Top 10 Movies of All Time Review

I've been a movie buff since my early teens discovering such old movies stars as Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert when most kids my age were into "Billy Jack" back in the early 70s.  Here's my top ten favorite movies and why:

1.  Psycho (1960): I am always careful as to not reveal the plot of this thriller because from beginning to end this movie is like a great roller coaster ride you never want to end.  I happen to catch this movie on the late, late show back in the 70s and knew nothing about it.  Knew nothing about what was to happen or what would happen.  So when the plot unraveled I sat there glued to my TV, watching every move, holding onto my seat and applauded and cheered after it all was all over.  If you know the movie you know what I am talking about.  However, if you don't know what the heck I am talking about, run don't walk, and rent this black and white thriller immediately and don't tell anyone you're going to watch it or they'll kill the plot for you.  I just happen to be one of the lucky ones who caught the film one night not knowing what it was about.  When you see a classic like this in this manner, it makes for a great experience!
2. Enter Laughing (1967): Here's a movie almost nobody knows about which is all the better for me because I can call it my own! LOL  But the movie stars Reni Santoni and is supported by cast that includes Shelley Winters as David's mother.  David, an 18 year old Bronx Boy in the 1930s (but looks so '67), wants to be an actor.  Well most people, especially guys, don't want to be an actor.  His Jewish parents wants him to go to pharmacy college and become a druggist.  David responds to this by saying, "I don't want to be a druggist.  I HATE druggists!"  So Dave sets out to fullfill his dream and signs up at the local community theatre and begins his journey.  What follows is outright hilarious, especially when he goes on stage in front of people for the very first time. 
3. The Wizard of Oz (1939): Well, my generation (the 1960s) grew up with this film on television every year and like most people my age I just loved it.  Of course, seeing it 45 times much later as you approach the age of fifty it loses its magic, but I still hold this film very close to my heart like anyone. 
4. The Birds (1963): When you don't feel like humming down the yellow brick road you can always watch a bunch of school children practicing a fire drill at school and see them get attacked by a bunch of black crows Tippi Hendren happen to set off.  Alfred Hitchcock knew what he was doing with this film and yet this thriller seems to get forgotten while 30 years later we still hear people who rave about a revolving trash can that talks and a gold robot that wobbles.  Why?
5. Our Very Own (1950): I wasn't around in 1950 so when I watch this film starring Ann Blyth and Natalie Wood, I can get a glimpse of what small town America was like at the beginning of the decade.  This family, which resembles the family in "Father Knows Best," gets their first television set (black and white, of course) and everyone is all abuzz about the delivery from the local TV shop.  But that's not really the main plot, of course.  No, what happens is that one of the daughters accidently finds out her sister is adopted in the family security box and nastily tells her older sister (Ann Blyth) on her 18th birthday, who then goes down like a sack of potatoes.  In other words, her world turns upside down as she's about the graduate from high school and she sets out to find her real mother.  Just another favorite of mine that the whole world ignores...
6. Heathers (1989): You know, I can like the very classy, or ride with the best of them in Indiana Jones, but I also like the strange and the offbeat.  "Heathers" is just one of those films.  You have Winona Ryder as the kid in high school with a brain on her shoulders who just happens to make friends with both the cool and the nerdy, but who's involvment with three girls all named Heather makes for the most shocking and funniest moments in film history.  Even Winona Ryder herself says this is in her own top ten favorite films of all time.  The girl knows what she's talking about!  The movie is basically about all the clicques that go on in high school and who survives them all. 
7. The Long, Long Trailer (1954): This was a very big hit during its day and no wonder.  It stars Lucille Ball and real life husband Desi Arnaz, so it is like watching a color feature film about Lucy and Ricky Ricardo.  Only the names are different.  She's Tacy and he's Nicky (go figure). The two are newlyweds (at forty?) who have just bought a 40 foot long trailer that they decide to haul around the U.S. themselves rather than settling down in an apartment somewhere.  With no experience for either one of them using a trailer, the situations are funny.  Should have won Best Picture.
8. The Song of Bernadette (1942): The year is 1852.  One would think there's nothing in life to hold your interest back then.  I mean, no computers, no television, not even the invention of the corn dog.  But life did go on and in this story you have a French peasant girl named Bernadette with asthma, age fifteen, who one day sees a lady in a grotto whom she describes as quite beautiful.  The lady is really the Virgin Mary who brings Bernadette messages of faith.  This is actually a true life story and this film is based on all the facts that are still on record today.  Did Bernadette see the Virgin Mary? Or did this teenager back in France just want attention from everybody?  You be the judge.
9. Grease (1978): Yes, I am hip.  Heck, everyone loves "Grease."  it was the biggest movie of the year.  John Travolta was smokin' hot from "Saturday Night Fever" (you wonder why) and Olivia Newton-John turned into an actress.  The songs from the movie were playing all over the radio day and night so everybody was dragged out to see it.  With great music and a great cast how could it not be a hit?
10. King Kong (1933):  When a 150 foot ape goes amuck in the city of New York you bet I want to see all the damage done.  I love watching Kong step on and flatten out people, take subway trains off the tracks and watching people run down the street screaming their heads off. 

Those are my top ten favorite movies of all time.  I hope you enjoyed them.