Shane, Twelve O'Clock High, The War Lover, Zulu, The Ghost and the Darkness, Doctor Zhivago
Add in Home Alone, Little Big Man, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Last of The Mohicans, ET, Ben Hur, Peter Falks the In Laws, Moses, Zulu, Peter Sellers The Party, The Searchers,
Big trouble in little China, The Thing, Commando, Predator, Alien, Aliens, Weird Science, T2, all Mad Max’s, Death Hunt, Dirty Dozen, Escape from New York, Heat, Manhunter, Collateral, Public Enemies, Raising Arizona, O bother where art thou?, Fargo, Highwaymen, Hell or High Water,……. for starters anyway.
The Wind and the Lion The Sand Pebbles Kelly's Heros M.A.S.H. - the movie The Great Escape Run Silent, Run Deep Stalag 17 Forest Gump The Shawshank Redemption Wings - the original 1927 version
Oh my gosh This brings back so many good memories. Our son is now 34, married with two great kids. But back when he was six or so we watched Predator and the little guy just couldn’t get enough of Ahhhnald killing the intergalactic space monster. The blood and guts in every scene just blew his mind, not to mention all the guns.
Our favorite line in the movie was Ahhhnald tracking the bad monster dude with the fluorescent green blood and saying “Eef eet bleeds, vee cahn keel eet “ ( If it bleeds we can kill it). To this very day if we are blood trailing a deer we have to recite that momentous line .
My wife hated to see our six year old son exposed to that much violence and really complained about it. So I dialed it back a bit. Every Wednesday night she had choir practice at church. He’d look out the window and as soon as she left the driveway he hauled butt to the VCR and popped in Predator, getting so excited he couldn’t sleep later that night.
Flash forward 28 years and our grandson is soon to be indoctrinated…
I'll throw in True Grit, Home from the hills, All quiet on the western front (original in B&W), Jeremiah Johnson, Little big man, Tombstone and Walking Tall, 1 and 2.