Remington Steele Film Annotations

One of the "gimmicks" of Remington Steele was that Steele was always quoting old movies in an attempt to rationalize or predict events. Here are the movies he quoted, by title.

Taken from Raymond Chen's episode guide. The number in parentheses indicates which episode the citation was taken from. [Note: They do not necessarily correlate to the episode guide at this site].
When reproducing dialog, the 5 underscores (_____) indicate the movie title.

The Alphabet Murders (ep. 48)

Steele: "A variation on _____, uh Tony Randall, Robert Morley..."
Laura: "I know, I know."
[Tony Randall, Robert Morley, MGM 1965; based on The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie.]

And Then There Were None (ep. 10)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "That's what I'm afraid of."
Steele: "No, the movie!"
Laura: "What movie?"
Steele: "Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, June Dupree, God's sake."
Laura: "Get a grip on yourself. You're coming unhinged."

And Then There Were None (ep. 48)

Steele: "_____, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston..."
Laura: "I remember."

And Then There Were None (ep. 90)

Steele: "_____."
Tony: "There's not much."
Steele: "Barry Fitzgerald."
Tony: "This isn't Keyes?"
Steele: "Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, C.Aubrey Smith, 20th Fox 1945."

Anna Karenina (ep. 22)

Steele: "Or the train station. I mean, Garbo threw herself in front of a train in _____." [Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, MGM 1935.]

Arsenic and Old Lace (ep. 55)

Steele: "_____, Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Warner Brothers 1944."

Arsenic and Old Lace (ep. 91)

Steele: "_____?"
Mildred: "Come again, chief?"
Steele: "Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Warner Brothers 1944."

Bad Day at Black Rock (ep. 39)

Steele: "I must admit that this case is beginning to sound more and more like _____."
Laura: "Annotation?"
Steele: "Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, MGM 1954."

The Bad Seed (ep. 36)

Steele: "You expect to travel in [the RV] with _____?"
[Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Warner Brothers 1956.]

Bambi (ep. 64)

Steele: "A movie would be a good idea. What would you like to see?"
Laura: "I'll leave it to you, Mr. Steele."
Steele: "I want to see _____."

The Barefoot Contessa (ep. 62)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "Who?"
Steele: "Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, United Artists 1954."

Beau Geste (ep. 45)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "I'm really not in the mood for one of your movie quotes now."

[Ronald Coleman, Neil Hamilton, William Powell, Paramount 1926 (silent). Cary Cooper, Ray Milland, Paramount 1939. And Telly Savalas, Guy Stockwell, Universal 1966.]

Beverly Hills Cop (ep. 79)

Steele: "_____, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinholt, Paramount 1984.
A wealthy industrialists smuggles bearer bonds hidden inside shipping crates."
Donald: "What are you talking about?"

Beverly Hills Cop (ep. 90)

Laura: "_____."
Tony: "Who?"
Steele: "Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinholt, Paramount 1985. Excellent, Laura."

The Big Sleep (ep. 12)

Laura: "Say something. If you can't talk, groan."
Steele: "_____, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Warner Brothers 1946."
Laura: "Good God, you're babbling."

The Big Sleep (ep. 13)

Dr.Wicker: "Welcome to _____."

The Big Sleep (ep. 44)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "What?"
Steele: "A killer sets a trap for Bogart. ..."

A Bill of Divorcement (ep. 70)

Laura: "A Bill of Whatchamacallit, with Who's-it's and What's-his-name?"
Steele: "Ah yes, uh, _____, uh John Barrymore, Katherine Hepburn, RKO 1932."

Blood Alley (ep. 58)

Steele: "I was only going to investigate a doll factory. I didn't anticipate _____."
[John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Warner Brothers 1955.]

Blow Up (ep. 84)

Laura: "_____. David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, MGM 1967. Or was it 1966."
Bernie: "What are you mumbling about?"
Laura: "A certain friend of mine will be very proud of me right now."

Body Heat (ep. 76)

Steele: "_____."
Mildred: "It certainly was!"
Steele: "Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, Warner Brothers 1981."

