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North West Frontier (1959)
One of the greatest adventure movies ever made
Over the years this movie, along with Shane, The Great Escape and Casablanca, has remained one of my favorites and never disappoints on repeated viewings. Kenneth More represents the quintessential decent Englishman determined to do his duty to king and country, a role in which he always excelled.
All the cast are magnificent, including Lauren Bacall, Wilfred Hyde-White. Herbert Lom, and (stealing every scene he was in) the Indian actor I.S. Johar as Gupta.
J Lee Thompson keeps the scenes moving at a galloping pace and provides a textbook example of how to keep viewers on the edges of their seats and get them involved in the lives and characters at the centerof the drama.
I cannot understand why this movie is not among the top 250 IMDb movies of all time. It has few equals, and is far superior (in terms of story line, acting and directing) than "The Shawshank Redemption" (which, while absorbing and well acted, has a ridiculous storyline)
Shane (1953)
The greatest western ever
If many of the scenes in Shane seem to be clichés now, that is because so much of this wonderful movie has been imitated and become part of the basic fabric of cinema, particularly in its "a man's got to do what a man's got to do" rubric. I have seen this movie at least thirty times over the years and it still moves me. It is a magnificent representation of decent values and one of the best depictions of good triumphing over evil. All the actors could not have been better, with Jack Palance playing the most memorable villain ever seen in a western. Some people have commented that there are homosexual undertones to Shane's relationship with the boy, Joey. These people must be incredibly sick to perceive such a distortion of the perfectly innocent relationship. The boy's hero worship is something that most boys go through. But the movie does portray a profound affection between Shane, Joe Starret (Van Heflin) and Starret's wife (Jean Peters). It becomes clear that Shane is deeply attracted by Starret's wife, but it also becomes clear that Shane loves Joe and the boy just as deeply and cannot bring himself to betray any of them.