Sunday, June 14, 1998
Following are the 99 titles Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk chose from the AFI ballot:
Intolerance (1916)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The General (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
City Lights (1931)
Freaks (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
King Kong (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Top Hat (1935)
Modern Times (1936)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Red River (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
White Heat (1949)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
An American in Paris (1951)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Shane (1953)
Carmen Jones (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Oklahoma! (1955)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Shadows (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Psycho (1960)
The Hustler (1961)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Hud (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Medium Cool (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Sounder (1972)
Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Nashville (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Alien (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
Atlantic City (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
El Norte (1983)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The Killing Fields (1984)
The Color Purple (1985)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Schindler's List (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
Debate born with "Birth of a Nation'
Margaret A. McGurk is Enquirer film critic. Write her at 312 Elm St. Cincinnati 45202; fax to (513)
768-8330; e-mail to mmgurk@enquirer.com.
