Ruth Richardson: My "40" Favorite Movies

(except I keep thinking of more that must be added-I’m already past the deadline-I hedged on the 40-a little-but so grateful for the exercise-I thought again of some of these movies for the first time in years)

(In Alphabetical Order)
1 A History of Violence
1.1 A Midnight Clear
2 An Affair to Remember
2.1 Anna and the King
3 Big
3.1 Billie Elliott
4 Blown Away
4.1 Carrie (the first one)
5 Charade (1963)
5.1 Chariots of Fire
6 Cujo (Stephen King)
6.1 Deadman Walking
7 Dirty Harry
7.1 Door to Door
8 Dragonfly (the Kevin Costner one)
9.1 Elmer Gantry
10 Falling in Love
10.1 Field of Dreams
11 Finding Neverland
11.1 For a Few Dollars More
12 Gallipoli (Australian soldiers in WWI)
12.1 Grease (John Travolta)
13 Hang ‘em High
13.1 Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
14 High Noon
14.1 High Plains Drifter
15 In Her Shoes
15.1 Junebug
16 Kramer vs. Kramer
16.1 Little Man Tate
17 Lonely Are the Brave
17.1 Mary Poppins
18 Message in a Bottle
18.1 Misery
19 Mr. Brooks
19.1 Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson)
20 My Fair Lady
20.1 Nevada Smith
21 No Highway in the Sky (from Nevil Shute's book-my favorite writer)
21.1 Of Mice and Men (w Gary Sinise)
22 On the Beach (from Nevil Shute's book-my favorite writer)
22.1 One True Thing
23 Open Range
23.1 Out of Africa
24 Papillon
24.1 Patton
25 Places in the Heart
25.1 Play Misty for Me
26 Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli director)
26.1 Shall We Dance (both versions)
27 Shane
27.1 Starman
28 Strictly Ballroom
28.1 The Accused
29 The Bridges of Madison County
29.1 The Butterfly
30 The Days of Wine & Roses
30.1 The Edukators
31 The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
31.1 The Glen Miller Story
32 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
32.1 The Jagged Edge
33 The Killing Tree
33.1 The King and I (the Deborah Kerr one)
34 The List of Adrian Messenger
34.1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
35 The Nun's Story
35.1 The Outlaw Josey Wales
36 The Shawshank Redemption
36.1 The Shining
37 The Shootist
37.1 The Silence of the Lambs
38 The Songcatcher
38.1 The Spirit of St. Louis
39 The Unforgiven (1960)
39.1 The Verdict
40 Thirteen Days
40.1 To Kill a Mockingbird
41 Tombstone
41.1 Unforgiven (1992)
42 Vertigo
42.1 Yentl