Next up is :- And then there were movies

NB: I keep saying, this stuff isn't mine and may very well be pulled for breach of copyright. You can, of course, go looking on YouTube, or its foreign variants, for copies. I'm sure you know how.

Here is your next 30 minutes worth of class as it relates to my favourite movies, movies I have watched more than once, movies where I could quote chunks of. You know the kind.

So, let's get into them, in no particular order:

Das Boot. An anti-war movie, believe it or not. I am a fan, a big fan. I have this on 6 part VHS tape, DVD, Director's Cut DVD, LP, CD, Audio-book, novel, novel (abridged)...no Blu-Ray yet but maybe. I also have various references to it via a band called U-96, another movie called Beerfest. Your link:

Note the guitars - two of them. Go looking on youtube and you can watch it being played. SUBlime (hee hee hee).

Next up is a movie starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. An unusual pairing that works well. The movie is a boys own type thing. A spy movie set in deepest Germany. BTW, I have visited Hohen Werfen, the castle where some of the movie is set. Unfortunately, the cable ride up to the castle isn't quite up to movie standard.

Here is your main theme:

And next up is a Michael Caine movie based on a Len Deighton story (sort of). You clip has Harry (not his real name) meeting Samantha. To me, this is the best of the "Harry Palmer" stories.

The geek in me has walked the length of  Lietzenseeufer looking for one of the buildings used in the movie. The Wall was but a side-show.

My favourite bond is the one and only outing of George Lazenby. Also has that wonderful Louis Armstrong song in it.

There are loads of SciFi movies that are class but top of the list must be 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is a movie that has to be seen several times to take in everything that is there and all the potential meanings. This movie does not belong on the best of hollywood stuff. This is not a movie just to entertain. It is a movie in the best BBC tradition - to inform, to educate, to entertain. Here is the trailer:

After all that really deep stuff, a couple of cartoons to entertain you. The first one is Snow White. A movie full of nostalgia fo me. The first movie I saw at the cinema. It had me in tears. I thought she was dead. Oh, yes, it also had a yodel in it, and here it is:

The second cartoon is my favourite of them all. Baloo makes the move and the Sherman brothers had all the songs spot on. Of course - The Jungle Book.

Well, there you have it. A fine selection of must see, 5* movies if I do say so myself. There is a stack of others that didn't quite make the list but on another day may have. I know some people look on TV and the movies as trash but there are many that are brilliant. The writers, directors, producers, special effects, all the backroom stuff. My hat is off to them all.

As usual, any comments are more than welcome on this topic as well as the others. Feel free to add them. Please.