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 There will be four categories and one special section: Good, Better, Great, Greatest and Instructional.

 

 

GOOD:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston 1948)

Zeppelin (Michael York, Anton Diffring, Andrew Kier 1971)

Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, Marie-Christine Barrault, Charlotte Rampling 1980)

Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson 1948)

Around The World In Eighty Days (David Niven, Cantinflas 1956)

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (James Mason, Kirk Douglas 1954)

Ivanhoe (James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Olivia Hussey 1982)

Murder By Decree (Christopher Plummer, James Mason (1979)

The Last Of Sheila (Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason 1973)

Desperately Seeking Susan (Rosanna Arquette, Adian Quinn 1985)

Cover Girl (Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers 1944)

The Fountainhead (Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal 1949)

Laura (Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews 1944)

Le Mans (Steve McQueen, Elga Andersen 1971)

The Andromeda Strain (James Olsen, Arthur Hill 1971)

The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet 1941)

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Zero Mostel, Michael Hordern, Phil Silvers 1966)

Cleopatra (Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison 1963)

Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde, Susanna York 1968)

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters etc. 1963)

Toy Story series (Pixar animation 1995-on)

Robinson Crusoe On Mars (Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin 1964)

The Frozen Dead (Dana Andrews, Anna Palk 1966)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Richard Burton, Claire Bloom 1964)

Superman (Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman 1979)

Rebecca (Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Vincent Price 1940)

Rocky [1] (Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire 1976)

Five Card Stud (Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens 1968)

 

BETTER:

The Enemy Below (Robert Mitchum, Kurt Jurgens 1957)

Gigi (Louis Jordan, Leslie Caron 1958)

Frankenstein: The True Story (David McCallum, James Mason, Jane Seymour 1973)

Ice Station Zebra (Rock Hudson, Patrick MacGoohan 1968)

Ayn Rand: A Sense Of Life (documentary 1997)

D.O.A. (Edmund O'Brien, Pamela Britton 1950)

Five Million Years To Earth (Andrew Kier, Barbara Shelley 1968)

The Aristocats (Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Disney animation 1970)

The Guns of Navarone (David Niven, Gregory Peck 1961)

Groundhog Day (Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell 1993)

The Producers (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder 1968)

The Eagle Has Landed (Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland 1976)

Up! (Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai 2009)

Becket (Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole 1964)

Yentl (Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving 1983)

The Last Waltz (The Band, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton etc. 1977)

The Final Countdown (Kirk Douglas, James Farentino, Martin Sheen 1980)

Fantastic Voyage (Edmund O'Brien, Stephen Boyd 1966)

The Architecture of Doom (documentary, English lang. narr. Bruno Ganz 1989)

The Lord Of The Rings (Ralph Bakshi 1978)

The Lord Of The Rings (Peter Jackson 2001 etc.)

The Lord Of The Rings (Rankin-Bass installments 1977 & 1980)

 

GREAT:

Romeo & Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, dir. 1973)

On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando, Karl Malden 1954)

Dracula (Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler 1931)

The Ritchie Boys (documentary 2004)

Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon 1942)

The Stranger (Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles 1946)

Downfall (Bruno Ganz, Corrina Harfouch 2004)

That's Entertainent! [1,2,3] (documentaries '74, '76 and '94)

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Toshiro Mifune, Martin Balsam 1970)

Spitfire aka The First Of The Few (Leslie Howard, David Niven 1942)

The Alamo (John Wayne, Richard Widmark 1960)

The Pink Panther (David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine 1963)

Patton (George C. Scott, Karl Malden 1970)

The Sound of Music (Christopher Plummer, Julie Andrews 1965)

The Caine Mutiny (Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray 1954)

A Man For All Seasons (Paul Scofield, Orson Welles 1966)

Battle Of Britain (Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Susannah York 1969)

Meet Me In St. Louis (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien 1944)

 

GREATEST:

Executive Suite (William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck 1953)

Rio Bravo (John Wayne, Dean Martin 1959)

The Endless Summer (documentary films 1 and 2, 1966 and 1994)

Phantom of the Opera (Herbert Lom 1962)

My Side Of The Mountain (Ted Eccels, Theodore Bikel 1969)

The Miracle Worker (Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft 1962)

Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman 1942)

Judgment At Nuremberg (Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich 1961)

The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen 1960)

Duck Soup (Marx Brothers 1933)

Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons 1948)

Hamlet (Mel Gibson, Glenn Close 1990 - Zeffirelli dir.)

Taming Of The Shrew (Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor 1967)

Julius Caesar (Marlon Brando, John Gielgud 1953)

The Incredibles (Pixar animation 2004)

Cold Comfort Farm (Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley 1995)

Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton 1995)

 

INSTRUCTIONAL (great examples in the craft of acting)

Mind Meld (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy 2001)

Strictly Ballroom (Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice 1992)

The Life Of Reilly (Charles Nelson Reilly one man show 2006)

Looking For Richard (Al Pacino and friends 1996)

"The thing about anything in life is that you have to prepare for it.  Study, learn." - Jacqueline Bisset