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Now is not the time for heady, intellectual mumbo jumbo and experimental, artsy-fartsy nonsense.
Its fun, but its too long and needed more nudity.
Anybody who understands string theory is automatically sexy.
Dumbo (1941)
An unexpectedly successful circus animal-breeding programme has side-effects resulting in birth-deformities, social division and an upturn in violent incidents reportedly as a result of mental illness. Can a young elephant alone in the world escape a vicious cycle of hiccoughs, underage heavy-drinking and base-jumping?
Or Willis' increasingly foetal head
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(Dancing Bear, Mexican Tree Duck, Bordersnakes)
John D MacDonald
(The Travis McGee Series)
Elmore Leonard
(Glitz, La Brava, Cat Chaser)
Larry Niven
(Ringworld, The Mote in God's Eye, Legacy of Hearot)
Dashiell Hammett
(Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key)
Iain M Banks
(Use of Weapons, Player of Games, Look to Winward)
James Ellroy
(The Big Nowhere, White Jazz, American Tabloid)
Jim Thompson
(The Grifters, The Getaway, The Killer Inside Me)
Richard Condon
(Prizzi's Honour, The Manchurian Candidate, Winter Kills)
Isaac Asimov
(I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
No. | Actor | Film | Video Clip |
1 | Marlon Brando | On The Waterfront | I Could Have Been A Contender |
2 | Peter Finch | Network | Network - Mad as Hell Scene |
3 | Gene Kelly | Singin In The Rain | Singing In The Rain - Singing In The Rain (Gene Kelly) [HD Widescreen] |
4 | Takeshi Shimura | Ikiru | Mid-life crisis from Kurosawa's Ikiru. |
5 | Anthony Perkins | Psycho |
6 | Humphrey Bogart | The Maltese Falcon | The Maltese Falcon - let's talk about the bird extract |
7 | Gloria Swanson | Sunset Boulevard | Gloria Swanson - All right_ Mr_ DeMille_ I_m ready for my close-up |
8 | Klaus Kinski | Aguirre, The Wrath of God | klaus kinski vs. the monkey |
9 | Roger Livesey | Colonel Blimp | Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: War Starts at MIdnight |
10 | Toshiro Mifune | Seven Samurai |
11 | Joseph Cotten | Shadow of a Doubt | Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt Dinner Scene |
12 | William Holden | The Wild Bunch | THE WILD BUNCH: One of the best westerns ever made! |
13 | Anton Wallbrook | Colonel Blimp | Life of Colonel Blimp - Anton Walbrook on England |
14 | Ned Beatty | Network | Network - "There is no democracy" [english subtitles] |
15 | Judy Garland | A Star is Born | 'A STAR IS BORN' JUDY GARLAND, 'BORN IN A TRUNK' PART 1 A CLOSEUP. |
16 | Fred Astaire | Top Hat | Fred Astaire: Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (1935) |
17 | Ginger Rogers | Top Hat | Dancing Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers |
18 | Naomi Watts | Mulholland Drive |
19 | Jean-Pierre Léaud | The 400 Blows | Les 400 Coups - Truffaut |
20 | Carl Boehm | Peeping Tom |
21 | Spencer Tracy | Adam’s Rib |
22 | Katherine Hepburn | Bringing Up Baby |
23 | Barbara Stanwyck | Double Indemnity |
24 | William Powell | The Thin Man |
25 | Myrna Loy | The Thin Man |
26 | Russell Crowe | LA Confidential |
27 | Julie Andrews | The Sound of Music |
28 | Buster Keaton | The General |
29 | Sidney Greenstreet | The Maltese Falcon |
30 | Rod Steiger | In The Heat Of The Night |
31 | Malcolm MacDowell | A Clockwork Orange |
32 | Ingrid Bergmann | Notorious |
33 | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects |
34 | Bette Davis | Now Voyager |
35 | James Stewart | It’s a Wonderful Life |
36 | Rosalind Russell | His Girl Friday |
37 | Cary Grant | His Girl Friday |
38 | Meryl Streep | Sophie’s Choice |
39 | Christoph Waltz | Inglorious Basterds |
40 | Jack Lemmon | Glengarry Glen Ross |
41 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood |
42 | Ruth Gordon | Harold & Maude |
43 | Sidney Poitier | In The Heat of the Night |
44 | Helena Bonham-Carter | Fight Club |
45 | Peter Sellers | Dr Strangelove |
46 | Alec Guinness | Bridge Over The River Kwai |
47 | Al Pacino | The Godfather |
48 | Robert Shaw | Jaws |
49 | Glenn Close | Fatal Attraction |
50 | John Turturro | The Big Lebowski |
51 | Richard Dreyfuss | Close Encounters OTTK |
52 | Jeff Bridges | The Big Lebowski |
53 | Alec Baldwin | Glengarry Glen Ross |
54 | Tony Curtis | Some Like It Hot |
55 | Henry Fonda | Once Upon A Time In The West |
56 | Marilyn Monroe | Some Like It Hot |
57 | Cary Mulligan | An Education |
58 | Bruce Lee | Enter the Dragon |
59 | Denzel Washington | Training Day |
60 | Lena Olin | Romeo is Bleeding |
61 | Yeong-Ae Lee | Sympathy for Lady Vengeance |
62 | Marty Feldman | Young Frankenstein |
63 | Frances McDormand | Fargo |
64 | Angela Lansbury | The Manchurian Candidate |
65 | Dennis Hopper | Blue Velvet |
66 | Matthew Broderick | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off |
67 | Marius Goring | A Matter of Life and Death |
68 | John Cusack | High Fidelity |
69 | Catherine Keener | Being John Malkovich |
70 | Walter Matthau | The Taking of Pelham 123 |
71 | Andy Serkis | The Two Towers |
72 | Orson Welles | A Touch of Evil |
73 | Samuel Jackson | Pulp Fiction |
74 | Deborah Kerr | Black Narcissus |
75 | Catherine Deneuve | Repulsion |
76 | Robert DeNiro | Midnight Run |
77 | Cecilia Roth | All About My Mother |
78 | Ulrich Muhe | The Lives of Others |
79 | Steve Martin | Roxanne |
80 | Sean Connery | Goldfinger |
81 | Penelope Cruz | Volver |
82 | John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig & the Angry Inch |
83 | Uma Thurman | Pulp Fiction |
84 | Forrest Whittaker | Ghost Dog |
85 | Michael Caine | The Man Who Would Be King |
86 | Bill Murray | Groundhog Day |
87 | John Hurt | The Elephant Man |
88 | Guy Pearce | Momento |
89 | Shirley MacLaine | The Apartment |
90 | Steve MacQueen | Papillon |
91 | Clint Eastwood | The Good The Bad The Ugly |
92 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection |
93 | Steve Coogan | 24 Hour Party People |
94 | Bruno Ganz | Downfall |
95 | Bruce Campbell | Evil Dead 2 |
96 | Gregory Peck | To Kill A Mockingbird |
97 | Peter O’Toole | Lawrence of Arabia |
98 | Edward Norton | American History X |
99 | Vivian Leigh | Gone with the Wind |
100 | Mia Farrow | Rosemary's Baby |