With the voices of Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Lee and Alan Arkin, this is just a joy of a film from start to finish. An animated fairy tale from the 1980's that will stick with a child all their life. I give you the Rankin/Bass production of... THE LAST UNICORN:[YT]t-UpwWauZ50[/YT]
One of the greatest films with two of the greatest performances. The story of a Philadelphia homicide detective that finds himself in the segregated South of the U.S. during the late 1960's, pressed into the service of a small town Sheriff's Dept. run by a hardened "good ole' boy" who never the less, knows he needs to keep the North Eastern lawman around if he is to solve a case which will affect the whole town. Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier star in Norman Jewison's IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT: [YT]K9bzzr3uhco[/YT]
More character study than straight forward Western as most people think, it's still worth a look. I have my problems with the pacing and such, but the performances by the leads, and some very good dialog make up for any flaws. Ed Harris directs and stars alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger and Jeremy Irons in... APPALOOSA:[YT]h57n6R9pbU0[/YT]
A legendary film by Director Robert Wise with choreography by Jerome Robbins. When I was a kid the showing of this on local TV was a bit of an event. My father was a transplant from Puerto Rico himself and my mother was Puerto Rican too, born on Roosevelt Island. What ever poetic license the original play and film took in telling it's story, they both said there was A LOT of truth in the way it dramatized the street life of young men and women in that period in the Big Apple. The transcendent musical that does what few films do, move through you and over you. I give you... WEST SIDE STORY:[YT]-tK9tARX83Y[/YT]