dress so he can peek at her changing behind a screen. The clothes are for blocking the peephole. The steam is for emitting smoke. The water is for dousing people over their heads. The pillar is for striking matches. The armrest is for people to sit on. The wife not calling him by his first name is to indicate the nature of their relationship. The man buys a new suit to indicate his closeness with his daughter. The threshold is for tripping. The bars are for casting shadows. The paper cup is for dropping (maybe it's unavoidable?). Trains are for spewing smoke. Bags are for dropping and leaving. Hunting is not possible so that the man will decide to go home and then not be able to leave. The tray is a souvenir. Breakfast is so that he can see his daughter. The iron is for blowing smoke. Shoes are for taking off. The table is for resting feet on. The rocking chair is for rocking. Singing is to keep the song going. Back pain is to take his daughter to the city. Trains are for rocking. He sends her to the dining car so that he can make the women's clothes laugh and then stop laughing. The grass is for swaying in the wind. The stairs are for people to sit on. The fences are for people to climb over. He sends his daughter to work so that she can see his son, and also so that his son can see the bill for the dress and go protest to his daughter. He hits people so that he can hit back. Candy is for blowing smoke, and for splattering, and for making shoes slimy, and for kneading. The ladle is for throwing away. The factory is there to emit smoke. The footrest is moved to wake someone up. The son comes to give a speech so that the homeowner can see him off when he gets home and the cousin can go to the kitchen, leaving the man and daughter alone. The hat and trees are there to cast shadows. The kiss is there so the man can witness it. The father and daughter are fighting so that the daughter can call him "old man." The wall is there for people to lean against. The bell is there to be rung.

■ "BRINGING UP BABY" (1938) 100 minutes 1/14
The donation is needed to get the man moving. The dinosaur collarbone is to get the dog to bite it. Golf is to meet the woman. Exchanging the ball is to prevent the man from talking to the agent. The car is to be exchanged, to be crashed into, to cling to, and to prevent the man from meeting the agent. The tree is to crash the car into. The hat is to be dropped, to be crushed by sitting on it, and to hide one's buttocks. The olive is for the ball, to cause people to fall when they sit on it, and to meet the psychiatrist couple. The handbag mix-up is to give the psychiatrist couple the impression of abnormality. The tuxedo is to be torn. The dress is to be torn, and to hide the torn parts. The man and woman are made to move together to bring the man into the mansion and prevent him from meeting the agent. The pillar is to hide one's buttocks. The pebbles don't break the window because a large stone is thrown at the agent to prevent the man from meeting the agent. The stones are for throwing at people. The feet are for closing doors. The tables are for tripping over and falling. The telephones are for tripping over the cords and falling. The ornaments are for knocking things over. The receivers are for rubbing against things. The melodies on the records are for turning those who sing them into lunatics. The desks are for climbing on. The car seats are for gnawing. The chickens hit the car so that the dirty man could be given a shower to catch the leopard, while his clothes were being taken to the town's dry cleaners, so that he could be dressed in a negligee to make a bad impression and so that the leopard wouldn't donate, so he could hide his identity and become "Mr. Bone" and be threatened with having his true identity revealed. The woman was distracted while driving so that she could crash into the chickens' car. They stopped at the butcher's so that they could stop the car in front of the fire hydrant to call the sheriff, have the psychiatrist's car stolen, make him look like a thief and put him in jail later, and also to make a circus impression. The leopard got into the doctor's car so that he could steal the doctor's car. The man steps on the woman's feet to make her take off her high heels and tell her toes. Her toes become the flowers for a flower fortune-telling. The gloves are for playing with. The boots are for throwing away. The man takes a shower so that the dog can steal the bone while he's out. The enormous garden is for jumping around in. The soil is for digging. The telephone is for causing crossed lines. The fiancé asks the woman the time so that she can act as the time signaler. The glass becomes the doorbell. The windows are for people to come and go. The major talks at dinner so that the man who ignores him and leaves is seen as a weirdo. The dog is for getting the man to leave the table. The leopard becomes a loon. The gardener is a drinker so that he can go get the hidden bottles of liquor and let the leopard escape. The bottles of liquor and trays are for dropping. The chairs are for people to bump into. The phone call to the zoo is to trick the circus's ferocious leopard on the truck into thinking the zoo has captured your docile leopard, thus allowing it to escape. The revelation that the leopard belongs to your aunt is to make the circus's leopard think the zoo has captured it, thus allowing it to escape. Your aunt and the Major go outside to bring the Major and the leopard together. Your aunt argues with the Major to prevent the leopard from noticing. The branches are to cling to people and make them crawl. The slopes become slides. The butterfly nets are to put people's heads through. The river is to fall in, get soaked, and have a campfire. The dishcloths are to throw away. The circus is to allow the other leopard to escape. The socks are to burn. The campfire is to create smoke. The fences are to climb over. The map is to turn upside down. The stone walls are to sit on. The guns are to create smoke. People bump into each other to break glasses. Glasses are meant to be thrown away. High heels are meant to break one so that people walk strangely. Fallen trees are meant to cause people to trip. A leopard lands on the roof so that those who sing to it will be turned into lunatics and thrown in jail. High heels are meant to be shaken. The woman is brought into the house first so that the remaining man can be framed as a voyeur and arrested, and the dog can escape in the meantime. The sheriff and the woman argue so that the man won't notice he's out of jail. Hats are meant to be smashed. The major has a rifle so that he can be thrown in jail. The maid puts her aunt in jail. Cages are meant to allow people to escape from or put in leopards. Cell doors are meant to be climbed on. Desks are meant to be sat on. Matches are meant to be thrown away. Cigarettes are meant to exhale smoke. The police station is hot so that the windows can be opened to allow the woman to escape and bring in another ferocious leopard. The misspelling of "leopard" is to draw the woman closer to the window. The bunch of keys is to make her drop it. The chair is to keep the leopard away. The ladder becomes a metronome. The hat is to make her drop it. The dinosaur bone sculpture is to make it collapse, and also to leave the man and woman alone in a high space to film the final scene.

■ "ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS" (1939) 120 min 5/8
The fog is to make it roll in. The ship is to emit smoke. The birds are to fly around, the sailor is to announce the woman's return time, and to describe her features. The doorknob is for the woman. The peddler is to be refused. The cigarette is to emit smoke. The hat is to make her take it off. The stairs are to make people trip. The demand for payment is to make them not pay. The pilot has a fever to kill one of the two pilots. The pilot orders a steak so that he dies and the boss eats the steak. Matches are used for the lottery. Propellers are there to make noise. Walls are for striking matches. Cigarettes are smoked to light cigarettes. The water surface is a mirror and also creates splashes. Tables are for people to sit on (they sit about 13 times). Cigarette packs are for throwing down. Fog is to obscure visibility, make the plane turn back, and crash in front of everyone. The piano stops playing. Engine noise is to announce their location. They don't talk. Trees are for felling. The woman sets off at 4 o'clock to hurry the pilot and kill him. Trees are for hitting the plane and causing it to crash. Cigarettes are for lighting and handing over. Matches are for throwing away. Matchboxes are for throwing down. Coins are for being tossed into the air. The best friend's liquor is for the pilot's lover to drink. The boss eats the dead man's steak to anger the woman, make her go outside, let her talk to the pilots, and then have a jam session. The porch is for people to sit on. The pillars are for people to lean against. The boss plays the wrong piano key so that the woman can play the piano. The mementos are so that the boss can see the woman handing them over to the pilot's lover. The matches are to be thrown. The water is to be poured over someone's head. The propeller noise is to wake up the best friend. The cigarettes are to be stolen. The weather improves so that the boss can take off and then return, only to be surprised that the woman is still there. The ship does not depart. The boiler and stairs are for people to lean against. The pilot crashes to his death so that the new pilot and his wife can be summoned. The Puerto Rican woman is there to make the reunion between the boss and the man with the scar on his shin dramatic. The name is to be wrong. The propeller noise indicates the presence of a person. The stairs are for suspense. The best friend is there to take off and then return, only to surprise the reunion with the man with the scar on his shin. The matches are to be lit and then extinguished. The desk is for people to lean against. The man with the scar on his shin is broke so that he can take on the job. The sick man in the mine is hired to get the man with the scar on his shin to demonstrate his skills. Asking the doctor if he wants to go to the mine is to quote Shakespeare. Financial difficulties and the mechanic's presbyopia are to get the man with the scar on his shin hired, and by hiring him, to move the woman to a room without a bath, let her use the boss's shower, and then kiss her. The cup is an ashtray. The chair is for kicking. The campfire and chimney are for emitting smoke. The ground is for scattering smoke. The hat is for waving. The blinds are for casting shadows. Smoking is for having an ex-lover light it. The match is for flicking away. The door is for people to bump into. The pillar is for people to bump their heads on. The fight is to break the pilot's arm and reduce the number of pilots, and also to let the others know that they have no choice but to accept the man with the scar on his shin. The stairs are for people to sit on. They don't shake hands. The towel is for throwing down. The match is for holding in your mouth. The cigarettes are to be thrown into the air. The grass is to be thrown away. The thorns on the pillars are to be fiddled with. The boss is made to take a test flight so that the windshield is blown off, causing the boss to faint and giving the woman watching a stomach ache so she can talk to her best friend. The nitroglycerin and low pressure are to signal the skills of the man with the scar on his shin, to inform them of the presence of the valley condor, and to fire the pilot who refused to fly (the nitroglycerin cannot be delivered). The wooden crates are for people to sit on. The trees are to cast shadows. The knife is held in a reverse grip. The nitro is to explode and scatter smoke. The trees are to sway in the wind. The chairs are for people to rest their feet on. The thunder is to rumble and flash. The clothes are to be thrown down. The ex-lover is drunk so that the boss can pour water over her head and wipe her hair, and so that she can go to the boss's room to apologize and have the woman who is there clear up any misunderstandings about her relationship with the boss. The rain is so that the woman can boil coffee and burn the boss in the same place twice (the coffee is not drunk). The dresser is so that people can lean on it. The woman's heel breaks so that the boss can pick her up and kiss her. They gamble with coins so that it's clear there's only one side to the coin. The beads are so that they can sway. The rain is so that shadows can be cast. The cigarette pack is so that it can be crumpled up and thrown away. The bad weather makes the boss fly off so that the woman can scare him into firing his gun and have the man with the scar on his shin take over. She hugs him so that he can take the gun. The gun is thrown so that it can fire and also emit smoke. The condor is so that it can break the windshield and fly in so that the man with the scar on his shin can save him, and then kill the best friend so that the coin can be inherited by the boss. The plane is on fire and also explodes. The radio is not working so that the man with the scar on his shin can solve the problem on his own. The group is gathered together at the best friend's deathbed so that they can leave. Matches are for exhaling smoke. Scarves are for throwing down. The man with the scar on his shin insists on drinking at the table so that everyone can drink at the counter. No one stops the woman from leaving so that the boss can stop her. The storm subsides so that the boss can fly away. Coins are for asking the woman for a favor. Rain is for pouring down.

