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What’s the greatest American film of all time? Can’t decide? Well then, what’s your favorite movie? Do you love the classics, or ignore anything before 1980? Comedies, courtroom dramas, casts of thousands – we have them all at Great American Things.
Film: The Thin Man
I owe a lot of my love for classic films to my wife, and one of the treasures that she helped me to discover was The Thin Man. Based on a...
Read MoreMusic: Great Movie Songs
This recognition isn’t for songs that were incorporated into a movie’s soundtrack, but for songs that made their debut in a...
Read MoreFilm: The Sting
Paul Newman (Great American Things, May 17, 2009) and Robert Redford co-starred in two blockbuster movies, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
Read MoreFilm: Ben-Hur
Charlton Heston is more closely associated with this role than any other in his celebrated career. The part of Judah Ben-Hur was originally...
Read MoreFilm: Little Shop of Horrors
This listing is for the 1986 movie, adapted from the stage musical by writer Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken, which was itself...
Read MoreFilm: The Sixth Sense
“I see dead people.” One of the best-known taglines in movie history also summed up the main storyline in four words. The Sixth...
Read MoreFilm: Toy Story
This post honors Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999), both of which are among the best animated features of all time. In the original,...
Read MoreFilm: Casablanca
“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.” It’s the movie that made Humphrey...
Read MoreFilm: Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day is a brilliant movie. Once you get past its quirky premise, that a man has to live one day – Groundhog Day – over...
Read MoreFilm: Raising Arizona
This movie would have been featured here before now, but I’ve already included a couple of Coen Brothers films (O Brother Where Art...
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