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To: ezoeni
Here is my list, in no particular order:

Casablanca (which I literally know by heart)

Other Bogie Flicks:
The Maltese Falcon To Have and Have Not (first team-up with the luscious Lauren Bacall)
Key Largo
The Caine Mutiny

Jesus of Nazareth (Zeffarelli version -- still the best Jesus movie ever)

James Stewart films:
It's A Wonderful Life
Strategic Air Command (it's an old James Stewart/June Allyson Air Force flick)
Rear Window
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (with John Wayne)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Christmas Movies:
White Christmas (Bing, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney -- magical)
Four Daughters (original)
Young At Heart (remake of Four Daughters starring Frank Sinatra and Doris Day)
The Sound of Music

Star Wars (original 1977 version -- not "Episode IV")

Godzilla (original b&w Toho version only)

Alien and Aliens (only -- subsequent sequels not included)

Charlton Heston movies:
The Ten Commandments
Planet of the Apes (Rod Serling version only)
The Omega Man

Robert Wise flicks:
West Side Story
The Andromeda Strain

Audrey Hepburn pictures:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Roman Holiday
My Fair Lady

The Birds

2001: A Space Odyssey

James Bond:
Dr. No (watch for the Jack Lord cameo)
From Russia With Love (Daniela Biachi as Tatiana Romanova -- best Bond Girl ever)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the one with George Lazenby and Diana Rigg)

Network

The Conversation

Interiors (yes, the Woody Allen movie)

Saturday Night Fever (it really is a good movie)

The D.I. (starring Jack Webb as the D.I.)

The Manchurian Candidate

Seven Days In May (another Rod Serling masterpiece)

Henry Fonda:
The Grapes of Wrath
Yours, Mine, and Ours (Henry Fonda/Lucille Ball at their best)

Mad Max (the original film only)

Conan the Barbarian (another John Milius classic)

'50s sci-fi:
Forbidden Planet
When Worlds Collide
Destination Moon

The Boys in Company C

Escape From New York (original, featuring World Trade Center towers)

Gigí (1949 b&w French version)
Gigí (Oscar-winning color remake)

Amélie (French)

Shall We Dance? (Japanese)

Das Boot (German)

Empire of the Sun

Guilty Pleasures:
Grease
Xanadu
The Buddy Holly Story
Revenge of the Nerds (the original -- not the sequels)
On The Beach
Midway
Times Square (a now-unknown 1979 Robert Stigwood "punk rock" flick)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (screenplay: Roger Ebert)
Wild In the Streets
Easy Rider
Eegah! (starring a then-unknown Richard "Jaws" Kiel and the incomparabale Arch Hall, Jr.)
Head (the Monkees' movie)

Nuclear War Porn:
Threads
The Day After
Panic in Year Zero (featuring Ray Milland as the original "mad max")
Red Nightmare (starring Jack Webb)
Dr. Strangelove...
Fail Safe
Testament

James Coburn:
Our Man Flint
In Like Flint
The Magnificent Seven
The President's Analyst

Shaft (not the sequels)

Various blaxploitation flicks you've probably never seen
Various Bollywood (Bombay, India-made) films you've probably never heard of

Unlikely Favorite:
Red Dawn (hey, Milius is a great director)

199 posted on 02/20/2003 5:04:29 PM PST by B-Chan (Ad Astra Per Ardua)
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To: B-Chan
Casablanca (which I literally know by heart)

I'll go along with that, but not because of Bogart. IMHO Claude Raines stole the show.


222 posted on 02/20/2003 5:17:33 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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