America's Best Movies by the AFI (Top 100), Part 4 [76.-100.]

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The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in mid-June 1998 commemorated the extraordinary first 100 years of American movies by making a "definitive selection of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, as determined by more than 1,500 leaders from the American film community." The 400 Nominated Films were feature-length fictional movies produced between 1912 and 1996 "with the goal of amassing a capsule of the first 100 years of American cinema, across decades and across genres."

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• 76. City Lights (1931) Director: Charlie Chaplin; Stars: Charlie Chaplin; Virginia Cherrill; Harry Myers The Little Tramp falls hopelessly in love with a blind flower girl in this tragi-comedy about self-sacrifice and the depth of
• 77. American Graffiti (1973) Director: George Lucas; Stars: Richard Dreyfuss; Ron Howard; Candy Clark; Harrison Ford; Paul LeMat; Cindy Williams; Mackenzie Phillips; Charles Martin Smith A group of high school graduates decide the
• 78. Rocky (1976) Director: John G. Avildsen; Stars: Sylvester Stallone; Talia Shire; Burgess Meredith Stallone is Rocky Balboa, the underclassed boxer from Philadelphia whose dream is to fight for the championship belt. With the h
• 79. The Deer Hunter (1978) Director: Michael Cimino; Stars: Robert De Niro; Christopher Walken; Meryl Streep Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends whose lives are irrevoca
• 80. The Wild Bunch (1969) Director: Sam Peckinpah; Stars: William Holden; Ernest Borgnine; Robert Ryan Holden is the leader of a band of outlaws in 1913 Texas who want to pull one final heist before retiring. Peckinpah's use of sl
• 81. Modern Times (1936) Director: Charlie Chaplin; Stars: Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard; Henry Bergman Chaplin ended the silent era with this film about a little man working on an assembly line, who is literally caught in the
• 82. Giant (1956) Director: George Stevens; Stars: Elizabeth Taylor; James Dean; Rock Hudson; Mercedes McCambridge Edna Ferber's saga of wealth and prejudice during twenty-five years in the life of a Texas ranching family boast
• 83. Platoon (1986) Director: Oliver Stone; Stars: Tom Berenger; Willem Dafoe; Charlie Sheen Sheen is a young man from a privileged background who volunteers to serve in Vietnam and experiences the horror of war first-hand. He
• 84. Fargo (1996) Director: Joel Coen; Stars: Frances McDormand; William H. Macy; Steve Buscemi A frigid Minnesota landscape is the setting for a series of gruesome murders intertwined with a botched kidnapping job. McDormand is Ma
• 85. Duck Soup (1933) Director: Leo McCarey; Stars: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo Marx; Margaret Dumont; Louis Calhern Released at the height of the Depression, this Marx Brothers comedy is a satirical attack on politics and the abs
• 86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Director: Frank Lloyd; Stars: Charles Laughton; Clark Gable; Franchot Tone Based on an historical incident, this film features Laughton as Captain William Bligh, an excellent seaman whose lack of hu
• 87. Frankenstein (1931) Director: James Whale; Stars: Colin Clive; Boris Karloff; Mae Clarke; John Boles; Dwight Frye; Edward Van Sloan Whale ushered in a new era of horror films, and Karloff was never quite able to shake his imag
• 88. Easy Rider (1969) Director: Dennis Hopper; Stars: Peter Fonda; Dennis Hopper; Jack Nicholson; Karen Black Fonda, Hopper, and Nicholson take to their choppers to find America in a film that became an anthem for the 1960s' cultu
• 89. Patton (1970) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner; Stars: George C. Scott; Karl Malden; Stephen Young The film's opening scene Scott as Patton speaking in front of an American flag that fills the screen sets the stage for an epic
• 90. The Jazz Singer (1927) Director: Alan Crosland; Stars: Al Jolson; May McAvoy; Warner Oland; Eugenie Besserer; William Demarest It wasn't really the first "talkie," but its release marked the death knell for silent pi
• 91. My Fair Lady (1964) Director: George Cukor; Stars: Rex Harrison; Audrey Hepburn; Stanley Holloway; Gladys Cooper; Wilfrid Hyde-White Harrison's Henry Higgins takes a bet that he can transform the young cockney Eliza Doolittle,
• 92. A Place in the Sun (1951) Director: George Stevens; Stars: Montgomery Clift; Elizabeth Taylor; Shelley Winters When the brood ing Clift meets beautiful socialite Taylor, he has to do something about his pregnant girlfriend Wi
• 93. The Apartment (1960) Director: Billy Wilder; Stars: Jack Lemmon; Shirley MacLaine; Fred MacMurray Lemmon is a career-climbing executive who offers his boss the use of his apartment for an extra-marital fling and soon gets tang
• 94. GoodFellas (1990) Director: Martin Scorsese; Stars: Robert De Niro; Joe Pesci; Ray Liotta; Lorraine Bracco This gangster film for modern day is based on the true story of Henry Hill, played by Liotta, who dreamed as a kid of
• 95. Pulp Fiction (1994) Director: Quentin Tarantino; Stars: John Travolta; Samuel L. Jackson; Uma Thurman; Bruce Willis; Harvey Keitel; Tim Roth; Amanda Plummer Tarantino weaves together several stories that juggle plot lines
• 96. The Searchers (1956) Director: John Ford; Stars: John Wayne; Jeffrey Hunter; Ward Bond; Vera Miles Considered by many to be Ford's masterpiece, the film stars Wayne as an Indian- hating ex-soldier who spends years in an obses
• 97. Bringing Up Baby (1938) Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Katharine Hepburn; Cary Grant; Charlie Ruggles With the help of her pet leopard Baby and a wire-haired terrier named George, madcap heiress Hepburn derails the staid life
• 98. Unforgiven (1992) Director: Clint Eastwood; Stars: Clint Eastwood; Morgan Freeman; Gene Hackman Eastwood directs and stars as a formerly notorious gunslinger who is forced to return to his murderous ways after his wife dies a
• 99. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) Director: Stanley Kramer; Stars: Katharine Hepburn; Spencer Tracy; Sidney Poitier Tracy and Hepburn share the screen for the last time as the parents of a woman who brings Poitier, her A
• 100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Director: Michael Curtiz; Stars: James Cagney; Joan Leslie; Walter Huston The life of song-and-dance man George M. Cohan, energetically portrayed by Cagney, covers the earliest days of vaudeville to