Cloud Atlas (2012) I was hoping for a little more in regards this and felt somewhat non-plussed I think its going to take multiple viewings. Snowpiercer (2013) Wasn't too bad it kind of reminded me a little of 'The Prisoner'. From 1954: Seven Samurai - Classic but a little overlong Them! - Giant ants! Great movie The Naked Jungle - Little ants! This time Chuck Heston battles the deadly 'Marabunta'! Remember seeing this when I was a kid always remember the skeleton in the boat! West of Zanzibar - This really bored me! An Ealing raritie, just goes to show great studios can miss on a few occasions. Demetrius and the Gladiators - This I love, from the opening to the end, great action sequences and a great musical score, in my opinion better than its prequel 'The Robe' Godzilla - Might be a man in a rubber suit but this is another great movie with a score to match. La Strada - The first Academy Award winning movie for Best Foreign Picture. A classic but for me I really didn't like it. On the Waterfront - Best Picture winner at the Oscars for that year isn't a bad picture. L'oro Di Napoli - A collection of stories set in and around Napoli with a young Sophia Loren bouncing and sashaying around, to be honest she was the best thing about the movie. Hobson's Choice - "By gum!" David Leans movie starring Charles Laughton and John Mills is just brilliant, unbeknownst to me at the time I watched this sixty years to the day it was released in the UK. The Barefoot Contessa - Ava Gardner id nice enough to look at but the film drags a bit! I'm sure Bogart was getting fed up of roles that required him to wear his customary rain mac whilst standing in the rain! There's No Business Like Show Business - Marilyn Monroe musical thats not too bad plus it has Mitzi Gaynor so plus plus! A Star is Born - Another Classic that again dragged! At three hours its way overlong. Ulysses - Kirk Douglas in pre-Spartacus mode. Not a bad fantasy movie. Two Nights with Cleopatra - Sophia Loren plays the Egyptian queen in this (apparently) comedy. The Belles of St. Trinians - OK! This is one of those films that I have never seen before and is regard as a British classic, however for me....'Nar!'
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