#27 High Noon

1952
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges

Ok, so I guess I really just don't like westerns.  Not one, aside from Unforgiven, on the list that I've liked.  It wasn't TERRIBLE... I just wasn't impressed.  I did like the concept of the movie and how is occurs in real time.  The movie follows Will Kane (played by Gary Cooper), a sheriff who has kept his little town safe for years and is finally ready to get married (to Grace Kelly) and retire.  On the day of the wedding, the town hears of a gang with a big meanie, Frank Miller, who is headed their way.  Kane feels responsible, since he sent him to jail in the first place, and seems to be the only one who will stand up to Miller when he and his crew get in on the noon train.  The whole movie builds up to the end scene.  You want to stick with it so you see the end, but for me, the whole western movie is just something I don't get!  Onto the next...

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#28 All About Eve

1950
Director:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe

One of my personal all time favorites, I can watch this movie over and over.  The story is great, and the acting (especially by Davis and Baxter) is perfection.  The movie follows acting hopeful Eve Harrington as she obsesses over and eventually starts working for theater-diva Margo Channing.  Theater actors in this movie are revered as the ultimate celebrity.  Eve's motives are not what they seem, and she eventually tries to take over Margo's life.  The movie had 14 Oscar Nominations and won 6.  

Trivia: One scene in the movie shows a very young Marilyn Monroe in one of her first on-screen roles and the famous line "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

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