A Movie Scene Quiz

There is a funny scene in "The Big Sleep" where Humphrey Bogart flirts with a cute librarian.

10. The Librarian (2004), B-film, action adventure
11. Wilderness (1996), Amanda Ooms turns werewolf in a library
12. Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone (2001), Hermione looks up sth in the library at Hogswart.
13. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), prisoner loans many books from prison library.
14. The Ninth Gate (1999), rare book collector visits many private libraries.
15. The Return of the Unnamable (1993), heroes and police chase demon through university library.
16. The Name of the Rose (1986), mystery thriller in and around a medieval monastery library.
17. Hellbreeder (2004), heroine sees demon in city library.
18. The Time Machine (1960, 2000), hero visits age old library in the future.
19. Battlefield Earth (2000), hero is shown dilapidated library of Congress.

Did I say this was going to be tough? Not with movie buffs like you. (Shawshank Redemption was one of my 11 guesses)

Recap:

L = Library/librarian

1. The Music Man
2. Chances Are
3. The Philadelphia Story
4. Philadelphia
5. Regarding Henry
6. It's A Wonderful Life
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Fatal Attraction
9. The Big Sleep
10. The Librarian (2004), B-film, action adventure
11. Wilderness (1996), Amanda Ooms turns werewolf in a library
12. Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone (2001), Hermione looks up sth in the library at Hogswart.
13. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), prisoner loans many books from prison library.
14. The Ninth Gate (1999), rare book collector visits many private libraries.
15. The Return of the Unnamable (1993), heroes and police chase demon through university library.
16. The Name of the Rose (1986), mystery thriller in and around a medieval monastery library.
17. Hellbreeder (2004), heroine sees demon in city library.
18. The Time Machine (1960, 2000), hero visits age old library in the future.
19. Battlefield Earth (2000), hero is shown dilapidated library of Congress.

20. Primal Fear (a clue to the bishop's murder is found in his library)

wandeljw, that's a great scene in The Big Sleep, but are you sure it's in a library? I would have said it was a bookstore (but my memory isn't what it once was).

Some afterthoughts:
21. IT (1990), one of the heroes is a librarian and a bloody scene plays out at the library.
22. The Breakfast Club (1985), the students have detention in the library.
23. Elephant (2003), school library is featured
24. Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth, 1972), hero is interrogated by secret service when looking up info about pregnancy and childbirth at the library.
25. Dreamcatcher (2003), one of the protagonists possessed by an alien moves around his own mind which has the form of a library.
26. The Mummy (1999), the female lead is a librarian (at the Britsh Museum I believe).
27. LOTR, the Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Gandalf looks up information in the library/archive of Gondor.

My memory is not that accurate. It may have been a bookstore rather than a library.

raggedy: you can replace "big sleep" with "farenheit 451", if you wish

The Breakfast Club was on my list of answers.

I just checked out The Big Sleep and Dorothy Malone was a bookseller. I'll put a question mark beside it in case there is also a scene in a library, Wandeljw.

Our messages crossed, Wandeljw, and it's funny that I was just thinking about Fahrenheit 451 with Oskar Werner.

Libraries appear in many films simply as a set where people meet each other, especially in films about college and university, but since the focus is on the characters and not on the background it is hard to remember those scenes. In films about young lawyers taking on a big case a legal library often features. Furthermore, libraries play a role in films dealing with legendary monsters or demons, as the place where the heroes find information about what they're up against. The Da Vinci Code might well have library scenes, but I haven't seen the film, so I can't list it.

For the moment my memory is exhausted where libraries in films are concerned.

Well, what do you know! I just sat down to see my first weekend film, an old B-film, and coincidence has it that it opens with a scene at the Hong Kong University Library!
28. Xing xing wang (The Great Peking Man, 1977)

Paaskynen: That is funny.

I'll add:

29. Your're a Big Boy Now (Jerry Lewis works in the library (on roller skates)

and I'll recap:

L = Library/librarian

1. The Music Man
2. Chances Are
3. The Philadelphia Story
4. Philadelphia
5. Regarding Henry
6. It's A Wonderful Life
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Fatal Attraction
9. Fahrenheit 451
10. The Librarian (2004), B-film, action adventure
11. Wilderness (1996), Amanda Ooms turns werewolf in a library
12. Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone (2001), Hermione looks up sth in the library at Hogswart.
13. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), prisoner loans many books from prison library.
14. The Ninth Gate (1999), rare book collector visits many private libraries.
15. The Return of the Unnamable (1993), heroes and police chase demon through university library.
16. The Name of the Rose (1986), mystery thriller in and around a medieval monastery library.
17. Hellbreeder (2004), heroine sees demon in city library.
18. The Time Machine (1960, 2000), hero visits age old library in the future.
19. Battlefield Earth (2000), hero is shown dilapidated library of Congress.
20. Primal Fear
21. IT (1990), one of the heroes is a librarian and a bloody scene plays out at the library.
22. The Breakfast Club (1985), the students have detention in the library.
23. Elephant (2003), school library is featured
24. Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth, 1972), hero is interrogated by secret service when looking up info about pregnancy and childbirth at the library.
25. Dreamcatcher (2003), one of the protagonists possessed by an alien moves around his own mind which has the form of a library.
26. The Mummy (1999), the female lead is a librarian (at the Britsh Museum I believe).
27. LOTR, the Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Gandalf looks up information in the library/archive of Gondor.
28. Xing xing wang (The Great Peking Man, 1977)
29. You're a Big Boy Now (Jerry Lewis works in the library (on roller skates)

30. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
31. The Paper Chase

32. Ghostbusters (brilliant opening scene)
33. Threesome (not porn but a early nineties film with one of the Baldwin brothers in it)

I forgot all about the library scene in Ghostbusters, and bree guessed two of my choices.

I know Richard Benjamin was a librarian in Goodbye, Columbus, but I don't know if there were any scenes in the library so I'll not use it.

But, I'll add:

34. Storm Center (Doris Day was a librarian opposing censorship.)

35. Beauty and The Beast (if cartoons are allowed)
36. Cabaret (when Sally tells Brian she is pregnant)

37. Wings of Desire - several scenes in a library where the angels read over people's shoulders
38. City of Angels - a sort-of remake of Wings of Desire that uses the library again

39. Lost Souls (2000), Winona Ryder waits for Ben Chaplin in front of the City Library.

40. The Last Embrace (Roy Scheider discovers Janet Margolin's secret in the library of the university where she is a graduate student)
41. Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman is also a graduate student who does research in the university library)

42. Seven (Morgan Freeman in the library)