My Favorite Movies
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Excalibur (1981, R)
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The Lion in Winter (1968, PG)
One of my all time favorite movies as well as plays.The lines are to die for.I played Richard(Anthony Hopkins) at MLT.It was by far my best. |
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There Will Be Blood (2007, R)
One of the best acted roles I've ever seen.Daniel is as slick and dirty as the oil he brings up out of the ground |
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Equus (1977, R)
My favorite of Peter Shaffer's plays.It's a good movie but works better on the stage.Great performances by both Burton and Firth.WELL WORTH A WATCH. |
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The Iceman Cometh (1973, Unrated)
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962, Unrated)
A great flim version of Eugene O'Neil's play with a great .cast |
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994, R)
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Camelot (1982, Unrated)
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Frost/Nixon (2008, R)
This is one of the best movies this year .Both Sheen and Langella are great. |
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004, PG-13)
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Jesus Christ Superstar (1973, G)
A fantastic adaptation of Andrew Loyd-Webber's Rock Opera |
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Australia (2008, PG-13)
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Love and Death (1975, PG)
A great parody of War and Peace.It to me is by far the funniest of Woody's movies. |
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The Elephant Man (1980, PG)
The best of David Llynch's movies by far.I conecnected with John Merrick as I've never Connected with a charater in a movie before or since. |
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Zelig (1983, PG)
A greatly funny mockumenty.Once again Woody Allen shows his brillance. |
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| 16 |
Duck Soup (1933, Unrated)
A look at pollitics and war as only the Marx Brothers can |
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| 17 |
Animal Crackers (1930, G)
One of the best of the Marx Brothers movies |
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Sergeant York (1941, Unrated)
To me the best of Gary Cooper's rolesAnd for years I thought that the women who played Ma was someone they found in the Hills until I watch White Heat And reealised that it was the same playing Cagney's Mother in it. |
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Unrated)
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| 20 |
Ball of Fire (1941, Unrated)
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| 21 |
Friendly Persuasion (1956, Unrated)
A wonderful family movie. |
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| 22 |
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, R)
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Hannibal (2001, R)
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Fracture (2007, R)
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, G)
My favorite Cagney Movie .He has a danceing style all his own. |
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Man of a Thousand Faces (1957, Unrated)
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White Heat (1949, Unrated)
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| 28 |
Mister Roberts (1955, Unrated)
A great flick.with a great cast |
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| 29 |
One, Two, Three (1961, Unrated)
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Some Like It Hot (1959, Unrated)
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, R)
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| 32 |
Ragtime (1981, PG)
A great adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's novel.with a great musical Score by Randy Newman |
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| 33 |
The Glenn Miller Story (1953, Unrated)
A great Bio pic with great music |
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| 34 |
How the West Was Won (1962, G)
One of the best Westerns ever made with an all star cast. |
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| 35 |
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962, Unrated)
A good comedy that I loved as a kid. |
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| 36 |
The FBI Story (1959, Unrated)
A great story of a man in the FBI since it's begenning. |
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| 37 |
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, PG)
A great Hitchcock movie |
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| 38 |
Rear Window (1954, PG)
Hitchcock,need I say more |
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| 39 |
Thunder Bay (1953, Unrated)
A good story about the early days of off shore oil drilling |
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| 40 |
Harvey (1951, Unrated)
My favorite Jimmy Stewart movie.great adaptation of the play. |
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| 41 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Unrated)
A great story that shows the greatness of the TRUE American sprit going up against corrupt politicians. |
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| 42 |
The Philadelphia Story (1940, Unrated)
A great movie with a great cast! |
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| 43 |
Anatomy of a Murder (1959, R)
A great murder trail movie from Otto Preminger,with a great score by the immortal Duke Ellington. |
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| 44 |
You Can't Take It with You (1938, Unrated)
A great adaptation of the Moss Hart play |
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| 45 |
