Hi Gang
Thought this board could use a new poll. Just curious: Which are your favorites BESIDES the JW-films? I don’t mean the films you think are supposed to be on the list of the best movies ever made, so Citizen Kane should be in it. No, not that kind of list. Just the 10 films in your personal absolute 10-Best-List in which JW plays absolutely no part. I know it’s hard. So make a decision. Imagine the ship is sinking just right now and you can save 10 films only - yeah I know, you’d grab the Waynes first but anyway – here’s my own list:
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Every single shot in it is great, and O’Toole delivers what I think ranks with the best performances ever put on a movie screen.
THE GREAT ESCAPE
The great fun, the great adventure, the great McQueen – great escapism. And based on a great true story.
SPARTACUS
The intelligent epic. One of the „you couldn’t do that today“ films. A great script by Dalton Trumbo, comparing communism and capitalism.
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE
That sad neo-western, with music by Jerry Goldsmith
WHERE EAGLES DARE
Not to be taken seriously when Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood decided one weekend to win World War II. I love a lot of „Commando“-movies, like Guns of Navarone, or The Dirty Dozen – but this one is the most fun.
SEARGENT YORK
Coopers oscar-winning performance, Hawks‘ masterful direction – and the fact that this is one hell of a propaganda movie you must study when you’re interested in Hollwood’s call of arms in 1940.
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Pure Ford.
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
The great story under Zinnemann’s direction pulled great performances by Lancaster, Clift, Kerr, Donna Reed and Sinatra. Unforgettable.
THE FAR COUNTRY
Jimmy Stewart and director Mann at their peak. Even today, one of the most underrated westerns.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Hitchcock‘s and Gary Crant’s best thriller.