The Searchers is by far John Wayne's best movie and was way too low on the list.
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The Searchers is by far John Wayne's best movie and was way too low on the list.
Where's
The Longest Day
Papillon
Ben Hur
Spartacus
12:00 High
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
At least one James Bond
King Kong
The Ten Commandments
The Great Escape
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Longest Day
Papillon
Ben Hur
Spartacus
12:00 High
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
At least one James Bond
King Kong
The Ten Commandments
The Great Escape
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Agree too many (any) spaghetti westerns. Was a little concerned when I saw My Fair Lady only made 100.
Lots of good movies not on the list, but a fair representation of film noir.
I expect this list for each person is fairly age dependent. I am an old geezer but not interested in the Chaplain movies, or the Japanese movies for that matter.
Lots of the movies mentioned in this thread would make good replacements for those on the list.
Lots of good movies not on the list, but a fair representation of film noir.
I expect this list for each person is fairly age dependent. I am an old geezer but not interested in the Chaplain movies, or the Japanese movies for that matter.
Lots of the movies mentioned in this thread would make good replacements for those on the list.
too many to choose from
Roadhouse when there i
Roadhouse when there i
big time!!!! or Captains Courageous, Greatest Story Ever Told, All Quiet on the Western Front, Dear Hunter, Wizard of Oz, March of the Wooden Soldiers, Resevoir Dogs, ..really so many great movies to choose from and then I look at the list people have put together and I shake my head
A lot of the movies mentioned don't fit the criteria which was made in 1974 or earlier I believe. This was a "classic" list, meaning old. Not "classic" meaning well classic - like Animal House was a classic movie for different reasons then this list deems classic.
The Quiet Man was a better movie but Wayne's performance in The Searchers was better. Better than True Grit too imo.
Unless there were plenty of hot naked native women that didn't want to boil my skull-porn?
Willy Wonka? Jaws? From school "The Grapes of Wrath"? (an answer on "Millonaire" Monday night)"?
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Don't know how anyone could make it thru Repulsion.
Charade
The Impress Files
The Great Race
Flight of the Phoenix
Charade
The Impress Files
The Great Race
Flight of the Phoenix
I'll give you 10 that I would want with me. Not in any order.
On the Waterfront
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
Animal House
Ghostbusters (do you have to ask which one?)
Patton
Dr. Strangelove
Silence of the Lambs
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
On the Waterfront
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
Animal House
Ghostbusters (do you have to ask which one?)
Patton
Dr. Strangelove
Silence of the Lambs
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
Funny that for In the Heat of the Night they used a picture from the TV show, not the movie.
Great job!!!???
Good to see that The Night of the Hunter made it to the top 20. Mitchum is fantastic in that movie. For you younger posters it's a must see.
Great job!!!???
Good to see that The Night of the Hunter made it to the top 20. Mitchum is fantastic in that movie. For you younger posters it's a must see.
Is there anyone out there like me that the whole movie (and music) was basically a tribute to Bruce? My Mom (RIP) used to joke with me re"HER" Julio Iglliesas vs Bruce but thought I was crazy when I though there were inside "wink-wink" nods to Bruce. For instance Eddie and the cRUisers play a spring dance and "Spring" is right above the playing band's head!
No you're thinking of "It's a Wonderful Life".
"Miracle on 34th Street " starred a very young Natalie Wood and the beautiful Maureen O'Hara as her mother. The story is about a Macy's Santa who claims to be the real Santa Claus and goes on trial for luring a 13 year old to be a sex slave or for housing discrimination or not paying his elves or for hiring illegals at his workshop or something like that.
Do you guys realize that this is a list of classic films, made before 1975? Hence, the lack of films since then, lol. Good list of older classics...
what what was the classic movie about the wealthy store owner in New York who decides to become an employee of his own store and be friends one of the shoe sales ladies
The Devil and Miss Jones
Sahara
Africa Queen
waiting for someone to post 'breakin' or 'beat streat' lol
Sahara
Africa Queen
waiting for someone to post 'breakin' or 'beat streat' lol
Really too many to list but I'll just list as they first come to mind. Like just about all of these but not all my favorites.
