475-451 Great Films
475. SECRETARIAT (2010) (BST) U.S.
Director: Randall Wallace
Wonderful look into the past when Secretariat was the world’s greatest racehorse.
474. THE PINK PANTHER (1963) U.S.
Director: Blake Edwards
Classic comedy of what could possibly go wrong if Inspector Clouseau was in charge.
473. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1941) U.K.
Director: Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger
A whimsical fantasy of what could happen if you went to heaven.
472. M (1931) Germany
Director: Fritz Lang
Disturbing mystery of a manhunt for a child-murderer with police vs neighbors.
471. MARTY (1956) U.S.
Director: Delbert Mann
A beautifully conveyed tender experience of love between two very ordinary people.
470. WAY OUT WEST (1937) U.S.
Director: James Horne
Simply hilarious as Laurel and Hardy try to survive the American west.
469. GODZILLA (2014) U.S. / Jap.
Director: Gareth Edwards
Could this be the greatest version of the sci-fi horror flick of mankind verses monsters?
468. SAFETY LAST (1923) (Silent) U.S.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer / Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd’s stunts and laughs are too real, a jewel of silent comedy.
467. THE 39 STEPS (1935) U.K.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock’s break through spy verses spy thriller full of mystery and intrigue.
466. SWING TIME (1935) U.S.
Director: George Stevens
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers gloriously dance in a musical comedy for the ages.
465. THE KING of COMEDY (1983) U.S.
Director: Martin Scorsese
An obsessive stand-up comic is willing to kidnap and stalk to be in the spotlight.
464. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1942) U.S.
Director: Preston Sturges
Classic comedy of a movie director who becomes homeless as an experience for his next movie project.
463. RANDOM HARVEST (1942) U.S.
Director: Mervyn Leroy
Lovely story of amnesia interfering with romance, hope and restoration after WW1.
462. WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Director: Pedro Almodovar (1988) (Ed.) Spain
Complicated comedy of why an actress tries to understand her lover’s abrupt exit.
461. THE BATTLE of ALGIERS (1968) Algeria
Director: Gillo Portocorvo
Stark, realistic account of how terrorism escalates in 1950’s Colonial North Africa.
460. ANNE of a THOUSAND DAYS (1969) (BST) U.K.
Director: Charles Jarrett
Great tale of Henry VIII vs. Anne Boleyn, in a marriage that’s doomed from the start.
459. MARY POPPINS (1964) U.S.
Director: Robert Stevenson
A Disney musical that delights beyond expectations about the greatest maid…ever!
458. IN THE HEAT of the NIGHT (1968) U.S.
Director: Norman Jewison
A white southern sheriff, a northern black policeman and their apprehensive efforts to overcome prejudice to solve a murder case in the deep South.
457. PRETTY WOMAN (Ed.) (1990) U.S.
Director: Garry Marshall
The classic love story that developes between a billionaire and a beautiful prostitute.
456. THE GUNS of NAVARONE (1961) U.S.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Can the Allied forces unite to take out the largest cannons on the Mediterrenean Sea?
455. I WILL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER (1975) (TV) U.S.
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Heartrending and admirable story of the noble Chief Joseph of the Nez Perse tribe and their fight for survival against the U.S. government.
454. WHISTLE DOWN The WIND (1961) U.K.
Director: Bryan Forbes
Remarkable story when children think a fugitive convict is the return of Jesus Christ.
453. THE LAST SAMURAI (2003) U.S. / Jap.
Director: Edward Zwick
Caught between Colonialism and the death of the Samurai way of life.
452. MISTER ROBERTS (U.S.)
Director: John Ford / Mervyn Leroy
What can happen on a U.S. ship primed for action but ignored by World War II.
451. THE MISSION (1986) (BST) U.K.
Director: Roland Jaffe
One of the finest studies about the clash of different cultures, stunning and devastating
