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9781592575572

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies

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  • Copyright: 2006-11-07
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Summary

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies is a viewing guide that provides comprehensive information on true 'classic' movies - those that we still look forward to watching today, the ones we see at midnight showings and buy re-releases of. This guide covers our true favourites from the Silent Era up through 1969, cross-referenced several different ways for easy access to the films we all love. So sit back, grab some popcorn, and let the credits roll!

Author Biography

Screenwriter and editor Lee Pfeiffer has authored numerous cinema books, including The Essential James Bond. He publishes Cinema Retro magazine, which is dedicated to films of the 60s and 70s. Pfeiffer is an instructor at NYU, and has appeared on Howard Stern, Geraldo Rivera, and Headliners and Legends with Matt Lauer.

Table of Contents

The Pre-Sound Era: Silents Are Golden
1(16)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
2(1)
Intolerance (1916)
2(1)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
3(1)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
3(1)
The Kid (1921)
4(1)
Nosferatu (1922)
4(1)
Safety Last (1923)
5(1)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
6(1)
Greed (1924)
6(1)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
7(1)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
8(1)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
8(1)
The Big Parade (1925)
9(1)
The Gold Rush (1925)
9(1)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
10(1)
Son of the Sheik (1926)
11(1)
The General (1927)
11(1)
Metropolis (1927)
12(1)
Napoleon (1927)
12(1)
Wings (1927)
13(1)
The Circus (1928)
14(1)
The Crowd (1928)
14(1)
La Passion de Jeanne De Arc (1928)
15(1)
City Lights (1931)
16(1)
Modern Times (1936)
16(1)
Crime Sagas: ``Made It, Ma--Top of the World!''
17(26)
Little Caesar (1930)
18(1)
The Public Enemy (1931)
18(1)
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
19(1)
I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
20(1)
Fury (1936)
21(1)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
21(1)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
22(1)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
22(1)
High Sierra (1941)
23(1)
Double Indemnity (1944)
23(1)
Detour (1945)
24(1)
The Killers (1946)
24(1)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
25(1)
Body and Soul (1947)
26(1)
Brute Force (1947)
26(1)
A Double Life (1947)
27(1)
Kiss of Death (1947)
27(1)
The Big Clock (1948)
28(1)
Key Largo (1948)
29(1)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
29(1)
White Heat (1949)
30(1)
The Set-Up (1949)
30(1)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
31(1)
No Way Out (1950)
31(1)
Detective Story (1951)
32(1)
The Big Heat (1953)
33(1)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
33(1)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
34(1)
The Killing (1956)
34(1)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
35(1)
Thunder Road (1958)
36(1)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
36(1)
Oceans Eleven (1960)
37(1)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
38(1)
The Killers (1964)
38(1)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
39(1)
In Cold Blood (1967)
40(1)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
40(1)
Point Blank (1967)
41(1)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1969)
41(1)
The Italian Job (1969)
42(1)
Animated Films: ``Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall ... Who Is the Fairest One of Them All?''
43(10)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
44(1)
Fantasia (1940)
45(1)
Pinocchio (1940)
46(1)
Dumbo (1941)
46(1)
Bambi (1942)
47(1)
Song of the South (1946)
47(1)
Cinderella (1950)
48(1)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
49(1)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
49(1)
One Hundred and One Dalmations (1961)
50(1)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
50(1)
The Jungle Book (1967)
51(1)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
51(1)
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
52(1)
Musicals: ``You're Going Out There a Youngster, But You've Got to Come Back a Star!''
53(18)
42nd Street (1933)
54(1)
Swing Time (1936)
54(1)
Top Hat (1936)
55(1)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
55(1)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
56(1)
The Red Shoes (1948)
57(1)
On the Town (1949)
57(1)
An American in Paris (1951)
58(1)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
58(1)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
59(1)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
60(1)
Oklahoma! (1955)
60(1)
The King and I (1956)
61(1)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
62(1)
Gigi (1958)
62(1)
West Side Story (1961)
63(1)
The Music Man (1962)
64(1)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
64(1)
Mary Poppins (1964)
65(1)
My Fair Lady (1964)
65(1)
Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964)
66(1)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
67(1)
The Sound of Music (1965)
67(1)
Camelot (1967)
68(1)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
68(1)
Funny Girl (1968)
69(1)
Oliver! (1968)
69(2)
Romances: ``Here's Lookin' at You, Kid!''
71(16)
Grand Hotel (1932)
72(1)
Anna Karenina (1935)
73(1)
Jezebel (1938)
73(1)
Dark Victory (1939)
