Just before that bit, I was reminded of the Camelot song bridge in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

@user26832 I would guess it's easier to synchronize the acting if they make sounds. People often converse without looking directly at each other.

I wonder how many BW movies have color as an important plot point. Green for Danger is one.

Funny anecdote: Coppola (or another Sicilian-American film director?) visited his ancestral village. He understood Sicilian but could not speak it. He had a guide who translated from English to Standard Italian but did not understand Sicilian. The locals understood Standard Italian but did not speak it. So conversations went in one-way cycles, Coppola → guide → locals → Coppola …

Hm, an inexplicable detail in The Addams Family ?!

Funny, all these years I have misremembered it as Licence Renewed. Perhaps I read that from someone who was misinformed that it was based on the novel.

I suppose Blazing Saddles doesn't count?

Funny wording, “Do not forget to blot out their memory!”

You could have looked up ‘Amalek’ …

In (iirc) an episode of Prime Suspect, a dying man confesses to his son's crime, to protect the son.

“make someone's day” appears in stories by Larry Niven involving the tasp (a device that can remotely cause bliss in the target), at least in The Ringworld Engineers (1979) if not earlier.

@Valorum Don't kink-shame.

@Valorum French and Romance in general as far as I know.

The (mostly dead) Cornish language is the nearest relative to Welsh and Breton, by the way.

There is a story that on 2004-12-26 a very young tourist in Sumatra or Thailand saw the water drop and gave an alarm, having recently learned in school of that phenomenon.

i think you mean ruse