Classic cinema - thoughts and questions

Film nerd post: Below the current state of my wishlist for some "genres". Some of the films are mentioned twice or more, because this has to do with another list I'm making (alphabetical: practical for shopping ;) ). In blue I also marked a few funny Maiden "connections" (or just some word play).  :D

Just curious: Has any of you owned or seen one or more of these films?   :) Which ones?
The Return of the King and Platoon are the most obvious ones, I suppose?


War
Went The Day Well? (Ealing) (War)
Foreman Went To France, The (Ealing) (War)
Morning Departure (met John Mills & Richard Attenborough) (War)
Ice Cold In Alex (met John Mills) (War)
I Was Monty’s Double (met John Mills) (War)
Colditz Story, The (met John Mills) (War)
Above Us The Waves (met John Mills) (War)
Deluge, The (aka Potop) (War)
Potop (aka The Deluge) (War)
Last Stop, The (aka Ostatni etap aka The Last Stage) (War)
Last Stage, The (aka Ostatni etap aka The Last Stop) (War)
Ostatni etap (aka The Last Stage aka The Last Stop) (War)
Command Decision  (War)
Gettysburg (1993) (War)
20. Juli, Der  (War)
Orzel (The Eagle) (War)
Eagle, The (Orzel) (War)
Joan of Paris (met o.a. Laird Cregar, Paul Henreid & Alan Ladd) (War)
New Lot, The (Carol Reed ; met Robert Donat) (War)
Escape From Sobibor (met Rutger Hauer) (War)
Duellists, The (War)
Passage, The (War)
Thunder in the East (met Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr & John Williams) (War)
King & Country (War)
Platoon (War)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (met Alec Guiness) (War)
So Ends Our Night (met Glenn Ford, Fredric March & Margaret Sullavan) (War)
Eagle And The Hawk, The (met Cary Grant, Fredric March & Carole Lombard) (War)
Sword In The Desert (met Dana Andrews) (War)
Desperate Journey (Raoul Walsh ; met Errol Flynn & Ronald Reagan) (War)
Northern Pursuit (Raoul Walsh ; met Errol Flynn) (War)
Uncertain Glory (Raoul Walsh ; met Errol Flynn) (War)
Bedford Incident, The (met Sidney Poitiers & Richard Widmark) (War)
Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller ; met Richard Basehart) (War)
Attack (met Jack Palance & Lee Marvin) (War)
Wings (1927) (War)
Bell for Adano, A (met Gene Tierney, Richard Conte & William Bendix) (War)
Sealed Cargo (met Claude Rains & Dana Andrews) (War)
December 7th (John Ford & Gregg Toland ; met Walter Huston & Dana Andrews) (War)
Dawn Patrol, The (1930) (War)
Roma, città aperta (aka Rome, Open City) (War)
Rome, Open City (aka Roma, città aperta) (War)
Napoléon (1927) (War)
Devil’s Brigade, The (met William Holden & Dana Andrews) (War)
Submarine Command (met William Holden & William Bendix) (War)
Wake Island (met Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Robert Preston & William Bendix) (War)
Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder) (War)
Hitler’s Madman (met John Carradine) (War)
Atlantic Convoy (War)
None Shall Escape (War)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (met Edward G. Robinson) (War)
Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, The (War)
Counter-Attack (met Paul Muni) (War)
Man Who Never Was, The (met Clifton Webb) (War)
Angels One Five (War)
Cockleshell Heroes, The (War)
Reach for the Sky (War)
Winter War, The (Talvisota) (War)
Come and See (Idi i smotri) (War)
Idi i smotri (Come and See) (War)
Talvisota (The Winter War) (War)
White Sun of the Desert (Beloe solntse pustyni) (War)
Beloe solntse pustyni (White Sun of the Desert) (War)
Liberation (Освобождение / Osvobozhdenie) (War)
Освобождение (Osvobozhdenie / Liberation) (War)
Fate of a Man (Sudba cheloveka) (War)
Sudba cheloveka (Fate of a Man) (War)
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате  / Ballada o soldate) (War)
Баллада о солдате (Ballada o soldate / Ballad of a Soldier) (War)
Cranes Are Flying, The (Летят журавли / Letyat zhuravli) (War)
Letyat zhuravli (Летят журавли / The Cranes Are Flying) (War)
Chistoe nebo (Clear Skies / Clear Haven) (War)
Clear Skies (Chistoe nebo / Clear Haven) (War)
Clear Haven (Clear Skies / Chistoe nebo) (War)

Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy
When Worlds Collide (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
World, the Flesh and the Devil, The (met Harry Belafonte & Mel Ferrer) (Sci-Fi)
War Game, The (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
It Came from Outer Space (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
H.M.S. Defiant (met Alec Guiness & Dirk Bogarde) (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Visit to a Small Planet (met John Williams) (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Plunder of the Sun (met Glenn Ford) (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Saragossa Manuscript, The (aka Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie) (Adventure/Fantasy)
Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (aka The Saragossa Manuscript) (Adventure/Fantasy)
Gunga Din (met Cary Grant) (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Invaders from Mars (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer) (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Deliverance (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Return of the King (extended edition) (Adventure/Fantasy)

Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror(-1959)
Pool Of London (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Blue Lamp, The (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Man In The Sky, The (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Long Arm, The (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Thunder Road (met Robert Mitchum) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Nowhere To Go (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Ship That Died Of Shame, The (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Gentle Gunman, The (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Siege of Pinchgut, The (Ealing) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Tiger Bay (met John Mills) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Vicious Circle, The (met John Mills) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Long Memory, The (met John Mills) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
October Man, The (met John Mills) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Mr. Denning Drives North (met John Mills) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
They Won’t Forget (met Claude Rains & Lana Turner) (Mystery (t/m 1959))
Crime Without Passion (met Claude Rains) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Kind Lady (met Angela Lansbury & John Williams) (Thriller (t/m 1959))
House in the Woods, The (met Ronald Howard) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Waxworks (aka.... Wachsfigurenkabinett, Das) (met Conrad Veidt) (Fantasy/Horror (t/m 1959))
Wachsfigurenkabinett, Das (aka.... Waxworks) (met Conrad Veidt) (Fantasy/Horror (t/m 1959))
Chase a Crooked Shadow (Michael Anderson) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Green For Danger (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Night Nurse (William Wellman; met Barbara Stanwyck & Clark Gable) (Mystery/Crime (t/m 1959))
Man With A Cloak, The (met Barbara Stanwyck & Joseph Cotten) (Thriller (t/m 1959))
East Side, West Side (met Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, e.a.) (Crime (t/m 1959))
Woman’s Face, A (met Joan Crawford & Conrad Veidt) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Assassin For Hire (met Ronald Howard) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Ivy (met Joan Fontaine) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Gideon’s Day (John Ford ; met Ronald Howard) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
I See A Dark Stranger (met Deborah Kerr) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Home at Seven (met Ralph Richardson) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Lighting Strikes Twice (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Steel Trap, The (met Joseph Cotten & Teresa Wright) (Crime (t/m 1959))
Fog Over Frisco (met Bette Davis) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Betrayed (1954 Thriller met Clark Gable: o.a. in Delft, Rijswijk (vliegveld Ypenburg, Sittard & Maastricht opgenomen!)
5 Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; met James Mason) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Menace, The (met Bette Davis) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Each Dawn I Die (met James Cagney & George Raft) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
‘G’ Men (met James Cagney) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Obsession (Edward Dmytryk) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Night Was Our Friend (Michael Anderson) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))
Count of Monte Cristo, The (met Robert Donat) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (t/m 1959))

