Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Mayerling]

I liked the Lew Ayres version. There was one moment in it that always floored me (in fact it was cut when I first saw the film on television in the 1960s). The Germans are charging across a field into barbed wire, and they are hit by machine guns and cannon, and suddenly when some smoke clears a pair of hands are still visable attached to the barbed wire (the body is not visable - just the hands!). No wonder they cut it originally.

That is one antiwar film that never loses it's affect.

If you can try to see a 1936 honey of a film with Fredric March, Warner Baxter, and Lionel Barrymore, "The Road to Glory" about the effects of the bitter, long, and stupidly wasteful war on Baxter (the commander of a French division) assisted by March and (eventually) saddled by his old father (Barrymore) a veteran of the battle of Sedan (Franco-Prussian war defeat of 1870).

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Normally I would be suggesting some new listing of films, but I noted that once more a prominent performer has gone over the bar. We lost Sir Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee in the last few weeks (as well as the comedian, and occasional actor Jack Carter), and now we have lost Omar Shariff, certainly the first major international film star whose Middle Eastern origins transcended the huge Islamic movie circuit and fully entered that of the West and Far East as a first class star. From his first big film, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" there was no doubt that a true talent was present there in Shariff.

I am making a list, after all, but of his best known films:

Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Zhivago
Funny Girl
The Night of the Generals
The Yellow Rolls Royce
Juggernaut
Funny Lady
Gulliver's Travels (television mini-series film)
Anastasia (television mini-series film - as Tsar Nicholas II)

If you wish to add to it please do so.

You may also wish to do a definitive list for Sir Christopher Lee's work.

Jeff

[Robert]

Bit of trivia : I'm sure the slightly mad tune that was played when Peter O'Toole looked at Van Gogh's self-portrait in "Night of the Generals," was the same piece of music played in the film "The Sound Barrier" at the point when the pilot looks out of the window at the night sky.

[GUT]

Normally I would be suggesting some new listing of films, but I noted that once more a prominent performer has gone over the bar. We lost Sir Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee in the last few weeks (as well as the comedian, and occasional actor Jack Carter), and now we have lost Omar Shariff, certainly the first major international film star whose Middle Eastern origins transcended the huge Islamic movie circuit and fully entered that of the West and Far East as a first class star. From his first big film, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" there was no doubt that a true talent was present there in Shariff.

I am making a list, after all, but of his best known films:

Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Zhivago
Funny Girl
The Night of the Generals
The Yellow Rolls Royce
Juggernaut
Funny Lady
Gulliver's Travels (television mini-series film)
Anastasia (television mini-series film - as Tsar Nicholas II)

If you wish to add to it please do so.

You may also wish to do a definitive list for Sir Christopher Lee's work.

Jeff

And now Omar Sharif

[GUT]

One of his films should mean a lot to Jeff.

[Mayerling]

One of his films should mean a lot to Jeff.

G'Day GUT,

Which film is that?

Jeff

[GUT]

G'Day GUT,

Which film is that?

Jeff

A little one called Mayerling.

[Mayerling]

A little one called Mayerling.

Good one GUT. It's a good film, but (as is usually the case) overly romanticizes what happened. I've read a bit on the historical events, and while the films like to paint Rudolf as a liberal minded hope for the future of the Hapsburg Empire, the reality shows something of a selfish hedonist, who proved (ultimately) a terrible disappointment for Franz Josef.

Jeff

[GUT]

Good one GUT. It's a good film, but (as is usually the case) overly romanticizes what happened. I've read a bit on the historical events, and while the films like to paint Rudolf as a liberal minded hope for the future of the Hapsburg Empire, the reality shows something of a selfish hedonist, who proved (ultimately) a terrible disappointment for Franz Josef.

Jeff

But most movies would be unsellable if they just stuck to the facts.

[Mayerling]

But most movies would be unsellable if they just stuck to the facts.

Very true GUT, very true.

[RockySullivan]

Fav bogart movies:

1. Bullets or Ballots
2. angels with dirty faces
3. High Sierra
4. Roaring Twenties
5. The big sleep
6. The big shot
7. Invisible stripes
8. Maltese falcon
9. Dead reckoning
10. Brother orchid

Casablanca sucks

**** I forget my favorite one and by far the best bogart movie and best movie of the 40s Dark passage! I might have already done a bogart list a few pages back but oh well

[RockySullivan]

Favorite edward g robinson movies:

Little Caesar
Smart money
Dark hazard
Black Tuesday
Bullets or ballots
Little giant
Larceny inc
Manpower
Two seconds
I am the law

So many more

[lynn cates]

Soylence is deafening

Hello Rocky. What? No "Soylent Green"?

Cheers.
LC

[Mayerling]

Fav bogart movies:

1. Bullets or Ballots
2. angels with dirty faces
3. High Sierra
4. Roaring Twenties
5. The big sleep
6. The big shot
7. Invisible stripes
8. Maltese falcon
9. Dead reckoning
10. Brother orchid

Casablanca sucks

**** I forget my favorite one and by far the best bogart movie and best movie of the 40s Dark passage! I might have already done a bogart list a few pages back but oh well

I like Dark Passage too (though the persona and acting of Agnes Moorehead steals it), but I have to ask - why do you have this low opinion of Casablanca?

[Steadmund Brand]

Fav bogart movies:

1. Bullets or Ballots
2. angels with dirty faces
3. High Sierra
4. Roaring Twenties
5. The big sleep
6. The big shot
7. Invisible stripes
8. Maltese falcon
9. Dead reckoning
10. Brother orchid

Casablanca sucks

**** I forget my favorite one and by far the best bogart movie and best movie of the 40s Dark passage! I might have already done a bogart list a few pages back but oh well

Great list, but I have to disagree on Casablanca... infact I think it may be one of the best American films ever made.. .not just because it's popular... but because it is just that good

however my favorite Bogart film is The Harder They Fall...but as you all know.. I am a boxing guy

Steadmund Brand