■ "HIS GIRL FRIDAY" (1940) 91 minutes 5/9
The fiancé is there to contrast with the ex-husband. The desk is there for people to sit on (he sits on it about 11 times). He shaves his beard so he can turn around and look at his ex-wife. The execution is to start the movement. The election is to execute the prisoner. The cigarette is there to throw and to exhale smoke. The desk is there for people to lean on. The bag is there to throw. The telephone is there to disguise. The old man in the waiting room is the fiancé. The umbrella is in his hand and to show the owner's meticulousness (it's never used). He brings the fiancé to sign an insurance contract and put the woman on duty. His knees are on the chair. The match flame is there to be stolen. The feet are there to kick. The waiter is there to have his feet stepped on and to disguise the telephone. The water is spilled on his clothes so the waiter can disguise the telephone. The reporter is given leave so the woman can be put on duty. The lies are there to be exposed. The payment guarantee check is to indicate the man's creditworthiness. He doesn't ride the train. The man's methods are dirty because he has the woman hold his fiancée's $500, and the woman uses the $450 she spent as a bribe, then counterfeits it to return to the fiancée, causing the fiancée to be arrested to please the woman. The spittoon is used as an ashtray. The clothes are to be thrown aside. The train ticket is to be dropped (accidentally?). The sound of the bell is to indicate the woman's professionalism. The wall is to project a shadow. The telephone is to tap the cigarette. The newspaper office is in the hospital. The filing cabinet is for people to lean on. The hat is to hide the check. The umbrella is to be forgotten. Refusing visits is to make people drop money to use as a bribe, and also to indicate that the guards are susceptible to bribes. The cigarette is to be dropped. The bars are to project a shadow. The practice of the gallows is to make a loud noise. The wall is for people to lean on. The cigarette is to be thrown away. Feet are for shaking off cigar ashes. Hurrying is for stepping on people's feet. Execution tickets are for throwing away. Imprisoning a fiancée is for demonstrating a man's love, and for angering a woman, causing her to abandon her duties and then reinstate her. Chairs are for resting feet on. Hats are for throwing away. Manuscripts are for tearing, so the sound can be heard over the phone. Telephone wires are for ripping. Telephones are for throwing away. Glasses are for wiping. Psychiatric evaluations are for the sheriff's gun to help the defendant escape. Machine guns are for the sound. Guns are for the smoke. Windows are for smashing. Searchlights project light. Bags are for throwing away. Escapes are for getting an angry woman back on duty. Sirens are for the sound. Motorcycles and patrol cars are for keeping people from crossing. People are for jumping on and taking down. Gunshots are for the sound. Hats are for slamming down. The guard accepts the bribe to buy the money borrowed from his fiancée and return the counterfeit bills to her. The fiancée is waiting in the taxi to flirt with a blonde woman and get caught. He cannot swear to his mother's grave. He has no money on him. The governor is sent fishing to act as a messenger to the mayor, who will then offer a bribe and expose the truth. The bag is to be thrown. The window is for people to come and go. The blinds are raised to make the prisoner run out of ammunition. The table is for people to hide. The prisoner is allowed to escape far away to get the reporters out and hide the prisoner in the desk in the press room. The table is for people to rest their feet on. The woman tells her fiancé that the prisoner has been apprehended so that he can call his mother. The reporter raises the blinds so that the prisoner's lover can jump out the window, and the prisoner's lover jumps out to get the reporters out. The handkerchief is for people to hold in their mouths. The clothes are for people to hold in their hands and then take back. Multiple voices ring out in dissonance. Tables are for banging and banging back. People try to get off the table to avoid getting off. The owner of the table is for plucking and then firing. Telephones are hat racks. Towels are for throwing. Hats are for putting on people's heads. Guns are for throwing. Men are made angry so they bang on the table and find the prisoners. Umbrellas are for hanging on doors.

■ "SERGEANT YORK" (1941) 134 min 5/16
Shoes are for squeaking. Sermons are interrupted by gunshots. Guns are for emitting smoke. Trees are for leaving bullet holes to mark initials and indicate the skill of the shooter. Trees are for swaying in the wind. Cigarettes are for emitting smoke. Pillars are for people to lean on. Tables are for people to sit on (5 times). Newspapers are for throwing. Mothers come to the general store to sell eggs so they can talk about their sons. The bar floor is the boundary. Chairs are for hanging clothes. Feet are for closing doors. Tables are for climbing on and knocking over. Glass doors are for smashing. Pianos are for people to lean on. The younger brother comes to call his older brother to the tavern to start a fight. Cooking is for blowing smoke. Water is for splashing in faces. Fireplaces are for projecting flickering light. Stones are for throwing. Trees are for casting shadows. Wood is for carving letters. Hunting is for meeting women. Fences are for stepping over. Torn trousers are for telling mothers about marriage. Porches are for people to sit on. Having a woman bring water is for starting a fight and making the lowland men resent her. Women rejecting marriage proposals is for making men need the lowland land. Fireplaces are for burning brightly. The difference between the sale of goods and land is for making men work and enter shooting competitions. Pulling a plow is for getting women to kiss you. The wall is to project shadows. The voice is to echo through the mountains. The hat is to hold money. The tree is to attach targets to. The fallen tree is to hold the gun in place. The shooting competition is to demonstrate the man's skill, and to anger the man whose land was stolen, causing him to seek revenge, only to have lightning strike his gun on the way, thus reforming him and granting him a conscientious exemption from military service. The thunder is to rumble and flash. The liquor bottle is to be thrown and smash. The rain is to project shadows. The lightning strike is to knock down the trees. The gun is to bend when struck by lightning and to emit smoke. The horseshoe is to fall. The hot water emits smoke. The mortar is for people to hide. The rotating tree is to dodge and project shadows. The knife is to stab and swing. The bench is to knock the man off and douse him with a bucket of water. The water surface becomes a mirror. The man comes to the general store to buy kerosene so that the pastor can teach him about conscientious exemption from military service. The ground becomes a notepad. Trees become pens. Desks are for people to lean on. Guns are cleaned again. Rifles are thrown. Muzzles are licked. Pushers are for shooting mistakes. Bullets become turkeys. Showing off your skills at shooting practice is to get called in by your superior officer and get leave. Rocks are for people to lean on. Thinking on the cliff behind the mountain is to let the wind turn the pages of the Bible. Bombing is for the roar, for scattering light, and for scattering smoke. Trenches are for killing soldiers. Puddles are for splashing. Light becomes a streak. Buckets are for dropping. Trees and bricks are for people to hide. German soldiers become turkeys. Guns are for throwing down. Guarding prisoners is to be blown up. Grenades are for emitting smoke. Belts are for throwing down. Commanders turn their backs to confer so they can turn around and be surprised by the sheer number of prisoners. Ships emit smoke so they can fly. Confetti so it can fly. Lights so they can flash. Hats so they can be thrown off. Trains emit smoke so they can scatter. Crowds so they can be pushed through. Hats so they can be dropped. Faces become mirrors. Cars so they can shake. Broken bridges so they can be repaired. You are welcomed in a big city so you can go home.

■ "BALL OF FIRE" (1942) 111 minutes 6/23
Trees are for casting shadows. Whistles are for signaling. Small talk is for directing knowledge. Flowers are observed so that they can be called by whistles. Grammar is for making mistakes. Backs are for tickling. Patrons' complaints are for calming down. Garbage collectors get professors out of the house, to nightclubs, and to meet women. Armrests are for people to sit on. Horns are for calling people. Diaries are for hitting. Notebooks are for hitting and setting down. Cars are for people to cling to. Slang is for writing down and showing. Newspaper vendors, trains. Baseball fields, parks, billiard halls, nightclubs become slang collection points. Trees are for people to lean on. Flashes are for shining. Sequins are for sparkling. Stages are for people to sit on. Tables become mirrors. Matchboxes become drums. Matchsticks become drumsticks. Matches are for blowing out. The table is wiped to utter slang. The desk is for people to sit on (about 7 times). The closet and wall are for people to hide in. The professor becomes the prosecutor. The business card is for throwing down. People bump into each other. The door is for pushing down. The curtains are for swaying in the wind. The windows are for people to go in and out. The pajamas are given to get the woman to be a witness and hide in the professor's mansion, and also to marry a gangster and lose her witness status. The woman's house is being watched to get her to the professor's mansion. The shawl is fiddled with to notice the business card. The railing and door are for people to hide in. The chair becomes a clothes rack. The tie is for hanging around the neck. The stockings are for taking off and handing to the maid. The rain is for keeping the woman with a swollen tonsil at the mansion. The woman becomes an apple. The door is for people to lean against. The trousers are for getting pressed. The zipper gets stuck to introduce the woman to the maid. The newspaper is to be moved with your foot. The newspaper vendor is called to the study group so that the woman can see the wanted newspaper and hide it in her bag so that the maid can find it later, and also so that the woman can see the newspaper and leave so that she can dance "Chiki Chiki Bon Bon". The ground becomes a notepad. The professor is the only one in the foreground so that he can take a pan-focus shot. The ground is for people to sit on. The desk becomes a drum. The skylight is opened so that the light coming in from it can later be used to repel the enemy. The price tag is to be removed. The professors talk amongst themselves so that the woman can be left alone to contact the gang. The woman is chased out so that she can be kissed. The book is for people to lean on. The hair at the back of the head shines. The desk is for people to lean on. The book becomes "Sesshu". The chair becomes a bed. The stairs are for people to sit on. The professor cools his neck with a handkerchief so that the woman can do it later. A taxi is called so that they don't get in. The stairs are for tripping. Foot is for closing doors. Bread is for hiding rings and not eating them. Gangsters are the daddy so the professor can take the woman to them. Checkpoints everywhere so the professors can escort the woman. The woman puts the newspaper in her suitcase so the maid can pack her luggage, find the newspaper, have the woman beat the maid and lock her up, then have the police car chase after them so the professor can let the woman escape and she can watch it. Handrails are for people to sit on. They are not for practicing the ceremony. Checkpoints are for questioning licenses so the driver gets angry, gets distracted, crashes into signs, and keeps everyone stuck in the hotel. Doors are for breaking open. The person on the phone is to be mistaken. The phone is for throwing down. The woman goes back to her room alone and turns off the lights so she can hear the professor's confession in the darkness after he mistakenly enters her room. 9 becomes 6. Glasses are for banging. The old professor is made to tell old stories so that everyone can sing, get him to leave alone, and then have the other professor follow him, mistakenly enter the wrong room, and confess his feelings to the woman. The handkerchief becomes a flower petal. The fireplace flame is to cast a shadow. The pencil is to be chewed. The eyes shine. Laughter is for not being able to laugh. The kiss mark is to be wiped away. The handkerchief is to slap the cheek, and then put it down. The cigarette is to be thrown away. The letter is not written, and therefore thrown away. The pole is for people to cling to. The maid puts away the gramophone so that "Chickie-chickie-boom-boom" can be heard. The gangster's ring is big because the professor's ring is small, and also so that it can be returned. Also so that he will not be fired. The trees sway in the wind. The matches are to be thrown away. The two men break into the mansion to let the professors know that the woman has refused to marry the gangster, and also so that they will be defeated and retaliated against. The garbage collector is to give a hint on how to repel them. The light is to burn through the string and make it smoke. The table is for putting your feet on. The globe is to be shot, spin, and emit smoke. The muzzle is salvived to make it look like "Sergeant York" (a habit that Cooper had in the previous year's "Sergeant York" (1941), which Dan Duryea parodies). The vase and chandelier are to be shot and destroyed. Standing up is to make them sit down. Shooting the coin is to buy time and to repel them at the moment they are shot. The forehead is to hit people directly in the head. The skylight is to project light and reflect it off the mirror. The carpet is to be pulled and flip people over. Tickling as torture (Chinese style. Tickling torture also exists in Japan ("A History of Torture and Execution in Japan," p. 209)). The ground is used to project shadows. Songs are used to identify people. People are used as shields. Machine guns are used to emit smoke. The ceiling is used to be shot down. Wrenches are used to hit people. Stepping back is done to be hit, and to make people fall over and drop their guns. Books are used to be thrown down, and to tossed about. Hats are used to be shaken off. Garbage trucks are used as emergency vehicles and as gang holding cells.

