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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Peter Sellers; George C. Scott; Sterling Hayden; Slim Pickens
Kubrick's black comedy of US nuclear bomb launch on Russia, focuses on an American president, played by Sellers in one of his three roles, who must contend with a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States and his own maniacal staff, including Scott's memorable General Turgidson. Features a memorable triad of performances by Sellers (as US president, British officer, and deranged scientist) and Pickens's wild ride on a missile. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
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Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty; Faye Dunaway; Michael J. Pollard; Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Influential reimagining of gangster film genre recounts lives and loves of infamous, real-life 1930s bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (Dunaway and Beatty), which mixed romance, adventure, glamour, comedy and violence in a way never seen before. Also notable for influence on fashion and its stylized presentation of film violence. "We rob banks."
28.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Marlon Brando; Robert Duvall; Martin Sheen
Phantasmagoric representation of Vietnam War based loosely on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. Coppola's Vietnam epic follows Sheen up the Mekong River into Cambodia to find Brando, an officer who has gone mad in the jungle and is running his own empire. Features an enigmatic performance by Brando (as Kurtz) and dazzling Academy Award-winning cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.
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Director: Frank Capra
Stars: James Stewart; Claude Rains; Jean Arthur; Thomas Mitchell
Capra's exhilarating comedy-drama and biting satire of Washington politics chronicles triumph of idealistic young Senator Jefferson Smith (Stewart) over longtime corruption, embodied in mentor Senator Paine (Rains) and a powerful political machine. Stewart is aided by hard-boiled secretary Arthur, some Boy Rangers and a 24-hour, one-man filibuster in a stirring scene.
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Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart; Walter Huston; Tim Holt
Morality tale about gold prospectors overcome by greed won Academy Awards for Best Director, Screenplay, and Supporting Actor (Walter Huston, father of the director and screenwriter). A scraggly Bogart leads a trio of gold prospectors destroyed by greed in this taut psychological drama. John Huston directed his father in a stellar performance.
31.
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen; Diane Keaton; Tony Roberts
Sophisticated autobiographical comedy of the untenable love affair of two New Yorkers (Allen and Keaton), notable for its witty dialogue and sumptuous rendering of New York City. Allen's Alvy Singer, a Jewish comedian, is trying to find love in the Big Apple, despite his neurosis, and falls in love with Keaton's aspiring singer, WASPy Annie Hall. He narrates the story of his love affair as she "lah-dee-dah"s her way through life, while he obsesses on sex, New York, religion, intellectualism, fads and fate. This comedy also launched a women's fashion trend based on Annie Hall's "look." Won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Actress (Keaton, in title role), among others.
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Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Al Pacino; Robert De Niro; Robert Duvall; Diane Keaton, Lee Strasberg
The sizzling sequel to The Godfather contrasts the rise to power of young Vito Corleone (De Niro) with the maturation and moral decline of his son Don Michael Corleone (Pacino). In the film's extended flashback sequences, De Niro is the young Vito as he gains power in the New York City Mafia. Shows us the world of Don Vito Corleone before and after the story in the original film. Pacino is his son Michael, who struggles to bring the family into the modern age. Outstanding period detail. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (De Niro), among others.
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Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Gary Cooper; Lloyd Bridges; Thomas Mitchell; Grace Kelly
Classically drawn western about newlywed marshal (Cooper) deserted by his community in the face of evil. On his wedding day, Cooper is forced to face an old enemy alone as the people of his town turn their backs on him. His Quaker bride, Kelly, ultimately comes to his aid as the clock ticks toward noon and the inevitable shootout. Academy Award winner for Best Picture, memorable for its tight structure and iconic Academy Award-winning performance by Cooper.
34.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Gregory Peck; Mary Badham; Philip Alford; Robert Duvall
Foote's screenplay is an affecting adaptation of Harper Lee's novel about a small-town widowed Southern lawyer's (Peck) defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman in the 1930s. At home, he raises his daughter, Scout, and his son, Jem, and teaches them about compassion and the evils of prejudice. Remembered for Peck's Academy Award-winning performance as lawyer Atticus Finch and the debut of Robert Duvall as recluse Boo Radley.
35.
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Clark Gable; Claudette Colbert; Walter Connolly
Definitive screwball comedy - a landmark battle of the sexes love story between a runaway heiress bride (Colbert) who shows her legs to hitch a ride on their trip from Florida to New York, and learns about life and live, and an unemployed, unscrupulous newspaperman/reporter (Gable) who separates their beds at night with a blanket known as the "walls of Jericho." Love blossoms along the way, despite the "Wall of Jericho" that divides them. The film was an unqualified success and still provides inspiration for many comedies. It was the first film to sweep the four top Academy Awards - winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director - and established Capra as the preeminent director of the 1930s. Gable's bare-chested presence onscreen caused a decline in US undershirt sales.
36.
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Jon Voight; Dustin Hoffman; Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro
Dark, powerful character drama about misfits living on the fringe in New York City. Voight is Joe Buck, a country boy who arrives in New York City to make his fortune as a hustler. As he struggles to maintain a living, he meets Hoffman's Ratzo Rizzo, and the two friends work together to find a better life. Based on the novel by James Lee Herlihy, it was the first and only X-rated film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture (later edited to gain R rating). "I'm walkin' here!"
37.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Myrna Loy; Fredric March; Dana Andrews; Teresa Wright, Harold Russell
Poignant drama of three returning World War II veterans from different strata of society, who faced difficult readjustments to everyday civilian life in this thoughtful film for its generation, which simply and realistically showed a real-life soldier coping with devastating injuries. Won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Supporting Actor (Harold Russell, as a veteran who lost both hands in the war). Memorable March homecoming scene.
