LISTS

[audreyforever]

I would like to present a list I've been working on for months. It's a rough draft of my personal top 100 Greatest Adventure films ranked. I've also included movies I've added since I've been looking through sites on the internet:

 

1 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

2 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)

3 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)

4 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

5 North By Northwest (1959)

6 African Queen, The (1951)

7 Great Escape, The (1963)

8 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

9 Sea Hawk, The (1940)

10 Star Wars (1977)

11 Lord of the Rings, The Trilogy (2001-2003)

12 King Kong (1933)

13 Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (2003-2007)

14 Gunga Din (1939)

15 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

16 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

17 Spartacus (1960)

18 Red River (1948)

19 Captain Blood (1935)

20 Thief of Bagdad, The (1924)

21 Jaws (1975)

22 Searchers, The (1956)

23 Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

24 Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)

25 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

26 Guns of Navarone, The (1962)

27 Scaramouche (1952)

28 Magnificent Seven, The (1960)

29 Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)

30 King Solomon's Mines (1950)

31 Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

32 Ivanhoe (1952)

33 Zulu (1964)

34 Black Swan, The (1942)

35 Romancing the Stone (1984)

36 Top Gun (1986)

37 Mark of Zorro, The (1940)

38 How the West Was Won (1962)

39 Dirty Dozen, The (1967)

40 Beau Geste (1939)

41 Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934)

42 Drums (1938)

43 Braveheart (1995)

44 First Blood (1982)

45 Don Juan (1926)

46 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

47 Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)

48 Robin Hood (1922)

49 Where Eagles Dare (1969)

50 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

51 Treasure Island (1934)

52 Four Feathers, The (1939)

53 Captains Courageous (1937)

54 Ice Station Zebra (1968)

55 Moby Dick (1956)

56 Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)

57 Crimson Pirate, The (1952)

58 Forbidden Planet (1956)

59 Northwest Passage (1940)

60 Sahara (1943)

61 Prisoner of Zenda, The (1952)

62 Cliffhanger (1993)

63 Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1936)

64 Corsican Brothers, The (1942)

65 Treasure Island (1950)

66 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

67 Black Pirate, The (1926)

68 Sahara (2004)

69 Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

70 Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)

71 Three Musketeers, The (1948)

72 Hook (1991)

73 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The (1958)

74 Mark of Zorro, The (1920)

75 Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

76 Flame and the Arrow, The (1950)

77 Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

78 Arabian Nights (1942)

79 Princess Bride, The (1987)

80 Hidalgo (2004)

81 Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

82 Wind and the Lion, The (1975)

83 Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

84 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

85 Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)

86 Kelly's Heroes (1970)

87 Bounty, The (1984)

88 Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)

89 Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)

90 Mogambo (1953)

91 Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938)

92 Knights of the Round Table (1953)

93 Khartoum (1966)

94 Hatari! (1962)

95 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)

96 Iron Mask, The (1929)

97 Unconquered (1947)

98 Captain Kidd (1945)

99 Most Dangerous Game, The (1932)

100 All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)

 

 

Additions (I don't know where to put them!!!)

 

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Deliverance (1972)

Bourne Identity (2002)

Transformers (2007)

Fugitive (1993)

Speed (1994)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Avatar (2009)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Blade Runner (1982)

Return of the Jedi (1983)

The Right Stuff (1983)

Mission (1986)

Gladiator (2000)

Perfect Storm (2000)

Apollo 13 (1995)

[JackFavell]

*Jimmy Cagney* - The Roaring Twenties - nobody dies better than Cagney

 

*Henry Fonda, George O'Brien and Ward Bond* - Fort Apache

 

*Orson Welles as HARRY LIME* - The Third Man - No one has picked Harry Lime yet?

 

*Alec Guinness* - The Bridge on the River Kwai

 

*John Wayne* - The Shootist

 

*Simone Simon* - Cat People

 

*Simone Simon* - Curse of the Cat People - not a true death scene, but a leavetaking

 

*3 Bad Men*

 

*Grandma* in The Grapes of Wrath

 

*John Dall/Peggy Cummins* - Gun Crazy

 

*Frank Morgan* - The Human Comedy

 

*Fred MacMurray* - Double Indemnity

 

*The Fifty* - The Great Escape

 

*Karl Malden* - Nevada Smith - yes, it's a trick answer

 

Edited by: JackFavell on Mar 7, 2011 7:23 PM

[OllieTSB]

JackF, you're right - I didn't even think about Harry Lime's demise... but naw, I just remember Alida walking past Holly. I tell ya, guys and their brains...

