41. KING KONG (1997 Rank: 43)
RKO, 1933 PRINCIPAL CAST Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
DIRECTORS Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
PRODUCERS Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
SCREENWRITERS James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose With a mixture of live action, animation, and special effects, this film follows the plight of a giant ape whose love for the beautiful Wray leads to his death, as he topples from the Empire State Building.
42. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1997 Rank: 27)
Warner Bros., 1967 PRINCIPAL CAST Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
DIRECTOR Arthur Penn
PRODUCER Warren Beatty
SCREENWRITERS Robert Benton, David Newman “We rob banks!” Dunaway and Beatty star in this story of real-life 1930s bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a film that mixed romance, adventure, glamour, comedy and violence in a way never seen before.
 43. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1997 Rank: 36)
United Artists, 1969 PRINCIPAL CAST Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight
DIRECTOR John Schlesinger
PRODUCER Jerome Hellman
SCREENWRITER Waldo Salt Voight is Joe Buck, a country boy who arrives in New York City to make his fortune as a hustler. As he struggles to maintain a living, he meets Hoffman’s Ratzo Rizzo, and the two friends work together to find a better life.
44. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1997 Rank: 51)
MGM, 1940 PRINCIPAL CAST Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
DIRECTOR George Cukor
PRODUCER Joseph L. Mankiewicz
SCREENWRITER Donald Ogden Stewart Sophisticated and screwball all at once, Hepburn’s cool, icy heiress really belongs with Grant, her ex. It takes tabloid newsman Stewart to bring out the fires buried deep inside her. This is a comedy of manners and class distinction.
45. SHANE (1997 Rank: 69)
Paramount, 1953
PRINCIPAL CAST Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance
DIRECTOR George Stevens
PRODUCERS Ivan Moffat, George Stevens
SCREENWRITERS A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Jack Sher Told through the eyes of a young boy, Shane is a former gunslinger who appears out of nowhere and helps a group of settlers defend themselves against the cattlemen who want their land.
 46. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1997 Rank: 35)
Columbia, 1934 PRINCIPAL CAST Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
DIRECTOR Frank Capra
PRODUCER Harry Cohn
SCREENWRITER Robert Riskin This battle of the sexes love story between a runaway heiress who shows her legs to hitch a ride and an unemployed newspaperman who separates their beds at night with a blanket known as the “walls of Jericho.”
47. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1997 Rank: 45)
Warner Bros., 1951 PRINCIPAL CAST Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
DIRECTOR Elia Kazan
PRODUCER Charles K. Feldman
SCREENWRITERS Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul Recreating the role that made him a star on Broadway, Brando is Stanley Kowalski, the blue-collared brute married to the sister of a neurotic, fragile, aging Southern belle named Blanche, who has always depended on the kindness of strangers.
 48. REAR WINDOW (1997 Rank: 42)
Paramount, 1954 PRINCIPAL CAST James Stewart, Grace Kelly
DIRECTOR Alfred Hitchcock
PRODUCER Alfred Hitchcock
SCREENWRITER John Michael Hayes When a broken leg forces photographer Stewart to become wheelchair-bound in his New York City apartment, he amuses himself by spying on his neighbors and soon becomes obsessed when he thinks he has witnessed a murder.
49. INTOLERANCE (1997 Rank: NEW)
Triangle, 1916 PRINCIPAL CAST Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Bessie Love
DIRECTOR D.W. Griffith
PRODUCER D.W. Griffith
SCREENWRITER D.W. Griffith Griffith’s monumental exploration of intolerance is told through four different but parallel stories from ancient Babylon, to the time of Christ in Judea, to Paris in 1572, to social reformers in contemporary America.
50. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (1997 Rank: NEW)
New Line, 2001 PRINCIPAL CAST Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom
DIRECTOR Peter Jackson
PRODUCERS Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, Fran Walsh
SCREENWRITERS Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson Jackson’s masterful fantasy epic based on Tolkien’s beloved novel, is the beginning chapter of Frodo’s strange and mighty odyssey to the Cracks of Doom to destroy the ring.
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