Boom Town (ep. 37)

Laura: "Look, before you convince yourself that it's _____ all over again,"
Frances: "What?"
Laura: "_____ MGM 1940. Clark Gable leaves Claudette Colbert for Hedy La..." [realizes what she's just said.]

Boys' Town (ep. 51)

Steele: "All right everybody, here we go. _____, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, MGM 1938."
Laura: "Yeah, yeah, I know."

The Bride of Frankenstein (ep. 23)

Steele: "Uh, who is it?"
Laura: "_____."
[Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Universal 1935.]

The Bride of Frankenstein (ep. 88)

Mildred: [to Laura] "You look like _____."

Casablanca (ep. 2)

Laura: "Who are you? Where did you come from?"
Steele: "Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, _____, Warner Brothers 1942."

Casablanca (ep. 14)

Steele: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..."

Casablanca (ep. 24)

Laura: "Richard Blaine. Why is that name so familiar?"
Steele: "It's the name of the character Bogart played in _____."

Casablanca (ep. 50)

Laura: "You don't have to be a movie buff to realize what you just recounted is a scene from _____."

Casablanca (ep. 88)

Laura: "Ilsa Lund!"
Mildred: "What are you doing?"
Laura: "Ilsa Lund is the name of the character Ingrid Bergman played in _____."

Chain the Tiger (ep. 82)

Steele: "_____, Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Paramount 19...72."

Charade (ep. 28)

Laura: "_____."
Steele: "The game or the movie?"
Laura: "Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn!"
Steele: "Universal 1964."

Chinatown (ep. 12)

Laura: "_____. I, too, attend an occasional movie.
Is there another book like this one?"
Clerk: "Of course not."
Steele: "A page has been torn out."
Clerk: "Never happened before that damn movie."
[Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Paramount 1974.]

Citizen Kane (ep. 10)

Laura: "Franks and beans, on Wedgewood? Shades of Citizen Hearst."

Citizen Kane (ep. 50)

Steele: "I'm looking for Orson Welles. Or was it Joseph Cotten.
Ah, yes, yes. Xanadu. I'm looking for Xanadu."
(ep. later)
Laura: "The movie _____?"
Steele: "Uh, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, RKO 1941."

Coma (ep. 13)

Steele: "You know what they tried to do to Genevieve Bujold in _____."

Convicted (ep. 87)

Steele: "_____, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Columbia 1950.
Ford plays an innocent man convicted to life imprisonment for a murder he didn't commit."
Sergeant: "Ruth Roman played the dame, right?"
Steele: "Dorothy Malone, actually."

The Corpse Came C.O.D. (ep. 60)

Steele: "_____"
Bernard: "We're going to try to get money for it?"
Steele: "George Brent, Joan Blondell, Columbia 1947."

A Day at the Races (ep. 50)

Steele: "The stills outside the cinema pointed the way all the time, only I didn't connect them 'til now. _____. Come on!"
[Marx Brothers, MGM 1937.]

The Day of the Jackal (ep. 58)

Steele: "Ah. _____, Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Universal 19...73."
Mulch: "Yeah!"
Mildred: "Whaddya mean, 'Yeah'?"

The Day of the Jackal (ep. 68)

Steele: "_____."
Daniel: "Jackal? They'll be feeding on our carcasses if you don't pull this off."
Steele: "Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Universal 1973."

Death Race 2000 (ep. 44)

Steele: "For gosh sakes, slow down, will you? This isn't _____."
[David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, New World 1975.]

Death Takes a Holiday (ep. 86)

Mildred: "But I don't understand. How?"
Steele: "_____, Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Paramount 1934."
Laura: "Mr. Steele, please."

Death Takes a Holiday (ep. 88)

Steele: "Look, if death can take a holiday, why can't you?"

Dirty Harry (ep. 53)

Lloyd Nolan: "No disrespect, but let's face it. _____ you ain't."
[Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Warner Brothers 1971.]

Dirty Harry (ep. 80)

Mildred: "_____ is beginning to look better and better."

D.O.A. (ep. 6)

Steele: "_____. Edmond O'Brien, Andrew Britten, United Artists 1949."
Laura: "_____?"
Steele: "Uh huh. It means 'dead on arrival'."
Laura: "I know what it means, what does it mean?"