 

But no one's mentioned the classroom scene in GOODBYE MR CHIPS, when the lad arrives and tells everyone that Mrs. Chippings has died. Not a death scene, but powerful. Donat plays that so perfectly.

 

And what about Manuel-Spencer's death in CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS? Or the visit to the church. Whew.

[JackFavell]

Yeah, that visit to the church has *Jack LaRue* in it - in a priest's outfit.

 

h3. Whew!

 

Is it hot in here?

[MissGoddess]

Coming up with this list I realized how many of my favorite movie "deaths" actually take place off-screen, or are only mentioned. So, I'm limiting my list to on-screen deaths. Obviously, major, major

h1. Spoilers

 

15. *Pepe le Moko* (Charles Boyer) Algiers. When the boat whistle drives Gaby (Hedy Lamarr) back inside as Pepe calls out to her, I'm finished.

 

14. *Mij* (the pet otter) Ring of Bright Water. He was my "old Yeller". It hurts worse knowing it was a true story.

 

13. *Wil Andersen* (John Wayne) The Cowboys. It's so unexpected and shocking, really taking the movie into serious territory. Poor Bruce Dern probably never stopped getting hate mail.

 

12. "Gunner" (Spencer Tracy) Test Pilot. He made Clark Gable cry, and me, too.

 

11. *King Mongkut* (Yul Brynner) The King and I. Something about seeing the child-like man dying in state like that always gets me.

 

10. *Annie Johnson* (Juanita Moore) Imitation of Life. I admit to weepin' and a-wailin' every time Annie dies and Lana screams at her for doing it. I grew up boo-hooing to Mahalia Jackson. I'm still looking for the right support group.

 

9. *Frenchy* (Marlene Dietrich) and "Wash" (Charles Winnenger) Destry Rides Again. "It just makes me so...darn...mad!"

 

8. *Holly Parker* (Lana Turner) Madame X. I double dare anyone to watch this scene with dry eyes. Another that's been making cry since childhood.

 

5, 6, 7. *Bull Stanley* (Tom Santschi), *Mike Costigan* (J. Farrell MacDonald), *Spade Allen* (Frank Campeau) 3 Bad Men. "No man has greater love than this, than that he should give up his life on behalf of his friends."

 

4. *Joe Chapin* (Gary Cooper) Ten North Frederick. "He was a gentleman in a world that no longer had use for gentlemen."

 

3. J. B. Books (John Wayne) The Shootist. I can't even watch it, it's so wrenching. I always turn the channel when he goes to the saloon.

 

2. *Gwillym Morgan* (Donald Crisp) How Green Was My Valley. The fact that such deaths are still occuring because of the world's insatiable appetite for the earth's resources makes Mr. Morgan's death one that keeps repeating. "There's a good old man."

 

1. *Melanie Wilkes* (Olivia de Havilland) Gone with the Wind. Only the good die young. This is number one because it's been with me the longest. Ever since I was a child, I've been weeping over Melanie's last words to Scarlett: "Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."

[JackFavell]

Gos, that's a fantastic list, Goddess!

[MissGoddess]

Thank you, Jackie. I left so many out. My next five:

 

20. *Judith Traherne* (Bette Davis) Dark Victory

19. *Catherine Earnshaw* (Merle Oberon) Wuthering Heights

18. *Duc de Praslin* (Charles Boyer) All This And Heaven, Too

17. *Roy Earl* (Humphrey Bogart) High Sierra

16. *Helen Ellswirth* (Elizabeth Taylor) The Last Time I Saw Paris.

[JackFavell]

Another group I should have thought of! Excellent.

 

I can't believe I didn't think of Boyer at all or Bogie in High Sierra.

 

Boyer and Darrieux in *Mayerling*

 

John Barrymore in *Dinner at Eight*

[MissGoddess]

Oh, heck. Barrymore of course. My pick would be *Grand Hotel*. How could I forget "FLIX"????

[JackFavell]

Ha !

 

Viv is wonderful in *Anna Karenina*.

 

and I always like the way Basil Rathbone dies in his swashbucklers.

[MissGoddess]

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> Ha !

>

> Viv is wonderful in *Anna Karenina*.

>

 

Ah! See, that's another. How could I forget Vivling...she broke my heart in AK and in *Waterloo Bridge*.

 

> and I always like the way Basil Rathbone dies in his swashbucklers.

 

That's another intersting sub-category: favorite villain death scenes:

 

SERIOUS SPOILERS

 

5. Norman Lloyd in *Saboteur*

4. Layne in *3 Bad Men*

3. Frank Miller in *High Noon*

2. Jack Wilson in *Shane*

1. Liberty in *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance*

[JackFavell]

Oh yeah! Liberty takes the prize!

