Poets' Favorite Movies
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The 39 Steps
The 400 Blows
All About Eve
All My Sons
All the King's Men
Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Babette’s Feast
The Bad Seed (1956)
Being There
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Sleep (1946)
Der Blaue Engel (1930, Marlene Dietrich)
Black Narcissus
Born Yesterday (1950)
Bullets Over Broadway
The Caine Mutiny
Captain’s Paradise
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Cyrano De Bergerac (Jose Ferrer, 1950)
The Damned
Day of The Locust (1975)
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Death of a Salesman (Lee J. Cobb & Dustin Hoffman versions)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934, Fredric March)
Dial M for Murder
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Spencer Tracy & Fredrick March versions)
Dr. Strangelove
Elmer Gantry
Les enfants du paradis (1945)
The Entertainer
Fanny & Alexander
From Here to Eternity
Gaslight
Gentleman’s Agreement
Gilda
Glengarry Glenn Ross (1992)
The Godfather (Trilogy)
The Gold Rush
The Graduate
Grand Illusion
The Great Dictator
High Noon (1952)
Humoresque
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 and 1939)
The Hustler
Il Postino (The Postman, 1994)
Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)
Key Largo
Kind Heart & Coronets
King of Comedy
Kiss of Death (Richard Widmark, 1947)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini 1960)
La Strada (Fellini)
Lady in the Lake
Laura
The Lavender Hill Mob
Lolita (both versions)
Lost Horizon
The Maltese Falcon (1941, Bogart version)
Mildred Pierce
Modern Times
My Dinner with André
Niagara
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pi
Pixote
A Place in the Sun
Portrait of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Radio Days
Rashomon (Kurosawa 1950)
Raging Bull
Rebecca
The Seven Year Itch
The Servant
Shane
Shadow of a Doubt
Some Like It Hot
Sorry Wrong Number (1948)
Spellbound
Strangers on a Train
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Blvd.
The Swimmer
The Third Man
A Thousand Clowns
The Triplets of Bellville
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Touch of Evil
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Utu (1981)
Vertigo
Walkabout
Witness for The Prosecution
White Heat
White Squall
Zelig
Austin Straus is a poet (Drunk with Light, Red Hen
Press, 2002), painter, and former political activist and retired English
professor; now concentrating on painting and staying healthy.
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