 | The Road Warrior
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $0.79 The best of the Mad Max films and Mel Gibson's best movie, period, methinks. Tough choice between this and my second choice, but then why do we have to choose?
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 | Die Hard
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.14 Loved the 1989 original. The sequels are fairly routine. Haven't seen the 4th one(the latest) yet.
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 | The Man From Snowy River
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $5.99 A great film. Music, scenery, an interesting story and a rousing climax. The horse sequences are magical.A few corny lines but I don't care. I'm a sucker for horses, a pretty girl and a dream fulfilled.
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![Bonnie and Clyde [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FAXY17VHL._SL75_.jpg) | Bonnie and Clyde [Region 2]
Buy used from: $24.24 Probably the most controversial and influential film of the 60's. And what a cast!
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 | The Birds (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $7.94 After the first hour, you'll say,"This is an ACTION movie???". Just be patient. My favorite Hitchcock film, but just by a hair. Drove up the coast to visit Bodega Bay. Cool to see the schoolhouse, gas station, restaurant etc.
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 | A Fistful of Dollars
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $0.61 The action in this atmospheric spaghetti western is almost comic strip and hyperbolic, but great fun. The film that made Clint Eastwood a star.
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 | Thunder Road
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.29 The car chase sequences probably look pretty lame compared to those since. But this was Mitchum's definitive persona and it's still a good film (1957). Remember the Cheers episode about this movie?
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 | Flyboys (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.93 This was one of the better films of 2006.
The airplane battles are exciting and it's a very appealing movie.(Despite the most over-used tedious cliche of the past two decades..,,Bible-believer is a jerk who learns wisdom from the non-believers. Sigh.
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 | Robin and Marian
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 Fictional tale of Robin Hood and Maid Marian reunited in their later years.Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn. The climactic duel I found very gripping, maybe because I cared so much about the characters?
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 | The Terminator (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.99 The original and the best of the three.
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 | The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.05 Sam Peckinpah's controversial epic western of 1969.
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![Bank Dick [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519V4QP4W0L._SL75_.jpg) | Bank Dick [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.20 The car chase at the end of the classic W.C. Fields comedy is great fun.
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 | King Kong (Single-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $1.98 The original from 1933.
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 | Deliverance
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.70 Burt Reynold's best role and best film. 1971.
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 | Rocky (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.28 I guess the final title fight qualifies this movie to be on this list.
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![North by Northwest [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import] [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J7NFE918L._SL75_.jpg) | North by Northwest [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import] [Region 2]
Pretty good action in this Hitchcock/Cary Grant suspense film.
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 | The Sea Hawk
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.24 An Errol Flynn swashbuckler. Flynn is actually my all-time favorite movie star, edging out Bogart. Both were stars before I was even born. But they don't make 'em like that anymore.
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 | The Charge of the Light Brigade
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $7.76 Outstanding battle sequences. Another Flynn vehicle.
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 | Braveheart
Buy used from: $2.25 Mel Gibson stars and directs. Won Best Picture Oscar. Battle scenes are outstanding.
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 | Man on Fire
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.49 Maybe not really primarily an action movie. But it's so good, I included it anyway.
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 | Vera Cruz
Buy used from: $13.99 A good action western with Gary Cooper and
Burt Lancaster.
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 | Bullitt
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.39 This movie is famous for its car chase sequence. In SanFran I drove down Lombard Street where it was filmed (not as fast as McQueen though). He wasn't driving his own car!! (I also sought out and raced down the road where James Dean was killed) Duh.....
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 | The French Connection
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $6.10 Also famous for its car chase sequences.
Won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1971.
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 | F/X
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.98 Pretty good little action cat-and-mouse
thriller. With Brian Dennehy.
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 | What's Up, Doc?
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.19 Peter Bogdanovich's tribute to the Mack Sennett comedies. Lots of good sight gags. Stars Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.
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