[fxreyman]

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}

> 2. *Gwillym Morgan* (Donald Crisp) How Green Was My Valley. *The fact that such deaths are still occuring because of the world's insatiable appetite for the earth's resources makes Mr. Morgan's death one that keeps repeating.* "There's a good old man."

 

Do I detect a Sierra Club member here?

[audreyforever]

I'm pretty sure this is off screen, but I hate it when Frank McHugh dies in Roaring Twenties

[CineMaven]

"That's another intersting sub-category: favorite villain death scenes..." - < ( Miss Goddess ) >

 

Hi there...well, along those lines, the bad guys in the James Bond films die interestingly. Albeit those aren't quite the classics we're talking about...but it's a start. It's only nine in the morning. My Maven's brain doesn't start until noon.

 

Okay...okay. What about this: Brian Donlevy in "Beau Geste."

 

(Hi Jackaaaaaaaay!)

[JackFavell]

Where the heck am I?

 

I must be over the rainbow... with Jean Harlow? I certainly hope that this new format WORKS as good as it looks.

 

Brian Donlevy is a superb choice! Villains die almost as well, if not better than sidekicks.

 

I'll see your Captain Markoff and raise you one Mrs. Danvers.

[MissGoddess]

> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote}

> > {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}

> > 2. *Gwillym Morgan* (Donald Crisp) How Green Was My Valley. *The fact that such deaths are still occuring because of the world's insatiable appetite for the earth's resources makes Mr. Morgan's death one that keeps repeating.* "There's a good old man."

>

> Do I detect a Sierra Club member here?

 

I'm not even sure what the Sierra Club is?? Don't they make calendars?

[CineMaven]

Afternoon Jackaaaaay: I must be over the rainbow... with Jean Harlow? I certainly hope that this new format WORKS as good as it looks.

 

I'm with you there, though the powers-that-be could have spent their time checking out cyber-identities to this Message Board. And pressing the "post message" button is now glitchy for me. But hey...anywhere with Jean Harlow, you know there'll be some laughs.

 

Brian Donlevy is a superb choice! Villains die almost as well, if not better than sidekicks. I'll see your Captain Markoff and raise you one Mrs. Danvers.

 

Awwwright. I'll take that bet. Here's to your Mrs. Danvers with either the poignant death of Lawrence Talbot in "THE WOLFMAN" or Christopher Lee's yucky death in Hammer's "DRACULA." Who am I kidding. I'll bet my whole pot on bad guy's John Cassevetes' agonizing atomizing smithereened demise at the end of "THE FURY." I can still hear

the audience's screams and cheers!

 

Man, he was really a bad guy!

[fxreyman]

That is one very impressive list!

 

Although I see that you have included two complete trilogies. That would make your 100 list become an actual 104 list, correct?

 

Tell me, if you had to choose just one film from each of those trilogies, which one would you choose?

[fxreyman]

The Sierra Club is a far left (liberal) environmental organization that expounds on clean, green living. And I am sure they sell calendars, lots of them.

 

Naturalist John Muir founded the organization. Photographer Ansel Adams with his great black and white photographs I believe were instrumental in helping to bring awareness to the club in the early to mid 20th century.

[MissGoddess]

Oh, thank you Rey. I guess I fall in with the fellow who said any club that would have him as a member didn't interest him.

[CineMaven]

THE LIST OF LISTS

 