Film noir
Ride The Pink Horse (top 50 film noir!) (film noir)
Trap, The (film noir)
Deadline at Dawn  (film noir)
Repeat Performance (film noir)
Brasher Doubloon, The - aka…The High Window (John Brahm) (film noir)
High Window, The - aka… The Brasher Doubloon (John Brahm) (film noir)
Well, The (film noir)
Woman In Hiding (met Ida Lupino) (film noir)
Man I Love, The (met Ida Lupino) (film noir)
Naked Alibi (met Sterling Hayden) (film noir)
Sound of Fury, The  - aka…Try And Get Me (film noir)
Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer) (film noir)
Try And Get Me  - aka… Sound of Fury, The (film noir)
Bribe, The (met Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton & Vincent Price) (film noir)
Long Wait, The (met Anthony Quinn & Charles Coburn) (film noir)
City Streets (1931) (film noir)
Highway 301 (film noir)
Undercurrent (met Kathryn Hepburn, Robert Mitchum & Robert Taylor) (film noir)
Plunder Road (met Elisha Cook Jr.) (film noir)
Storm Warning (met Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers & Doris Day) (film noir)
They Won't Believe Me (film noir)
Born To Be Bad (Nicholas Ray; met Joan Fontaine & Robert Ryan) (film noir)
Underworld (1927) (film noir)
Cast A Dark Shadow (met Dirk Bogarde & Margaret Lockwood) (film noir)
Edge Of Doom (Mark Robson ; met Dana Andrews & Farley Granger) (film noir)
Framed (met Glenn Ford) (film noir)
Fingers At The Window (met Basil Rathbone) (film noir)
Burglar, The (met Dan Duryea) (film noir)
Give Us This Day - aka…Christ in Concrete, aka… Salt and the Devil, aka… Salt to the Devil  (film noir)
Christ in Concrete - aka… Give Us This Day, aka… Salt and the Devil, aka… Salt to the Devil  (film noir)
Salt and the Devil - aka…Christ in Concrete, aka… Give Us This Day, aka… Salt to the Devil  (film noir)
Manhandled  (film noir)
Tomorrow Is Another Day (film noir)
Appointment with a Shadow - aka… Midnight Story, The (film noir)
Midnight Story, The - aka…Appointment with a Shadow (film noir)
Shakedown (film noir)
Accused, The (met Loretta Young & Robert Cummings) (film noir)
Breaking Point, The (Michael Curtiz ; met John Garfield) (film noir)
Nobody Lives Forever (met John Garfield & Walter Brennan) (film noir)
Lineup, The (Don Siegel) (film noir)
Sleep, My Love (film noir)
Deadline at Dawn (met Susan Hayward & Paul Lukas) (film noir)
Cry of the Hunted (film noir)
Cry Terror (met James Mason) (film noir)
One Way Street (met James Mason & Dan Duryea) (film noir)
Border Town (met Bette Davis & Paul Muni) (film noir)
Tomorrow Is Forever (met Orson Welles) (film noir)
Die Mörder sind unter uns - aka…The Murderers Are Among Us (film noir)
The Murderers Are Among Us - aka… Die Mörder sind unter uns (film noir)
Black Tuesday (met Edward G. Robinson) (film noir)
Nightmare (met Edward G. Robinson) (film noir)
Shield  For Murder (met Edmund O’Brien) (film noir)
Turning Point, The (met William Holden & Edmond O’Brien) (film noir)
Union Station (met William Holden) (film noir)
Two of a Kind (met Edmond O’Brien & Lizabeth Scott) (film noir)
Christmas Holiday (film noir)
Web, The (met Vincent Price & Edmond O’Brien) (film noir)
3rd Voice, The - aka…The Third Voice (met Edmond O’Brien) (film noir)
Raging Tide, The (met Richard Conte & Shelley Winters) (film noir)
Under The Gun (met Richard Conte & Audrey Totter) (film noir)
New York Confidential (met Richard Conte) (film noir)
Brothers Rico, The (met Richard Conte) (film noir)
Roadblock (film noir)

Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (1960-)
Blood Simple (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Underworld U.S.A. (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Grifters, The (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Quiller Memorandum, The (met Alec Guinness) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Midnight Lace (met Doris Day & John Williams) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
X (aka X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes) (Roger Corman ; met Ray Milland) (Horror (vanaf 1960))
Farewell My Lovely (met Robert Mitchum) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Ipcress File, The (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Seven Thieves (Henry Hathaway; met Edward G. Robinson) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime (vanaf 1960))
Trou, Le (aka... The Night Watch) (Jacques Becker) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Night Watch, The (aka... Le Trou) (Jacques Becker) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Silent Partner, The (met Christopher Plummer) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Dog Day Afternoon (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Friends of Robert Coyle, The (met Robert Mitchum) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Late Show, The(Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Long Goodbye, The (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
In Cold Blood (1967) (Richard Brooks) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Killers, The (Don Siegel ; met Lee Marvin) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Coogan’s Bluff (Don Siegel ; met Clint Eastwood) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Night Moves (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror (vanaf 1960))
Grip of Fear, The aka Experiment In Terror (met Glenn Ford) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime (vanaf 1960))
Experiment In Terror ... aka The Grip of Fear (UK)  (met Glenn Ford) (Thriller/Mystery/Crime (vanaf 1960))
 
