Well the title basically sums up this topic, list your top ten movies of all time, the ones that you feel represent the highest of quality you can include any movies Dukes as well.

Good luck, cyas

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Here are the top 10 of the top 25 I listed on the other thread...

1) The Searchers
2) True Grit
3) The Quiet Man
4) Big Jake
5) Rio Grande
6) Rio Bravo
7) Stagecoach
8) The Shootist
9) Commancheros

Of course all my top ten movies are all Duke movies...

GSP

Well I cant argue with that list GSP although if I wanted to I could say there are only nine in it but hell we'll let that pass since your a cat, ;) only joking.

Keep listing everyone

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I just love these polls and I think this one has given me the most to think about. Trying to narrow my list to 10 was alot of work in itself, then to put them in a order. Well, here it goes, My Top 10 Movies of All Time List:

1. High Noon

2. Casablanca

3. The Searchers

4. Dances With Wolves

5. Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark

6. Treasure of the Sierra Madre

7. Star Wars Empire Srtrikes Back

8. Bridge on the River Kwai

9. The Wild Bunch

10. Rio Bravo

As you might be able to tell, my all time list has lots of action in them, but this is my all time list.

My top all time 10 of movies I love. That's really tough. I have too many to choose from and they are all classics. Here goes this list.

1. To Kill A Monkingbird

2. It's A Wonderful Life

3. The Quiet Man

4. Key Largo

5. Rio Bravo

6. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

7. My Darling Clementine

8. The Great Escape

9. The Birds

10. Father Goose


Cheers, Hondo B)

hi

Heres my ten cents worth

1. The Quiet Man

2. Red River

3. Horiatio Hornblower R.N.

4. Calamity Jane

5. Singing in the Rain

6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

7. The Three Musketeers (1949 version)

8. Gungha Din

9. Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn)

10. The Sea Hawk


Regards

Arthur

well robbie here goes

1. man from snowy river

2. it's a wonderful life

3. 12o'clock high

4. changi

5. quiet man

6. the wooden horse

7. parent trap ( haley mills)

8. babe ( the pig story)

9. who shot liberity valance

10. lion king

took a while

cheers smokey

Arthur! Imagine my surprise when I see The Three Musketeers on your list - the Gene Kelly/Lana Turner/June Allyson version no less. I'm very curious as to what you like about it, if you'd care to tell me.

As far as my list goes, hmm... I don't think I can really rank mine, but I'll try. And I don't really believe in having favorites, ultimately. Time changes these things. Here's what comes to mind now, though. (Didn't we list our favorites elsewhere only a couple of months ago?)

1) Singin' in the Rain
2) The Third Man
3) It Happened One Night
4) The Three Godfathers
5) Casablanca
6) Notorious
7) The Maltese Falcon
8) Red River
9) A Lady Takes a Chance
10) Top Hat

I *heart* you, Gene, Duke, Clark, Bogie, Fred, and Cary. And Frank Capra!

It hurts me to put Fred Astaire so low. And there are so many other good ones! I had to leave out Stagecoach and The Quiet Man. Augh.

Hi Jen,

I first saw THe Three Musketeers when I was probably six or seven, certainly at an age when the spectacle of the picture would leave a lasting impresion as it obviously did.

What do I like about the film? The brilliant colour, the costumes, the action, especially the swordfights and even the absurdity of it on occasions. The darting between love and pathos, between high comedy and drama.

Critics say that many of the major players were miscast particularly Gene Kelly as D'Artagnan, again for me he played the role as a swashbucling Douglas Fairbanks, especially when he jumps for the flag and it splits right through, you half expected his eyes and teeth to sparkle when he smiled. But in the second half of the picture especially after the death of Constance he takes on briefly the serious and human aspects and it is here that his comrades (especially Van Heflin as Athios) come to his aid.
The part where Athos reveals mLady De Winter's past is dark and deep and you know then that she cannot be allowed to live. You get a slight feeling that left to D'Artagnan she might get away with it but Athos is ruthless enough to ensure that his friend is not allowed to see the final end game, the dramatic sight of the headsman of Lyons in the setting night sky.

Vincent Price I think made a far better Richelieu than Charlton Heston in the later versions. Kelly's companions were more believable than in the later versions and the final swagger as the king absolves them of blame and dismisses them, showed the elan of the musketeer in French society of the time. And the music as always stirring in those days.

It is difficult to get inside the mind of a boy in the 1940s, the war had only been over three years when the film was made and as I say I was probably six or seven when I eventually got to see it (I was born in 1943) Everything around had either been bombed or pulled down. The times were drab and any film like The Three Musketeers or Robin Hood brought colour to this drabness.

If you saw a western you came out of the cinema riding an imaginary horse and firing pistols with your fingers richoteing with every shot, (I had a finger that could fire fifty rounds without reloading). If It was a swashbucler the sword replaced the finger and you were as equally absurd as the hero who had entertained you for the last two and a half hours. It was pure escapisim.

There is also a tie up with history and the film in that The Duke of Buckingham was living in Old Portsmouth when he was assinated by John Felton (The house is still standing with a plaque outside explaining the circumstances.)

I might not have put it as well as I should but that was why I liked the picture.

My Best Regards

Arthur

Thanks, Arthur, for your thoughtful response. I very much enjoy this film as well, but most people I talk to don't. I like it for the same reasons as you - it's absurdly funny and ridiculous at times (the love scenes with that drippingly overly romantic score!) but also rather sad and moving at others. All in all, it's really quite like our modern day action/adventure flicks a la Indiana Jones, which translates to solid entertainment. I too love Gene Kelly as d'Artagnan - he is alternately smarmy and tough and naive in this role. Vincent Price is all out smarmy and it works. Van Heflin is quietly moving; I really enjoy his work. (And you can barely recognize him as the guy from Shane!)

I'm conscious of the fact that we've dragged this rather far off topic, so out of respect for others I'll try to leave it at that.

here goes my list:

1. The Wild Bunch
2. The Searchers
3. Gladiator
4. Saving private ryan
5. The Man who shot Liberty Valance
6. Patton
7. The Adventures of Robin Hood
8. Stagecoach
9. Face/off
10.The Fall of the roman empire

cya Jwfan