Full Metal Jacket (1987, R)
One of my favorite Nam Movies with a great performance by R. Lee Ermey |
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| 46 |
Barry Lyndon (1975, PG)
A great Period piece with a great Classical score. |
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| 47 |
A Clockwork Orange (1971, R)
Kubrick's great flim looking at the dark sideof humans.A great score also. |
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| 48 |
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, G)
A cinemaical milestone with a fantastic visual style. |
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| 49 |
Casablanca (1943, Unrated)
What is there left to say that hasn't been said about this flim |
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| 50 |
We're No Angels (1955, Unrated)
This proved that Bogart could do comedy |
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| 51 |
The African Queen (1951, Unrated)
One of my favorites bogart flims Directed by the great John Huston. |
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| 52 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Unrated)
Graet flim from John Huston with an Oscar winning performance by father Walter |
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| 53 |
Key Largo (1948, Unrated)
I love Eddie Robinson in this flim |
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| 54 |
To Have and Have Not (1944, Unrated)
Bogart and Bacall's first first flim together |
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| 55 |
The Maltese Falcon (1941, Unrated)
Great cast in John Huston Classic |
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| 56 |
Schindler's List (1993, R)
Perhaps the most powerful movie of my lifetime. |
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| 57 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006, R)
A great war flic |
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| 58 |
Minority Report (2002, PG-13)
A real good Si-fi movie |
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| 59 |
Amistad (1997, R)
A very good historical piece with a great cast. |
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| 60 |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, PG-13)
Love Indy,love Connery,love any story about the .Holy Grail |
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| 61 |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, PG-13)
the most emmotinal Sci-fi movie I've ever seen |
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The Color Purple (1985, PG-13)
A great adaptation of Walker's novel |
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| 63 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, PG)
The best visual movie of it's day with a great story line |
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| 64 |
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, PG)
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Jaws (1975, PG)
To me this is one of those movies that fantatic the first but because it's one of thoses that scare the holy crap out you the frist time with each veiwing it loses a little of the orininal power. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) (1981, PG)
Hey it's the orginal Indy ,what can I say |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983, PG)
a great end to the oringinal triology |
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962, PG)
A great epic adventure of T.H. lawrence in WWI |
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Unrated)
A great Christmas classic from the great Frank Capra |
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Unrated)
A great movie adaptation of the stage play that I been able to do twice once with my freinds Bill Evans ,Russell S, and Mike B, at MHS playing Teddy and another time at MLT playing Johnathan.When I performed this at MHS I was young and was real bad about upstageing others but I know alot better now. |
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Taken (2009, PG-13)
Great action movie.I leared never ever piss Aslan off. |
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| 72 |
Batman Begins (2005, PG-13)
I like this more realilistic version a lot better than Tim Burton's |
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| 73 |
Kinsey (2004, R)
A very open and honest look a Human Sexuality and the man who open the door for us to see and learn a good many truths about this Human experience from a sciencetific viewpoint. One of Neeson's best performances. |
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Les Miserables (1998, PG-13)
A pretty good adaptation of Hugo's classic novel(but not as good as the Broadway Opera)with neeson playing Vajean |
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The Mission (1986, PG)
From the same man who wrote "A Man For All Seasons" with great Peformances from DeNero, and Irons with one of the best musical scores of all times. |
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The Good Shepherd (2006, R)
Good movie about Edward Wilson a man who's been with the CIA since it's beginning.it shows us the show change in his idealisms from when he started were he ended up and how it effected his life and family |
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Sleepers (1996, R)
This movie really hit home for me |
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Casino (1995, R)
A good Scorsese movie with a good look behind what goes on at a Vegas Casino. |
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Cape Fear (1991, R)
A great remake of the 50's classic |
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| 80 |
GoodFellas (1990, R)
Scorsese and DeNero ,nuff said |
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984, R)
My favorite James Woods movie |
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Raging Bull (1980, R)