■ "THE OUTLAW" (1943) 115 minutes 5/26
The ground is for scattering smoke. The railings are for people to sit on and put their feet on. The messenger is for making shots of the sheriff coming out. The newspaper is for throwing things down. The sheriff's badge is worn on the waist so that he is not recognized as the sheriff. The waiter is for telling people where the horses are. The handshake is for punching, and for being punched by Kid. The drunkards are for being punched. The chimney is for blowing smoke. The pillars are for striking matches and for people to lean on. The cigarettes are for throwing away. The stairs are for people to sit on. The red-haired horse is for starting exercise. The horse's legs are for shaking hands. The horse's tricks are for holding up Kid. The sheriff is used to hold up Kid and the doctor to reconcile, make the sheriff jealous and tell him to leave town. The back is a shield. The trees are for casting shadows. The plates are ashtrays. The walls are for projecting shadows. Doc gives the horse to Kid so that Kid can guard the stable and the woman can attack. The spurs are for throwing. The straw is for clinging and also for the bed. The stone under his back is for attacking Kid with a hoe. The child makes a whistle to show off Kid's quick draw. The hot water is for exhaling smoke. The table is for people to lean on. The gun is for exhaling smoke. The two don't leave town so that an assassin attacks Kid, shoots him instead, and makes the sheriff pursue him. The doctor is there to provide cover for Kid to create conflict between the sheriff and the doctor. The cigarette is for exhaling smoke and also for making smoke rings. The chair is for resting feet on. The man who enters the saloon is there so that the sheriff can shoot Kid and the woman can tend to him. The gun is for shooting and knocking things away. The river is there to create splashes and also to make Gidd fall off his horse and have the horse save him. The woman has a knife. He grips it in reverse and tears Kid's shirt. The wall is for people to lean against. The bird adds suspense. The stone is heated to warm the body. Kid's body gets cold so that the woman can warm him up. The horse is for people to fall off. The doctor leaves Kid with the woman so that she and Kid can fall in love. The "lollipop" is to get the aunt to warm up to Kid. The loud voice is to announce a visitor to those in the next room. Eating someone else's food is so that it can be taken back. The bed becomes a hat rack. The rock becomes a chair, and again for people to lean against. The cigarettes are for exchanging. The water becomes sand. Kid is made to choose a horse so that the woman will get angry, make him put sand in his water bottle, call the sheriff, get angry at Kid, and tie him up. The wall casts shadows. The "stretch" in yawn becomes a hold-up. The gun belt and handcuffs are for throwing away. The woman combs her hair. The sun is there so he can turn around and notice Kid. The sheriff drinks water by the water's edge so he can find footprints. The woman is tied up to be used as bait to arrest Kid. The tree is used to stop the horses. The fallen tree is for people to lean on. The cigarette pack is for throwing. The feet are for tripping people. The person is rolled over to put out the campfire. Drinking water by the water's edge so he can be hit from behind with a cup and fall into the pond with the woman. The tree is for people to lean on. The signal fire is for emitting smoke. The Indian attack is to get the handcuffs removed and give him a gun. The reins are for throwing away. The burnt remains are for emitting smoke. The cactus is for sliding on the ground and scattering smoke. The wall is for getting underneath. The cuckoo clock is the signal for the duel. The ears are for shooting. Kid and the doctor reconcile so the sheriff can kill the doctor. The memento gun is for leaving Kid unarmed. The pillar is for tying people up.

■ "AIR FORCE" (1943) 123 minutes 3/18
The blinds are to cast shadows. The frosted glass is to create silhouettes. The chair is for resting feet on. Asking the sergeant, "Can you keep a secret?" is to make the sergeant say the same line. The propeller and engine are to roar. The desire to be discharged is to cause resentment, and also to prevent discharge. The cigarette is to exhale smoke. Coffee time is to reveal the feud between the captain and the artilleryman. Allowing the radio operator to listen to the radio is to let him hear about the bombing of the base. The windows are to break. The bombing is to scatter smoke. The emergency base landing is to be attacked by the Japanese there and take off again, and also for the sergeant to punch the gunner. The windows are to be shot through. The ground is to scatter smoke. The fire is to blow out smoke. The soldier's sister is seriously injured to make the lieutenant join the group. The apple is a target. Poor visibility due to clouds is to allow the naval officer to spot the island and demonstrate his skill. The naval officer entrusts the dog to the army to indicate that the artilleryman defending the engineer who took care of the dog has become a "repeat offender," and also to have the dog returned to the navy to secure the cooperation of a naval officer. The altitude is increased so that the dog can wear an oxygen mask. The bomber is pushed and rotated. The stop at the Manila base is to inform the old soldier of his son's death. The Zero fighter is hit and emits smoke, and is also to be blown up. The doors are kicked open. The bomber is hit to allow the soldiers to escape, leaving the gunner behind to help the wounded captain, and to allow the bomber to land instead of being abandoned. The bomber is damaged so that it can be repaired and flown again. The bomber is stolen. The tires are rolled. The machine gun emits smoke. The puddles are for people to jump into. Gasoline cans are for throwing, for puncturing, and for passing from person to person. Young gunners are called into battle to be killed. Parachutes are for being carried away by the wind and for covering the dead. Wives and mothers are brought to the airport to see off their loved ones so that the soldiers they see off can be killed. Wrenches are for throwing. Trees are for concealing aircraft. Propellers are for people to ride in. Guns are for emitting smoke. Propellers don't spin so they can spin backward. Fallen leaves are for being blown up by the wind. Warships are for scattering smoke. Clouds are for concealing bombers. Warships are for exploding and scattering smoke, and for people to fall into the sea. Cannons are for scattering smoke and scattering water spray. Airplanes are for ramming warships. Bombs are for dropping and making a whistling sound. Flags are for sinking.

■ "TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT" (1944) 100 min 4/24
Nets are used as beds and pillows. Liquor bottles are for throwing away. Clothes are for throwing down. Water is for splashing in people's faces. The water surface is rippling. Plastic bags are for throwing. The rudder is for people to lean on. The pull of a fishing rod is for letting people escape. The fishing rod is for letting it get sucked into the sea and forcing people to claim damages. Passengers punching drunkards is for making the captain angry. Flags are for fluttering in the wind. Cigarettes are for throwing away. Barrels are for people to lean on. People are made to badmouth the government so they can be interrogated. Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. Grilles and blinds are for casting shadows. Walls are for people to lean on. People smoke cigarettes so they can throw matches at each other. Matches are for throwing away. Matchboxes are for throwing down. Tables are for striking matches. The piano is an ashtray. People touching your arm is for letting you shake them off. The piano is for people to lean on. The candles are for flickering in the wind. The fan's propeller is for casting rotating shadows. Having the woman pickpocket the wallet is to let the captain know the customer is planning to run away, so that he can get the money back and then have the police confiscate it. The table is for people to sit on (about three times). The armrest is for people to sit on. The drunkard comes along so that he can tell stories about dead bees. The cigarettes are for lighting each other's cigarettes and for sitting on. The cups, windows, and bottles are for shooting and smashing. The gun is for emitting smoke. The ice is for shooting and making holes in it. The car is for emitting smoke. The trees are for casting shadows. The resistance fighters come along so that the police can kill the fishermen, take the captain and the woman to the police station so that their money and passports can be confiscated and the captain can take on the job. The bills are for throwing around. The notebook is for hitting people with. The woman is made to hit the captain to anger him, and also to make him say she's used to being hit, which will anger him and make him leave the room. The hat is to be thrown away. The police interrogation is to make the woman's throat dry so that she can pickpocket his wallet and have the man with the bottle of liquor she bought go back and forth in the room. The drunk passenger lights his cigarette so that the woman can snatch the light from him, chase him, and pickpocket his wallet. The woman's desire to return home is to get the captain to take on the job. Her chest is for the wallet. Her knees are for the chair. The chickens are for kicking away. The wooden box is for people to sit on. The towel is for dropping. The drunkards are chased away so that they can be hidden and taken along. The fog is for when fog rolls in. The flashing lights are a signal. The lights are for shooting and smashing. The patrol boat shoots the Frenchman in the shoulder so that the captain can operate. The chair is upside down. The woman's desire to return home is because she will not be returning home. The 6356 francs in unpaid lodging fees are to retrieve the bullet from the shot man. The woman is made to bring the medical kit so that the keys can be thrown, and also so that she can come to the basement later to witness the interaction between the French woman and the man, and also so that she can come down the stairs. The woman is made to wait with the anesthetic so that she can watch the surgery, make him faint, fan him with a fan, pick him up, lay him on the sofa and undress him (the anesthetic is never used). The woman is picked up so that she can be weighed. The woman is allowed by the captain to undress the French woman so that he will not allow it. The matches are to be thrown. The table is for resting feet on. The shoes are removed so that they cannot be removed. The woman is made to spin around so that she can be kissed. The matches are to be thrown down. The silent man is to buy time for the captain when he asks why the man is silent. The liquor bottle is for striking the matches. The right hand is extended for the handshake so that the left hand is used. The French woman entrusts the jewels to the captain so that when the police arrive, the woman (Bacall) will come out of the room in her place, as the French woman is hiding. The woman enters the captain's room to act as a substitute for the perfumed French woman. The police confine the drunkard by not letting him drink alcohol so that the captain will get angry. The cigarette pack is to be thrown. The table is to be overturned. The potted plant is to be smashed. The hat is to be knocked off with a gun. The gun is to hit someone. The police are brought into the captain's room so that he will sign the permission to set sail. The story of the dead bee is to remind him of the woman. The piano man is sent to say hello so that he will come back shaking his butt. The bags in both hands are to keep the rhythm.

