Best "entrance" in a film?

Taking into the account the franchise has lasted over 40 years, I'd have to rate the first time we see and hear Sean Connery as James Bond - the casino scene in Dr No: "Bond... James Bond" - as one of the best entrances in movie history.
 
I thought nothing could beat Jack Sparrow on that boat as an entrance, but I think they almost equalled it in his entrance in Dead Man's Chest with the bird.
 
Alan Ladd riding into shot in Shane. The moment is especially memorable as a deer taking a drink out of a pond at the front of the picture raises it's head to look at Shane, it's antlers perfectly framing him as he rides into view.

Genius.
 
In Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back - Where Jay is grown up and is standing outside the store doing the F**k rap


Star Wars : Empire Strikes Back - where Lando first greets Han

In Both the Gremlins movies when you first see the mogwai's turn into gremlins

Blazing Saddles where Gene Wilder is hanging upside down in a prison cell.

And I know it's been done before but Jack in the Shining " HERE'S JOHNNY !!!" :D
 
An old one, but still a good one...

In Jezebel - with Bette Davis, when she enters the ball dressed in her red gown despite knowing she should have been dressed in white, the gulp, the stiffening of the shoulders and the horror when asked to dance - pure Bette Davis
 
As has already been suggested,

Orson Welles in The Third Man.

Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia.

Also,

Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind

Robert Redford in The Way We Were
 
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