The best to me of Scorsese's works. |
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Angel Heart (1987, R)
A wonderful reworking of the Faustian tale. |
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The Deer Hunter (1978, R)
A great story about a group of friends before and after they serve in Nam. |
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| 85 |
The Ten Commandments (1956, G)
One of thoses movies from your childhood that you remember how old your were and the theater that you saw it in. |
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Defiance (2009, R)
A wonderful movie about the triumph of the human well and caused me to think,Were do I draw the line between standing up and fighting backand were do I start becoming just like yhe evil that I'm fighting |
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RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1999, R)
A interesting look into the making of "Citizen Kane" the movie mostCritics and movie buffs call "the greatest movie of all times'.Screiber plays a great Orson Wells and James Cromwell plays a great Herst. |
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Burn After Reading (2008, R)
Another good and funny movie from those crazy Coen Brothers with a great cast. |
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Beowulf (2007, PG-13)
a interesting take on the Beowulf story with fanstastic visuals. |
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| 90 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005, PG)
A funny take of "The Hitchhiker's Guild Novels |
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000, R)
I really enjoyed this flim it is Sooo different. |
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| 92 |
The Man in the Iron Mask (1997, PG-13)
A wonderful retelling Of the Dumas classic. |
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| 93 |
Of Mice and Men (1992, PG-13)
Sinise and Malkovich are both great in my favorite Steinbeck story |
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The Glass Menagerie (1987, PG)
The best flim version of my favorite Tennessee Williams play. |
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Death of a Salesman (1985, PG)
My favorite version of the Arthur Miller play. |
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Places in the Heart (1984, PG)
A fantastic story of several different lives drawn together during the Depression in the South. |
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The Queen (2006, PG-13)
Wonderfully acted movie about the Royal Family just after the death of Diana. |
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The Sum of All Fears (2002, PG-13)
a great Clancy story that's a lot different from the novel but still good |
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A Death in the Family (2002, Unrated)
A great adaptation of James Agee's autobiograhical winning novel that takes place on the street here in Knoxville were we live. |
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The Green Mile (1999, R)
such a great story. |
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The Cheap Detective (1978, PG)
A fantastic parody of the classic Bogart movies from Neil Simon. |
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Murder by Death (1976, PG)
A laugh riot parody of the great murder Detectives from Neil Simon. |
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Star Trek - First Contact (1996, PG-13)
The best of the Star Trek TNG movies |
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Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982, PG)
The best of the oringinal Star Trek movies |
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The Godfather (1972, R)
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007, PG-13)
like the other "Ocean's" movie it was good but haveing Pacino as the villian made it a lot better |
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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004, R)
A great screen version of Shakespeare's play with a wonderful cast.This was the first time that I've seen Pacino do Shakespear and he was great as Shylock. |
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The Devil's Advocate (1997, R)
Good twist of the Faustian theme |
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Heat (1995, R)
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Scent of a Woman (1992, R)
One of my favorite Pacino Films |
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...And Justice For All (1979, R)
A great look at the Lawyers and the Legal System with that great line "I'm out of order?YOUR out of order. THIS WHOLE COURT is out of order" |
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| 112 |
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, R)
This was abit strange but a great movie.I mean to rob a bank to pay for your gay lover's sex change??? Different |
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The Godfather, Part II (1974, R)
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| 114 |
The Freshman (1925, PG)
This was a good interesting little movie |
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Don Juan DeMarco (1994, PG-13)
This was a good look at romance,plus it was fun to watch Brando and Depp work together. |
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Apocalypse Now (1979, R)
The best damn Nam movie by far!! |
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Superman (1978, PG)
This was a good movie for it's time. |
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The Chase (1966, Unrated)
This was a great movie with great peformances by Brando,and young version of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford |
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| 119 |
Bedtime Story (King of the Mountain) (1964, Unrated)
