"We have all forgot more than we can remember" (Thomas Fuller)

.....O.K. I can't help it; it's in my blood. I have to write about my 10 best of something.  So this time I'll list the 10 best movies I've ever seen IN PERSON. These are not really in the order I liked them, but they are simply a list of the ten movies I enjoyed the most in my lifetime.  Of course, I've seen many more movies than these ten, but at least they are ten I remember best: 1) GWTW with Clark Gable. I remember that I took my mother to Radio City Music Hall for her birthday to see this film when I was 15 in 1939.  I like films about the Civil War.  That was the bloodiest war ever in America...but historically deep in the psyche of our country. 2) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which I saw when I was 13 and I still try to remember the names of the Dwarfs.  Can you? 3) Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  I saw it in Chicago with my cousin Harold in the summer of 1942 even though its release date was officially in 1943.  In the few months after I saw this film, I enlisted in the U.S.Navy. 4) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart in 1948. 5) Hamlet with Laurence Olivier.

 

I guess I like Bogart, 6) The African Queen ...but I also like Katherine Hepburn. 7) Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller who could also teach Phelps a few things about swimming in a jungle stream full of alligators, how to swing along trees like an ape, or yelling like a Banshee while also having the presence of mind to bang Jane once in a while. 8) King Kong sorry, I don't recall who starred in it besides the Gorilla who could climb to the top of the Empire State Building with one hand while holding a gal in the other, and dodging bullets from two-winged aircraft. Can Spiderman do that? 9) Lincoln I imagine if the real live Lincoln stood alongside Daniel Day-Lewis you couldn't tell the difference.  I'm sure that after awhile Daniel thought it was he who wrote the 13th Amendment that freed the slaves.  Not really.  There are still millions of American housewives who slave away each day.  There ought to be a law! And finally, 10) The Godfather, who could forget Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, two of the greatest actors of our time.  Note that Pacino Is "playing" for one night on the stage in the Seminole casino, Hard Rock.  Now, what could he be doing there?  And why?

 

I really did see all these films IN PERSON.  Did I forget anything?