That is a long list, I'll comment on a few for now that stand out.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days was not very good IMO.  I like Alec Guiness, but he was bad in this movie.  The US TV movie The Bunker and the more recent (and much better) Der Untergang were both better films IMO.  It has been a long time  (20 years) since I have seen it, but IIRC some of the "events" in the movie were later disproven or just flat out made up for the movie.

Devil’s Brigade, The -- This was a good 60s action WWII movie, along the lines of the Dirty Dozen.  Not a great movie, but a fun movie.

Rome, Open City  is incredibly interesting just because it was shot on location in 1945, it has a very strong impact,  the feel is very similar to Germany, Year Zero (which is also a very good movie if you have not seen that yet).  I want to see Rossellini's Paisan as well, have not gotten to that one yet. 
 
Forostar said:
Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy
Deliverance (Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy)
Return of the King (extended edition) (Adventure/Fantasy)
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The only Deliverance I know is far from Sci-Fi. King's extended parts are good (death of Saruman, Mouth of Sauron).
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
The only Deliverance I know is far from Sci-Fi. King's extended parts are good (death of Saruman, Mouth of Sauron).
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Yeah, my categorizing isn't very clear. I grouped Adventure, Sci-Fi films and Fantasy films together, because my wishlist isn't that big in these genres. So, in most cases, the film is only one of these three genres.
Do you mean Deliverance (1972) with Jon Voight & Burt Reynolds?
The IMDb said Adventure/Drama/Thriller so I added it to this category.

Looking forward to get the King's extended edition sometime!

bearfan said:
That is a long list, I'll comment on a few for now that stand out.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days was not very good IMO.  I like Alec Guiness, but he was bad in this movie.  The US TV movie The Bunker and the more recent (and much better) Der Untergang were both better films IMO.  It has been a long time  (20 years) since I have seen it, but IIRC some of the "events" in the movie were later disproven or just flat out made up for the movie.
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Alright. Well, I do not mind a few errors, I have seen numerous of Hollywood war films not being the most realistic.
I can imagine other war films are better, but I am pretty curious how an actor like Guiness did Hitler. :)

bearfan said:
Devil’s Brigade, The -- This was a good 60s action WWII movie, along the lines of the Dirty Dozen.   Not a great movie, but a fun movie.
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OK, I guess the film must have come on my list because of the actors I mentioned. And the IMDb grade isn't bad. I have seen enjoyable films with worse indications.

bearfan said:
Rome, Open City  is incredibly interesting just because it was shot on location in 1945, it has a very strong impact,  the feel is very similar to Germany, Year Zero (which is also a very good movie if you have not seen that yet).  I want to see Rossellini's Paisan as well, have not gotten to that one yet.  
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I love location films. Should be impressive indeed! I have only seen one Rossellini film before: Stromboli (1950; also beautifully shot on the real Stromboli island) with Ingrid Bergman, who was portrayed differently than anyone before that film had done. Interesting, also when you realize they had an affair.

wiki:
The film is the result of a famous letter from Ingrid Bergman to Roberto Rossellini, in which she wrote she admired his work, and she wanted to make a movie with him. However, the film is best remembered for the affair between Rossellini and Bergman that occurred during this time, as well as the resultant child out of wedlock. In fact, the affair caused such a scandal in the United States that Bergman was denounced on the floor of the US Senate by Colorado Senator Edwin C. Johnson. Furthermore, her Hollywood career was halted for a number of years, until her Oscar-winning performance in Anastasia.
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I will say if you like Rome, Open City, I would rush out to get Germany Year Zero (shot in 1948 in Berlin), takes place right after the war.  Incredibly interesting and amazing to see what the city looked like then versus what it does now.

