Your favorite birth year movie

[Lockback]

One of my favorite films of all time. It has everything real cinema should be. George Stevens’ magna opus!

No question! A great director who got it all together in this wonderful film.

 

[EM313]

63 was the year of ME.
There are several movies from that year that I enjoy. From Russia with Love, The Great Escape, Charade, and Jason and the Argonauts. The Birds also came out that year, but that movie always freaked me out.

 

[Messygoon]

Share 1963 with @WesternModern and @EM313. Among many clunkers were a few gems, including It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, From Russia With Love, The Pink Panther, and my favorite, The Great Escape.

The story is epic. The music is perfect. The scenery is stunning. And it was a cast for the ages: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, David McCallum, and my favorite… James Garner. If it is on the tube, I’m one with the sofa.

 

[Doug57]

1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Gunfight at the OK Corral

 

[Climb14er]

Only a handful of movies from 1972 that I recognize, much less have liked.

But one stands out far and away as the greatest of that year...

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My #2 greatest movie of all time! The film moves seamlessly from one scene to another, there’s no wasted dialogue anywhere in the movie. Everything here is done with such first class precision and looking back, I could sit down at any time and either watch the whole movie or parts of it. Big Kudos to Coppola!

 

[emwolf]

I was born in 1963, so...


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as a 63-er as well, I was surprised how many really good movies came out that year, particularly foreign films:
8 1/2
Contempt
Billy Liar
The Servant
This Sporting Life
Tom Jones
The Leopard

 

[cmbrow]

This should be fun - just enter your birth year in place of the "XXXX" below and pick the move you like best from the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_XXXX

Fun, but not easy - 1962 was a heck of a year for films! I narrowed my picks down to a short list:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
The Manchurian Candidate
The Miracle Worker

I'll have to give the nod to To Kill a Mockingbird



Booby Prize: The Three Stooges in Orbit

1954 was a banner year. The Caine Mutiny stands out for me.

 

[AshleyC]

1973 for me.

We used to rent Walking Tall on VHS and watch him kick butt with his 2x4.

"Enter the Dragon' I watched at a drive in double feature, years after it was released obviously, with "Firefox" starring Clint Eastwood as the main show. I guess I would have been 9-10. Kind of young to watch them, but my folks must have been okay with it as we were probably all there in the old blue Datsun.

My first Clint move as well as my first Bruce Lee or King Fu movies. Many, many more followed over the course of the 80s.

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I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. Buford Pusser people and Billy Jack people.

We were Buford Pusser people...

 

[emwolf]

63 was the year of ME.
There are several movies from that year that I enjoy. From Russia with Love, The Great Escape, Charade, and Jason and the Argonauts. The Birds also came out that year, but that movie always freaked me out.

If I had to pick one from 63 it would have to be From Russia With Love. It's my favorite of all the Bond series to date.

 

[shrews824]

1976 - Rocky.

 

[ewk]

My choice for 1968 is certainly not the best movie of the year. But among the many excellent movies, my favorite:

 

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

noodles:

For my year...it was and a 'clean sweep' at that at w/ eleven (11), Academy Awards. ;

"If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I will help you...[...]". Judah Ben Hur

 

[Vespasian]

1946: "Children of Paradise" released in the US.

 

[emwolf]

1946: "Children of Paradise" released in the US.

One of the best movies of all time

 

[garyg]

In addition to the movie cited above, that was the year for ..