What Movies Lead All the Rest? Godfather" and "Bonnie and By Vernon Scott Clyde". HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - A An interesting footnote is group of highly qualified film that of those nine recent picproducers and critics nomintures only Dustin Hoffman ated the 50 most significant movies in American cinema among the stars appeared in more than one of the elite history IUld concluded the two "Midnight Cowboy" and "The most important were "Citizen Graduate". Kane., and "Gone with the Wind". 0 DD The group was selected by Silent movies made a surUniversity of Southem Cali- prise showing with "The Birth fornia's performing arts coun- of a Nation", "The Gold cil, which asked the panel to Rush", "G r e e d", "Intolchoose milestone pictures erance", "The Great Train those whicll gave new con- Robbery'', • • C it y Ligbts'', cepts and advanced the art "Ben-Hur", "The General" and technique of filmmaking. and "Nanook of the North". Responses were mostly preAnother quirk is the appeardictable as the professional ance of "Ben Hur" twice on movie-makers came up with a the list - the original in 1925 total of 53 landmark film& with Ramon Navarro and the 1959 film with Charlton Hes0 DD ton. Perhap:lf it indicates a deA glaring oversight was the cline iii movie quality, but omission of "The Ox-Bow Inonly a handful of the 53 all- cident", perhaps the most time great movies selected trend-setting, radical westem were filmed in the ·past dec- ever filmed.. ade. 0 DD Among them were: How would your personal "Midnight Cowboy", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Whp's choices rate with the 53 films Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", ranked in order of votes they "The Graduate'', "The Sound received? 1. "Citizen Kane", "Gone of Music", "Dr. Strangelove", "Easy Rider", "Jbe with the Wind".
2. "The Birth of a Nation". 3. "All Quiet on the Western Ftont". 4. "The Best Years of Our Lives", "Midnight Cowboy", "Stagecoach". 5. "High Noon", "On ·the Waterfront". 6. "2001: A Spaee Odyssey". 7. ''The Treasure of Sierra Madre". 8. "The Jazz Singer", "The I n f o r m e r ' ' , "West Side S t o r y ' ' , "The Grapes of Wrath". 9. "The Gold Rush", "It Happened One Night". 10. "The Big Parade", "Casablanca'', "Fantasia". 11. "Greed", "Intolerance", "King Kong". 12. "The Great Train Robbery", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Sunset Boulevard", "The Wizard of Oz", "The Graduate". 13. "Nanook of the North",
"Little Caesar", "The Bridge on the River Kwai'', "The Sound of Music". 14. "City Lights", "Ben Hur" (1925), "Forty-Second Street", "The Maltese Falcon", "Public Enemy", "Dr. Strangelove". 15. "Ben Hur" (1959), "A Streetcar Named Desire", "An American in Paris", ''The Robe", "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", "The Lost Weekend", ~'Easy Rider", "Bonnie and Clyde". 16. ''Covered Wagon'', "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". "The 39 Steps", • ' T h e General", "Shane", "The Godfather", "Lost Horizon''.
Purpose of the poll was to "Mrs. Miniver", "Going My gather materials on each of Way", "Hamlet", "Gentlethe films and make them men's Agreement", "From .available for students of the Here to Eternity", "Marty", arts and for special public "Lawrence of Arabia", "Tom exhibitions. Jones" and "Patton" were Although many of the films i~p _ass _e_d_o_ ver _.--....---~ antedated the Academy awards, only 13 of the movies in the group were Oscar Win.ners. Sucll a w a rd -winning pictures as "Grand Hotel",