■ "THE BIG SLEEP" (1946) 116 minutes 4/29
Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. Doors are for casting shadows. Letters are for tossing down. Hair is for chewing. People are for people to lean on. The greenhouse is a reception room, and also for making people sweat. Ears are for touching. Trees are for casting shadows. Checks become fans. Clothes are for tossing down. The sister pours the alcohol to make the opening shot (the alcohol is not drunk). The desk is for people to sit on (they sit 11 times). The sister calls the detective for no particular reason. The brim of a hat is for flipping up. Glasses are for pulling down. The used bookstore becomes a gangster's hideout. Thunder is for rumbling. Book titles are for testing knowledge. The used bookstore across the street is for drinking with a woman. Rain is for having a long conversation with a woman. Books are on trays. The woman takes off her glasses to greet the detective. Windows are for projecting silhouettes and for people to go in and out. Rain is for projecting shadows. Cigarettes are for throwing away. Feet are for kicking open windows. Beads are for shaking to indicate people going in and out and for projecting shadows. Feet are for scratching. Statues are for hiding cameras. Sofas become beds. People are for throwing (onto the bed). Blinds are for projecting shadows. Carpets are for staining. Pencils are for throwing. Paper is for crumpling and throwing away. Cigarette packs are for throwing. Coats are for throwing. Cars are for pulling out of the sea. Matches are for throwing away. Gloves are for counting the fingers and taking them away. Calling the police is for teasing. Sister calls mother. Detective calls father. Bookshelves are for people to lean on. Doors are so they won't open. Following the wagon is to get a business card from the female taxi driver. Nails are not for biting. Whistling is to call people. Handrails are to cast shadows. Curtains are for people to hide. The sister comes in with a gun to reverse the situation. Tripping someone's feet is to make the sister crawl. The gun is for kicking. The bag is for hitting people in the face. Armrests are for people to sit on. Doors are for shooting down. Walls are for casting shadows. The gun is for emitting smoke. Keys are for getting hit. The gun is thrown at someone's feet to kick them when they pick it up. Chairs are for resting feet on. Paper is for tearing. Walls are for people to lean against. Photographs are for shaking people, throwing them down, and burning them (it's unclear what's in the photographs). Wallets are for throwing down. The area under the car radio is a hiding place for a handgun. Cars are for people to hide. The older sister deceives the detective at the casino to let him know the owner has something on her so he can continue the mission, and also to get the older sister to sing. The rear window is a frame. The car is for making them kiss. The coins are for moving. Smoking a cigarette is for the waitress to light it. The detective is beaten up by two men so that he can get information from the man who helped him, then kill the man and get information from the man's mistress. The hat is for putting on someone's face and beating them. The fog is for making things roll in. The bars are for casting shadows. The trash can is for people to sit on. The frosted glass is for casting shadows. The alcohol is for poison. The glasses are for dropping and breaking. The sofa is for people to fall off. The car is for breaking down and getting a flat tire to go to the repair shop. He is beaten and knocked unconscious so that the tied-up detective and his sister can kiss, and so that his sister can untie him and escape. His feet are for kicking the door. The lighter is for playing with. The lights are for turning them off. The water is for splashing people in the face. He makes the woman angry so that she leaves and the detective can escape. The cigarette is pulled from the man's mouth to kiss him. The sister's scream is to lure the enemy in. The gunshot is to make the man run away. The hat is to be shaken off. The bushes are for people to jump over. The woman is a shield. The windows are for shooting through. The bullets are dropped to signal trembling. The statues are for shooting and destroying. The doors are for being shot straight through. Leaving the house is to be killed. The subordinates are for killing the boss. The sirens are for blaring.

■ "RED RIVER" (1948) 133 minutes 5/11
The man leaves the wagon train to signal the absence of the contract and to leave the woman behind. The scarf is for fluttering in the wind. The woman is for being killed and for passing on the bracelet she was given. The wagon train burns and emits smoke. The wagons are for people to lean against. Whistling and finger whistling are for identifying the number of people. The arrows are for shining. Guns are for emitting smoke. Rifles are for throwing. Guns are for throwing. Guns misfire so that they can be used to fight and kill Native Americans. The surface of the water is for splashing. Knives are for throwing. Knives are held in a reverse grip. Bracelets signal the death of women. Birds are for flying. Orphans are beaten so that they can be made to point a gun at them, then the gun is taken away and returned. Wagon trains are wiped out so that orphans who witness it can be recruited. Bent tree branches are for rubbing against each other as they pass. The ground becomes a notebook. Tree branches become pens. Brands emit smoke. Branding irons are for throwing. Mexicans are killed and buried, and also to educate orphans, and also to give orphans guns. The ground scatters smoke. Trees are for branding. There are no markets in Texas so that they can go to Missouri. Grass is for chewing, the cook runs away to take the man with dentures. Writing on a map is because it's written. Hats are for fiddling with. Matches are for throwing away. Branding other people's cows is to recruit a quick-draw ally. Showing off guns is to show off each other's skills. Empty cans are for shooting and rolling around. Pots are for exhaling smoke. Chairs are for resting your feet on. Cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. Poker is for having dentures stolen. Pillars are for people to lean on. Mist is for filling the air. Noses are for rubbing. Cigarettes are for lighting and handing over. Campfires are for casting shadows. Watering holes are for not resting. Coyotes are for making noise. Licking sugar is for making the cows stampout and killing the cowboy, and for whipping the man who licked it, and for losing the food cart. Wagons are for being knocked down. The shepherd boy tells his wife about the red shoes so that he will be run over and killed by a cow, buried, and have the red shoes given to his wife. Falling off a horse is to pull up the person who falls off. Clothes are to be swung around. Rocks are for people to sit on. The sails of a carriage are to cast shadows. Clouds are to cast moving shadows on the mountains. Burlap sacks are for people to sit on. A carriage is for people to lean against. Thunder is to flash and rumble. Coffee is to spit out. Rain is to pour down. A campfire is to scatter smoke. Food is to be thrown away. A rifle is to be thrown (again). The man with the rope around his neck is to warn of danger at the destination, and to have the man kill and bury anyone who hears this and breaks the contract. A gun belt is to be thrown. A liquor bottle is to be kicked over. The liquor is for disinfection. A liquor bottle is to be thrown away. A cup is to be thrown. Trees sway in the wind. Crossing the river when tired is to prevent escape. Hats are to be thrown away. Fallen trees are for people to sit on. Liquor bottles are to be thrown away. The water's surface becomes a mirror. Guns are to be shot and deflected. Guns are to be thrown. Escaping is to be brought back, sentenced to hanging, stage a rebellion, replace the boss, and be hunted. The boss gets injured to make the subsequent confrontation unequal. Saddles are to be thrown away. Arrows are to be thrown, and also to be thrown away. The footsteps of the man with dentures sound like the boss's footsteps. Indian scouts are to find the woman and coffee. Indian attacks are to bring the orphan and the woman together. Barricades are to be jumped over. The woman is shot with an arrow so that the orphan can suck the wound, and also so that she faints and is picked up by the orphan. Barrels become tables, and chairs. Fog is to cause misidentification. Tree branches are to be whittled and thrown away. The orphan stands guard so that he can be alone with the woman. The tree is for people to lean on. The tree branch becomes a match. The rain is to get the orphan to leave, leaving the woman behind, and also to allow the woman and the former boss to meet alone. He places the dishes on his left hand to show the bracelet. The table is for striking matches. The arm sling is to hide the gun. The train is for scattering smoke. The tracks are for crossing. The whistle is for blowing and for emitting smoke. The hat is for shaking. The chimney is for emitting smoke. The desk is for people to sit on. The hat is for putting documents in. The lamp is for touching and shaking. The gun is for striking matches. The herd of cows is for pushing through. The quick draw is to injure the boss and make the confrontation between the boss and the orphan unequal. The hat is for shooting off. The water bottle is for shooting and shaking. The gun is for throwing away. He gets punched so that he can punch back. The truck bed is for crashing and spilling things. The gun is for smashing things. The woman fires the gun to reconcile the man and the orphan.

■ "A SONG IS BORN" (1948) 110 minutes 5/21
The plate is in the mirror. The courtship dance is to keep the patron. The feet are to shake. The window cleaner is to get the professor out of the house and introduce him to the woman at the nightclub. The chair is upside down in the bar. The piano is for people to lean on. The bars are to cast shadows. The desk is for people to lean on. The professor becomes a prosecutor. The closet is for people to hide in. The windows are for people to go in and out. The door is to be pushed down. The murder is to get the woman to hide in the foundation. The scarf is fiddled with to find the business card. The rain is to get the woman with swollen tonsils to stay in the foundation. The sequins are to sparkle. The apron is worn to show the buttocks. The bag is to hide the buttocks. The chair back is for people to lean on. The microphone is adjusted to bring the professor and the woman closer together. The desk is for people to sit on (5 times). The newspaper is torn up to make sheet music. The music vibrates to knock objects over. The player is for people to lean on. The curtains are opened so that one can stand by the window later. The book becomes a stepping stool. The chair becomes a bed. The stairs are for people to sit on. Sugar becomes salt. Cake becomes bread. Bread becomes playing cards. Bread is to hide a ring. The stairs are for people to trip over. The woman is given a large jewel so that she will be given a small jewel. A taxi is called so that one does not get in. The boss becomes Daddy. The book is for putting down the phone. The boss's phone is for the professors to bring the woman. The housekeeper is sent to the woman's room so that she will find the newspaper and be beaten and imprisoned by the woman. They are being watched so that they will use the car and cause an accident. The rabbit is for crashing the car into a sign so that the group will be stuck at the hotel. The door is for breaking out. After the toast, the woman goes back to her room and turns off the lights so that she can hear the professor's confession in the dark. 9 becomes 6. The old professor is made to talk about his deceased wife so that the professor will follow him when he leaves and make him enter the wrong room. The candle is to flicker in the wind. The cigarette is to be thrown away. The maid arrives in a police car so that the woman can secretly watch the professor lying. The letter is not written, and is also thrown away. The clothes are to be hung on the player and play a record. The back is to be tickled. The piano is for someone to sit on. The cigarette is to be stolen. The two enemies are to inform the professor that the woman is refusing to marry the boss, and are also to be repelled. The window cleaner is to be made to sing. The chair is for someone to rest their feet on. The gun is to be swung. The song is to drown out the conversation. The ornament is to dance. The drum is to be smashed. The carpet is to be pulled. The ornament is to hit someone on the head. The music is to vibrate. The tambourine is to hit someone on the head. The song is to make the situation clear. The trumpet is a barrier. Taking off clothes is to get beaten.