Let me know how you like Alec as Hitler
 
Thanks for the advice, I think I'll add that film to the list. I'll let you know about the film but it might take long before I get (and see!) it. (The paradox is that I want to obtain and see much, but I really try not to not collect too quickly and see too much, or else it costs too much money/diskspace/time etc. ) :)
 
I have seen Platoon and Gettysburg on that rather large list, Foro. Platoon is a masterpiece. That's the only way I can really say it. Go see it.

Gettysburg is not a masterpiece, though it has many fine moments and is, in fact, a favourite of mine. However, it is very slow and ponderous in places, and you have to be fairly familiar with the byplay to really understand it. That doesn't stop Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, and in particular, Tom Berenger from putting in great performances.
 
Two epics again, I guess. Nice to know what you think of these films. :)

Here my Westerns "wanted" list:
This is non-John Wayne, non-Randolph Scott and non-Harry Carey plus many Joel McCree Westerns are missing as well. These four guys made many Westerns and I'd like to have most of those (I have different overviews for Wayne and Carey and non for the other two).

Did you guys see one or more from the following? There's quite some B-Westerns in the list as well, many of them recommended in some rough guide to Westerns I have laying around here.

Westerns
Two Mules for Sister Sara (met Clint Eastwood)
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller ; met Barbara Stanwyck)
Hanging Tree, The (met Gary Cooper)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Wichita (Jacques Tourneur; met Joel McCrea & Vera Miles)
Ramrod (André De Toth; met Joel McCrea)
Three Hours To Kill (met Dana Andrews)
Duel at Diablo (met Sidney Poitier)
Buck and the Preacher (met Sidney Poitier & Harry Belafonte)
Children of the Dust (met Sidney Poitier)
Viva Zapata!
Heaven Only Knows (met Robert Cummings & Brian Donlevy)
Great Silence, The
Jeremiah Johnson (met Robert Redford)
Big Gundown, The
Bullet For The General, A
Hired Hand, The
Wagon Master (aka… Wagonmaster)
Dead Man
Fistful Of Dynamite, A
Long Riders, The
Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller ; met Charles Bronson)
Last Wagon, The
At Gunpoint
Fury at Showdown
Man Behind the Gun, The
Posse From Hell
Ride in the Whirlwind
Tension at Table Rock
Silver Lode
Terror in a Texas Town
Curse of the Undead
Hour of the Gun
Shooting, The
Wyatt Earp
Django
Jack Bull, The
Great Train Robbery, The
Hud (met Paul Newman)
Hombre (met Paul Newman & Fredric March)
Will Penny (met Charlton Heston)
Little Big Man (met Dustin Hoffman)
Open Range
Westerns by Robert N. Bradbury ( B ) / with George “Gabby” Hayes (H) / Yakima Canutt (C) (non J. Wayne / non R. Scott / non H. Carey):
Hidden Valley (B/H)
Man From Hell’s Edges, The (B/H)
Cavalry ( B )
Between Men ( B )
Forbidden Trails ( B )
Trouble In Texas (B/C + Rita Hayworth)
Valley Of The Lawless (B/H)
Tombstone Terror (B/H)
Texas Buddies (B/H)
Smokey Smith (B/H)
Galloping Romeo (B/H)
Gallant Fool, The (B/H)
Breed Of The Border (B/H)



Various directors wishlist:
Boetticher / Renoir / Wajda / Wise / Clouzot / Hathaway / Lang / Mann / Melville

Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher; met Randolph Scott)
Westbound (Budd Boetticher; met Randolph Scott)
Red Ball Express (Budd Boetticher; met Sidney Poitier)

Nuit du Carrefour, La (Jean Renoir) - aka…Night at the Crossroads (International: English title)
Woman on the Beach, The (Jean Renoir)
This Land Is Mine (Jean Renoir; met Charles Laughton & Maureen O’Hara)
Night at the Crossroads (Jean Renoir) - aka… Nuit du Carrefour, La

Korczak (Andrzej Wajda)
Popioly (Andrzej Wajda - aka… The Ashes)
Ashes, The (Andrzej Wajda - aka… Popioly)

Captive City, The (Robert Wise)
Blood On The Moon (Robert Wise; met Robert Mitchum & Walter Brennan)
Andromeda Strain, The (Robert Wise)

