Three great movies
TCM is showing "The Bridge on the River Kwai," Best Picture of 1957.
It's one of three David Lean movies that rank in my all-time top 10. The other two are "Lawrence of Arabia" (Best Picture, 1962) and "Dr. Zhivago" (not Best Picture of 1965; it lost to "The Sound of Music").
My ranking puts them in this order:
Zhivago
Lawrence
River Kwai
What's yours?
By the way, Alec Guinness appears in all three, starring in River Kwai (and winning the Oscar for Best Actor).
But I guess he's most famous for this.
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Doug here's our Top Ten List:
1. Blazing Saddles
2. Young Franenstein
3. Animal House
4. The Jerk
5. Stalag 17
6. The Hustler
7. Godfather I
8. Patton
9. Fargo
10. Braveheart
and our bonus Thumbs-Up selection: Duck Soup
Posted on February 4, 2006 8:50 AM
Did you leave out Sound of Music on purpose Doug? I found it to be a great movie with wonderful music. I still have the original soundtrack on 33rpm which I put on the turntable occassionaly and just sit back and enjoy.
I would have switched your last two.
Posted on February 4, 2006 10:39 AM
Siskel & Ebert,
Those first four movies you mentioned (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Animal House and The Jerk) are all-time classics. The Carolina Theatre ran Blazing Saddles a few months ago as part of its classic film series. It was fun to see it on the big screen.
I'll also throw in Caddyshack and Stripes as two more comedy classics.
Posted on February 4, 2006 11:40 AM
Thanks for the input.
I was only ranking the three David Lean movies, which are all in my top 10.
I like most of the comedies listed by Bruce and S&E. I'd add Frank Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre.
Posted on February 4, 2006 3:11 PM
Alec Guiness was also in The Great Escape. Another great movie.
Posted on February 19, 2006 9:13 PM
Oops, sorry, that was Richard Attenborough, who later went on to unleash dinosaurs on Jeff Goldblum.
Posted on February 20, 2006 3:27 PM