Film The g Frankly, we still think Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh are the real deal in "Gone With the Wind.# DAMNBy MICHAEL GILTZ lFl uRr, they're iust a couple of L- mutts, but nlost of us would eat -la pound of kibble if only we Ycould find a love as passionate as the one between canine s',i/eet- hearts Lady and Tramp.</p><p> Fueled by accordion music and candlelight, their poochy pasta smooch has been setting hearts aflutter for 50 years.</p><p> Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" arrives on DVD for the first time Tuesday, with their memorable spaghetti dinner on the cover.</p><p> Which put us in a mood so romantic, we decided to unsDool a host of classic films to name The Post's 25 Greatest Movies Kisses of r\11 Time. € crARK GABLE & V|VIAN LE|GH, i? .GONE WITH THE WIND'(1939) Rhett says to Scarlett, "You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how." And soon enoush he is, in a love affair as doomed ai the South in the Civil War. ;'j;tEot{ARDO DiCAPRIO & KATE d,,wtNSLET,'"TITANtC" ( 19e7)RICHARD GERE & DEBRA WINGER,..AN OFF|CER AND A GENruMAJ{" 0982) ZackMayo and Paula Pokrifki made censors sweat with steamy sex scene remarkable for the actors' real-life tilfs.</p><p> But when "Mayonnaise" strides into the factory, sweeping the town girl off her feet, we're all lifted up where we belong. .,,1 BURT TANCASIER & DEBORAH |GRR,;\?"FROM HERE TO ETERNTTT' (1953) ,E Satirized everywhere from "Your --EShow of Shows" to 'Airplane." But i nothing dilutes the iconic power of $ Sgr- lrlilt Wardcn and Karen i Holmes rolling in the sand and surfl Real-life attempts have ruined many a romance. ,ryJlMMY STEWART & GRACE KEttY, *"S'REAR WINDOW" (1e54) One of the most beautiful women to ever make movies, Kelly is enshrined forever as a vision of loveliness when she leans into the camera in slow motion Supposedly, she's kissing her wheelchair-bound boyfriend, but she's really seducing us.Moonlight, romantic music, a deli- cious meal and suddenly a strand of spaghetti brings two bashful pups together.</p><p> Lady blushes and tilts her head to one side, and our hearts melt. *lr HFATH I"EDGER & JnlG GYILENHAAI, * .BROKEBIICK MOUNTAIN" (2005) How much can one kiss say? The second meeting of fack and Ennis begins with a passionate, practically violent kiss that makes it undeniably clear they are mad for each other.</p><p> It's so good that Ennis'wife is left with no doubt that these two are very good friends indeed.No wonder Jack feels like the king of ttADY & TRAMB the world.</p><p> At the bow of a legendary 1$"LADY AND THE TRAMP" (1955) ship, he makes like an aquatic hood ornament with witt, hot-blooded Rose.</p><p> He wraps his arms around her.</p><p> She turns into him.</p><p> They kiss, b.lind to the ice ahead.</p><p> SURF'N'SLURP:#4: lmitate "From Here ; to Eternity" and ; discoveryourown ' "sandy bottom."*tAr PACTNO & JOHN CAZALE, "THEq"9GODFATHER ll" ( 1s74) A kiss isn't always a good thing, as Fredo soon learns from brother Michael ICE COLD, BABY: Leo and Kate gave us that sinkinoYfri+ HARRTSONFORD&XEIIY .5 Mcc|tt-ts, 'wtrNEss" (1985) In one of the most subtlyz. o€ !o E o D Ta 5 c o N o PUPPY LOVE: Scampy Tramp shows Lady a back-alley night on the town, complete with a savory spaghetti \ dinner,get down to serious snogging in 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back." It all turns ouite "ewww" when we later learn'they're siblings.: .;i' TOM SELLECK & KEVIN KIINE i ;.,;'-lN & OUT' 0997) Jack and Ennis were hardly the first men to lock lios on-screen - nol by far.</p><p> The biggesr surprise in this witty coinedy about a high school teacher outed by an Oscar speech came when in-denial Howard Brackett is smooched by Selleck's local newsman. '51 WOODY Al-tEN & DIANNE i WIEST,'HANNAH AND HER SISTERS" 0eB6) Woody Allen was never more all-embracing than at the end of this masterpiece, where his Mick- ending he would ever deliver.</p><p> After that, his screen kisses start- ed to iust seem creePy. ii'f,FRENCH KID & DIANE LANE, 1"r1A LtfiLE ROMANCE" (1s7e) In Lane's screen debut, she plays a young American in Paris who runs off with a French boy (Thelonious Bernard).</p><p> They head for Vienna to make their first kiss in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs, guaranteeing their love will Iast.