Inconnus dans la maison, Les (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Vérité, La (Henri-Georges Clouzot; met Brigitte Bardot)

Down to the Sea in Ships (Henry Hathaway; met Richard Widmark en Lionel Barrymore)
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (Henry Hathaway; met Gary Cooper en Kathleen Burke)
O. Henry's Full House (Henry Hathaway)
Henry’s Full House, O. (Henry Hathaway)

Moontide (Fritz Lang was uncredited ; met Claude Rains, Jean Gabin en Ida Lupino)
Journey to the Lost City (Fritz Lang)
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)

Men in War (Anthony Mann)
Furies, The (Anthony Mann)
El Cid (Anthony Mann; met Charlton Heston & Sophia Loren)
Cid, El (Anthony Mann; met Charlton Heston & Sophia Loren)
Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Anthony Mann; met Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer)

Deux hommes dans Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville)
 
LooseCannon said:
I have seen Platoon and Gettysburg on that rather large list, Foro. Platoon is a masterpiece. That's the only way I can really say it. Go see it.

Gettysburg is not a masterpiece, though it has many fine moments and is, in fact, a favourite of mine. However, it is very slow and ponderous in places, and you have to be fairly familiar with the byplay to really understand it. That doesn't stop Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, and in particular, Tom Berenger from putting in great performances.
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Pretty spot on, Platoon was an excellent movie, Gettysburg could have been better, but still a worthwhile movie.
 
Any of you seen one of these following  films, or more?

Various actors wishlist:
James Stewart / Henry Fonda / Gregory Peck / Boris Karloff / Humphrey Bogart / Kirk Douglas / Harry Carey


Carbine Williams (James Stewart)
Vivacious Lady (James Stewart)
Firecreek (James Stewart met Henry Fonda)

Immortal Sergeant (Henry Fonda)
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (Henry Hathaway ; met Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney)
Best Man, The (Henry Fonda)
Mad Miss Manton, The (Henry Fonda met Barbara Stanwyck)
Land of Liberty (Henry Fonda)
Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The (Henry Fonda)
Tales of Manhattan (Henry Fonda)
There Was a Crooked Man... (Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; met Kirk Douglas &Henry Fonda)
Male Animal, The (Henry Fonda)
Stranger on the Run (TV) (Don Siegel ; met Henry Fonda & Dan Duryea)
Let Us Live (John Brahm; met Henry Fonda)
Wild Geese Calling (John Brahm; met Henry Fonda en Joan Bennett)

Only The Valiant (Gregory Peck)
Days of Glory (Gregory Peck)
Great Sinner, The (Gregory Peck)
Stalking Moon, The (Gregory Peck)
Shoot Out (Gregory Peck)
Billy Two Hats (Gregory Peck)
World in His Arms, The (Gregory Peck)
Night People (Gregory Peck)
Cape Fear (1991) (Gregory Peck)

Tap Roots (Boris Karloff)

Left Hand of God, The (Humphrey Bogart)
Big Shot, The (Humphrey Bogart)
Oklahoma Kid, The (Humphrey Bogart)
Deadline - U.S.A. (Richard Brooks; met Humphrey Bogart)
Invisible Stripes (Humphrey Bogart)

Man Without A Star (Kirk Douglas)
I Walk Alone (met Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster & Lizabeth Scott)

Law and Order (met Harry Carey en Walter Huston)
Souls at Sea (Henry Hathaway; met Harry Carey)
China’s Little Devils (Harry Carey)
Air Force (Howard Hawks; met Harry Carey)
Devil Horse, The (Harry Carey)
Cavalier of the West (met Harry Carey en George ‘Gabby’ Hayes)
Straight Shooting (John Ford; met Harry Carey)
Powdersmoke Range (Harry Carey)
Border Devils (met Harry Carey en George ‘Gabby’ Hayes)
Ghost Town (Harry Carey)
Last Outlaw, The (Harry Carey)
Aces Wild – aka.... Aces High (Harry Carey)
Law West of Tombstone, The (Harry Carey)
 
I Walk Alone stands out to me on that list, I thought it was a really good 1940s gangster noir film.  I really enjoyed that one, good story, some good one liners, and a good cast.
 
