Young Frankenstein
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Silent Movie. All great over the top stuff from Mel Brooks.
Best depression era musical? No, it's not Goldiggers of 1933 with the "Break a leg" cliche. Find James Cagney in Footlight Parade instead. Cagney was amazing in this.
Among the best comedies of all time, despite being a musical: Singin In The Rain. Everybody NEEDS to see this at least once.
It Happened One Night: Clark Gable's best? Clauette Colbert's dad as he's walking her down the aisle is vintage stuff, as good as Peter O'Toole coming to the rescue in My Favorite Year. Get that one also.
Buster Keaton in The General
Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, worth it just for the giant chicken in the cabin and the dancing potatoes
Godfather 1& 2, Goodfellas, Usual Suspects are mandatory.
Star Wars and Indy Jones are required to live in our culture, as are Monty Python's Holy Grail, Scarface, Jaws, Jurassic Park
Classic westerns? Shane, The Searchers. Check out Randolph Scott at the end of Sam Peckinpah's Ride The High Country
Classic war flicks? Saving Pvt. Ryan. Run Silent, Run Deep. And what was that one with Cary Grant's sub going into Tokyo harbor? Was that Destination Tokyo?
More Cary Grant? Gunga Din. North by Northwest. There's lots more good work he did for Hitchcock with Ingrid Bergman
You now live in a cold climate in February, so try Dr. Zhivago.
The Great Escape, there's much more there than Steve McQueen's motorcycle ride, like great roles for Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Charles Coburn, Donald Plesance (sp?)as his charachter goes blind.
The Philadephia Story. A classis and among the best of "screwball comedy."
Errol Flynn? Charge of the Light Brigade.
So how many dozens of overlooked or forgotten good ones did you want?
Am I the only person here who thinks Josh Hartnett is the bastard son of Tommy Lee Jones?
