For a Few Dollars More (1965) Director: Sergio Leone Per qualche dollaro in più is the second part of Leone's masterful 'Spaghetti Western' "Dollars" trilogy. The film stars Clint Eastwood, and also Lee Van Cleef, a fellow American Western actor who experienced a declining career after his appearance in High Noon in 1952, but whose … Continue reading For a Few Dollars More

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Director: Sergio Leone Per un pugno di dollari is the first film in Leone's "Dollars" trilogy, followed by For A Few Dollars More, and then The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. The series essentially vaulted the "Spaghetti Western" genre into international popularity. Each of the three films is brilliant with … Continue reading A Fistful of Dollars

Rebecca (1940) Director: Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock's brilliant Oscar-winning film was based on Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name (published in 1938), and which is, in turn, a similar re-telling of Charlotte Brontë's Gothic novel, Jane Eyre. Rebecca was Hitchcock's only film to win Best Picture from the Academy. David O. Selznick was hoping … Continue reading Rebecca

A Shot In The Dark (1964) Director: Blake Edwards In many ways, A Shot In The Dark is the first true "Pink Panther" film, despite technically being the second "Pink Panther" picture after the prior year's The Pink Panther (1963). It features the great Peter Sellers with a perfected thick French accent, his spiteful boss, … Continue reading A Shot In The Dark

The Pink Panther (1963) Director: Blake Edwards The Pink Panther is the first film in the "Pink Panther" series, featuring Peter Sellers as the bumbling but lovable French inspector, Jacques Clouseau. Unfortunately, Inspector Clouseau is something of a secondary character in this first picture, with the focus turned primarily to Sir Charles Lytton (played by … Continue reading The Pink Panther

Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel of the same name, Jaws is the classic horror film about a massive great white shark plaguing a summer New England resort town. Benchley, who later regretted creating fear-based literature focused on sharks, makes a small cameo as a reporter on the beach in … Continue reading Jaws