D.O.A. (ep. 73)

Steele: "_____! Edmond O'Brien, Luther Adler, United Artists 1949."

Easy Rider (ep. 72)

Steele: "Right idea, wrong movie. It was _____."

Enter the Dragon (ep. 8)

Steele: "Are we looking here at _____, with Bruce Lee on the trail of illicit narcotics?"
[John Saxon, 1973]

The Fan (ep. 53)

Steele: "_____."
Virginia Mayo: "What?"
Steele: "Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Paramount 1981."

Fear Strikes Out (ep. 48)

Steele: "How about a double feature tonight to take our minds off the case."
Laura: "What's playing?"
Steele: "_____ and Pride of the Yankees."
[Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Paramount 1957.]

From Russia With Love (ep. 50)

Steele: "Into the back and throw the oil drums into their path!"
Laura: "Right! ... Oil drums! There aren't any oil drums!"
Steele: "There were in _____!"
[Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendariz, United Artists 1963.]

The Fuller Brush Man (ep. 49)

Steele: "_____, Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Columbia 1948."

Gaslight (ep. 22)

Steele: "Are you suggesting... _____?"
Alfred: "What?"
Steele: "Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, MGM 1944."

Gaslight (ep. 63)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "The flashlight's fine, thanks."
Steele: "Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, MGM 1944."
Laura: "I like your choice of films, Mr. Steele."

Gaslight (ep. 73)

Steele: "_____. Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, MGM 1944."

The Gauntlet (ep. 36)

Steele: "_____, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Warner Brothers 1977."
Laura: "Down kids, we're going to the movies."

The Godfather (ep. 53)

Steele: "_____, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Paramount 1972."

Going in Style (ep. 81)

Steele: "_____, George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Warner Brothers 1979."

Goldfinger (ep. 45)

Laura: "Not a bad move."
Steele: "_____, Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, United Artists 1964."

Gone with the Wind (ep. 50)

Steele: "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn. Why did I say that?"
Laura: "Rhett Butler's last line to Scarlet O'Hara. Oh, I do hope this has something to do with _____. Now that's one movie I do know about, I've seen it a dozen times."
[Clark Cable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, MGM 1939.]

Gone with the Wind (ep. 57)

Steele: "I keep hoping I'll wake up and I'll be watching _____."

Gone with the Wind (ep. 73)

Laura: [holds up a videocassette] "_____?"
Steele: "Merely to make sure that the machine is functioning properly."
[Throughout the episode, Steele tries to watch the movie on his new VCR.]

The Great Escape (ep. 46)

Steele: "_____,

[cough] Steve McQueen, James Garner,

[cough] United Artists 1963."

The Great Impostor (ep. 71)

Steele: "That guy is a bigger fraud than Tony Curtis in _____."
[Raymond Massey, Karl Malden, United Artists 1961.]

Hamlet (ep. 82)

Steele: "_____. Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Jay Arthur, Rank 1948."

The Happy Hooker (ep. 88)

Laura: "So you're going to waltz down the aisle with _____?"

Heaven's Gate (ep. 57)

Steele: "I keep hoping I'll wake up and I'll be watching 'Gone With
The Wind'. Or _____."
[Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, 1980]

Hide in Plain Sight (ep. 69)

Steele: '_____."
Laura:"... We could be looking for anyone."
Mildred: "Yeah, but who?"
Steele: "James Caan, Jill Eikenberry."
Mildred: "Who?"
Steele: "United Artists 1979."

How to Murder Your Wife (ep. 63)

Steele: "_____, Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, United Artists 1965."

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (ep. 32)

Roxie: "I feel like _____."
[Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, RKO 1939.

In the Heat of the Night (ep. 39)

Steele: "_____, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, United Artists 1967."

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (ep. 67)

Mildred: "_____, Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Allied Artists 1956. Oh, how he loved that picture!"

It Happened One Night (ep. 25)

Steele: "Shouldn't be too hard for a long-legged field darter named Claudette."
Laura: "Claudette?"
Steele: "Claudette Colbert in _____, uh, Clark Gable, Columbia 1934. I'll explain on the way."

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (ep. 17)

Laura: "I've seen those palm trees before."
Steele: "Of course you have. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad [sic] World, United Artists 1963.
Spencer Tracy and a cadre of comics."