74(1)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
74(1)
Withering Heights (1939)
75(1)
Penny Serenade (1941)
76(1)
Casablanca (1942)
76(1)
Now, Voyager (1942)
77(1)
Brief Encounter (1945)
78(1)
The Heiress (1949)
78(1)
Roman Holiday (1953)
79(1)
A Star Is Born (1954)
80(1)
Summertime (1955)
80(1)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
81(1)
On the Beach (1959)
82(1)
Some Came Running (1958)
82(1)
Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961)
83(1)
Jules and Jim (1961)
84(1)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
84(1)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
85(1)
Two for the Road (1967)
85(1)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
86(1)
Comedies: ``Well, Here's Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into!''
87(36)
The Front Page (1931)
88(1)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
88(1)
Duck Soup (1933)
89(1)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
89(1)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
90(1)
It Happened One Night (1934)
90(1)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
91(1)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
91(1)
The Awful Truth (1937)
92(1)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
92(1)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
93(1)
Ninotchka (1939)
93(1)
The Bank Dick (1940)
94(1)
The Great Dictator (1940)
94(1)
His Girl Friday (1940)
95(1)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
95(1)
Meet John Doe (1941)
96(1)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
97(1)
The Road to Morocco (1942)
97(1)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
98(1)
Life with Father (1947)
98(1)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
99(1)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
99(1)
Adam's Rib (1949)
100(1)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
100(1)
Born Yesterday (1950)
101(1)
Father of the Bride (1950)
101(1)
Harvey (1950)
102(1)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
102(1)
The Quiet Man (1952)
103(1)
The Ladykillers (1955)
103(1)
Mister Roberts (1955)
104(1)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
104(1)
Desk Set (1957)
105(1)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
105(1)
Pillow Talk (1959)
106(1)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
106(1)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
107(1)
One, Two, Three (1961)
108(1)
Lolita (1962)
108(1)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
109(1)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
110(1)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
110(1)
Tom Jones (1963)
111(1)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
112(1)
Marriage Italian-Style (1964)
112(1)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
113(1)
The Pink Panther (1964)
113(1)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
114(1)
Alfie (1966)
115(1)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
115(1)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
116(1)
The Knack ... and How to Get It (1966)
117(1)
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1965)
117(1)
The Graduate (1967)
118(1)
The Odd Couple (1968)
118(1)
The Producers (1968)
119(1)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
120(1)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
120(3)
Dramas: ``I Coulda Had Class ... I Coulda Been a Contender!''
123(52)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
124(1)
The Informer (1935)
125(1)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
125(1)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
126(1)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
126(1)
Citizen Kane (1941)
127(1)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
128(1)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
128(1)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
129(1)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
130(1)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
130(1)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
131(1)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
131(1)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
132(1)
Great Expectations (1947)
133(1)
Hamlet (1948)
134(1)
Oliver Twist (1948)
134(1)
The Bicycle Thief (1949)
135(1)
All the King's Men (1949)
135(1)
Champion (1949)
136(1)
Rashomon (1950)
136(1)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
137(1)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
138(1)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
138(1)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
139(1)
Limelight (1952)
140(1)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
140(1)
The Wild One (1953)
141(1)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
141(1)
La Strada (1954)
142(1)
On the Waterfront (1954)
142(1)
The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
143(1)
East of Eden (1955)
144(1)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
144(1)
Marty (1955)
145(1)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
145(1)
Anastasia (1956)
146(1)
Giant (1956)
146(1)
Lust for Life (1956)
147(1)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
147(1)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
148(1)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
148(1)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
149(1)
12 Angry Men (1957)
149(1)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
150(1)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
150(1)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
151(1)
