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Rain
06-24-2008, 08:34 PM
10. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Release Date: 1956
Duration (in mins): 219

Cast:Charlton Heston (Moses)
Yul Brynner (Rameses [II])
Anne Baxter (Nefretiri)
Edward G. Robinson (Dathan)
Yvonne De Carlo (Sephora)

9. REDS
Release Date: 4 Dec 1981
Duration (in mins): 197

Cast:Warren Beatty (John Reed)
Diane Keaton (Louise Bryant)
Edward Herrmann (Max Eastman)
Jerzy Kosinski (Grigory Zinoviev)
Jack Nicholson (Eugene O'Neill)

8. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Release Date: 24 Jul 1998
Duration (in mins): 170

Cast:Tom Hanks (Captain Miller)
Tom Sizemore (Sergeant Horvath)
Ed Burns (Private Reiben)
Matt Damon (Private Ryan)
Barry Pepper (Private Jackson)

7. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Release Date: 24 Feb 1930
Duration (in mins): 138

Cast:Louis Wolheim (Kat [Katczinsky])
Lew Ayres (Paul [Bäumer])
John Wray (Himmelstoss)
Arnold Lucy (Kantorek)
Ben Alexander (Kemmerich)

6. TITANIC
Release Date: 19 Dec 1997
Duration (in mins): 194

Cast:Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson)
Kate Winslet (Rose Dewitt Bukater)
Billy Zane (Cal Hockley)
Kathy Bates (Molly Brown)
Frances Fisher (Ruth Dewitt Bukater)

5. SPARTACUS
Release Date: Oct 1960
Duration (in mins): 190 or 195

Cast:Kirk Douglas (Spartacus)
Laurence Olivier ([Marcus Licinius] Crassus)
Jean Simmons (Varinia)
Charles Laughton (Gracchus)
Peter Ustinov (Batiatus)

4. GONE WITH THE WIND
Release Date: 1939
Duration (in mins): 220

Cast:Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara )
Clark Gable (Rhett Butler)
Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes)
Olivia De Havilland (Melanie Hamilton)
Hattie McDaniel (Mammy)

3. SCHINDLER'S LIST
Release Date: 15 Dec 1993
Duration (in mins): 185

Cast:Liam Neeson (Oskar Schindler)
Ben Kingsley (Itzhak Stern)
Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth)
Caroline Goodall (Emilie Schindler)
Jonathan Sagalle (Poldek Pfefferberg)

2. BEN-HUR
Release Date: 1959
Duration (in mins): 212

Cast:Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur, also known as No. 41 and Young Quintus Arrius)
Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius)
Haya Harareet (Esther)
Stephen Boyd (Messala)
Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)

1. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Release Date: 16 Dec 1962
Duration (in mins): 222

Cast:Peter O'Toole (T. E. Lawrence)
Alec Guinness (Prince Faisal)
Anthony Quinn (Auda Abu Tayi)
Jack Hawkins (General Allenby)
José Ferrer (Turkish bey)

eamon7
06-25-2008, 04:13 PM
gee i have seen only about 3 of them. guess i'm more of a comedy or action man. of the bunch saving private ryan is my favorite except that i cry like a baby at the end lol.


question am i still the only person whe has not see titanic?

how about not seen titanic and don't own a cellphone either? i thought so. lol

Lippy
06-25-2008, 06:11 PM
Titanic=poo!!
I cry as well at the end at Private Ryan!!
You don't have a mobile??????

Ukelele
06-27-2008, 11:56 PM
The four feathers!

The battleship Potemkin!

(um, what else..., let me think)

Tarzan the ape man! (Johnny Weissmuller at his best)

Sinbad the sailor!

Oh well, that´s enough for now. Stay tuned. :chucks:

Avalon
06-28-2008, 03:41 AM
gee i have seen only about 3 of them. guess i'm more of a comedy or action man. of the bunch saving private ryan is my favorite except that i cry like a baby at the end lol.


question am i still the only person whe has not see titanic?

how about not seen titanic and don't own a cellphone either? i thought so. lol

You've not seen Titanic?, well its an ok film, but i won't spoil the ending :lol:

I gotta say though, that list isn't to bad, i think most of them are watchable atleast, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are both cracking films, they would be my pick of that list.

slicer
06-28-2008, 04:03 AM
hmm ,hard to decide whats "epic" or just "memorable" :dunno:

titanic!..pile of shit!

maybe..

zulu..micheal caine

the longest day

battleship potemkin lol "comrades, the meats full of maggotts!"

memorable ones maybe..

the third man
the 39 steps
murphys war...peter o'tooles terrific in this

think the days of epics are past now..a cast of 20 plus computer gfx.


regards,
jim.