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (ep. 64)

Heading Tag Steele: "_____."
Laura: "Profound observation, Mr. Steele."
Steele: "Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, United Artists 1963."

Jaws (ep. 55)

Steele: "Yes, well, I hate to tear you away from 'Jaws 4', but..."
[Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Universal 1975. 'Jaws 2': Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Universal 1978.]

Johnny Apollo (ep. 53)

Lloyd Nolan: "Don't forget _____, darling."
Steele: "Oh, Tyrone Power, Edward Arnold, 20th Century Fox, 19 uh 40. I'm sorry, excuse me."
[Lloyd Nolan, Dorothy Lamour.]

Key Largo (ep. 24)

Steele: "Did you happen to see _____, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Warner Brothers 1948?"
Laura: "The last movie you took me to almost cost me my life."

Laura (ep. 17)

Steele: "Laura."
Laura: "Yes?"
Steele: "Laura."
Laura: "What!"
Steele: "Laura, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, 20th Century Fox 1944."

Laura (ep. 50)

Dr.Tulliver: "This is Miss Laura Holt."
Steele: "Ah, Laura, of course. Yes, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney."

The List of Adrian Messenger (ep. 73)

Laura: "What have we stumbled into here?"
Steele: "_____, George C.Scott, Kirk Douglas, Universal 1963."

Little Murders (ep. 54)

Steele: "Ah, _____, Elliot Gould, Alan Arkin, 20th Century Fox eh
1971. A rampant sniper picks people off at a New York high-rise building."

The Lost Weekend (ep. 37)

Steele: "I've seen that look before."
Laura: "What look?"
Steele: "Ray Milland had it in _____."

The Lost Weekend (ep. 65)

Laura: "We've gone through this whole case without your once coming up with a movie reference."
Steele: "Ah, here you go, I've got an appropriate one."
Laura: "Oh?"
Steele: "_____, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Paramount 1945."

The Macomber Affair (ep. 78)

Mildred: "I loved that about the lion, Chief."
Steele: "Gregory Peck to Robert Preston, _____, United Artists 1947."

The Major and the Minor (ep. 38)

Steele: "Hardly in keeping with the lighthearted spirit of the movie, is it?
_____, Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers, Paramount 1942."
Laura: "Mr. Steele has a great fondness for equating motion pictures with real life."

The Maltese Falcon (ep. 12)

Laura: "Where were you?"
Steele: "In a scene right out of _____.
There I was, confronting the very incarnation of Casper Gutman.
I, of course, was Sam Spade, the slightly shady shamus.
And, we were dinkering for the dinkus, only he called it an item."
[Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, Bridget O'Shaughnessy, Warner Brothers 1941.]

The Maltese Falcon (ep. 23)

Steele: "Package? Wrapped in newspaper? Laura, this is beginning to smack of _____.
Walter Huston plays a sea captain, who, although riddled with bullets, manages to bring Bogart the falcon wrapped in newspaper."

The Maltese Falcon (ep. 45)

Ron: "I thought the Hapsburg Dagger was just a myth. Like _____."

The Maltese Falcon (ep. 47)

Steele: "You realize what we're doing, don't you, Laura?
We're chasing a Maltese falcon."

The Maltese Falcon (ep. 53)

Steele: "I get this image.
This image of the character Peter Lorre played in _____."

The Maltese Falcon (ep. 77)

Mulch: "That's a clue!"
Mildred: "What's a clue?"
Mulch: "_____, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, um... you know, all those other guys."

Manhandled (ep. 53)

Steele: "I mean, take _____, Dan Duryea, Sterling Hayden, uh Paramount 1949."
[Dorothy Lamour]

The Man Who Knew Too Much (ep. 37)

Steele: "_____."
Donald: "Look, I'm willing to forget if he is."
Steele: "Jimmy Stewart, Doris Day, Paramount 1956."

Mirage (ep. 26)

Steele: "I've got it. _____, Gregory Peck, Walter Matthau, Universal, uh 1965."
Frank: "I don't remember that one."
Steele: "I'm not surprised."

Moby Dick (ep. 46)

Laura: "Do you really think people cared there were 3 versions of _____?"