1. Titles In One's Library

2. Favorite Submarine Fims

3. DVDs by Decades

4. Directors On DVD

5. Genre Breakdown

6. Favorite Actors

7. Top Ten Favorite Westerns

8. Favorite Lines of Dialogue

9. Fluff Movies

10. Favorite Lines from The Duke

11. Actors/Directors In One's Library

12. Favorite Actresses

13. Favorite Gloria Grahame Films

14. Favorite Gloria Grahame Characters

15. Favorite Gloria Grahame Performances

16. Favorite Directors

17. Favorite Dance Numbers

18. Favorite Films from the 1930's

19. Who Walks Well

20. Favorite Cary Grant Comedies

21. Favorite Cary Grant Non-Comedies

22. Cary Grant Characters

23. Cary Grant Performances

24. The Last Fifteen Films Watched

25. Favorite Cagney Films

26. Favorite (Pre-70's) Sensual Films

27. Favorite "Other" Films ("Other" Meaning Sexual)

28. Actors With At Least Five Appearances In One's Film Collection

29. List of Directors in One's Film Collection

30. Favorite (Pre-70's) Comedies

31. Favorite Capra Things

32. Favorite Western Love Stories

33. Favorite Unrealized Western Love Stories

34. Films With Hanging Scenes

35. Favorite TV Shows: Comedies/Dramas

36. Favorite Actor/Actress Voices

37. Favorite Male Characters in Westerns

38. Favorite Female Characters in Westerns

39. Film Noir List in One's Film Collection

40. Ten Best Film For Each Year From 1960-2010

41. Post 1970 Movies

42. Favorite Films For Each Year From 1913-2009

43. Top Ten Films From 1956

44. Favorite Films From 1946

45. Favorite Years From the 1940's

46. Oscar Films That SHOULD Have Won Best Picture

47. Favorite Films From Genres Not Crazy About

48. Favorite Death Scenes

49. War Films Broken Down By War/Battles/Situations

[fxreyman]

I think we could easily come up with an additional 49 lists, don't you think, Maven?

 

What did you do, come home after a wonderful evening out and start researching the thread to see how many lists have been created here?

 

Pretty cool stuff.

 

Edited by: fxreyman on Mar 12, 2011 9:06 AM

[JackFavell]

Haha! That's great, Mava!

[CineMaven]

?I came up with a list that produced what I thought could be considered ten best films for each year made after 1960.? - <<< (( Fxreyman )) >>> 2-24-2011 @ 10:27AM

 

Hey there Jackaaaaaaaaaay, Hiya Foxy Rey. I did have a nice time at my favorite Friday night watering hole, thanx.

 

I perused your LISTS thread Rey to make sure I wasn't duplicating anything before I made my next list. In the process of doing that I came upon a list you did here:

 

(http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=157528&start=135&tstart=0)

 

And you certainly have listed some of the greatest films of the decades. I had no quarrel with any of the ten films you put on that list. (Whew! Exhaustive!) What I did was look at your list and picked (I-M-H-O) the best of the best for each year you listed. There are some very Klassy and Important films on your list. But I picked films I absolutely found accessible and enjoyable; films that I could watch over and over again. If I really wanted to be

masochistic...I would pick the best of the best film for each decade...but why would I want to be so masochistic? After creating this list...I think I need to go back to the watering hole. Again...my list is based on your list:

 

CINEMAVEN'S LIST OF THE BEST OF THE BEST(...IMHO) OF FXREY'S LIST

 

( 1960 ) Psycho *

( 1961 ) The Children's Hour

( 1962 ) The Manchurian Candidate (which I can't wait to see Robert Osborne & Angela Lansbury introduce here in NYC next month)

( 1963 ) The Haunting

( 1964 ) Fail Safe

( 1965 ) Repulsion

( 1966 ) Born Free

( 1967 ) The Graduate

( 1968 ) The Odd Couple

( 1969 ) Easy Rider

 

( 1970 ) Five Easy Pieces

( 1971 ) Carnal Knowledge/The Last Picture Show

( 1972 ) The Poseidon Adventure

( 1973 ) American Grafitti

( 1974 ) Blazing Saddles

( 1975 ) Jaws *

( 1976 ) Network

( 1977 ) Annie Hall

( 1978 ) Unmarried Woman

( 1979 ) Being There

 

( 1980 ) The Empire Strikes Back *

( 1981 ) Raiders of the Lost Ark

( 1982 ) Tootsie

( 1983 ) The Right Stuff

( 1984 ) The Terminator / Blood Simple

( 1985 ) Silverado

( 1986 ) Top Gun

( 1987 ) House of Games

( 1988 ) The Accused

( 1989 ) Field of Dreams

 

( 1990 ) Dances With Wolves

( 1991 ) Silence of the Lambs *

( 1992 ) A Few Good Men

( 1993 ) Schindler's List

( 1994 ) Pulp Fiction / The Shawshank Redemption

( 1995 ) The Brothers McMullen

( 1996 ) Fargo

( 1997 ) Contact

( 1998 ) There's Something About Mary

( 1999 ) The Limey

 

( 2000 ) Gladiator *

( 2001 ) Monster's Ball

( 2002 ) The Hours

( 2003 ) Mystic River

( 2004 ) Million Dollar Baby

( 2005 ) Batman Begins

( 2006 ) Pan?s Labyrinth

( 2007 ) No Country for Old Men

( 2008 ) The Reader

( 2009 ) Inglorious Basterds

( 2010 ) Winter's Bone

 

Awwwww, what the hell. The films that are in bold * are films I?ve picked as my best of the best's best. What a challenge!!! You know what...this ?List? thing is fun. It?s very subjective and there is no wrong answer. 'Till next time...