101. The Sand Pebbles
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Emmanuelle Arsan, Gavin MacLeod
Plot: In 1926 China, the U.S.S. San Pablo patrols a Yangtze tributary. When engineer Jake Holman joins the crew, his personality clashes with those aboard and the local population. Everything comes to a head when the ship is ordered to crash through a river-boom.
102. Easy Rider
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Hopper
Actors: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Phil Spector, Jack Nicholson, Luke Askew, Karen Black
Plot: A pair of hippie bikers make the trek across America while searching for commonalities between themselves and those that live around them.
103. McLintock!
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Jack Kruschen, Chill Wills
Plot: A cattle baron's separated wife comes back to take their daughter.
104. El Cid
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond
Plot: Epic film about the Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (El Cid) - the man who overcame both a family vendetta and palace intrigue - never giving up his code of honor - and managed to protect his country from the invading Moors.
105. Hud
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton
Plot: A selfish, amoral young rancher clashes with his stern father, young admiring nephew, and hard-bitten housekeeper.
106. The Collector
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Plot: Freddie, a withdrawn, socially awkward bank clerk decides collecting butterflies isn't enough and starts collecting humans. Yet art student Miranda Grey isn't afraid to match wits with him in order to win back her freedom.
107. The Bedford Incident
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James B. Harris
Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Michael Kane
Plot: A reporter is given access to the American destroyer the USS Bedford and the cold-war hardened Captain Finlander. But when a Soviet sub is discovered, things get entirely too real as the captain pursues the enemy at any cost.
108. 101 Dalmatians
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Animation
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Actors: Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, Ben Wright, Frederick Worlock, Lisa Davis
Plot: A pair of dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, have a litter of 15 puppies but come under the evil gaze of Cruella De Vil, who wants nothing more than a dalmatian-skin coat. When two dull-witted thugs kidnap the puppies, along with 84 other dalmatians, it's up to the parents to save the day.
109. Ride the High Country
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Warren Oates, John Anderson
Plot: The Western that showcases some of the best work of the Director (Peckinpah), and its two stars (Scott and MacRea). Two aging former lawmen are hired to transport gold from the minefields to a city bank. One of them has a plan to steal the gold and when he can't convince his partner that they take the gold as payment for a lifetime of thankless duty, he takes it himself. His redemption and the wonderful details that show the men trying to confront their growing irrelevance in a changing world make for a moving film. This is a good primer for the director's masterpiece with the same theme, The Wild Bunch.
110. The Guns of Navarone
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Richard Harris, Anthony Quayle
Plot: A combined British and Greek is sent to take out a key German gun emplacement on the island of Navarone, which threatens British troops. Air support is out of the questions and the dangerous mission is made even more so as it appears the Germans may have support of their own.