[A silent movie titled 'The Sea Beast.' John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Warner Brothers 1930. And Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, a John Huston production 1956.]

Moon Over Burma (ep. 53)

Steele: "You're kidding. Dorothy Lamour? The Road to Singapore? _____? Typhoon?"
[Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Paramount 1940.]

Murder Most Foul (ep. 12)

Grace Stanton: "He began saying all sorts of strange things."
Laura: "Such as?"
Grace Stanton: "_____, Margaret Rutherford, MGM 1964.
Do you know what any of this means, Miss Holt?"
Laura: "Um, Mr. Steele often speaks in a code."

Murder on the Orient Express (ep. 14)

Steele: "Paramount 1974, a veritable cavalcade of stars. _____."
Murphy: "I'm going to go get some more coffee. Want some?"
Laura: "I'll come with you."

The Music Lovers (ep. 22)

Sherry: "Or the reservoir.
Where Richard Chamberlain drank contaminated water in _____."
[Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, United Artists 1970. An absurd fantasia on the life of Tchaikovsky.]

My Fair Lady (ep. 32)

Steele: "Pygmalion, or for those who prefer the musical version, _____."
[Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, CBS 1964.]

Neptune's Daughter (ep. 38)

Steele: "_____, Esther Williams, MGM 1949."

North by Northwest (ep. 3)

[A character is named 'George Kaplan', Cary Grant's character. In search of Kaplan, Steele sets sail for "2 miles offshore, north by northwest."]

North by Northwest (ep. 71)

Laura: "How can you be so sure?"
Steele: "_____, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, MGM 1959."

North by Northwest (ep. 72)

Steele: "_____, Cary Grant, James Mason, MGM 1959."
Laura: "I never saw it."
Steele: "Laura, sometimes you're very difficult to talk to."

Notorious (ep. 14)

Steele: "Good idea, wouldn't you say?"
Laura: "Hm. Very good."
Steele: "That's what I thought. Well, it had to be good. Claude Rains did it in _____."

Notorious (ep. 24)

Steele: "_____?"
Laura: "Well, it's true, Pepe's did have a bit of a reputation in those days."
Steele: "Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, RKO 1946."
Laura: "I must've missed that one."

Obsession (ep. 42)

Steele: "_____, Cliff Cliff Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, uh Columbia 1976."

Ocean's Eleven (ep. 41)

Steele: "_____, Frank Sinatra, Richard Conte and the Rat Pack, Warner Brothers um 1960."

Old Yeller (ep. 43)

Steele: "It sickens me to think that you and _____ are members of the same animal family."
[Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Walt Disney 1957.]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (ep. 10)

Steele: "Nurse Ratchet, we are private investigators."

Out of the Past (ep. 83)

Steele: "_____, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, RKO 1947."

Pennies from Heaven (ep. 22)

Steele: "A trifle more substantial than _____."

Peyton Place (ep. 40)

Steele: "This town is a veritable _____.
[Lana Turner, Lee Philips, 20th Century Fox 1957.]

The Postman Always Rings Twice (ep. 53)

Lloyd Nolan: "Stay down, Steele. _____."
[Lana Turner, John Garfield, MGM 1946.]

Pride of the Yankees (ep. 48)

Steele: "How about a double feature tonight to take our minds off the case."
Laura: "What's playing?"
Steele: "Fear Strikes Out and _____."
[Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, a Sam Goldwyn production 1942]

Psycho (ep. 11)

Phil Haver: "She doesn't need a motive. She's nuts. Didn't you ever see _____?"

Psycho (ep. 63)

Laura: "_____."
Steele: "I beg your pardon?"
Laura: "Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Paramount 1960."

The Producers (ep. 59)

Steele: "Ah. _____."
Laura: "Here we go again."
Steele: "Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Avco-Embassy 1968."

Pygmalion (ep. 32)

Steele: "_____!"
Laura: "What?"
Roxie: "Who?"
Steele: "Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, MGM um 1938."

Rear Window (ep. 34)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "I know was made into a movie."
Steele: "James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Paramount 1954."
[Steele spends most of the episode with his leg in a cast, and ends it with both legs in a cast, just like Jimmy Stewart.]

