 | The Wizard of Oz
Buy used from: $6.40 Still magical after all these years since its 1939 release. It's all here, the good, the bad and the ugly with great songs to boot. If I only had the courage to keep watching it!
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 | The Best Years of Our Lives
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.97 World War II coming home saga that captures all the angst suffered by "our boys" from psychological breakdown to physical deformity. Truly heart wrenching.
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 | High Noon (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $8.46 Don't foresake this film. There were a lot of crappy westerns made in the preceding decades but this one set the stage for for future greats like "Shane" and "Fistful of Dollars" etc.
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 | On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.29 I know some say this is Elia Kazan's effort to justify his "naming names" but it is still a powerful film. Starring a young Brando, it is definitely a "contenduh".
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 | Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $37.99 Baby boomer teenage love movie. My first real date. This movie has lot's of good memories for me and it's a helluva story.
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 | In Cold Blood
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.67 As good as the book and the origin of my passion for true crime reading. The ending will make you think twice about capital punishment.
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 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $3.78 I love anti hero films and this is one of the best. "Who are those guys"? Just Newman and Redford as outlaws coping with the changing times.
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 | Dirty Harry
Buy used from: $1.48 I told you I like anti heroes, right? You'll feel lucky after each viewing of this cop stalking nut case saga.
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 | The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)
Buy used from: $20.00 OK so it's two movies but sold as a package. If I have to tell you anything about these films you have been in a cave for 35 years.
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 | The Exorcist
Buy used from: $16.08 Still scares me to this day, pea soup and all.
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 | The Sting
Buy used from: $14.90 Butch and Sundance in the 1930's it might be but still a very imaginative story with lots of twists.
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 | Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $2.06 Oh sweet mystery of life, Brooks and Wilder at their best. Not to mention outstanding performances by Boyle, Feldman, Kahn, Leachman, Garr and Mars.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.49 Swept the Oscars and deservedly so. The benign evil of Nurse Ratched and the water cooler scenes are classic. Now give me MY cigarettes.
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 | The Verdict
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.94 They gave Newman the Oscar for "Color of Money" that he should have won for this film. In fact he deserved one for "The Hustler" and "Cool Hand Luke" as well. The guy is very underrated as an actor.
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 | The Natural
Buy used from: $3.79 I know I'll get a lot of arguments (especially from my son Nick) but this is the best baseball movie ever made. Period. Great score by Randy Newman and Glenn Close never looked better.
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 | Dead Poets Society
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.00 Robin Williams' best work. Fine supporting cast that transports you back to the all boys, strict discipline, regimented learning environment. No wonder I like this movie!!!
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 | Glory (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $3.98 Has two of my favorite actors in it, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman not to mention a good job by Matthew Broderick. Ferris Bueller grows up!!
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 | GoodFellas
Buy used from: $1.34 There all here, DeNiro, Pesci, Liotta, Sorvino, Bracco and they all did a masterful job. Great soundtrack to boot.
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 | The Silence of the Lambs (Widescreen Special Edition)
Buy used from: $1.87 Another Oscar sweeper. Never been a better portrayal of pure evil than Hopkin's Lector. Pass the fava beans.
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 | Reservoir Dogs
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.17 Tarantino's " Citizen Kane". He'll never top it. I cannot listen to the song "Stuck in the Middle With You" and not think of this movie.
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 | Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $2.94 The wild west as it probably really was, understated and ordinary until the explosive ending. Great performances by Eastwood, Freeman, Hackman and Harris.
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 | True Romance - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $6.86 The C. Walken/D. Hopper scene alone is reason enough to watch this underrated film. Not to mention great (as usual) work by Gary Oldman and pre Sopranos James Gandolfini. Nice Arquette eye candy too.
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 | Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.47 Travolta returns! I just love this flick, never tire of watching it after eating blueberry pie and smoking a Red Apple.
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 | Seven (Single Disc Edition)
Buy new: $5.49 / Used from: $1.88 The only Brad Pitt movie I can stand to watch. Spacey and Freeman shine in this, No Hollywood ending here folks.
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 | Fargo (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.89 I wanted a Coen brothers flick because I like their stuff so much and this is one of their best.
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