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That final scene always moves me. Out of many of Newman's many fine performances Cool Hand Luke is my favorite. (SPOILER) Even though Luke ends up dying, his legend lives on. I always wondered if Dragline took up where Luke left off, judging by the irons on his legs.

I just love BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. One of the very few sequels that actually surpasses the original film (and I really adore the 1931 FRANKENSTEIN). One quibble....we see very little of the Bride, she has maybe only 4 or 5 minutes of film time (though Elsa Lancaster does appear as Mary Shelley at the beginning of the film). Otherwise it's a classic. I know Boris Karloff didn't like the monster talking but I actually think it added layers to the creature and made him even more sympathetic. This would be Colin Clive's last turn as Dr. Frankenstein (since he ended up dying 2 years later). Dr. Pretorius, such a weird, creepy, yet fascinating character and he's played brilliantly by Ernest Thesiger. And Una O'Connor is a hoot as Minnie.

I don't do a whole lot of streaming myself. I don't even have Netflix. Give me DVDs any day. I still haven't gotten around to getting any Blu-Rays, I am quite content with my regular movies.

I love this movie. I can watch it every other day.

Heck, my whole room is a cemetery then…..over 700 movies in DVDs.

We'll never know how Burt would have fared as Ben-Hur, but I do think he had the acting chops to pull it off. Still, I can't imagine anyone but Heston as the title character.

Welcome! Look forward to seeing more posts from you.

Phil Brown

Ida Lupino

Fay Bainter

Donald Crisp

Oh so many films, but here's my choices for films I can watch over and over again: THE ROARING TWENTIES, CASABLANCA, WHITE HEAT, BRINGING UP BABY, THE PUBLIC ENEMY, KEY LARGO, THE LITTLE FOXES, ALL ABOUT EVE, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, A STAR IS BORN (1954), IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, SPARTACUS, OUT OF THE PAST, JEZEBEL, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1957)…. I better stop now. But these are the movies that instantly came to my mind when I read this topic.

It has a great cast, I'll give it that. But I tried watching it 3 times and have yet to find any artistic merit to me. Guess it was just lost on me.

Allen Jenkins

I enjoy Charlton Heston in a lot of his films. I concede he could be hammy in some of them, but he was always fun to watch. I always love his "Get your damn paws off of me, you damn dirty apes!" line in PLANET OF THE APES. I loved him in BEN-HUR but my personal favorite performance of his was in THE OMEGA MAN.

I do love THE SHOOTIST. HEAVEN'S GATE is another story though....

THE ROCKET MAN

STATE OF THE UNION

There have been many film versions of LES MISERABLES and many fine actors who have stepped into the roles of Jean Valjean (Fredric March, Liam Neeson, Hugh Jackman, Richard Jordan to name a few) and Inspector Javert (Charles Laughton, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, Anthony Perkins, etc.). The 1935 version with March and Laughton is my personal favorite of all the versions of the story.

I'm a gal. PRIVATE BENJAMIN is probably her most famous role, but personally I thought the other Army comedy, STRIPES, which came out a year later, was much funnier. I love Bill Murray.

I agree that Prewitt plays a far more important role in the movie than some reviewers give it credit for, but it's hard to deny that the infamous lovemaking beach scene between Lancaster and Kerr outshines a lot of today's more explicit sexual scenes depicted on film. Never saw the television remake. Don't think I'll go out of my way to look for it, even if it does have a decent cast to it. The actors in the 1953 version IMO would be tough acts to follow.

I need to catch this one. How does it rate?

I think I'll skip Goldie Hawn. She's never been one of my favorites, and I have never considered her a legendary actress by any means, Oscar or no Oscar. I am looking forward to Sylvia Sidney, Maureen O'Hara and George Raft though.

I knew that Gig Young had taken his name from a character in one of his earlier films, had no idea that Bruce Bennett had changed his name before he made his mark in the movies. Joseph Yule, Jr. went on to become Mickey Rooney until the end of his days. And of course Marion Morrison once he hit the silver screen, would forever call himself John Wayne, aka The Duke.

That's always puzzled me.....DALLAS was criticized up and down for coming up with the 'it was only a nightmare' scenario and erasing one season of the series, while NEWHART was praised for dismissing the entire sitcom with the 'it was all a dream' solution....go figure.