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World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 048 – Doctor Zhivago (1965)

May 3, 2020

Ranked 048 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during May 2020.

Cast: Omar Sharif (Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago), Julie Christie (Lara Antipova), Geraldine Chaplin (Tonya Gromeko), Rod Steiger (Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky), Alec Guinness (Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago), Tom Courtenay (Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov), Siobhán McKenna (Anna Gromeko), Ralph Richardson (Alexander Gromeko), Rita Tushingham (Tanya Komarova)
Director: David Lean
My rating: 9.0 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 049 – The Searchers (1956)

May 3, 2020

Ranked 049 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during May 2020.

Cast: John Wayne (Ethan Edwards), Jeffrey Hunter (Martin Pawley), Ward Bond (Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton), Natalie Wood (Debbie Edwards), John Qualen (Lars Jorgensen), Henry Brandon (Scar), Hank Worden (Mose Harper), Vera Miles (Laurie Jorgensen)
Director: John Ford
My rating: 7.5 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 050 – Jaws (1975)

May 3, 2020

Ranked 050 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during May 2020.

Cast: Roy Scheider (Martin Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint), Richard Dreyfuss (Matt Hooper), Lorraine Gary (Ellen Brody), Murray Hamilton (Mayor Vaughn), Carl Gottlieb (Meadows)
Director: Steven Spielberg
My rating: 8.0 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 051 – Patton: A Salute to a Rebel (1970)

May 2, 2020

Ranked 051 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as May 2017). Watched April 2020.

Cast: George C. Scott (General George S. Patton Jr.), Karl Malden (General Omar N. Bradley), Stephen Young (Captain Chester B. Hansen), Michael Bates (General Bernard Montgomery), Edward Binns (Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith), Michael Strong (Brigadier General Hobart Carver), Frank Latimore (Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davenport), Morgan Paull (Captain Richard N. Jenson), Karl Michael Vogler (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
My rating: 8.0 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 052: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

May 1, 2020

Ranked 052 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as May 2017). Watched April 2020.

Cast: Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy), Robert Redford (The Sundance Kid), Katharine Ross (Etta Place), Strother Martin (Percy Garris)
Director: George Roy Hill
My rating: 8.0 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 048 – Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 049 – The Searchers (1956)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 050 – Jaws (1975)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 051 – Patton: A Salute to a Rebel (1970)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 052: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)