December Marathon: Lust for Glory

Quite often I decide to watch a movie and can not choose which one because there are so many classic films I've always wanted to see. Then I get flummoxed and just end up watching "Stripes." WELL NO MORE! (From now on I only watch "Stripes" once a month like a NORMAL person) for I have a cunning plan. Each month I'm going to program a little marathon of movies for myself so that when I want to watch a movie I have a shorter list to choose from. Plus coming up with cool themed lists of movies is WAY awesome... plus I do it anyway. Why? Because. I'm different.

Anyway, that leads me to my list for December. There is no real "theme" for this list. The only criteria was that I couldn't have seen it before and it had to come out before 1960. Ok, the truth is there was no criteria I just noticed once I completed the list that all of them came out before 1960.


The Wizard of Oz (1939) directed by Victor Fleming
Touch of Evil (1958) directed by Orson Welles
The Great Dictator (1940) directed by Charlie Chaplin
All About Eve (1950) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Trouble in Paradise (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Stagecoach (1939) directed by John Ford
Cat People (1942) directed by Jacques Tourneur
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) directed by Otto Preminger
Throne of Blood (1957) directed by Akira Kurosawa
12 Angry Men (1957) directed by Sidney Lumet
On The Waterfront (1954) directed by Elia Kazan
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) directed by Vincente Minelli
The Paleface (1948) directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Rope (1948) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The Lost Weekend (1945) directed by Billy Wilder

BOOM! So that's the plan. I'll update as I knock flicks off the list.

NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure I will point out that it's actually 14 movies I've never seen and 1 which I have. However I've not seen "The Wizard of Oz" since I was a wee gaffer (that's the guy who holds the boom mic that records the urine sound effects) so I remember very little of it.