I'm not such a film Schnob as Sam, but I do like to go to the movies and I have a reasonable DVD (And VHS) collection. My comments on those I've seen and a few more...

> Bringing Up Baby (1938; likely the greatest non-silent comedy ever made -- fast-paced and just as hilarious today as ever)

Yeah. The idea of a leopard as co-star must have been unusual back then, but it worked.

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> The Great Escape (1963; prisoners of war attempt to break out of a concentration camp -- one great thing about this film is its balance of mood: it can be humorous and grim, neither counteracting the other)

This is a staple of Christmas TV in the UK. Still a great film, though. I always watch for Gordon Jackson getting caught out by being wished good luck when boarding the bus.

> The Great Train Robbery (1979; heist/suspense)

Known in the UK as The First Great Train Robbery, purely because we famously had a mail train robbed in 1963. Excellent story, plus it has Sean Connery in it.

> Oliver! (1968; gritty musical version of Oliver Twist)

Nice feel good production.

> The Producers (1968; the only Mel Brooks film I truly love)

Hehe. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder trying to make a deliberate Broadway flop, at which they fail miserably. I always wanted to see the actual show of "Springtime for Hitler"

> Sleuth (1972; an intellectual cat-and-mouse game -- superior precursor to "Deathtrap," which I recommend if you like this one)

A film where Michael Caine showed he could act just as well as the old time greats, sharing the screen with Laurence Olivier.

> Three Kings (1999; something original in the guise of a war movie)

Different than what I expected. Still enjoyable. Sort of Kelly Heroes for the 90's.

> The War of the Roses (1989; a black comedy gone berserk)

Danny Devito had to do some horrible things in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, so here he got revenge on the two co-stars by leaving them stuck up on the chandelier while he & the rest of the crew went for lunch.

> 37. Witness For the Prosecution (1957; a courtroom mystery with more shocking twist endings than you can shake a stick at)

I saw the later version with Beau Bridges and Ralph Richardson first, but this version is still the better one.


Some of my own are:

The Truman Show - A very good character study of innocence abused and showed that Jim Carrey could actually do more than just Zany comedy.

It's a Wonderful Life - The first time I saw this I went out immediately and bought a copy. It just made me feel so good. Whenever I feel down I put it on and just tune out the world.

The Time Machine - A good piece of Sci-Fi. I'm just glad WW3 didn't happen in 1968 as the film predicted.

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