Rear Window (ep. 80)

Steele: "Now I know how Jimmy Stewart felt in _____."

The Road to Singapore (ep. 53)

Steele: "You're kidding. Dorothy Lamour? _____? Moon Over Burma? Typhoon?"
[Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Paramount 1940.]

Robin Hood (ep. 26)

Laura: "Spellbound?"
Steele: "Or _____."
[Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, 1922 ]

Romancing the Stone (ep. 89)

Steele: "A veritable _____."
Tony: "What?"
Steele: "Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, 20th Century Fox 1985."

Saint Louis Blues (ep. 53)

Dorothy Lamour: "Lloyd and I did uh _____."
Steele: "William uh Frawley and Matty Melneck and his Orchestra, Paramount 1939, yes."

Sands of Iwo Jima (ep. 26)

Laura: "What are you doing?"
Steele: "_____, John Wayne, Republic 1949."

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (ep. 53)

Steele: "You know, you still look as lovely as you did in _____?
Danny Kaye, RKO 19 uh..."
[Boris Karloff, Samuel Goldwyn 1947.]

Shanghai Cobra (ep. 75)

Steele: "Feets don't fail me now. Do you know who said that?"
Scabbard: "I can't say that I do."
Steele: "Charlie Chan's chauffeur. _____, Monogram 1945. I've always thought those words to live by."

The Shining (ep. 7)

Laura: "What am I supposed to make of this?"
Steele: "_____?"
Laura: "What?"
Steele: "Did you see _____?"
Laura: "Did see _____?"

Smokey and the Bandit (ep. 67)

Steele: "Have you driven one of these things before?"
Laura: "I've seen _____."

Somewhere in the Night (ep. 53)

Steele: "I went to a revival house where they were showing _____, but they lost the last reel. ..."
[John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, 20th Century Fox 1946.]

Spellbound (ep. 26)

Laura: "By the way, where did you get this stuff on amnesia?"
Steele: "_____?"
Laura: "Yes, I was, actually."
Steele: "Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Selznick International, um 1945."
Laura: "Why do I ask?"

Splendor in the Grass (ep. 29)

Steele: "_____, Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Warner Brothers 1961."

Stagecoach (ep. 36)

Steele: "When John Ford was directing _____..."
[Claire Trevor, John Wayne, United Artists 1939.]

A Star is Born (ep. 22)

Steele: "What about the beach?
I mean, in _____, Fredric March walks himself into the ocean."
[Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Selznick 1937.]

The Sting (ep. 21)

[The entire episode is the Remington Steele version of the movie.
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Universal 1973.]

The Sting (ep. 28)

Laura: "We're about to enact our version of one of Mr. Steele's favorite films, _____."

Sunset Boulevard (ep. 83)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "I thought he lived on Eastwood Drive."
Steele: "Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Paramount 1950."

The Taking of Pelham 123 (ep. 75)

Steele: "_____."
Scabbard: "What?"
Steele: "Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, United Artists, 1974."
Scabbard: "We're all going to die like dogs and he's talking about a movie?"

Tea and Sympathy (ep. 1)

Steele: "Years from now, when you talk of this, and you will, be kind.
Deborah Kerr to John Kerr. _____, MGM 1958."

They Won't Believe Me (ep. 88)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "Who won't?"
Steele: "Robert Young, Susan Hayward, RKO 1947."

The Thin Man(ep. 2)

Laura: "I hope you know what you're doing."
Steele: "I know precisely what I'm doing.
William Powell did exactly the same thing in _____."

The Thin Man (ep. 56)

Steele: "_____, William Powell, Myrna Loy, MGM 1934.
Nick and Nora invite all the suspects to a dinner party and then serve up the killer at the main course."

The Third Man (ep. 8)

Steele: "I'm afraid to admit it this far along, but I think we're in the wrong movie. "
Laura: "What are you talking about!"
Steele: "_____!"

The Third Man (ep. 16)

Steele: "_____, London Films 1949.
Orson Welles disappeared in the sewers of Vienna..."

The Third Man (ep. 47)

Steele: "_____, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, London Films 1949."

