Here's a few notes on the fifteen films I listed as "must see." Again please don't crucify me over the selections; after sleeping on it, I'm sure that I could switch out half of these without the quality of the list suffering.
• Out of fifteen films (counting the Godfather films together), Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Marlon Brando appeared in two each. Michael Curtiz (Casablanca and Yankee Doodle Dandy) and Victor Fleming (Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind) directed two each.
• Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Buster Keaton (The General), and Gene Kelly (Singin' in the Rain) directed themselves in these movies.
• Of the five films I listed as "simple pleasures," four are musicals and the fifth is a silent movie. Kind of all or nothing, huh?
• Several of the films are based on books, e.g. The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and the Godfather.
• Famous lines from the "Cultural Landmarks:"
"Here's looking at you, kid."
"We'll always have Paris"
"He's just like any other man, only more so."
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"Rosebud!"
"Fiddle-dee-dee"
"Tomorrow's another day."
"Frankly, Scarlet…"
"That'll be the day."
"Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?"
"Papers? We don't need no stinking papers!"
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