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Stealing a turn to keep the thread alive!

That looks very film noir. Don't think I know the movie, though.

Great, now I have to fight a terrible urge to answer that one... I put the blame on you, Miguel...

(Oh my god, I'm turning into Eric, help me!)

[Footlight Parade is correct!]

Footlight Parade is correct!

The last big Warner Brothers-muscial from before the strict enforcement of the self censorship of the Hollywood Production Code in 1934, starring James Cagney. And while many of those Pre Code sound movies are not actually particularly good by any means, they still are quite interesting. Visually they already pretty much follow the formulas of Classical Hollywood, their treatment of themes such as sex, violence, and social issues, among others, on the other hand is completely different - if at times completely gratuitous. Thus a film from 1933, like Footlight Parade, just leaves you with an utterly different picture of its times than a movie produced a few months later in 1934.

Not Yankee Doodle Dandy, but you got the star right, yes.

Snarky: Now that you mention it, quite possibly, yes. Although we never get the Dude's POV in the Coens' version. Chickens.

Miguel: Since Dick Van Dyke was seven years old when this movie was made, my guess would be no. But Ol' Zebra Cat there is really only a glorified extra anyhow. Lil' Silky Puss next to him, on the other hand, is one of the film's leading ladies. The actual star of the movie - not featured in any screencaps, so far - was, and is, actually most famous for his involvement in the gangster genre of all things.

Would he now? I think they are lacking certain very important features. Now in these shots on the other hand...

Now that was a bad movie if I remember correctly. Despite being directed by John Huston and having Gina Lollobrigida, Humphrey Bogart, and Peter Lorre in it.

Edit: Okay, this might go a bit too far back in time. But since we're now doing gratuitous shots of the lower female body, there's really no way around this one...

Beat the Devil?

Is the right one Gina Lollobrigida?

I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but since I just had my turn, I will not name it.

The Hudsucker Proxy is correct!

Nope, close though.

Looks like Klaus Kinski to the left of the seated guy, so:

Aguirre?

South Pacific?

And we have a winner!

Just as I was beginning to think I managed to break the game on my first try.

Edit: And let me add that Dalton Trumbo is in fact the screenwriter, just as Ben X guessed a few days ago.

The movie is neither called "Horror in a Hawaii Hamlet" nor "Shock in a South Dakota Settlement".

I don't think there's a harpoon involved in The General.

But the actor does play a general in Dr. Strangelove, yes.

No, the other army guy.