The 400 Blows (1959)
151(1)
The Apartment (1960)
152(1)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
153(1)
The Entertainer (1960)
153(1)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
154(1)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
154(1)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
155(1)
Two Women (1960)
155(1)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
156(1)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
156(1)
The Hustler (1961)
157(1)
The Misfits (1961)
158(1)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
158(1)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
159(1)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
159(1)
Viridiana (1961)
160(1)
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
160(1)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
161(1)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
161(1)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
162(1)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
162(1)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
163(1)
Hud (1963)
163(1)
The Night of the Iguana (1963)
164(1)
This Sporting Life (1963)
164(1)
Becket (1964)
165(1)
The Hill (1965)
165(1)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
166(1)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
167(1)
Belle De Jour (1967)
167(1)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
168(1)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
168(1)
Charly (1968)
169(1)
Faces (1968)
170(1)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
170(1)
The Swimmer (1968)
171(1)
Medium Cool (1969)
172(1)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
172(1)
Easy Rider (1969)
173(2)
Sci-Fi and Fantasy: ``They're Here Already! You're Next! You're Next!''
175(22)
The Invisible Man (1933)
176(1)
King Kong (1933)
177(1)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
178(1)
Lost Horizon (1937)
178(1)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
179(1)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
180(1)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
180(1)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
181(1)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
182(1)
The Thing (aka The Thing From Another World) (1951)
182(1)
Godzilla (Japanese title: Gojira) (1954)
183(1)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
183(1)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
184(1)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
185(1)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)
185(1)
The Blob (1958)
186(1)
The Fly (1958)
187(1)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
187(1)
The Time Machine (1960)
188(1)
Village of the Damned (1960)
188(1)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
189(1)
Mysterious Island (1961)
189(1)
The Wonderful World of the Brother's Grimm (1962)
190(1)
Federico Fellini's 81/2 (1963)
190(1)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
191(1)
First Men in the Moon (1964)
192(1)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
192(1)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
193(1)
Seconds (1966)
193(1)
The Love Bug (1968)
194(1)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
194(1)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
195(2)
Thrillers: ``We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes''
197(18)
M (1931)
198(1)
Rebecca (1940)
199(1)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
199(1)
Gaslight (1944)
200(1)
And Then There Were None (1945)
200(1)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
201(1)
D.O.A. (1950)
201(1)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
202(1)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
202(1)
Rear Window (1954)
203(1)
Diabolique (1955)
204(1)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
204(1)
Touch of Evil (1958)
205(1)
Vertigo (1958)
205(1)
Peeping Tom (1960)
206(1)
Psycho (1960)
206(1)
Cape Fear (1962)
207(1)
Knife in the Water (1962)
208(1)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
208(1)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
209(1)
The Birds (1963)
209(1)
Charade (1963)
210(1)
Fail Safe (1964)
210(1)
Seven Days in May (1964)
211(1)
Repulsion (1965)
212(1)
Blow-up (1966)
212(1)
Targets (1968)
213(2)
Horror: ``It's Alive! It's Alive!''
215(10)
Dracula (1931)
216(1)
Frankenstein (1931)
216(1)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
217(1)
Freaks (1932)
218(1)
The Mummy (1933)
218(1)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
219(1)
Cat People (1942)
220(1)
Dead of Night (1945)
220(1)
House of Wax (1953)
221(1)
The Abominable Snowman of the Himilayas (1957)
221(1)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
222(1)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
222(1)
The Innocents (1961)
223(1)
The Haunting (1963)
223(1)
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
224(1)
Adventure Films: ``We Don't Need No Badges!''
225(16)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
226(1)
San Francisco (1936)
227(1)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
227(1)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939)
228(1)
Beau Geste (1939)
228(1)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
229(1)
The Four Feathers (1939)
229(1)
Gunga Din (1939)
230(1)
Northwest Passage (1940)
230(1)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
231(1)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
232(1)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
232(1)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
233(1)
