The Movies I Can Watch Repeatedly
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- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRoddy McDowallKim HunterAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.More than 20 viewings and counting on this one.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.I worked in an appliance store in 1986 and I rigged all the televisions to play this movie.
- DirectorJared HessStarsJon HederEfren RamirezJon GriesA listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.It gets funnier each time I see it.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.I own this on DVD, but every time it's broadcast I get sucked in again.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.I watched a documentary in the 1970's called The Men Who Made The Movies. They kept referring to this as Capra's masterwork. It took almost 10 years before I got my hand on a super 8 sound copy of this and watched the heck out of it.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.More than anything else, the Halloween segment pulls me in and won't let go.
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsClaude RainsWarren WilliamLon Chaney Jr.Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.My personal favorite of the Universal series.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.Bing sells Bob into slavery after narrowly escaping a horrible shipwreck. Hilarious stuff!
- DirectorRichard CurtisStarsHugh GrantMartine McCutcheonLiam NeesonFollows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.I'm still trying to figure out if Rowan Atkinson is playing God.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsTimothy DaltonRobert DaviCarey LowellA vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.I know this gets all kinds of grief, but I'm a big Bond fan and I've always felt that this one hit it out of the park. A great story is lifted from some great Fleming stories and a novel (Hildebrand Rarity and Live and Let Die) and the girls are great, Q is in the field and the gadgets aren't overpowering.