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MSN Movies4Top 10 Romantic Movie Moments
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Goodfellas
Out of Sight
Harold and Maude
A Place in the Sun
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The Philadelphia Story
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Out of the Past
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3. "Out of the Past" (1947)


We could list more than one Robert Mitchum movie that gets our pulses pumping. That bedroom-eyed, barrel-chested stud (and a splendid actor, even if he said he was sleepwalking most of the time) is such a perfect combination of swagger, drollness and romance that we have a hard time disliking him even when he plays a psycho (as in "Cape Fear"). We're allowed to like him in Jacques Tourneur's seminal, moody noir "Out of the Past" -- a film that pits Mitchum against the overwhelming charms of Jane Greer. She will prove to be a baddie, and in this famous scene, she's all but warning him to run away from her. But oh so lyrically, Mitchum murmurs, "Baby, I don't care." We're just speechless. And we really wish more people would utter that sentiment.

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