Murray Burns, the lead character of "A Thousand Clowns," is an anti-establishment rebel with a playful sense of humor that includes a passion for the ukulele. In one memorable scene, Murray, played by Jason Robards, performs a rendition of "Yessir, That's My Baby" that starts out joyful then gives way to a soulful montage-cum-duet with Barbara Harris. A great cine-uke moment.

In the feature "Steamboat Bill, Jr.," Buster Keaton plays the dandy college son of a burly man's man steamboat captain. Buster wears a beret, a pencil moustache and plays a ukulele like any good "sport" of the 1920's. Though the movie is silent, watching him prance around, playing his uke as the camera cuts back to the horrified gaze of his father's craggy mug is simple hysterical.

A delightful take on the standard 1950's "giant critter attacking rural town with rock-n-roll male teen as hero" genre. In "The Giant Gila Monster," the hero, Chase Winstead, as performed by Don Sullivan, plays a ukulele. The song he sings--twice, no less--is "God Said Laugh." The big/small dichotomy just about makes my head explode. I love this movie.

In one scene of Richard Linklater's animated philosophical odyssey, the main character walks into a church and chats with a guy in overalls playing a ukulele in a kind of "slacker hayseed sage" moment. It is in fact Guy Forsyth, plucking the song “True” from his album “Can You Live Without.” We can live with this arty depiction of the uke just fine.

Near the end of this engaging silent short from genius comedian-director (and ukulele player!) Buster Keaton, the great stone face whips out a ukulele and strums it to his sweetheart even as they float down river in a canoe toward a waterfall....

There's a lovely interlude in "The Jerk" wherein Steve Martin strolls along the beach with Bernadette Peters singing and strumming "Tonight You Belong to Me." Martin does a poor job of faking it, but the soundtrack is played in real life by Lyle Ritz, the ukulele jazz great. This anniversary DVD also features an instructional by Janet Klein, star of "Rock That Uke!"

Among the many real life "witnesses" who give documentary testimony about the life and times of John Reed and Louise Bryant in Warren Beatty's epic masterpiece is a very old man in a WWI uniform playing a ukulele and singing "I Don't Want to Play In Your Yard." A sweet moment that perfectly captures the bygone era of the movie's story.

In this Steve Martin comedy about dysfunctional counselors at a crisis center, Adam Sandler (a ukulele buff in real life) plays Louie, a counselor who writes songs constantly and plays the ukulele. I don't get it. Why is that funny?

The forever high-strung Mia Farrow as a frizzy haired ukestress accompanying a pith-helmeted Jeff Daniels in this Woody Allen period ditty.