All-time favorite movies, huh? OK, here's a few:
Excalibur ; ~1980. Best King Arthur movie ever made, period. Beautifully done.
The Man Who Would Be King ; Michael Caine & Sean Connery. As perfectly made as any movie you'll ever see, Connery & Caine are dead-on as Danny & Peachy.
Rio Bravo ; about 1958? John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson. Maybe I like it too much for what it is, no matter. It remains one of my all-time favorite movies. The remake with Bob Mitchum ~10 years later is a good flick, but can't compare to the original. I can't really explain why either, yet it's true!
TV Series; Just a couple.
Have Gun, Will Travel ; Way back then I even had a Paladin cap pistol with the horse on the holster!
They're not all great, but hold up much better than most 1/2 hour TV Westerns from the 1950's & 60's.
'Allo 'Allo ; My all-time favorite TV series, period! A BritCom from the UK that I never saw until it was almost off the air. It managed to successfully milk the same boxfull of gags for *years*! Because of Allo Allo, I bought my first DVD player, after making sure it could be hacked to play DVDs from the UK; and my first DVDs, UK versions of seasons 1 thru 4(at the time, only seasons 1 & 2 were available in USA Region 1 format, at more $ than all 4 seasons shipped from London!).
I'll add my own category: Most Haunting Movie Ending.
Unforgiven ; At the end- the shot of the lonely tumbledown shack on the bare prairie, and the text shown about Munny's mother-in-law who came to visit her daughter's grave and how there was nothing to tell her why her only daughter had married a known thief & murderer. The movie is far from one of my favorites- but the ending is one of the best things I've ever seen.
