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Anyone For A Bert's Best Movies Thread?

posted 15 years ago by screenman
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Here's Mine:

The Crimson Pirate

Elmer Gantry

Seven Days In May

The Train

Gunfight At The OK Corral

[–] ralecar 14 years ago

And mine:

The Crimson Pirate

The Train

The Flame and the Arrow

Rope of Sand

Ten Tall Men

did he make a bad movie? add sweet smell of success, the swimmer, the professionals, the leopard.....the list goes on....he was even good in stinkers like scorpio....

[–] DarthBengal 11 years ago

I agree with richard-brisson, Burt Lancaster really didn't make any duds, but if I had to pick my favorite 5:

The Train
Go Tell the Spartans
The Killers
The Professionals
Local Hero

Just saw the last hour of The Crimson Pirate on TCM and it was awesome. It really shows what a fantastic athlete and gymnast he was.
Don't want to include it on my list though since I haven't seen the whole thing.

[–] rdsla 11 years ago

Hard to pick 5.......but here's an attempt......

Atlantic City
The Train
Elmer Gantry
Trapeze
Local Hero

A few more.....

The Sweet Smell of Success
The Rainmaker
Jim Thorpe -- All-American

[–] Clemencedane 10 years ago

No one rooting for The Swimmer? I loved that one.

[–] Rex9 8 years ago

My Burt's best movies:

1). The Train

2). Jim Thorpe -- All American

3). The Crimson Pirate

4). Birdman of Alcatraz

5). Gunfight at the OK Corral

6). Trapeze

7). The Professionals

8). The Flame and the Arrow

9). Judgment at Nuremberg

10). Seven Days in May

11). The Scalphunters......funny and very entertaining.

The Train makes my personal list of the top-ten films of all-time. Just loved this movie and Burt's role as well as Paul Scofield's portrayal as the German commander's incessant intention to take the paintings back to Germany at all costs, irrespective of the war effort. A solid 10 rating for this movie and an Oscar for Burt, tho' he wasn't nominated for such, nor was the film, astonishingly.