51. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: How do I look?
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Paramount, 1961Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.
ACTOR: Audrey Hepburn
SCREENWRITER: George Axelrod
DIRECTOR: Blake Edwards
PRODUCERS: Martin Jurow, Richard Shepherd
52. PRINCIPAL RICHARD VERNON: Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns!
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Universal, 1985It's the weekend, and five students have weekend detention. There's a jock, a princess, a misfit, a nerd, and a lout. Not much in common, except for having to give up their day, sit in the school library, and write an essay for the principal. Being from such widely different backgrounds and having such completely different personalities, it's inevitable that some frictions and shenanigans develop. Especially when the principal leaves the room...
ACTOR: Paul Gleason
SCREENWRITER: John Hughes
DIRECTOR: John Hughes
PRODUCERS: John Hughes, Ned Tanen
53. THE MONSTER: We belong dead.
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Universal, 1935Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster.
ACTOR: Boris Karloff
SCREENWRITERS: William Hurlbut, John Balderston
DIRECTOR: James Whale
PRODUCER: Carl Laemmle, Jr.
54. MAJ. CLIPTON: Madness. Madness.
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Columbia, 1957The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.
ACTOR: James Donald
SCREENWRITER: Pierre Boulle (Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson)
DIRECTOR: David Lean
PRODUCER: Sam Spiegel
55. DR. DAVID HUXLEY: It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!
BRINGING UP BABY
RKO, 1938When Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a scatterbrained young woman, takes a shine to Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant), a sober palaeontologist, mayhem ensues. Dr. Huxley, engaged to be married and intensely interested in the arrival of the brontosaurus bone required to complete his project at the museum, is inextricably bound up with Susan's escapades when she finds herself responsible for Baby, a tame leopard shipped to her New York apartment and intended for Susan's aunt in Connecticut. The plot thickens when George the Terrier steals the priceless bone and buries it, Baby escapes, and an untamed leopard escapes from a circus convoy (resulting in a twist on the mistaken identity ploy). Will Susan's love for David be reciprocated? Will David get his bone back? Will Baby be brought up - or brought down?
ACTOR: Cary Grant
SCREENWRITERS: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
DIRECTOR: Howard Hawks
PRODUCER: Cliff Reid
56. AARON ALTMAN: I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
BROADCAST NEWS
Twentieth Century Fox, 1987Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
ACTOR: Albert Brooks
SCREENWRITER: James L. Brooks
DIRECTOR: James L. Brooks
PRODUCER: James L. Brooks
57. VIRGINIA HILL: Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda?
BUGSY
TriStar, 1991New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
ACTOR: Annette Bening
SCREENWRITER: James Toback
DIRECTOR: Barry Levinson
PRODUCERS: Warren Beatty, Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson
58. CRASH DAVIS: ...I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
BULL DURHAM
Orion, 1988Veteran minor-league catcher Crash Davis is assigned to the Class A Durham Bulls to handle the team's star rookie, wild pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh. Team groupie Annie Savoy romances both players, creating a comic triangle.
ACTOR: Kevin Costner
SCREENWRITER: Ron Shelton
DIRECTOR: Ron Shelton
PRODUCERS: Thom Mount, Mark Burg
59.BUTCH CASSIDY: Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia.
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
Twentieth Century Fox, 1969Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, "Let's go to Bolivia". Based on the exploits of the historical characters.
ACTOR: Paul Newman
SCREENWRITER: William Goldman
DIRECTOR: George Roy Hill
PRODUCER: John Foreman
60. GLORIA WANDROUS: Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
BUTTERFIELD 8
MGM, 1960Beautiful Gloria Wandrous, a New York model/call-girl engages in an illicit affair with married socialite Weston Liggett. Their turbulent affair soon runs out of steam when our heroine, under the mistaken impression that he'll never divorce his wife Emily and marry her, decides to begin a new life in Boston.
ACTOR: Elizabeth Taylor
SCREENWRITERS: John Michael Hayes, Charles Schnee
DIRECTOR: Daniel Mann
PRODUCER: Pandro S. Berman
61. MADGE NORWOOD: I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
CABIN IN THE COTTON
Warner Bros., 1932Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance. While working in the general store he learns that the owner has been cheating his tenants. He is in love with owner's daughter, Madge, but sides with the tenants in his threat to expose the planters and their cheating.