■ "I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE" (1949) 105 min 6/11
The train is to emit smoke. Asking for directions is to not ask for directions. The car is to emit smoke. The room is to be mistaken for someone else's. The woman is on the phone to get a shot of her noticing the man. The gown and underwear are to be thrown aside. The female interpreter is to explain the feud between the French man and the American woman (the interpreter doesn't end up accompanying them). The man tries to leave the room first to let the woman go first, and then when the man becomes "the woman," he overtakes her and leaves the room. The wall is for people to lean against. The meeting is because the woman is late. There is no car so the man can ride in the sidecar. The man doesn't have a motorcycle license so the man can ride in the sidecar. The car is to avoid. The bag is to be thrown aside. The sidecar is to be left behind, and to be switched to. The train whistle blows. The railroad crossing makes the man search for the lipstick the woman dropped, straddle the railroad crossing, and rise. The railroad crossing casts a shadow. The train crosses. The road closure makes them get in a boat and encounter a waterfall. The water's surface casts light. The waterfall roars, and also makes the man as scared as the woman. The trees cast shadows. The muscle pain makes the man massage the woman's legs. The bumpy road makes the sidecar shake. The headlights cast light. They get lost and don't have a flashlight makes the man climb on a sign and get covered in paint. The lighter becomes a light. The rain makes the man soaked. The thunder roars. The woman has a backache makes the man massage her back and put her to sleep. The doorknob falls, trapping the man in the woman's room. The chair's backrest is for hitting your head against, and also as a pillow. The chair creaks. You can't sleep in the chair so the man sleeps next to the woman, making her misunderstand. The woman wakes up first so she misunderstands. The bed is for dropping people off. The door is for knocking. The innkeeper turns the doorknob in to make the woman misunderstand. The innkeeper's visit is so the man can be made to go out the window, the roof sheet lifted so he's mistaken for a pervert, the innkeeper can be pushed with a mop onto the straw where the ducks are, and then the innkeeper can clear up the misunderstanding. The bedpost is for putting your feet on. The chair is upside down. The undercover operation is so the man can be arrested by saying he doesn't know her. The gloves are for hitting. Going to a cafe with an acquaintance is so the woman can say she doesn't know the man. The cage is for casting shadows. The woman keeps complaining so she doesn't notice the black marketeer behind her. The trees are for people to lean on. The grass is for chewing. The man sleeps in the shade of the tree to set the stage for a nap later. The motorcycle engine roars to interrupt the conversation. The ducks are to be avoided and also to be kicked away. Asking for directions puts the man to sleep so the children can play with the motorcycle, causing the driverless motorcycle to run off into the haystack, allowing the man to kiss the woman and get married. The hay is a souvenir and also to cast a shadow. The backrest is for people to sit on. The knees become the chair. The passing female soldier is so her backside can be seen. The documents are to be thrown down and also to be passed around. The hand that takes off the hat becomes a punch. The tray is to smash someone's head in. The desk is for people to sit on. The frosted glass is to cast a silhouette. The wedding night is to be interrupted. The lodging is to be refused. The chair and bed are occupied so the man can sleep in the bathtub. The sofa becomes the bed. The bars are to cast a shadow. The hat is for putting a letter in. Armrests are for people to sit on. Bags become chairs. Feet are for closing doors. The woman's order to return home is to turn the man into a war bride. Words are used for redundancy. Containers become tables. Setting sail on a ship under naval jurisdiction invalidates the army's permission and allows the man to crossdress. The nurse forgets something so that the man can be given a bag containing his uniform, crossdressed, attend the birth, and then faint from anemia to remove his hat and reveal his disguise. Horse tails become wigs. Adjusting stockings shows the legs and allows the man to whistle. Pauls are used to bump into people. People are used to make people go back and forth. Hats become fans. Throwing the wig into the sea out the porthole in the cabin is meant to suggest, through the porthole shot alone, that the room key will also be thrown into the sea.

■ "THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD" (1951) 86 minutes 4/3
Snow blows horizontally. Hats are for brushing off snow. Poker is for chatting. Wind turns the pages of a book. Tables are for people to sit on (3 times). Gloves and hats are for throwing things down. Walls are for people to lean against. Cigarettes are for throwing away. Radar flashes. Propellers roar. The ground casts shadows. The UFO gets buried in the ice so that the "object" it brought back melts and escapes, and also so that the circle of people on the ice directs the flying saucer. Bombs are used to destroy the saucer and focus the incident solely on a confrontation with the "object". Explosions scatter smoke. The ground scatters ice. Chimneys emit smoke. Snowshoes break windows. The storage room window is broken to let snow in, and to make the storage room cold so that the electric blankets brought in by the guards can melt the ice and allow the "object" to escape. The electric blanket is for melting the ice. The chair is for resting feet on. The clothes are for throwing down. The matches are for throwing away. The guards sit with their backs to the ice to make the appearance of the "object" more dramatic. The "object" casts a shadow. The gun emits light. The pile of cardboard is for knocking it down. The water is for splashing on their faces. The blankets are for blocking the window. The front lines interfere with radio communications so that they can be heard in the Arctic but not at headquarters in the Antarctic, isolating the Arctic side, and also to create conflict between soldiers and scientists. The incident occurs in the Arctic and not at headquarters in the Antarctic where the general is, in order to isolate the incident from headquarters and to disrupt the chain of command. The dog is there to throw things around, to bite off the "object's" hand and have its components examined, and to cultivate the hand. The press is restricted so that it can be reported in the final scene. The radiation detector is there to detect the "object" and to make it flash. The plant room is there to cultivate the "object" and to kill people. The soldiers are sent outside the laboratory to leave the scientists in the plant room and have them go off on their own, resulting in casualties and jeopardizing the doctor's position (the outside exploration is not filmed and yields no results). The box is there for the dog's corpse to fly out. The wind is there to make a loud noise. The door is there to trap the "object's" hand and indicate that the hand has regenerated. The desk is there for people to lean on. The pencil is there to be played with. The cigarette is there to exhale smoke (although the cigarette smoke is weak overall). The cushion is there to be a shield and to tear. The flare is there to start a fire. The lights in the room are turned off the moment the "object" enters to dramatically film the burning "object". The "object" is there to burn. The boiler is there to knock it over. The window is there for the "object" to get out. The fire extinguisher is there to spread smoke. The white breath is there to show that the "object" has drained the oil. The oil is drained to gather everyone in the power room. The breath is there to spread white. The hat is there to put on someone's head. The floorboards are there to hide the wiring. The barricade is there to knock it down. The doctor stops the generator to darken the corridor and make the appearance of the "object" more dramatic. The flashlight becomes a spotlight. The hoe is there to throw and slide. The heat blast is there to spread smoke, and also to make the light flash. The glove bitten on the mouth is there to make it fall off. The captain and the woman flirting in the background in the last scene is there to justify ending the scene with the supporting character, the journalist, as the main character. The crowd of people is in the frame.

■ "THE BIG SKY" (1952) 121 minutes 6/13
Fallen trees are there for people to walk on, crawl under, step over, fall onto, be attacked by snakes, be saved by a short-tempered man, get beaten up, injure their leg to delay the time to fight back. The man is an escaped convict to beat up the fisherman who followed him. The knife is thrown and then returned. The trees are there to cast shadows. The money is distributed on the street to show the short-tempered man's hatred of Native Americans by making him almost hit by a horse. The conversation in town is there to indicate the short-tempered man's temperament. Visiting the fur trader is there to create trouble. The shoulders are armrests. The railings are for people to sit on. The cigarettes are for exhaling smoke. The counter is for people to sit on. The fur trader comes to the saloon to make the fishermen fight, get them thrown in jail, introduce him to his uncle, and get him a job on the boat. The feet are there to trip people. The tray is for smashing heads. Hats are for throwing down. Fingers are for pulling. Coins are for tossing up. People are for people to sit on. Swearing is for hitting first and making the bullets fall. Bullets are for tossing up. Lattice is for casting shadows. Walls are for people to lean against. Mist is for rolling in and for setting sail. Water is for sticking your face in. Piers are for going under. The water's surface is for shining. Bags are for pillows. The rower runs out of sake so he can spot the woman. Bags are for throwing down. Pouring sake makes the woman's appearance dramatic. Trees sway in the wind. Hats are for smashing and stomping. Fallen trees are for people to sit on. English is not spoken. Bonfires are for scattering smoke. Barrels are for people to sit on. Cups are for tossing. Barrels are for people to lean against. The fort inspection was to make the men camp on land and create conflict between the women and the short-tempered men. The campfire was to project light. Fallen trees were for pillows. Stones were for people to sit on. Keeping watch was to recruit the Indians. Game and ropes were for throwing down. The river was for splashing water. Loud noises couldn't be heard. The boat was towed with a tow rope so that the captain would steer roughly, throwing the women into the river and having the short-tempered men rescue them, and also to injure the men's fingers so they would be cut off. Tree branches were for catching scarves, for people to grab onto, and for injuring people's fingers. Scarves were for throwing down. Alcohol was for anesthesia. The heated knives were for emitting smoke. Severed fingers were lost so that people would crawl around searching for them. Trees were for cannons. Hats were for waving. Trees were for tying people up. The man with the eyepatch attacks the woman so that the big man can grab the short-tempered man who tries to stop the whipping and push him into the river, making the woman laugh. The water's surface is to cast shadows. He gives the woman a knife so that she can steal an Indian scalp and kiss the short-tempered man, and also so that she can cut the man's back with the knife and he can nurse him back to health. The woman's knife is held in a reverse grip except inside the Indian village tent. The man kicks the knife so that the woman can stab him with it when he leaves it lying around. The stones are to be thrown. The ground is to scatter smoke. The rifle is to take someone down. His experience of sewing his ears upside down is so that the woman can sew up his wounds. The thunder is to flash and rumble. The whistle is a signal. The trees are for people to hide. The man with the eyepatch drinks water from the river so that he can be killed, and also so that the man who attacked the woman can be killed, thus getting rid of him as a narrative nuisance. The boat is set ablaze to project light and emit smoke. The rifle is a lifeline. The bonfire is to make the boat burn and blaze again. The boat is set on fire so that they can get to the fur company. The hat is to hit people. The gun is to emit smoke. The Indians are late returning so they won't be caught. The dance is to be killed. The horse is to make people fall off. The cannon is to emit smoke. The rope is used again so that the man is injured on land so that the short-tempered man and woman have to tend to him, and so that on the way back the fur traders can see that they have passed through the Indian route unscathed. The log is for people to cling to. The short-tempered man is made to talk carelessly in the forest so that the woman can reprimand him, gain her trust, and hand over the knife. The hat is a bucket. The body is for people to keep warm. The woman drinks water by the river so that she will be surprised when the Indians appear. The tree is for people to lean on. Waterfalls are used for people to hide behind and to reflect light. Rocks are used as beds. Wounded people ride horses to recover and walk. Men are shot to have the bullet extracted and the shooter identified. Bullets are used to throw. Torches are used to hit people in the face. Trees are used to break down and advance. Women are not allowed to be present during negotiations with the enemy so that they can escape and go to fetch the Indians. Driftwood is used to leave boats stranded so that the Indians can rescue them. Pipes are used to throw away. Luggage is used as chairs. Knives are used to throw down. Rifles are used to swing. Rocks are used for people to lean against. Scalps are used to throw away and burn. Water is poured on campfires to make them emit smoke. Ammunition pouches are used to throw.