Casablanca (personal favorite)
Gone With the Wind
The Maltese Falcon
Grand Hotel
Dinner at Eight
The Quiet Man
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird (personal favorite)
North By Northwest (personal favorite)
Psycho
Ben Hur
On the Waterfront
The Godfather
West Side Story
Vertigo (personal favorite)
The Thin Man (personal favorite)
Double Indemnity
American in Paris
Bridge on the River Kwai (personal favorite)
Apocalypse Now (personal favorite)
The Searchers
Rebecca
The Big Sleep
Saving Private Ryan
Rocky
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
The Sting
Swing Time
Top Hat
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Footlight Parade (personal favorite)
Sergeant York
The French Connection
The Graduate
Cool Hand Luke
Bullitt
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Adam's Rib
The Philadelphia Story
Some Like It Hot
Singing in the Rain
Laura
List really goes on for me when you add all the excellent Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers, James Cagney, Spencer Tracey/Katherine Hepburn, Bing Crosby/Bob Hope, film noir, musicals, and screwball comedies of the golden era.
Casablanca (personal favorite)
Gone With the Wind
The Maltese Falcon
Grand Hotel
Dinner at Eight
The Quiet Man
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird (personal favorite)
North By Northwest (personal favorite)
Psycho
Ben Hur
On the Waterfront
The Godfather
West Side Story
Vertigo (personal favorite)
The Thin Man (personal favorite)
Double Indemnity
American in Paris
Bridge on the River Kwai (personal favorite)
Apocalypse Now (personal favorite)
The Searchers
Rebecca
The Big Sleep
Saving Private Ryan
Rocky
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
The Sting
Swing Time
Top Hat
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Footlight Parade (personal favorite)
Sergeant York
The French Connection
The Graduate
Cool Hand Luke
Bullitt
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Adam's Rib
The Philadelphia Story
Some Like It Hot
Singing in the Rain
Laura
List really goes on for me when you add all the excellent Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers, James Cagney, Spencer Tracey/Katherine Hepburn, Bing Crosby/Bob Hope, film noir, musicals, and screwball comedies of the golden era.
Would think that there would be a place for a Marx Brothers movie?
Thinking along the lines of of Duck Soup or Horse Feathers. Two of the funniest movie ever.
Thinking along the lines of of Duck Soup or Horse Feathers. Two of the funniest movie ever.
Reasonable minds can differ, but if Shawshank Redemption is not anywhere in the top-100 list, it is an epic FAIL.
Definitely plus Night at the Opera. I also forgot to mention Forrest Gump and a string of Woody Allen movies (Sleeper, Annie Hall, Play It Again Sam, Manhattan, etc.)
Wayne is too melodramatic in The Searchers. I prefer the more understated performance in Red River, Quiet Man, True Grit, etc.
Not a big Night at the Opera fan except for the stateroom scene on the ocean liner.
Scene: A overcrowded stateroom with people all over each other including Harpo fondling a pretty girl. Knock at the door. A mechanic is there. Groucho opens the door.
Groucho: What do you want?
Mecahnic: I'm here to turn off the heat.
Groucho (pointing at Harpo): Good! You can start with him!
Scene: A overcrowded stateroom with people all over each other including Harpo fondling a pretty girl. Knock at the door. A mechanic is there. Groucho opens the door.
Groucho: What do you want?
Mecahnic: I'm here to turn off the heat.
Groucho (pointing at Harpo): Good! You can start with him!
Wayne is too melodramatic in The Searchers. I prefer the more understated performance in Red River, Quiet Man, True Grit, etc.
How about The Sons of Katie Elder??
Kind of middling Wayne. Too much slapstick with the youngest brother.
Not a top 100 film, but I loved The Cowboys as a kid. It is a great father-son film for a boy who is about nine.
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