The African Queen (1951)
233(1)
Scaramouche (1952)
234(1)
Mogambo (1953)
235(1)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
235(1)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
236(1)
A Night to Remember (1958)
236(1)
The Vikings (1958)
237(1)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
237(1)
Yojimbo (1961)
238(1)
Billy Budd (1962)
238(1)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
239(1)
The Naked Prey (1966)
239(2)
Detective Films: ``The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of''
241(12)
The Thin Man (1934)
242(1)
After the Thin Man (1936)
242(1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
243(1)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
243(1)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
244(1)
Laura (1944)
244(1)
Murder My Sweet (1944)
245(1)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
245(1)
The Big Sleep (1946)
246(1)
The Blue Daliah (1946)
246(1)
Out of the Past (1947)
247(1)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
247(1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
248(1)
Harper (1966)
248(1)
Tony Rome (1967)
249(1)
Bullitt (1968)
250(1)
Coogan's Bluff (1968)
250(1)
The Detective (1968)
251(1)
Madigan (1968)
252(1)
War Movies: ``Madness! Madness!''
253(18)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1931)
254(1)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
255(1)
Grand Illusion (1937)
255(1)
Sergeant York (1941)
256(1)
In Which We Serve (1942)
256(1)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
257(1)
Henry V (1945)
257(1)
Open City (1945)
258(1)
They Were Expendable (1945)
258(1)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
259(1)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
259(1)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
260(1)
Stalag 17 (1953)
260(1)
The Dam Busters (1954)
261(1)
Attack! (1956)
261(1)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
262(1)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
262(1)
Paths of Glory (1957)
263(1)
The Young Lions (1958)
263(1)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
264(1)
The Great Escape (1963)
264(1)
Zulu (1964)
265(1)
The Battle of Algiers (1965)
265(1)
In Harm's Way (1965)
266(1)
The Train (1965)
266(1)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
267(1)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
267(1)
It Happened Here (1966)
268(1)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
268(1)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
269(1)
Where Eagles Dare (1969)
270(1)
Westerns: ``When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend''
271(16)
Stagecoach (1939)
272(1)
The Ox Bow Incident (1943)
272(1)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
273(1)
Fort Apache (1948)
273(1)
Red River (1948)
274(1)
The Gunfighter (1950)
274(1)
High Noon (1952)
275(1)
Shane (1953)
275(1)
The Searchers (1956)
276(1)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
277(1)
Rio Bravo (1959)
277(1)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
278(1)
One Eyed Jacks (1961)
278(1)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
279(1)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
279(1)
Ride the High Country (1962)
280(1)
Fistful of Dollars (1964)
280(1)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
281(1)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
281(1)
The Professionals (1966)
282(1)
Hombre (1967)
282(1)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
283(1)
Will Penny (1968)
283(1)
The Stalking Moon (1968)
284(1)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
284(1)
True Grit (1969)
285(1)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
286(1)
Espionage: ``Shaken, Not Stirred''
287(14)
The 39 Steps (1935)
288(1)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
288(1)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
289(1)
Saboteur (1942)
289(1)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
290(1)
North by Northwest (1959)
290(1)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
291(1)
Dr. No (1962)
291(1)
From Russia with Love (1963)
292(1)
Goldfinger (1964)
293(1)
The Ipcress File (1965)
293(1)
Morituri (1965)
294(1)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
294(1)
Thunderball (1965)
295(1)
Our Man Flint (1966)
296(1)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
296(1)
The Silencers (1966)
297(1)
Torn Curtain (1966)
297(1)
Casino Royale (1967)
298(1)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
299(1)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
299(2)
Epics: ``I Am Big--It's the Pictures That Got Small''
301(12)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
302(1)
Ben-Hur (1959)
302(1)
The Alamo (1960)
303(1)
Exodus (1960)
304(1)
Spartacus (1960)
304(1)
El Cid (1961)
305(1)
How the West Was Won (1962)
306(1)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
306(1)
The Longest Day (1962)
307(1)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
308(1)
Cleopatra (1963)
308(1)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
309(1)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
309(1)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
310(1)
Khartoum (1966)
310(1)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
311(1)
Battle of Britain (1969)
311(2)
The American Film Institute's Top 100 Films of All Time 313(4)
The American Film Institute's Top 100 Film Quotes 317(6)
The Top Ten Box Office Stars 1950--1969 323(4)
How the Web Was Won: Useful Internet Sites 327(4)
Further Reading 331(6)
Index 337

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