Burt and Debs top in screen smooches poll

BURT LANCASTER’S roll in the surf with Deborah Kerr in From Here To Eternity has been voted the most memorable movie kiss.

The romantic clinch from the 1953 Oscar- winner topped a poll of film fans.

The spaghetti-eating scene from Disney cartoon Lady and the Tramp was second. Richard Gere sweeping Debra Winger off her feet at the end of An Officer and a Gentleman was third.

Fourth was the rain-soaked kiss between Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

And fifth was the moment from Casablanca in which Ingrid Bergman tells Humphrey Bogart: “Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.”

The “upside-down kiss” between Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man was sixth.

Seventh was the scene from Bridget Jones’s Diary in which Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth share a kiss in the snow. The final shot from Breakfast at Tiffany’s featuring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard was eighth.

Ninth is far from romantic — the “kiss of death” Al Pacino’s Don Corleone gives to brother Fredo (John Cazale) in The Godfather: Part II.

There is also a gay kiss on the list — in 10th place is the embrace between Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain.

The survey of 1,000 film-goers was carried out by Sky Movies Comedy to mark the start of its Summer Lovin’ romantic comedy season, which starts tomorrow.

It also coincides with today’s National Kissing Day.

Sky Movies director Ian Lewis said “an element of the unexpected or the unusual” was what made the top 10 kisses so memorable.