Excellent. Lizabeth Scott, we've seen her in many noirs and often she's a convincing femme fatale. Douglas and Lancaster are are great for the bill for sure, and I am glad that you found the story good as well.


And from these? Various actors wishlist:

Spencer Tracy / Henry Hull / Burgess Meredith / Lionel Barrymore / Michael Redgrave / Jean Gabin / Sydney Greenstreet / Peter Lorre / Gary Merill

Stanley and Livingstone (met Spencer Tracy, Henry Hull en Walter Brennan)
Edison, the Man (Spencer Tracy)
Seventh Cross, The (Spencer Tracy)
Mountain, The (Edward Dmytryk; met Spencer Tracy)
Last Hurrah, The (Spencer Tracy)
Man’s Castle (Spencer Tracy)
Marie Galante (Spencer Tracy)

Inferno (met Henry Hull en Robert Ryan)
Colorado Territory (met Henry Hull en Joel McCrea)
Proud Rebel, The (met Henry Hull, Olivia De Havilland, Alan Ladd en John Carradine)
Last Posse, The (Henry Hull)
Hollywood Story (met Henry Hull en Richard Conte)
Return of the Cisco Kid (Henry Hull)

Castle on the Hudson (Burgess Meredith, John Garfield en Ann Sheridan)

Guilty Hands (Lionel Barrymore)
Road To Glory, The (Howard Hawks; met Lionel Barrymore)

Night My Number Came Up, The (Ealing; met Michael Redgrave)
Stars Look Down, The (Carol Reed; met Michael Redgrave)
Browning Version, The (Michael Redgrave)

Daybreak - aka... Jour se lève, Le (Jean Gabin)
Jour se lève, Le - aka... Daybreak (Jean Gabin)
Voici le temps des assassins... (Jean Gabin)
Razzia sur la Chnouf (Jean Gabin)
Vérité sur Bébé Donge, La (Jean Gabin)
Mélodie en sous-sol (met Jean Gabin en Alain Delon)
Deux hommes dans la ville (met Jean Gabin en Alain Delon)
Misérables, Les (1958) (met Jean Gabin)

Three Strangers (Sydney Greenstreet en Peter Lorre)
Devotion (Sydney Greenstreet, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland)
Velvet Touch, The (Sydney Greenstreet)
Double Confession (met Peter Lorre en Ronald Howard)
Rope Of Sand (met Peter Lorre, Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid & Claude Rains)

Incident, The (met Gary Merill)
Decision Before Dawn (met Gary Merill en Richard Basehart)
Phone Call from a Stranger (met Gary Merill)
Great Impostor, The (met Gary Merill, Tony Curtis & Edmond O’Brien)
Savage Eye, The (met Gary Merill)
Frogmen, The (met Gary Merill, Dana Andrews & Richard Widmark)
Slattery's Hurricane (met Gary Merill en Richard Widmark)
Missouri Traveller, The (met Gary Merill en Lee Marvin)
Night Without Sleep (met Gary Merill)
Around The World Under The Sea (met Gary Merill)
Woman Who Wouldn’t Die, The (met Gary Merill – aka Catacombs)
Catacombs (met Gary Merill - aka The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die)
Winged Victory (met Gary Merill en o.a. Edmond O’Brien)
Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones, The (met Gary Merill)
Quiet One, The (met Gary Merill)
Crash Landing (met Gary Merill)
Presidency: A Splendid Misery, The (met Gary Merill)
Last Challenge, The (met Gary Merill)
Power, The (met Gary Merill)
Rawhide (met Gary Merill)
Human Jungle, The (met Gary Merill)
Wonderful Country, The (met Gary Merill)
Mysterious Island (met Gary Merill)
Girl in White, The (met Gary Merill)


I hear you thinking: who the f**k is Gary Merill? Well, in the most films we've seen him in, he played interesting roles, and he is a very good actor, with a dominant screen presence (more than a few times with a bad temper ;) ). E.g., he did "All About Eve" and starred in many Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Hour- episodes.
 
Forostar said:
Do you mean Deliverance (1972) with Jon Voight & Burt Reynolds?
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Yes, that's the one. I've got that on DVD. Good movie, with one especially notorious scene.

Another notable scene: watch for when Burt Reynolds climbs a cliff face. That's not a stuntman, it's really Burt with no net.