ACTOR: Bette Davis
SCREENWRITER: Paul Green
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
62. CARL SPACKLER: Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
CADDYSHACK
Orion, 1980Danny Noonan is a young caddy at Bushwood Country Club who has no idea about where his future will lead. His best chance at getting his life on track is to earn a caddy scholarship from Judge Elihu Smails, the owner of the Country Club. Al Czervik is a rude, and overly eccentric millionaire who has interests in purchasing Bushwood. Judge Smails shows a quick disliking towards Al and soon there is a conflict between the Judge and Al, the Judge and Danny, and even between the Judge and Ty Webb the charming golfer who is slowly helping Danny figure out his real goals. On the outside of this is Carl Spackler the Golf Course Grounds keeper, who's goal is eliminate a rampaging gopher who is chewing up holes throughout the golf course.
ACTOR: Bill Murray
SCREENWRITERS: Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
DIRECTOR: Harold Ramis
PRODUCER: Douglas Kenney
63. TY WEBB: Be the ball.
CADDYSHACK
Orion, 1980ACTOR: Chevy Chase
SCREENWRITERS: Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
DIRECTOR: Harold Ramis
PRODUCER: Douglas Kenney
64. CAPT. QUEEG: Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them.
THE CAINE MUTINY
Columbia, 1954During the Second World War, onboard a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A Ship's Captain is removed from his command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it is then learned that the Captain of the ship was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide: was the Caine Mutiny a criminal act? Or an act of courage to save a ship from destruction at the hands of her Captain.
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITER: Stanley Roberts
DIRECTOR: Edward Dmytryk
PRODUCER: Stanley Kramer
65. MARGUERITE GAUTIER: His eyes have made love to me all evening.
CAMILLE
MGM, 1936Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
ACTOR: Greta Garbo
SCREENWRITERS: Zoe Akins, Frances Marion, James Hilton
DIRECTOR: George Cukor
66. MAX CADY: Come out, come out, wherever you are!
CAPE FEAR
Universal, 1991Sam Bowden is a womanizing lawyer who has cheated on his burnt out, bitter wife Leigh Bowden. Sam, Leigh, and their 15 year old daughter Danielle have moved to a backwater Florida town for a new start, but Sam is already showing signs of fooling around with his clerk, 16 year old Lori Davis. Meanwhile, Leigh broods at home, venting her bitterness on Danielle. But Sam's unfaithfulness becomes the least of Leigh's worries. Years ago, as a public defender, Sam had a client named Max Cady, who was accused of brutalizing a teenage girl. Sam put up a lousy defense for Max after discovering that Max was guilty of brutalizing the girl. Now, 14 years later, Cady has been released from prison and he's hungry for revenge on Sam, having spent his sentence making himself well-read in philosophy and literature. Cady's plan is to destroy Sam's career and family. Cady fatally poisons the family dog, brutalizes Lori, and comes close to getting Danielle to sympathize with him, successfully goading Sam into violence. Sam has Lieutenant Eigert, of the local police department, try to harass Cady into leaving town, hires sleazy private eye Claude Kersek to have Cady beaten up, and offers Cady money to simply go away. When all that fails, Sam uses his family as bait to lure Cady into his house while Kersek is guarding the place. It ends up as a bloody mess when Cady sneaks in and kills Kersek. This prompts the Bowdens to leave the house, with Cady following them all the way to the Bowden houseboat for a confrontation on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
ACTOR: Robert De Niro
SCREENWRITER: Wesley Strick
DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese
PRODUCER: Barbara De Fina
67. ILSA LASZLO: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan...
ACTOR: Ingrid Bergman
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
68. RICK BLAINE: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
69.RICK BLAINE: Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
70. RICK BLAINE: We'll always have Paris.
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
71. RICK BLAINE: Here's looking at you, kid.
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
72. CAPT. RENAULT: Round up the usual suspects.
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942ACTOR: Claude Rains
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
73. RICK BLAINE: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
CASABLANCA
Warner Bros., 1942ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Espstein, Howard Koch
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis
74. MICHAEL KELLY: For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
CHAMPION
Universal, 1949Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public...and a heel in private.
ACTOR: Kirk Douglas
SCREENWRITER: Carl Foreman
DIRECTOR: Mark Robson
PRODUCER: Stanley Kramer
75. WALSH: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
CHINATOWN
Paramount, 1974Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn't drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.
ACTOR: Joe Mantell
SCREENWRITER: Robert Towne
DIRECTOR: Roman Polanski
PRODUCER: Robert Evans