■ "MONKEY BUSINESS" (1952) 97 minutes 5/27
Doors are opened to be closed. Trees cast shadows. Lights are turned on and off. Dance parties are not attended. Tables are for people to lean on. Chairs are used as coat racks. Knees are on chairs. Napkins and aprons are to hide the buttocks. Sitting down lets you know your buttocks are exposed. Soup is meant to burn you and give you an idea. Bread is meant to be thrown down. The phone rings so you don't answer it. The sofa is for resting your feet on. The president is on the phone so the secretary can show her legs to the man. Stockings are shown so you can show your legs. Blinds cast shadows. The secretary comes into the president's office so you can shake your buttocks to get her to leave. Typing is not done by the secretary. Light bulbs are for monkeys to cling to. Tables are for monkeys to sit on. The monkey takes the doctor's glasses so he can indicate that the doctor is farsighted. The monkey is mistaken for another monkey so that the inexperienced doctor puts it in a cage, forgets to lock it, and lets the monkey mix the medicine. The doctor mixes the medicine in front of the monkey's cage to teach the monkey how to mix it. Paper is for crumpling. The janitor changes the water cooler so that the monkey can get the medicine mixed in, and also to let the doctor know that the monkey was messing with the medicine. The doctors leave the laboratory so that the monkey can make the medicine while they are gone. The medicine is bitter so that drinking the water will make the monkey younger. The desk is for taking notes. The symptoms are recorded so that it is indicated that the presbyopia has been cured. The phone book is used as an eye chart and also for slamming down. Handshakes are not performed. The desk is for people to sit on (about 3 times). Knuckles are for snapping. Knees are for slapping. Window is for people to come and go. Telephone is to indicate the secretary's level. Blackboard is to show only the secretary's legs. Legs are to identify a person. Hair is for blowing in the wind. Cars are there to avoid, to overtake, to go under, and to crash into. The ground is there to make a rumbling sound. Skates are there to show off legs. Railings are there to go under. Roller skates are there to make you fall. Swimming pools are there to get the secretary in a swimsuit and to make splashes. Fences are there to hit and stop cars. The couple are middle-aged so they can become young again. The husband buys a car so he can take his secretary for a drive, make them kiss and make his wife jealous, and so his eyesight returns to normal while driving. The doctor takes naps at the office so he can take his medicine in the lab with his wife when she comes to visit. Goldfish are there to put in pants. Pies are there to sit on. Cars are there for people to cling to. Music is there to make his wife dance. Keys, gloves, and pajamas are there to throw down. The wife becomes young again, like when they were newlyweds, so that she can cause a fight with her husband, break his glasses, throw them out of the room, drop them down the hole in the laundry room, dress him in pajamas and a woman's coat and have her picture taken, have him call a friend to badmouth him, and then scalp the friend who rushes over after being called by the wife. The pillow is for spinning, and for slapping him in the face to make his glasses fall off. The drawstring on his pants is for getting caught in the door and taking them. The pipe is for people to cling to. The paper is for tearing up and throwing away. The coffee is for the couple to take their medicine together. The tap water in the laboratory is not drinking water because they make coffee with water from the water cooler. They take two or three cups of medicine so that they become young again, even as children. They take off their glasses so that they can be instructed to become young again. The wife changes into pants so that she can become a child again. The glass is for balancing on her forehead. The wife plays the prank of pulling the chair out so that the professor will see through it and that he will regain the sharpness of his boyhood. The armrest is for monkeys and people to sit on. Bubble gum is for popping. Ties are for pulling. Meetings are for pitting a large group against a "child." The secretary comes in so she can put a rubber band on her butt and hit the president and the doctor. The space under the table becomes a playground, and also a meeting room. Tables are for people to climb on. Hair is for grabbing. Blackboard erasers are for slapping faces and for emitting smoke. Chandeliers are for monkeys to cling to. Light bulbs and sockets are for throwing. Empty cans are for kicking. The wife follows the doctor so she can get them to fight, splash paint on him, and make his face look like an Indian's, and also so she can take off her paint-stained clothes and make the baby mistake her for the doctor. Squatting is for getting kicked in the butt. Trees sway in the wind. Fences are for climbing over. The mother leaves the baby with someone so the baby is mistaken for the doctor. The wife sleeps to show that the effects of the drug are wearing off, and to dramatically reveal the baby next to her. Taking a taxi is to surprise the driver. Calling a friend is to scalp them. Trees are for people to hide behind. The baby won't sleep so that those who are tired of waiting can drink water. The water in the water cooler is bitter so that it can be discarded and the incident can be ended. Cups are for putting on your head. Water is for splashing on people. The secretary comes in so that water can be splashed on her butt. The laboratory becomes an entertainment room.

■ "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" (1953) 88 min 5/22
Coats are for throwing down. Sequins are for sparkling. Bracelets are for throwing down. Lovers don't accompany the women on their cruise so that they can cause scandals. Roll call for Olympic athletes is so that they can stare at the women. Having a blonde woman ask "Going to Europe in France?" is to show the woman's level. Walls are for people to lean against. Jewelry cases are for throwing down. Beds are for bouncing up. Desks are for people to sit on (3 times). Trunks are for people to sit on. Paper streamers are for them to fall. Hats are for waving. Whistles are for them to sound. Pools are for getting women into swimsuits and for splashing water. Gymnastics, training, and tennis become dancing. People are for stepping over. Rackets are for throwing away. Men jump into pools to push women in, pull them out, and carry them up. Olympic athletes go to sleep at 9 pm so as not to disturb others. Talking about diamonds is forbidden because it cannot be forbidden. Faces turn into diamonds. Tiaras are worn around the necks to indicate the level of a blonde woman. Bracelets become tiaras. Violinists are for playing other people's strings. The head waiter accepts bribes to assign seats to indicate the popularity of the women and to bring out the children of nobility so they can perform a two-person act later. Strolls on the deck are for peeking at the diamond king and the blonde girls shaking their butts. Chairs are for people to sit on. The detective secretly films through the round window so that the woman can see, reveal his identity, retrieve the photos, and have the blonde girl beg for the tiara, and also so that her boyfriend cuts off his support and the women can sing and dance in Paris. The snake story is so that the diamond king can be photographed pretending to be a snake and wrapping himself around the blonde girl. The door is for hiding people. Searching the drawers is to avoid finding anything. The boy is in the detective's room so that he can lock the door and have the blonde girl hang over the round window and have the child do a two-person costume act. The child's voice is low so that the blonde girl gets laryngitis and the diamond king can go get medicine, and also so that the room is heated and the detective can take off his clothes. The blanket, clothes, and bag are for throwing things down. The alcohol is a sleeping pill. The water is vodka. The water is spilled on his pants so he can take them off and put women's pajamas in them. The flower arrangement is to hide the recorder. The buttocks are to hide the tiara and also for shaking. Shopping in Paris is so that he will end up penniless. Tables are for banging. Chairs are for people to sit on. Breasts are for shaking. Fans are for hitting people and throwing them away. Stairs are for people to sit on. Diamonds are for throwing things. Jewels are for throwing things down. People are for bumping into each other. Brunettes turn blonde. People cross their legs to show them off. Jewels sparkle. Plaintiffs have bad eyesight so they can't distinguish people. The courtroom becomes a cabaret. The bailiffs become the audience. Women transform into blonde girls to confess to the detective. The diamond king doesn't fly away immediately so he can find the tiara. Chairs are turned upside down.

■ "Land of the Pharaohs" (1955) 102 minutes 5/23
The expedition is to enslave the architect. The trees are to sway in the wind. The flowers are to flutter. He tries to embrace the queen so that she can take a bath covered in mud. The bath is to emit smoke. The fruit is to be thrown away. The queen comes to the bathhouse to have the high priest leave and to demonstrate his wisdom. The crocodiles are to eat people. He dislikes the design so that he can entrust the design to a slave. He feeds the slave and has him participate in the ceremony so that he can be hired as an architect and the high priest can see through him. The walls are for people to lean against. The blinds are to cast shadows. The hats are to sway in the wind. The pieces of wood are to be thrown down. The stones are to be dragged and to be dropped to crush people. The drums are to beating. The young man is crouching so that he can stand up and demonstrate that he has grown up. The shortage of manpower and food is to make the princess who comes as tribute the second wife. The cape is to be stripped off to expose her naked body, to be thrown away, and to be clutched. The slaves riot so that they can whip the princess. The glasses are to be knocked over. The hands are to be bitten when punched. The pillars are for people to lean on. The oxen are for the king to overpower. The room of the treasures is to make the second wife obsessed with the necklace and plot rebellion against the king, and to seduce the captain of the royal guard. The necklace is to be put on so that it can be taken off. The jewels are to be thrown. The son shows the jewels to his father so that he can be the eyes of his father, who is blind, by having him instruct him to do so. The walls are to project shadows. The bonfires are to emit smoke. The knives are to test the effectiveness of the blindfold. The rope breaks and the stone falls so that the architect's son can help the king, reveal his identity, and be executed after the pyramid is completed, and also so that the second queen can be humiliated by the female slave as a reward and be persuaded to rebel. The female slave drops and breaks the jewel bottle so that the angry second queen can ignore what he says and be humiliated. The armrest is for people to sit on. The information about the treasure is to make the king leave and assassinate the queen in the meantime. The flute is to summon the cobra. The letter is to be crumpled up. The slave who attacks the king in his sleep is holding the knife in a reverse grip. The blood is to make the presence of a person known. The sword is to make a sound and to be thrown and used to stab. When the king throws the sword, he is holding it in a reverse grip. The wall is used as a pillow. The necklace is worn to expose the rebellion. The necklace is to be thrown down. The table is for people to sit on (only once). The incense is to exhale smoke. The stone is to make a sound. The high priest is wise because he sees through the second wife's rebellion and has her buried in the pyramid, and also because he wants to free the architect father and son. The sand is to move the stones. The stones are to block the exit.

