Bill Hedrick's Top Ten Movie List

• "Ran" by Akira Kurosawa
  A triple winner, fabulous visually, great acting and it's a wonderful version of King Lear.

• "Casablanca"
  Bogart is wonderful of course but the plot (it feels real because it was just above improv) and all the characters are excellent, and it has my favorite movie line of all time: "Why did you come to Casablanca Mr. Blaine?" "I came for the waters.""But C. is in a desert!" "I was misinformed."
  
  
• Star Wars 4-6
  Can't break them up their one picture. SW EP1 shows how good they were in contrast.
  
  
• "Bride of Frankenstein" and "Young Frankenstein"
  BOF is simply the best of the series, with complex plotting, interesting characters and Karloff at his best. YF is inseparable from it Mel's Best.
  
  
• Star Trek 2-4 (“The Wrath of Khan”, “The Search for Spock” and “The Voyage Home” )
  Another trilogy. Simply Trek at the top of it's game - and that's saying something!
  
  
• "Henry V" both the Olivier and Branaugh versions
  Both are children of their time and leave you with very different feelings about War. Also the Olivier/Leigh and Branaugh/Thompson are very cool when you know their real life relationships.
  
  
• "Army of Darkness"
  "Good, evil, who cares? I'm the one with the gun!" The best "cult film" I've ever seen.
  
  
• "The Lady From Shanghai"
  Orson Welles, at his best, influencing everyone. Doing Film Noir. My first Welles film and still his underappreciated best.
  
  
• "The Maltese Falcon"
  Bogart, Lorre, Greenstreet, Dashiel, Hammet. "The thing that dreams are made of."
  
  
• "The Princess Bride"
  Leave it off my list? "Inconceivable!"