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What’s the greatest American film of all time? Can’t decide? Well then, what’s your favorite movie? Do you love the classics, or ignore anything before 1980? Comedies, courtroom dramas, casts of thousands – we have them all at Great American Things.
The Naked Gun
Ah, Leslie Nielsen as Detective Frank Drebin. One of the most brilliant and surprising casting choices in movie history helped produce...
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Spartacus
I don’t think it’s a spoiler for a 50-year-old film to mention the greatest part of the film. When members of the losing army...
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Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick was a groundbreaking, visionary director. So it’s not easy to select his greatest movie, but it would be hard...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Go back in time with me, waaay back to 1975, and the start of the George Lucas/Stephen Spielberg dueling blockbuster action movies. 1975:...
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Film: Frankenstein
“It’s alive! It’s alive!” One of my all-time favorite movie quotes. So useful. As you probably know, Mary Shelley...
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Film: Annie Hall
Roger Ebert calls Annie Hall “just about everyone’s favorite Woody Allen movie.” Well, it’s not mine. (Manhattan.)...
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Film: Chinatown
I love film noir. Give me a good black and white mystery from the 1940s, maybe written by Raymond Chandler, with a tough private eye and a...
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Film: 12 Angry Men
It’s not a good thing to feel claustrophobic during a movie. And except for a couple of brief scenes at beginning and end, the...
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Film: From Here to Eternity
What does it take for a movie to rise above an enjoyable diversion for a couple of hours and achieve status as a classic? A great story, of...
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Film: Movies of 1962
I have to acknowledge up front that the highest-grossing film of the year was also the Academy Award winner: Lawrence of Arabia. A British...
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