This was a fun watch.Yes Brando can be funny!This film woud go on to be remade into "Dirty Rotten Scroundrels" |
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One Eyed Jacks (1961, Unrated)
A great Western directed by Brando. |
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The Young Lions (1958, G)
A real good WWII Flick. |
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Sayonara (1957, Unrated)
A good look at a different type of racisum. |
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On the Waterfront (1954, Unrated)
Great all time Brando Classic! |
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1953, Unrated)
interesting movie version of Shakespear's classic play with an all star Cast. |
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, PG)
The best all time Brando classic that made him a star taken fro the Tennessee Williams play that also stared Brando. |
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The Exorcist (1973, R)
This scared the you know what out me the first time I saw it but it also keep two good looking girls with their arm wrapped around me the whole movie SWEEET!! |
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Coogan's Bluff (1968, R)
One of the first movies of Easterwood's that I can remember. |
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In Like Flint (1967, Unrated)
Fun take off on the Bond movies that were new to the public then |
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Our Man Flint (1966, Unrated)
My favorite of the two "Flint " movies |
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Exodus (1960, Unrated)
A great classic from Otto Prminger,from a novel by Leon Uris.Also a great cast. |
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Road to Perdition (2002, R)
This was a beautifuuly Acted movie by Hanks ,Law and Newman with a great story. |
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Cars (2006, G)
A cute little movie |
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989, PG-13)
A great historical movie about the Mannhattan Project |
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The Verdict (1982, R)
A fanstastic movie about Redemtion |
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Slap Shot (1977, R)
One of the funniest Sports movie ever |
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Silent Movie (1976, PG)
Who elese could do a silent movie today and get away with it but Mel |
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, PG)
A great look at the Corporate world. |
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The MacKintosh Man (1973, PG)
A great spy movie from John Huston |
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The Sting (1973, PG)
My favorite of the two movies that Redford and Newman made together with a great soundtrack using music by Scott Joplin. |
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| 140 |
Sometimes a Great Notion (Never Give an Inch) (1971, PG)
A great movie about Family |
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972, PG)
One of my all time favorite Newman movies |
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| 142 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, PG)
One of the all time great Westerns |
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968, Unrated)
A funny war movie that worth a watch for Newman fans |
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| 144 |
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Unrated)
One of my favorite prison movies about human will. |
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| 145 |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Unrated)
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Hud (1963, Unrated)
Great strry with Newman as an Asshole.Does a great jobtoo.Also a great job by Knoxvilles own Patricia Neal. |
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958, Unrated)
A good version of Faulkner's st6ory "The Barn Burnner" |
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| 148 |
On Golden Pond (1981, PG)
A beautiful story ,taken from the Play by the same name |
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| 149 |
Midway (The Battle of Midway) (1976, PG)
A great Historical movie with an all star cast |
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Clarence Darrow (1974, Unrated)
A great version of the one man show.I'm not anywhere near being a socalist but Darrow was what the contry needed at the time |
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| 151 |
There Was a Crooked Man (1970, R)
This was fun to watch |
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| 152 |
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970, PG)
A fun Western |
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| 153 |
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966, Unrated)
A fun watch |
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| 154 |
Battle of the Bulge (1965, Unrated)
A great historical movie |
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In Harm's Way (1965, Unrated)
A great Otto Preminger war movie |
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| 156 |
Sex and the Single Girl (1964, Unrated)
I always loved this film as a kid The chase scene at the end is great with the funny Larry Storch leading the way |
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| 157 |
Fail-Safe (1964, Unrated)
A great movie that really scared the crap out of me when I was young. |
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| 158 |
Spencer's Mountain (1963, Unrated)
Earl Hammer's wonderful storythat was the model for "The Walton's" |
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| 159 |
Advise and Consent (1962, Unrated)
A great movie with a great cast |
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| 160 |
The Longest Day (1962, G)
