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| Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 |
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| Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb in 12 Angry Men |
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| Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole |
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| Jack Lemmon in The Apartment |
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| Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck in Cape Fear |
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| George C. Scott and Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove |
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| James Dean in East of Eden |
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| Cary Grant in His Girl Friday |
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| Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman in The Hustler |
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| Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place |
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| Clark Gable in It Happened One Night |
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| Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg |
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| Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia |
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| Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate |
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| Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront |
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| James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story |
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| Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun |
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| John Wayne in The Searchers |
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| William Holden in Sunset Boulevard |
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| Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success |
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| Orson Welles in The Third Man |
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| James Cagney in White Heat |
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| Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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| Tyrone Power in Witness for the Prosecution |
yay! robert mithum, sidney poitier (also see in the heat of the night, if you haven't), jkohn lennon (in anything, really).
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ReplyDeleteGreat list. I'd add: William Powell in The Thin Man, Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses, Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind, Jimmy Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life, Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea and I could probably go on forever so I'll stop.
ReplyDeleteNice list. As one of my all-time favorites (Top 5 easy), I love the addition of 12 Angry Men. Some great performances in that one. Brando in On the Waterfront was indeed good as well. Peter Sellers in Dr Stangelove as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the commenter above me, I'd definitely have to put Stewart in there for It's A Wonderful Life. And Mr Smith Goes to Washington, and Harvey and Rear Window...hell, pretty much everything he's done (definitely those first two though).
I'd also definitely add Perkins for Psycho. Also Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird, Borgnine for Marty and Bogart in The Maltese Falcon...oh and Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath.
I'm sure I could go on and on lol
Excellent list and I wouldn't disagree with one of them but I do want to ask what prompted you to pick 8 1/2 over La Dolce Vita?
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading your list! I hate that I left off Burton in Woolf--he was utterly magnificent.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! Some iconic names here! I have only seen about half of these films though :-(
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