#55 North by Northwest

1959
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint

Absolutely loved this movie.  I think I've seen bits and pieces before, but never all the way through.  Hitchcock has such a style all his own, right down to the lightness around actresses eyes.  Cary Grant is always perfect, his timing is amazing, and his subtle comedy doesn't go unnoticed.  Martin Landau was also amazing in his role- played a great bad guy!
This was the first of  a couple Hitchcock movies on the list, and I can't wait for the rest!

Up Next: MASH

#56 Jaws

1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, 

Another movie I hadn't seen in years... and it still holds up as a great movie, scary, suspenseful, funny... it has everything!  I have nothing bad to say about this movie, and I think it's been one of my favorites on the list so far!


Trivia: After the shark was built, it was never tested in the water, and when it was put in the water at Martha's Vineyard, it sank straight to the ocean floor. It took a team of divers to retrieve it. 


Up next: North by Northwest

#57 Rocky

1976
Director: John G. Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

What a great movie to watch around the 4th of July (I watched on the 5th, but close enough!) I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid, and I think I liked it and appreciated it much more as an old(er) person!  I had no idea that Stallone wrote this.  I really liked him in this movie, he was so natural in this role!

Trivia: The movie was shot in 28 days!

#58 The Gold Rush

1925
Director/Writer: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin is a prospective miner and shows up to Alaska (in not enough layers) to look for gold.  One of a few silent movies on the list, and I liked this one a lot.  I was laughing out loud (which is rare, because I don't typically like comedy movies!!) The humor is so basic, it's just naturally funny...
Bit of trivia- there's a scene where he a fellow prospector are so hungry, they boil and eat Chaplin's boot, which was actually made of licorice for the movie!!

Up next: Rocky

#59 Nashville

1975
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Too many people

Ok, I had to fight to get through this one.  I wasn't interested in the story or the music.  I don't get why this movie made this list!! I can think of movies that were further up on the list that were 100 times better!!  Oh well, I can't like them all...

#60 Duck Soup

1933
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Groucho, Harpo, Chico Zeppo Marx


Groucho Marx as Rufus Firefly, who gets elected president of Freedonia.... and mayhem follows.  The second of the Marx bros. movies on this list, and I am still up in the air about whether I like them!  I didn't expect there to be singing in this one... don't know that it needed it!

#61 Sullivan's Travels

1941
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Great old movie about a movie director who wants to make a movie about hard times.  Once he realizes that he doesn't really know about hard times, he sets out to learn for himself... on the way he meets Veronica Lake (how gorgeous is she?!) And then he really learns about hardships, but learns by the end of the movie about the strength of laughter.


Up Next: Duck Soup!