And yes, this movie is so old it's Burt before the moustache.
 
Haha excellent! :)

I'll remember that scene, interesting that he wanted to do that.


I have seen a young Reynolds in a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode. He'd never been in a film before that moment. The episode can be seen here @ YouTube).

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Bill (played by Burt Reynolds) and Andy Davis are driving an old tanker truck across the desert when, 85 miles from their destination, the truck develops engine problems. A passing car gets stuck in the sand and it turns out the occupants have kidnapped a young woman in Phoenix and are on the run with the $100,000 ransom they've collected.....
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From that last list, I think Rope of Sand is the only one I have seen ... really good cast and some good moments in the movie (Rains in particular).  I think this was a movie with a decent idea for a story, but the plot seemed forced to me.  Worth watching, IMO, but not great.
 
Thanks, bearfan! Sounds good enough for me. :)
We better not discuss (yet) why the plot seems forced but the plot summary itself surely sounds attractive (next to the cast).
 
Sometimes I get a bit picky with movies, In my mind, I tier them. 
There are some great classic noir movies like the Maltese Falcon, etc that are in tier 1 (perhaps I will come up with a more extensive list), on the other hand, there are still movies that would be tier 4 or 5 that are still worth watching, ones that are so cheesy, they are still good.  For example, I watched the Forbidden Hollywood series set of DVDs that were pre-code movies and real risque because people said sex or women were shown in a bra, they were essentially 30s exploitation fims (some with big stars like Clark Gable, etc).  None of those movies were great, a few were good, but I am glad I saw them all, because even the worst of the lot was interesting. 
 
Here my comedy and drama wishlist films. Have you seen one or more of these?

Comedy
Trafic
Mating Season, The (met Gene Tierney, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling e.a.)
Last Holiday (met Alec Guinness)
League of Gentlemen, The
Card, The (met Alec Guiness)
Horse’s Mouth, The (met Alec Guiness)
Captain’s Paradise, The (met Alec Guiness)
Father Brown (met Alec Guinness)
Barnacle Bill (met Alec Guinness – Ealing)
Titfield Thunderbolt, The (Ealing)
Passport To Pimlico (Ealing)
Lilies Of The Field (met Sidney Poitier)
Q Planes (met Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson & Ralph Richardson)

Drama
Mépris, Le (met Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang)
Forever and a Day
Star, The (met Bette Davis & Sterling Hayden)
Flamingo Road (Michael Curtiz; met Joan Crawford & Sydney Greenstreet)
Prisoner, The (met Alec Guiness)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (met Anthony Quinn)
Fate Is the Hunter (met Glenn Ford)
Patterns (met Van Heflin & Ed Begley)
Baron of Arizona, The (Samuel Fuller; met Vincent Price) (drama)
Tunes of Glory (met Alec Guiness & John Mills)
Mudlark, The (met Alec Guiness)
Dangerous (met Bette Davis)
Strange Cargo (met Joan Crawford, Peter Lorre & Clark Gable)
In This Our Life (met Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland)
Trial (met Glenn Ford & Arthur Kennedy)
Iceman Cometh, The (John Frankenheimer ; met Lee Marvin, Fredric March and Robert Ryan)
Beau Geste (William Wellman ; met o.a. Gary Cooper & Ray Milland)
All My Sons (met Edward G. Robinson & Burt Lancaster)
Sound Barrier, The (David Lean ; met Ralph Richardson)
Mr. Skeffington (met Bette Davis & Claude Rains)
Raisin In The Sun, A (met Sidney Poitier)
Good-bye, My Lady (William A. Wellman ; met Walter Brennan, Sidney Poitier, Brandon De Wilde)
Pressure Point (met Sidney Poitier)
To Sir, With Love (met Sidney Poitier)
Slender Thread, The (met Sidney Poitier)
Paris Blues (met Sidney Poitier & Paul Newman)
Emergency Squad (Edward Dmytryk)
 
To Sir, With Love is certainly considered a classic and rightly so, IMO.  A good movie, a little "preachy" for my tastes  (there aer good ways to get a message across without hitting you over the head with it), but still a good move and a really nice soundtrack IMO.
 
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