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Old 21-04-2007, 09:53 PM
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In no particular order (except for the first) my overall top twenty is:

Midnight Run
Syriana
Assault on Precinct 13 (the real version)
The Thing
Alien
The Third Man
Dr Strangelove
The Long Good Friday
Get Carter
A Matter of Life and Death
Brassed Off
Funeral in Berlin
Three Days of the Condor
Manhunter
Eldorado
Vanishing Point (again the grown up version)
Downfall
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Once Upon a Time in America
The Godfather Part 2

And my British only list is:

Gumshoe
Alien
A Matter of Life and Death
Brassed Off
Funeral in Berlin
The Third Man
The Hill
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Abominable Dr Phibes
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
If....
Dr Strangelove
The Long Good Friday
Get Carter
Zulu
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Local Hero
V for Vendetta
The Blue Lamp
This Sporting Life

I know these things are usually top 10's, but I just couldn't keep the numbers down.

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Why do the The Third Man, Long Good friday and Get Carter appear twice- I know they are the dogs doodars but also taking up 3 spaces on your list that could have been filled with others?
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Presumably that will be Stallone's Get Carter as well.
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I figure out my list later, I've been wondering what is the origin of Wolfgaang's Avatar.
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Why do the The Third Man, Long Good friday and Get Carter appear twice- I know they are the dogs doodars but also taking up 3 spaces on your list that could have been filled with others?
Presumably because one is a world list and the other is a British only list. British things can be part of the world

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Here goes: (in no real order except for the top three)

1: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (US)
2: White Heat (US)
3: Aliens (US/UK co-production) (filmed in the UK)
4: The Dirty Dozen (US/UK co-production) (filmed in the UK)
5: Lawrence of Arabia (British)
6: The Seven Samurai (Japanese)
7: King Kong (original) (US)
8: Objective Burma! (US)
9: Psycho (US) (Brit director!)
10: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) (US)
11: The Godfather Part 2 (US)
12: A Clockwork Orange (British)
13: Horror of Dracula (British)
14: Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian)
15: The Wild Bunch (US)
16: Harold and Maude (US)
17: Nashville (US)
18: La Balance (French)
19: Lady Vengeance (South Korean)
20: Billy Jack (US)
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Why do the The Third Man, Long Good friday and Get Carter appear twice- I know they are the dogs doodars but also taking up 3 spaces on your list that could have been filled with others?

I'll tell you why - it was Saturday night and I'd had a few sherberts.
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An invitation to your next family reunion would be greatly appreciated.
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An invitation to your next family reunion would be greatly appreciated.
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In no particular order .....

ON THE WATERFRONT US
THIRD MAN GB
BRIGHTON ROCK GB
HUD US
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE US
ONE EYED JACKS US
THE DARK MAN GB
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON US
KISS ME DEADLY US
SHOOTING STARS GB
LONG MEMORY GB
ZULU GB
ROOM AT THE TOP GB
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE GB
COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA US
BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES US
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD US
POOL OF LONDON GB
THE GREAT SILENCE ITALY

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Torquemada, your thread is irresistable. but limited to twenty? After revising the first draft three times, I still, had 38. I'm sure I could list 3 or 4 dozen musicals, alone. Well, here's 20:
Brief Encounter - Beautifly done
the Busy Body
City Lights - Silent Chaplin
D O A
Day of the Jackal
Dial M for Murder
Enter Laughing
the Haunting ( the one with Julie Harris )
His Girl, Friday
It's Love, Again - Matthews best, and she was- the best
My Fair Lady - this one was much better in the theatre with surround sound
Oklahoma!
On the Avenue
Rehearsal For Murder - not sure this was a movie, might've been a tv pgm.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Slightly Honorable
Sullivan's Travels
Till We Meet Again - very good mood
Tintypes - this was a broadway show on an educational pgm.
the Uninvited
Don't, always, know which were Britsh. Many American films had a supporting cast that was 90 % British born.
Brief Encounter It's love, Again and Seance were and (I think) the Jackal.
You should be commended for starting this thread.
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Very kind of you to say so Mel.
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Jigsaw
The Long Arm
The Third Man
The Deadly Affair
Godfather
Godfather 2
12 Angry Men
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
A Canterbury Tale
Tawny Pippit
Night of the Demon
Ipcress File
A Taste of Honey
The Small Back Room
Victim
League of Gentlemen
A Matter of Life & Death
Hell Drivers
Holiday Camp
The Blue Lamp
The Odd Couple
Charley Varrick
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