61. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1997 Rank: NEW)
Paramount, 1941
PRINCIPAL CAST
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
DIRECTOR Preston Sturges
PRODUCERS B.G. DeSylva, Paul Jones
SCREENWRITER Preston Sturges Hugely successful film director John L. Sullivan wants to make a picture that means something, “A true canvas of human suffering.” What he learns on his journey, as he becomes the architect of his own story is: “There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh.
62. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1997 Rank: 77)
Universal, 1973
PRINCIPAL CAST
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams
DIRECTOR George Lucas
PRODUCERS Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Kurtz
SCREENWRITERS Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, George Lucas One night in the life of some high school grads becomes a turning point on the road to adulthood. Lucas’ breakthrough film featured an ensemble cast of future stars and a non-stop soundtrack of 1950s and ‘60s hits.
63. CABARET (1997 Rank: NEW)
Allied Artists, 1972
PRINCIPAL CAST
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey
DIRECTOR Bob Fosse
PRODUCER Cy Feuer
SCREENWRITER Jay Presson Allen “Willkommen” to 1930s Berlin and the Kit Kat Club, where mischievous emcee Grey holds court and American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by Minnelli, lives life in divine decadence as the Nazis rise in power.
64. NETWORK (1997 Rank: 66)
United Artists, 1976
PRINCIPAL CAST
Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
DIRECTOR Sidney Lumet
PRODUCER Howard Gottfried
SCREENWRITER Paddy Chayefsky Low ratings make for angry shareholders and veteran news anchorman Howard Beale takes the fall. But his rant, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore,” suddenly changes the picture and the lives of everyone at fourth-place UBS.
65. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1997 Rank: 17)
United Artists, 1951
PRINCIPAL CAST
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
DIRECTOR John Huston
PRODUCER S.P. Eagle (Sam Spiegel)
SCREENWRITERS James Agee, John Huston Hepburn’s a spinster who’s spent her life saving souls for God and Bogart’s a Godless soul in need of saving. Stuck onboard
The African Queen at the outbreak of World War I.
66. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1997 Rank: 60)
Paramount, 1981
PRINCIPAL CAST
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
DIRECTOR Steven Spielberg
PRODUCER Frank Marshall
SCREENWRITERS Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Phillip Kaufman Lucas and Spielberg’s cliff hanging, action-adventure, propels archaeologist Indiana Jones across five continents in a race against the Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant.
67. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1997 Rank: NEW)
Warner Bros., 1966
PRINCIPAL CAST
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
DIRECTOR Mike Nichols
PRODUCER Ernest Lehman
SCREENWRITER Ernest Lehman Edward Albee’s grueling play about marriage and deception features Taylor and Burton as battling spouses Martha and George who spend one Saturday night pouring out bitterness and recriminations.
68. UNFORGIVEN (1997 Rank: 98)
Warner Bros., 1992
PRINCIPAL CAST
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
DIRECTOR Clint Eastwood
PRODUCER Clint Eastwood
SCREENWRITER David Webb Peoples Eastwood directs and stars as a formerly notorious gunslinger forced to return to his murderous ways after his wife dies and his family needs money. The film was noted for challenging the morality of Western stereotypes created by American film.
69. TOOTSIE (1997 Rank: 62)
Columbia, 1982
PRINCIPAL CAST
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
DIRECTOR Sydney Pollack
PRODUCERS Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards
SCREENWRITERS Larry Gelbart, Don McGuire, Murray Schisgal Hoffman stars in this comedy about a temperamental out-of-work actor who puts on a dress and lands the role of a lifetime in a TV soap opera.
70. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1997 Rank: 46)
Warner Bros., 1971
PRINCIPAL CAST
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Warren Clarke
DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick
PRODUCER Stanley Kubrick
SCREENWRITER Stanley Kubrick Alex and his “droogs” terrorize the back alleys of London in this dark satire based on Anthony Burgess’ stunning novel. After his capture and incarceration, an experimental aversion therapy seems to have “cured” Alex for good, but not in the expected manner, as it includes Beethoven’s “gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh!”