The Third Man (ep. 76)

Laura: "Now all we need is _____."
Steele: "Well, if it isn't Orson Welles, I can't be of any immediate help. _____, Joseph Cotten..."
Laura: "I got it the first time."

The Thirty-Nine Steps (ep. 50)

Steele: "Pretty soon you'll want to make yourself comfortable and then do you Madeleine Carroll routine. Yes, I'm looking forward to that."
Laura: "What Madeleine Carroll routine?"
Steele: "_____? The Hitchcock movie? Even I remember that. I mean, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, on the run..." [1935.]

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (ep. 21)

Steele: "I'm watching a movie, um, _____, heroic stuff, makes me proud to be in your brave country."
[Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, MGM 1944.]

Thirty-Six Hours (ep. 71)

Steele: "What's going on here, Laura?"
Laura: "_____."
Steele: "James Garner, Rod Taylor, MGM 1964."

The Thomas Crown Affair (ep. 15)

Morrie: "How we gonna do that?"
Steele: "_____, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, United Artists 1968."

Three Days of the Condor (ep. 53)

Lloyd Nolan: "What were we talking about?"
Steele: "_____."
Lloyd Nolan: "No, I wasn't in that."
[Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Paramount 1975.]

T-Men (ep. 62)

Steele: "_____, Dennis O'Keefe, Albert Rider, Eagle/Lion 1948."

To Catch a Thief (ep. 15)

Laura: "John Roby?"
Steele: "_____, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Paramount uh 1955."

To Catch a Thief (ep. 45)

Steele: "What are you talking about?"
Laura: "[furious] _____, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Paramount 1955?
Grant plays a retired catburglar named John Roby."
Steele: "I'm impressed."
Laura: "You took me to see it 3 weeks ago!"

Tom Jones (ep. 29)

Laura: "This stuff sounds more to me like _____."
Steele: "_____? Albert Finney never had to work this hard."
Laura: "Albert Finney never had to play the part with me."
[Albert Finney, Susannah York, United Artists 1963.]

Typhoon (ep. 53)

Steele: "You're kidding. Dorothy Lamour? The Road to Singapore? Moon Over Burma? _____?"
[Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Paramount 1940.]

The Uninvited (ep. 16)

Steele: "_____, Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Paramount 1944."
Laura: "You're taking me to the movies again..."

Vertigo (ep. 42)

Steele: "If this were some normal case we were working on, I'd blithely come up with a string of movies to explain it all, I mean, _____, James Stewart, Kim Novak, eh Paramount 1958."

Wait Until Dark (ep. 50)

Steele: "Well, we'll wait til dark.
Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Warner Brothers 1967."
Laura: "Another clue?"
Steele: "I don't think so, it just popped into my head."
[The movie also starred Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.]

White Heat (ep. 53)

Steele: "And so we come to the triumph of _____, in which Miss Mayo further displays her versatility opposite James Cagney."
[James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Warner Brothers 1949.]

Witness (ep. 72)

Steele: "_____, Harrison Ford, Kelly McGuinness, Paramount 1985."

Witness for the Prosecution (ep. 9)

Laura: "Murphy, why would people put an elevator in their homes?"
Steele: "Charles Laughton, _____. Had a stroke, couldn't walk up stairs."
Murphy: "He's good."
[Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, United Artists 1957.]

The Wizard of Oz (ep. 52)

Laura: "I don't think we're in Kansas any more."
Steele: "_____, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, MGM [1939]."

The Yakuza (ep. 8)

Steele: "Aha! _____!"
Laura: "_____?"
Bernice: "Robert Mitchum, Brian Keith?"
Steele: "Exactly. Warner Brothers 1975. _____. Japanese word for 'gangster'. Ruthless code of honor."
Laura: "Where do you find these films?"
(ep. later)

Steele: "It appears we're on the mark with _____."
Murphy: "_____?"
Steele: "Mm hm."
Laura: "Robert Mitchum, Brian Keith, all about the Japanese underworld."
Murphy: "Oh my God, he's got you doing it now?"

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (ep. 29)

Steele: "_____."
Laura: "This is still an Auburn, no?"
Steele: "No. _____, Rex Harrison, George C. Scott, Shirley Maclaine, Art Carney, Ingrid Bergman, Omar Sharif, MGM 1965."