■ "RIO BRAVO" (1959) 141 minutes 2013/7/11
The spittoon is to put silver coins in and to kick them up. The firewood is to hit people. The drunken beggar is to cause trouble, get the villain to commit murder and have the sheriff catch him, and get the drunk who cooperated to become the sheriff's deputy. The rancher is to carry the dynamite to town, deliver the package to the Mexican man, introduce the quick-draw gunman to the sheriff, and then be killed. The rancher calls for help so that the sheriff will refuse to help (as a reaction to the townspeople calling for help in "High Noon"), and also so that he will be killed. The villain in jail provokes the drunkard to get him to throw a beer bottle at him. The Mexican woman comes out complaining to the man behind the door and to her husband so that she will notice the sheriff who is there later and smile (this alone conveys that her husband is henpecked and that she is a good-natured woman). The red underwear is to spice up the encounter with the sheriff when the gambler arrives and teases her. The gambler arrives in a stagecoach to remind the drunkard of his ex-girlfriend. The gang breaks the stagecoach's wheels to delay the gambler and allow the sheriff to be captured. A whistle signals the enemy, and a donkey appears. The rancher makes a slip of the tongue to get the drunkard to leave, and in the meantime, the sheriff has the rancher tell the drunkard about his past. The quick-draw gunman initially rejects the sheriff's offer to show his big shot. Having the man who came to the bar counter exchange cards is to make the sheriff, upon seeing the cards, mistakenly believe the gambler was cheating, then clear up the misunderstanding and bring the two closer together. The quick-draw gunman is present at the poker game to expose the man in the checkered suit's cheating. The feather shawl is the gambler's name (Feathers). Having the man in the checkered suit cheat is to make the sheriff mistakenly believe the gambler was cheating. The wanted poster is to make the gambler mistakenly believe she is a cheat. Hiding the sniper who killed the rancher in the stable is to have the drunk enter through the back door, and also to have the sheriff's eyes blinded by the straw so that the drunk can witness the sniper escaping to the saloon, allowing the drunk to enter his favorite saloon through the front door. The stable becomes the scene of the gunfight. The straw is used to blind the sheriff. The bartender behind the drunkard makes suspicious movements to show that the drunkard's intuition hasn't dulled when he notices something. The mug is for blood and spills. The muddy boots are evidence of shooting. The man in the gang says, "Nobody's coming," to get him punched. The rolled cigarette is to show whether or not his hands are shaking. The sheriff sleeps in the hotel to highlight his subsequent barricade in the sheriff's office and to bring him closer to the gambler. The fence is for hanging guns. The law enforcement officer arrives six days later to keep the sheriffs holed up until then. The gambler doesn't get on the stagecoach so she can kiss the sheriff. The book is for throwing. The drunkard is told to have his guns filed down to get the sheriff to return the two pistols he had been holding for him. Having the old man say there's no coffee and sugar is to send the sheriff and the drunkard to the hotel, and while the gambler and the sheriff are talking alone, the drunkard, now unrecognizable after shaving his beard, is sent back to the office alone to have the old man fire his gun and demonstrate the old man's behavior pattern. The gambler is asleep in the chair so that the sheriff can pick her up. The old man is sweeping in front of the office with a broom so that he can hit the sheriff's butt with the broom after he kisses him on the head and teases him. The water in the drinking fountain is reflected in the mirror. The quick-draw man is rolling a cigarette so that he can lend the sheriff a cigarette so that the sheriff can put his favorite rifle in his pouch, allowing the thugs to arrive and hold up the sheriff. Neither the sheriff nor the quick-draw gunman have matches so that the quick-draw gunman can go get them while the gambler throws a potted plant inside to distract the thugs, allowing the thugs to throw their rifles at the sheriff, giving the quick-draw gunman a chance to shoot and kill one of them and demonstrate his skills, as well as making the enemy hate the quick-draw gunman, involving him in the incident, and making him the sheriff's deputy. The drunkard being caught by the thugs at the water fountain is so that he can attack the sheriff, demonstrate the quick-draw gunman's skills, render the drunkard useless, and force him to resign as deputy. The undertaker is there to show that the hitman's pay has doubled. The gambler throwing the potted plant is there to involve the woman in the incident, get her drunk, and make her drink. The song of massacre is there to stop the drunkard's hands from shaking and get everyone to jam. The whiskey in the glass is there to be returned to the bottle. The decision to siege for 3-4 days is there to have the smelly drunkard take a bath, be kidnapped, and exchange hostages. The Mexican woman screams to attract the sheriff, causing him to trip down the stairs and lose consciousness. The broken bottle is to make the Mexican woman scream (she holds it in a reverse grip). The sheriff is made to lose consciousness, making him disoriented and allowing the drunkard to go along with his plan, so that the old man kills the thugs and the drunkard will take revenge. The water is to be splashed in his face. The sheriff is sent to the sheriff's office to get the keys so that the old man can shoot the thugs. The flour bag is used as a chair. The gun thrown by the quick-drawer doesn't reach the drunkard to create suspense as he goes to retrieve it. The two enemies get behind him so that the old man sitting in the dynamite wagon shoots them, making him aware of the dynamite. The gambler woman is dressed as a bunny girl so that the sheriff will "arrest" her. The black tights become a scarf.

■ "HATARI!" (1961) 157 minutes 5/13
Cars are for people to jump into. The ground is for emitting smoke. Rhinos are for hitting cars. The ground is for making noise. Grass is for towels, and for throwing away. The hood is for hitting. Cars are for people to lean on. Cigarettes are for being smoked. The car body becomes a drum. Puddles are for crossing. Zippers are for being zipped up. Tables are for people to sit on (7 times). Cigarette packs are for throwing. Getting stung by a rhino is so that the Buddha man can get a blood transfusion and become an ally. The Buddha man asks for a job at the hospital so that he can be beaten. Towels are for throwing down. Tables are for people to lean on. Telephones are for not listening. Liquor bottles are for dropping. Blinds are for casting shadows. Drinking at a bar is so that when you come home late at night and find a woman sleeping in your bed, you are surprised and it seems like a dream. Hats and letters are for throwing down. Stone walls are for people to jump over. Women don't wear pants so they can crash the car into the fence. The hood is for people to sit on. The jeep shakes so it can knock the woman over. The engine roars so it can make noise. Pillars are for people to lean on. Women take baths so cheetahs can lick their legs and so the men can see them in just a towel. Chairs are barriers. Wet towels are for throwing at men's faces. Chairs are for people to sit on. Tables are for people to rest their feet on. Playing the wrong piano key is so the woman can play the piano and have a jam session. Pockets are for emptying everything out. Chairs are for people to rest their feet on. Walls are for people to lean on. Bottles are for shaking and shooting to break. Trees are for casting shadows. Empty cans are for shooting. Water bottles are for throwing. The car is about to overheat so the locals can see their well. Nets are for throwing things down. Rivers are for splashing water. The woman and the Buddha man play with the hyenas to make the gunman jealous. The car is for people to cling to. The mother elephant is mean so that she will be killed and the baby elephant will be orphaned and forced to take care of it. The hat is for putting money in. The baby elephant's neighing is to panic the goats. The male elephant is milked so that the boss can demonstrate how to milk it, and then the baby elephant will bleat to panic the goats and douse the boss with milk. The trees are for people to lean on. The baby elephant won't drink the milk so the woman can make it drink. The grass is for throwing away and for drawing lots. The fallen trees are for people to sit on. The girl takes a bath so that she can draw lots and the boss can see that she is a child. The cigarettes run out so that the man can talk to the woman. The leopard footprints are to interrupt the kiss. The river is crossed so that the car breaks down and the Buddha man can save the gunman from being attacked by a crocodile. The armrests are for people to sit on. The ostrich runs away so that it can be caught (for no reason). Pens are for throwing away. Cages are for people to lean on. Trees are for swaying in the wind. Stone walls are for people to sit on. The ceremony honoring the woman and the baby elephant is for making the woman with a face mask kiss the boss and then throwing food over them. Cheetah tails are for stepping on and being surprised. Meat is for throwing away. Cars turn to release smoke. Punctures overturn the car and show that the girl tending to the injured men isn't in love with them. Overturned cars exhale smoke. Hats are for throwing. Making the inventor help with a job he's bad at is for putting him on top of a fence and dropping him, indicating that the girl tending to him is in love with him. People are for dropping. Drinking alcohol is for indicating a shortage of ice. Backrests are for people to sit on. Cigarettes are for throwing away. Rockets are for piercing the roof and also for exhaling smoke. Birdcages become helmets. Hats are for swinging around. Large trees are for catching monkeys. Baby monkeys are for screaming. Trees are for people to hide behind. Inventors don't watch rocket launches because they keep asking questions. Cards are for ignoring bragging. Baby elephants bathe to lure out wild elephants. Rocks are for people to lean on. Elephants neigh. Armrests are for people to rest their feet on. Women stand up in jeeps so their heads can be held down by the boss. Rhinos are released and then recaptured after being caught. Rhinos crash into cars to shake them. Beds are for people to rest their feet on. Alcohol is for people to steal. Lights are turned on so they can be turned off. Spikes on the back are for the boss to remove. Women run away so they can be caught. Clothes are for people to throw down and for people to smell. Photographers rob banks. Piles of canned goods are for people to collapse. Bundles of bananas are for people to spin and tear apart. General stores and souvenir shops are for people to pass through. Passersby are for people to move out of the way. The hotel is for the woman to be captured. The elephant is for the detective. The pillars are for people to hide in. The inventor is for interfering with the romance (for the third time). The bed is for breaking. The bedroom becomes a zoo.

■ "RED LINE 7000" (1965) 108 minutes 6/16
The desk is for people to sit on. The car is for emitting smoke. The engine and the ground are for making noise. The car is for burning. The fire extinguisher is for emitting smoke. The accidental death is to attract the woman who brings misfortune, and also to leave her insurance money so she can become a co-owner of the restaurant. The alcohol is for drinking. The back is for tickling. The woman insults the woman who brings misfortune to reconcile the two. The tomboyish woman is made to fight the man so he can be tested as a successor driver. The car is poorly maintained to test the man's skills. The ground is for scattering smoke. The car is made to spin so it won't spin anymore. The mound of earth is to block the car. The windows are for people to get in and out of. The car is for people to lean against. The wall casts a shadow. The flag flutters in the wind. The paper cup is for throwing. The slow-down command is to anger the man. The coin is for throwing. The French woman doesn't know how to buy cigarettes so that the two men who courted her will be surprised by the appearance of the star driver. The hat is for throwing. The French woman dances so that a man will notice her. Breaking down the car brings the man and woman together and connects the French woman with another man. The wall is for people to lean against. She doesn't speak French. Making the woman who brings misfortune sing so that a man will notice her and make his lover, the French woman, leave him. Passing objects cast light. The hair flutters in the wind. The man is called away so that the French woman can get a light from the main driver. Lighting a match is for putting it out. The magazine is for throwing. The engine emits smoke. The tires are for people to sit on. Crashing the replacement driver's car is to make the main driver addicted, get him to switch drivers, win races, let him fool around with women, hurt the tomboyish woman, anger her brother, and make the replacement driver switch teams. Water is to be poured over his head. Shoes are to be kicked. Nuisance calls are to be called to the wrong person. Blinds are to cast shadows. Newspapers are to be thrown down. Vending machines are to bring men and Buddhist women together. Curtains are to be closed. Tape is to be stopped. Pens are to be thrown down. Chairs become beds. Having the Buddhist woman talk about her ex-boyfriend is to make the man harbor murderous intent towards the star driver, cause an accident, and change his twisted way of thinking. The Buddhist woman warns the star driver so that the man sees her leaving the room and becomes jealous. Cigarettes are to be thrown and stomped on. Doors are to be banged on. Glass becomes a mirror. Cars fly through the air, fall, and emit smoke. The big accident happens to allow the driver to survive and to ward off the bad luck of the woman who brings misfortune. The raincoat is to be thrown away. The hat is to be played with. The rain is to get people wet. One hand is cut off in the accident to reconcile with the woman. The match is so it can't be lit. The thunder is to flash and to rumble.