One of the best WWII movies ever made with an all star cast. |
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| 161 |
War and Peace (1956, PG)
A good adaptation of Tolstoy's novel |
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Unrated)
A great adaptaion of Steinbecks novel |
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Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, Unrated)
A wonderful movie. |
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Spartacus (1960, PG-13)
One of Kubrick's early works with great proformances |
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Paths of Glory (1957, Unrated)
Kubrick's !st major movie that had a lot to say about man and war. |
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982, PG)
This was a great parody of the old Film Noir movies |
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The Final Countdown (1980, PG)
Get Sci Fi movie.I loved watching F-14's going up against Japanese Zeros. |
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The Fury (1978, R)
A real good Sci Fi movie with a good plot. |
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Lust for Life (1956, Unrated)
A powerful look at the tormented life of Van Gogh well played by Douglas |
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Seven Days in May (1964, PG-13)
A great Frankenheimer movie with a great cast and strong plot. |
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Cast a Giant Shadow (1966, Unrated)
a great movie about the struggle in the early days of the nation of Isreal |
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963, Unrated)
a great whodunnit movie from John Huston |
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Victory at Entebbe (1976, Unrated)
pretty good retelling about the raid on Entebbe. |
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Rooster Cogburn (1999, PG)
A pretty good sequel to "Ture Grit" The play between Hepburn and Wayne is what really makes this movie. |
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The Shootist (1976, PG)
A good look at a dying man eho really wants to go out with a blaze of glory. |
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The Cowboys (1972, PG)
One of my favorite Wayne movie that a great coming of age movieI think this was one of the first movies that I remember thats got a John Williams score. |
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Big Jake (1971, PG-13)
a better than average western |
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True Grit (1969, G)
John Wayne"s Oscar winnig role. |
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The Undefeated (1969, G)
An interesting story |
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Hellfighters (1968, G)
Graet Bio pic about Red Adair that Wayne makes his own |
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McLintock! (1963, Unrated)
A great wayne and O'Hara movie |
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Donovan's Reef (1963, Unrated)
One of my all time Wayne favorites with a great proformance by Lee Marvin. |
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Hatari! (1962, Unrated)
a little aove standard Wayne Movie |
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The Alamo (1960, Unrated)
A wester Classic that Wayne Produced. |
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The Horse Soldiers (1959, Unrated)
Good Civil War movie with William Holden |
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The Wings of Eagles (1957, Unrated)
A good Wayne movie fro john Ford |
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The Quiet Man (1952, Unrated)
Another favorite Wayne movie |
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The Fighting Kentuckian (1949, Unrated)
aAlittle better than average Wayne movie with Oliver Hardy as his sidekick |
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Back to Bataan (1945, Unrated)
A bit better than Average Wayne War movie |
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Flying Tigers (1942, Unrated)
A better than average Wayne War movie |
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The Dark Command (1940, R)
A great one of Wayne's older movies with a great Westen cast and the great Walter Piegon also. |
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Stagecoach (1939, Unrated)
The movie that made Wayne a star! |
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Bringing Up Baby (1938, Unrated)
Great funny proformances by Grant and Hepburn |
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Walk, Don't Run (1966, Unrated)
Funny little movie that was Grant's last Film |
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Father Goose (1964, Unrated)
Alys have to watch this one when it's on TCM |
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Charade (1963, G)
Great Who's killing who movie with lots of laughs as well |
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That Touch of Mink (1962, Unrated)
Well worth a watch |
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Operation Petticoat (1959, Unrated)
Another great Grant classic |
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North by Northwest (1959, Unrated)
Great Hitckcock Classic |
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Indiscreet (1958, PG)
It's great to watch Grant and Bergman together |
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To Catch a Thief (1955, Unrated)
An all time Hitchcock classic |
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Monkey Business (1952, Unrated)
Good clean fun movie |
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Room for One More (The Easy Way) (1952, PG)
Grat family movie of a couple with their own family but get hooked into adopting several others |
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I Was a Male War Bride (1949, Unrated)
This is a great comedy |