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A very fun 1980s space adventure. This film uses elements of the Sword in the Stone updated to a video game to launch the adventure, The Last Starfighter (1984).
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A great Film Noir set on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Ricardo Montalban leads the cast. Charles McGraw give a great performance as a coyote. See the most grueling death scene in Border Inciden…
Blood on the Moon (1948) is a rare Film Noir Western with the two leads being Robert Mitchum and Robert Preston. It has a great support cast and a good storyline.
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A hidden gem of a Film Noir with Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott in the post-World War II who-done-it, Dead Reckoning (1947)
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Winning 3 Oscars, this movie has some of the greatest tension and acting. Don't forget that The Treasure of The Sierra Madre (1948) has happy gold-dancing
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A great Universal classic horror film, The Invisible Man (1933), features Claude Rains in his first speaking role and amazing technical effects.
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A rollicking war comedy that shows the absurdity of war and love. James Garner and Julie Andrews are great in The Americanization of Emily (1964).
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A great werewolf film from the early-80s. This film set the bar for werewolf transformation in An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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A top 3 movie on any list, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains are amazing in this worn-torn essential American film, Casablanca (1942).
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A fun John Wayne macho fest, where some of the regular cast fights oil well fires. Not an Oscar-caliber film but Hellfighters (1968) is a fun watch.
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Written by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1940), one of the greatest movies ever, tells of a displaced Depression-era family heading to Califonia.
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In his last film, John Wayne plays an aging gunfighter dying of cancer Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard are great supporting cast in The Shootist (1976).
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An exciting Kung Fu movie that combines Hong Kong-style action with Australian scenery in The Man from Hong Kong/The Dragon Flies (1975).
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Another great Film Noir directed by John Huston and starring Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe with an appearance by Marilyn Monroe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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Earl C. Kenton directed Bela Lugosi and Charles Laughton in this early version of H.G. Wells' story, Island of Lost Souls (1932).
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A Raymond Chandler novel, William Faulkner co-wrote the screenplay, and Howard Hawks was the director. Bogart and Bacall starred in The Big Sleep (1946).
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Based on a Michener novel, this movie is set during the Korean War. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) deal with an impossible task, friendship, and love. Starring William Holden, Grace Kelly, and Fredri…
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One of the top movies of all times, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) focuses on the readjustments of three veterans following World War II and the effects it has on their loved ones. William Wyler…