■ "EL DORADO" (1967) 124 minutes 5/31
Trees sway in the wind. The gunman washes his face to make his old friend turn his back on him. He approaches the gun to prevent others from getting close. The bathtub is for resting your feet on. The rifle is thrown and then thrown back. The door is for people to hide behind. The woman comes in to let her old friend know she is the gunman's woman. The water rights are for triggering the incident. The ground is for scattering smoke. The river is for splashing water. The gun is for emitting smoke. The windmill is for turning. The roof is for casting shadows. The gold coins are for throwing. He made a deal with the villain to make the rancher think the gunman was an enemy. The pillars are for people to lean against. He approaches the rifle to prevent others from getting close. The rocks are for people to lean against. The reason for having an inexperienced person stand guard is to make him fall asleep so the gunman can shoot him in the stomach and cause him to commit suicide, creating a feud between the family and the gunman so the gunman will leave town and meet the knife-wielding man, while the old friend gets drunk in the meantime. The reason the gunman goes to get something is so that the young man can commit suicide while he's distracted. "If you get shot in the stomach, it's over" is to drive the young man to suicide and to make the gunman trust the rancher. The ground is to cast shadows. The walls are for people to hide behind. The trees are to cast shadows. The reason the daughter leaves without listening to the gunman's explanation is so that she won't know the truth, so that she will harbor resentment, so that she will load a bullet into the gunman's waist, make him a prisoner of the enemy, and be exchanged for hostage. The horses are for people to fall off. The hands are for shaking off legs. The rifles are for throwing away and splashing water. The clothes are for smearing blood on. The curtains are for swaying in the wind. The pots are for emitting smoke. Doors are for people to lean against. Handrails are for people to rest their feet on. Hats are for dusting off and identifying people. Cigarettes are for throwing away. Chairs are for people to fall over with. Guns are for deflecting bullets and dropping things. Chairs are for people to rest their feet on. Backs are for storing knives. Saloons are for meeting the knife-wielder and the quick-draw gunner, and for hearing from the quick-draw gunner that an old friend got drunk and returning to town. Leaving the saloon first means not leaving. Chairs become hat racks. Candles are for flickering in the wind. Slopes are for people to tumble down. Rocks are for people to hide behind. Falling off a horse in excruciating pain is to signal what's happening. Guns are for throwing. Cacti are for shooting through. The knife-wielder is bad at handling guns so that he can be given a shotgun to shoot the gunman in the leg and have his daughter shoot the enemy, and so that the gunman and old friend can walk on crutches in the final scene. Tables are for people to sit on (twice). Shotguns are for emitting smoke. Prisons become hotels. Walls are for projecting shadows. Matches are for throwing away. Water is for splashing in people's faces. Liquor bottles are for kicking. Helping someone is for getting punched. Buckets are for smashing on someone's head. Chairs are for hitting people. Things on tables are for knocking over. Drinking alcohol is because you can't drink it. Looking for alcohol is because you can't find it. Drawing a gun is because it doesn't exist. Bottles are for throwing and smashing. Going to a bar is for being laughed at and crying. The cowboy is shot so that his old friend will quit drinking and arrest the boss. Rifles are for rolling up hats. Whistling is a signal. Walking along windows is for getting information from women who pop their heads out. Churches become gunfights. Bells are for shooting and ringing. Carts are for people to hide in. Walls are for people to lean against. Doors are for pushing open. Vases are for shooting and smashing. The rope is for grabbing onto and ringing the bell. The person is for falling. The sign is for shooting down. The bullet is for dropping. Trying to grab the gun is because you can't grab it. The barrel is for knocking over. Letting one person escape is so they can escape to the saloon. The piano is for people to hide in and shoot through. The gun is for hitting people. The man who lies is for getting hit. Having the daughter aim at the enemy from the barn is so she'll meet the knife-wielding guy and make him her ally. The key is for throwing away. The cup is for throwing and making noise. Insulting someone's hair is so they'll get hit and hit back. The rifle is for taking and then returning. The request for a visit is to point out the daughter's character. The table is for resting your feet on. The towel and clothes are for throwing away. The Mexicans are for disappearing. Going out on night patrol is so he can put on the sheriff's badge, so he can shoot his old friend in the leg and barricade himself in the office, and so he can walk on crutches in the final scene. When the knife-wielder cuts his old friend's trousers, the knife is held in a reverse grip. A scarf becomes a bandage. Names are used for mistakes. Chairs are used for rocking. The old friend is given a bath so that women can visit while he's bathing. Soap is used for throwing. Chairs are used to break windows. Windows are used for shooting. Lying is done to be killed. Going to the saloon is done to become a prisoner. Doors become a barrier. Kidnapping the rancher's son is done to create a final showdown. Crutches are used for throwing. Fences become horse shackles. Hats are used to put hats on people. Laundry is used for disguise. Potted plant saucers become hats. Trees are used for people to hide behind. Trumpets are used to distract people. A carriage is used to jump out and shoot from behind it. Lamps are used to shoot them out and make them flicker. Coffee is used to spill. Crutches are used for mix-ups.

■ "RIO LOBO" (1970) 113 minutes 6/18
The guitar becomes a drum. The train is there to emit smoke. The soldier almost falls over to signal that the contents of the luggage are gold coins. He apologizes because he can't apologize. The trees are for people to climb. The stones are for people to sit on. The tracks are for listening to sounds. The train is there to cast shadows. The plants are there for people to hide. The grease is to make the wheels slide. The luggage becomes a chair. The shovel is there to throw down. The train is there for people to fall off. The drumsticks are there to drive people away. The windows are there to be shot and broken. The train is there to be stolen. The rifle is there to be thrown. The train is there to jump on and jump off. The ground and torches are there to emit smoke. The trees are there to be uprooted and also act as brakes. The luggage is there to fall down. The robbers are there to make the colonel chase the traitor. The river is there to create splashes. The piece of uniform caught in the tree is to identify the person. The Confederate army splits into two groups to split the pursuing Union army, leaving the colonel alone to be captured, and then to take revenge by capturing the Union captain and sergeant. The bloodstained bandage is to deceive the colonel and to later recruit the bandaged man as an ally. The river is for people to jump into. The gun is for people to hit. The hat is for dusting. The bag becomes a bed, and also a chair. The barrel becomes a table. People approach the rifle to keep others away. The trees sway in the wind. The moss indicates direction. The water surface becomes a mirror. The campfire emits smoke. Passing by the Union camp is to make the Confederate horses walk quietly, allowing the colonel to untie the ropes on his hands and escape. The trees are for people to hide. The harmonica is for the sound it makes. The branches are curved to hit people. The fallen trees are for people to hide and for people to lean against. The grass stems are for breathing oxygen. The river is for hiding. The sergeant dives into the river to set the stage for diving into it again later. The whistle is a signal. The gun is for throwing away. The trees are for casting shade. The informant will not be revealed. The newspaper is for rolling up and throwing away. The hat becomes a fan. The rain is for wetting the newspaper in the puddles. The end of the war is for revealing the informant and for uniting the Confederate and Union soldiers. The rum is not served. The walls are for sticking furs to. The table is for people to sit on. No one can speak up. The captain sleeps so that he will later join the fight in his underwear. The saloon becomes a shooting range. The gun and picture frame are for dropping. The table is for hiding the gun and for people to hide. The woman comes to lure the traitor out and shoot him, and to unite the colonel and captain. The traitor attacks the sergeant's ranch to force the Union and Confederate soldiers to cooperate. The woman shoots the man with a pistol so that he faints from the shock, is picked up by the colonel, and has his clothes removed by the captain. The captain brings the prostitute into the room so that he can have her take off her trousers and face off with the woman who has also had her skirt removed. The chair is for resting feet on. The trousers are for throwing. The colonel and captain are unfamiliar with the area so that the woman can accompany them. The liquor bottle is for throwing away. It's cold so that the captain can have the woman cover him with a blanket, touch him, and tell him about her background. The Indian burial ground is to scare the woman so that she can sleep with the colonel and say, "He's safe." The buttocks are for spanking. The spurs are for making a loud noise. The roof is for casting shadows. They go to hide the horse so that they can encounter the naked woman in the house they take refuge in. The wall is for casting shadows and for people to lean against. Cloaks and brooms are for throwing down. Pillars are for people to lean on. The sergeant brings his horse into town so he'll be framed as a horse thief and caught by the sheriff's gang. Porches are for people to sit on. The sheriff takes the woman away so the colonel can interfere. The dentist is for gathering information and for making the colonel scream. They ask for names because they can't get them. They raid the woman's house to hide the captain and the woman under the bed. They wash their hair to get past the sheriff. Fences are for people to jump over. Guns are for emitting smoke. Walls are for people to hide. Chickens are for signaling people's location and for people to throw at them. Roofs are for people to climb on and for people to jump off. The sound of bells is to lure people in. Doors are for kicking down. Tables are for people to sit on. Doors are for shooting down. Chests are for hiding safes. They hit people with lamps to set their feet on fire. The ranch is liberated to anger the sheriff, cause him to disfigure the woman's face, and allow her to take revenge. The boss is captured so that he can be exchanged for the captain who will be captured later. The gun belt is to be dropped. The table is for resting your feet on. The bars are for casting shadows. The horses are for throwing people off. The slopes are for people to tumble down. Going to call for reinforcements is to become a prisoner. The stones are for rolling up letters and throwing them. The letters are for throwing away. The dentist comes with supplies so that the deed is returned to its owner and the sheriff can kill the boss. The wind is for howling and kicking up dust. The dumbleweed is for being blown away by the wind. The saloon is for meeting friends. The rifle is for throwing. The bridge supports are for placing rifles. The bridge is for people to hide. The belt is for taking and throwing. The water jars are for shooting and smashing. The hats are for shooting and knocking off. The roofs are for people to fall off. The building is to be blown to smithereens with dynamite. The sheriff is shot in the leg so that he can use the rifle as a cane, destroy the muzzle, cause it to misfire and wound the sheriff in the face, and also so that he is left behind and shot by the woman. The colonel is shot in the leg so that in the final scene, the woman will support him and they can walk together. The rifle is to be thrown away.