38.
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Fred MacMurray; Edward G. Robinson; Barbara Stanwyck
This crackling adaptation of James Cain's shady tale of an insurance salesman lured into murder was brilliantly cast with the usually "nice guy" MacMurray as the slick agent in love with calculating and scheming Stanwyck. Features a sharp Wilder/Raymond Chandler screenplay and steamy chemistry between the leads. Robinson provides the moral center as the salesman's dogged colleague.
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Director: David Lean
Stars: Omar Sharif; Julie Christie; Geraldine Chaplin
Lean's sweeping adaptation of Boris Pasternak's epic novel, set amid the turmoil of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, stars Sharif in the title role as the married Russian doctor-poet with feelings for two women. One of the two is Lara, played by Christie, who inspires him to write beautiful love poems that contrast with the stark realities of life in Russia after the 1917 Communist Revolution. Maurice Jarre won an Academy Award for his romantic score.
40.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Cary Grant; Eva Marie Saint; James Mason; Jessie Royce Landis
Witty, baroque mystery that begins with the mistaken identity of Roger Thornhill (Grant) and moves to a cross-country chase. Grant is the Hitchcockian man caught up in something he doesn't understand as he travels from New York to the carved faces of Mount Rushmore in this mire of spies, counterspies and romance. Notable scenes include the thrilling crop-dusting airplane sequence.
41.
Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Stars: Natalie Wood; George Chakiris; Rita Moreno; Richard Beymer; Russ Tamblyn
Masterful film adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim landmark Broadway musical about gang life and star-crossed love that captures its vigor, color, and tragedy. It's the Romeo and Juliet story in 1950s New York City with the Sharks and the Jets squaring off, and it features dramatic songs including "Tonight," "Somewhere," and "America." Earned Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor and Actress, among others.
42.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: James Stewart; Grace Kelly; Wendell Corey; Thelma Ritter; Raymond Burr
When a broken leg forces photographer Stewart to become convalescent and wheelchair-bound in his New York City apartment, he amuses himself by amiably spying on his neighbors and soon becomes obsessed when he thinks he has uncovered a bona fide murder case. Kelly, as his fashion-model girlfriend, helps with amateur detective work, and voyeurism. Based on a Cornell Woolrich story. Notable for its rendering of 1950s New York City and for Kelly's stylish costumes.
43.
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Stars: Fay Wray; Robert Armstrong; Bruce Cabot
Tragic fantasy-adventure of a giant misunderstood ape, his adoring love for a woman (Wray), and the closing sequence of his death atop the Empire State Building. But it wasn't the airplanes that killed the mighty Kong - "It was beauty killed the beast." Legendary special effects and animation (with live action) by Willis O'Brien. Pounding score by Max Steiner.
44.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Henry B. Walthall; Miriam Cooper; Wallace Reid; Elmo Lincoln
Groundbreaking, all-star silent epic of Civil War and Reconstruction strife seen through the eyes of two families, one Union, one Confederate. Notable for intricate narrative that is sustained for over two and a half hours. This now-controversial film (with its racism and heroic depiction of the Ku Klux Klan) was the first of the great American epic films and a landmark in the development of the motion picture.
45.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Marlon Brando; Vivien Leigh; Kim Hunter; Karl Malden
Potent adaptation of the Tennessee Williams tragedy-play is brought to the big screen with Brando as Stanley Kowalski, the blue-collared brute married to the sister (Hunter) of an emotionally fragile, aging Southern belle (Leigh) named Blanche DuBois. The film established coarse Brando as a star and gained Academy Awards for Leigh, Malden, and Hunter. "Stella!"
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Malcolm McDowell; Patrick Magee; Adrienne Corri; Michael Bates
Stunning, stylized adaptation of Anthony Burgess's dark, socially-satiric novel, seen through the eyes of Alex (McDowell) and his "droogs" as they terrorize their way through London with 'ultraviolence', until he is reprogrammed. The controversial, farsighted work was edited from its original X rating to an R rating.
47.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro; Jodie Foster; Cybill Shepherd; Harvey Keitel
Unsettling urban drama of New York City cab driver Travis Bickle (De Niro), whose rage builds in a lonely, dark world, until his attempt to befriend and free Foster's 12-year-old prostitute from her pimp culminates in a violent shoot-out. He combats the crime and filth of the city through what he believes to be righteous violence. The sight of Bickle barking "You talkin' to me?" to himself in the mirror is still shocking. The moody score by Bernard Herrmann (his last work) captures New York's menacing darkness.
48.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Roy Scheider; Robert Shaw; Richard Dreyfuss
Thrilling adventure about a killer shark and the motley crew hunting for it. Spielberg pits three men against a Great White Shark that has been attacking swimmers at an island resort in New England. The film redefined the word "blockbuster," and John Williams' score (that won an Academy Award) still haunts swimmers around the world. Notable for lifelike mechanical shark.
49.
Director: David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, William Cottrell, Walt Disney, and others
Stars: Adriana Caselotti; Harry Stockwell; Lucille LaVerne (voices)
Disney's first feature-length animated film charmed audiences with its fluid and rich artwork and detail, distinctive fairytale characters, and charming songs such as the enduring "Whistle While You Work" and "Someday My Prince Will Come."
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Paul Newman; Robert Redford; Katharine Ross
Genial character western chronicling the relationship of two bandits (Newman and Redford), two offbeat outlaws who run (and jump) from the law, then flee to Bolivia where they meet a bloody end in their final attempt to escape the law. Marked by William Goldman's keen Academy Award-winning Original Screenplay and star turns by the two leads. The action-filled, lightly comic Western features the Burt Bacharach song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head."
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