</p><p> The best iirst kiss ever. 1iQqpy GRIWT & tl'tGRD g BEnGiMllt{,'il(m}HOlrS' (1e46) In this famous one-take scene, an American secret aeent and a Nazi sympathizer's daughter kiss and talk in a wildly erotic adult tango as they make plans for the evening.</p><p> When he takes a phone call and has to leave, it boggles the mind No man could do that. ;r.h JIMMY STEWART & DONNA €* REED, "IT'S A WONDERFUT LIFE" (1s46) George Bailey doesn't want to stay in tiny Bedford Falls, but local sweetie Mary Hatch just looks so perfect.</p><p> He grabs her, kiss- HIS PRETTY WOMAN: Richard Gere macks onerotic moments in cinema history, Amish widow Rachel Lapp quietly doffs her cap, walks out of her house and her modest world. finds Harrison Ford and kiss- es him passionately. "MOONSTRUCK'(1e82) You can't control whom you fall for.</p><p> Soon-to-be in-laws Loretta Castorini and Ronnie Cammareri smooch unexpectedly with the goony Cage immediately declar- ing his love.</p><p> Cher slaps him and says, "Snap out of it!" - and it's iust as romantic as their kiss.</p><p> TOM CRUISE & KELTY McGlLLlS, "TOP GUN" (1986) No one ever figured out where that crazy blue lighting came from, but Maverick and Charlie ignite when the fighter pilot cruis- es over to his sexy instructor's home.</p><p> He locks onto his target, and plunges into a legendary kiss.A VIEW TO A KISS: Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly get tight in "Rear Window" ing her again and agair, almost furi ouslv. even as he tells her he doesn't wani to stay, he won't stay, he can'i stay.</p><p> But he does. "; 'j DANIEL TRUHITTE & GHAR- i.. rii'MAIN CARR, 'THE SOUND oF MUSIC" (1e65) Sweet-voiced Liesl, 16 going on r?:,, kr-^-^^l'!:- ^ ^1,.^,.,. _l/, lS trappeo ln a glass alrlun) during a thunderstorm with way- too-Aryan Rolfe, who is J7 going on 18.</p><p> They sing, they dance and almost kiss before finally locking lips.</p><p> Liesl rushes back home, a look of pure innocent bliss on her face, and shouts out with glee ,s S|DNEY POmER & KATHARINE.,.I"i.HOUGHTON,'GUESS WHOS OOMING TO DINNER' (re67) It's a rather timid kiss, just like the "message" of the movie.</p><p> But Poitier's John Prentice breaks down a small barrier when he kisses the lily-white daughter of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. (Houghton, by the way, was named for Heoburn - she's her niece ) !!i: GARYEWES&R()B|NWRlcl{[ {-. .THEPflNCESSBRDS'(1987) Peter Falk's only been building it up as the "greatest kiss in the history of kisses." So no pressure on Wesley and Buttercup (the future Mrs.</p><p> Sean Penn) when they finally clinch after Fred Savage (as lhe romance-rverse boy listening to the storv) savs it would be OKl E o o3 ,iA ey Sachs and Wiest's Holly kiss $i NICOIAS CAGE & CHER, lovingly in the most purely happy &i The most drarnatic betrayal by kissing since fudas kissed Jesus.</p><p> THAT GT'Y & MOI"TY RINGWAID, 'sD(TEEN CANDI,IS' (1e84) Yeah, most teen romances cli max with a kiss, but John Hughes made this one for the ages when Molly Ringwald locks lips with her dreamboat while leanins over her Sweet 16 birthday caki.</p><p> PS: That hunk's name is Michael Schoeffling - and we don't know where he is now either. '* MOST OF'30S HOLLYWOOD, ft .CINEMA PARADISO'' (1989) For years, the parish priest has edited all intimations of sex from movies shown in a small Italian town.</p><p> Bul the projectionist has saved all those missing kisses, and he screens them one after the oth- er in a rush of movie magic. ,.Ii .,..i JOI{N WAYNE & MAURE{$ , ouan+'mEeurrMAm'oer) Sean Thornton stomps angrily over the hills of Ireland until he tracks down fiery Mary KateDanaher, yanks her toward him ancl waiting for. '.] JULIAN SANDS & C HETENABONHAMCARTER, 'n RooM wlTH A vlEw" 0e85) Lucy Honeychurch, as ripe a oeach as the movies have ever ieen, is embraced by creed-spout- ing - "Love! |oy! Beauty!" -- George Emerson in the middle of a wheat field.</p><p> Lucky guy. {,StlSAl{ SARIINIX)N & GiFlIr ,# DAI/E'THE-tvtA& tfiJsg' (1s1) Right before they head off a clifi in one ofthe most unexpect- ed Iinales imaginable, Thelma and Louise do what any outlaw femi- nists would - kiss. .4 MARK HAMILT & GARRIE fi FISHER, "STAR WARS" (re77) Luke and Leia have a quick peck: before swinging out over a vasl: abyss in "Star Wars." Then they#3Debra Winger in "An 0fficer and a Gentleman."if they kissed.</p><p> He's learning
