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Hmm! This is a hard one to define to just 10. Like books…different genres, pre/post color, movie or movie series, musicals? 08/15/25

Daily writing prompt
What are your top ten favorite movies?

Pre-Childhood Black & White: The Three Stooges, W.C. Fields (It’s a Gift & the Man on the Flying Trapeze, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Tarzan, Gladiator Theater, Keystone Cops

** For the record, I can count, but the prompt is misleading **

From Childhood and mostly in Black & White: Ulysses, Jason and the Argonauts, 300 Spartans, Hercules Unchained, 7 Voyages of Sinbad, Zorro, Dracula, Frankenstein

Drama Movies:, It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim), Les Misérables (Frederic March and Charles Laughton, which ruined any other version for me), The Wizard of Oz, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, My Fair Lady, Going my Way, The Bells of St. Mary, Shane and the Luck of the Irish

Disney and Musicals: Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, The Music Man, Scrooge (Albert Finney), Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, South Pacific, Aladdin, Muppet Christmas Carol, Benny Goodman Story, The Five Pennies, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rodger Movies, Singing in the Rain, Shrek, Popeye the Movie, The Grinch (both the animated and the Jim Carey version

War Movies: Patton, Deer Hunter, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Schindler’s List, Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, The Patriot, Gettysburg, Dirty Dozen, Spartacus, Ben Hur, Zulu, War of the Worlds, Fury, Troy, The Great Escape, Stalag 17, The Big Red One, Last of the Mohicans, Midway, Empire of the Sun, Hunt for Red October

Must See Series: Star Wars, The God Father, Rich Man Poor Man, The Blue & Gray, Jesus of Nazareth, Band of Brothers, Game of Thrones, Outlander, LOTR and The Hobbit Series, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, James Bond, Dune, Dirty Harry, French Connection, Hunger Games, Bourne, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and The Chosen


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3 responses to “Hmm! This is a hard one to define to just 10. Like books…different genres, pre/post color, movie or movie series, musicals? 08/15/25”

  1. Which War of the Worlds? The 1954 classic or the Tom Cruise awfulness? 😀

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