All of the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western.
Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry series
Oliver Twist
The Birds
Andromeda Strain
“How the West Was Won”
“The Pink Panther” comedies
Defining moments:
Watching “Picnic” on TV while my parents were out to dinner and turning down the volume when they came home so they wouldn’t catch me watching it. I knew that it was a grown up movie and it still is.
When my newly divorced dad took me (his teenage daughter) to see “The Deer Hunter” and then later to see “Apocolypse Now” and I knew I wasn’t just a kid anymore.
What about ‘One flew over the cucoo’s nest’ or “Hombre”
REE, oh yeah… Fibber McGee and Molly…i remember now…and what about Amos and Andy…now that was funny stuff too. Yep…old has crept up on us if we remember all those shows. Seems like Flash Gordon was on radio too…and what about Captain America? Or was it Captain Midnight? Or both? Ah yes, it’s all coming back to me now !
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
George Burns & Gracie Allen 
Gracie was the brains behind that duo.
I remember when I was in the 1st grade. We lived next door to my grandmother, and my folks owned a restaurant/cocktail lounge. Because they were in the business of spirits, they had little baseball bat shaped tools about 8" long that were used for washing the inside of pilsner beer glasses with a rag. Every Wednesday night, my brother and I would grab a couple of “baby baseball bats,” go next door and threaten to beat our grandmother with them unless she would make some Ovaltine for us and let us listen to The Lone Ranger on the radio. Makes me smile just remembering those days.
That said, it may come as no surprise to hear that Lotech is running a loan shark business with exorbitant interests rates down in the seedy part of the wharf district!:neutral:
Since we morphed this thread from movies to TV and radio, how about Dr. Demento (which may still be airing) and Dave Alan at Large, and Benny Hill?
Joe, yeah Gracie was one smart cookie alright…uhhh…beat yer gram with baseball bats? Thanks for my morning laugh Joe !
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
My pleasure George,
Those are some of my most fond memories. 55 years ago and I’m still smiling.
I hear that Joe, i had a wonderful grandad and i think about him often and especially when i’m out on the waters. I know the smiles yer talkin’ about too.
Cheers,
George
The very first movie that I remember seeing on TV was “633 Squadron” starring Cliff Robertson. I’ve been an airplane head ever since. That would have been around the same time as the moon landing, if I remember correctly.
Old Yeller
Bruce Lee flicks changed my world forever.
Rick
Not movies, but I remember a couple of my favorite TV shows featuring aircraft as a youngster were “12 O’Clock High” (LOVE those B-17s!), and “Baa Baa Black Sheep”.
Although I was not a fan of thriller movies Pyscho has to be on of the greatest thrillers of all times; much more modern Silence of the Lambs made a few girls and guys jump and scream. I believe the thriller from my high school days was call Straitjacket, if I remember correctly some of the idiot boys I knew in H.S. went out and terrorized a few parking couples after that showed at the local theatre.
When I was a kid, the movies I remember most were the Star Wars movies and Indiana Jones. Goonies and Stand by Me were a couple of my favorites and still are. Of course old westerns and war movies were always a presence in our house. I grew up watching John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Charles Bronson. And of course there was Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone movies. I found one of those old movies from my childhood and bought it on DVD last year. How the West was Won, which had a good cast of people in it. Even Lee Van Cleef was in it for a bit as was John Wayne. Also got Rio Bravo which is one of my favorites also.
Two of the greatest movies of my childhood were on the tube tonight, Ole Yellar and The Yearling. Both should be required for all kids.
Well I must say that this thread was compelling. I couldn’t wait until the next showing on TBS of “The Anatomy of a Murder” in late August. So I considered buying the DVD. Renting the DVD. It was available at my local library and picked it up.
I loved it again, but my attention was more focused, and enjoyed the film the second time more.
The next time I watch I’m cookin’ popcorn and may even get out the fly tyin’ vise and you know what , a beer or two, and carry myself further into the nuance of one of my favorite authors. “We all love something, I love fly fishing” was a line from Jimmy.
I think I like the movie as much as the book.