VideoHound 4bone Movies (the best of VideoHound)

Submitted by diaskeaus on Fri, 03/10/2006 - 04:06
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  1. A Nous la Liberte (1931)
  2. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
  3. Adam’s Rib (1950)
  4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  5. The African Queen (1951)
  6. All About Eve (1950)
  7. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  8. All the King’s Men (1949)
  9. An American in Paris (1951)
  10. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  11. Andrei Rublev (1966)
  12. An Angel at My Table (1989)
  13. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
  14. Angi Vera (1978)
  15. Annie Hall (1977)
  16. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  17. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  18. Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
  19. The Awful Truth (1937)
  20. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
  21. Bambi (1942)
  22. The Bank Dick (1940)
  23. The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  24. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
  25. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  26. Ben-Hur (1926)
  27. Ben-Hur (1959)
  28. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  29. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  30. The Big Parade (1925)
  31. The Big Sheep (1946)
  32. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  33. The Blue Angel (1930)
  34. The Boys of St. Vincent (1993)
  35. Breathless (1983)
  36. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  37. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  38. Brief Encounter (1946)
  39. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  40. The Burmese Harp (1956)
  41. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  42. The Cabinet of Caligari (1919)
  43. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
  44. The Cameraman (1928)
  45. Casablanca (1942)
  46. Cesar (1936)
  47. Children of Paradise (1944)
  48. Chinatown (1974)
  49. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
  50. A Christmas Carol (1951)
  51. Citizen Kane (1941)
  52. City Lights (1931)
  53. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  54. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  55. Colonel Redl (1984)
  56. Come and See (1985)
  57. The Conformist (1971)
  58. Crime and Punishment (1935, French)
  59. The Crowd (1928)
  60. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
  61. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
  62. Danton (1982)
  63. Das Boot (1981)
  64. David Copperfield (1935)
  65. Day of Wrath (1943)
  66. Dead of Night (1945)
  67. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  68. Deliverance (1972)
  69. Destry Rides Again (1939)
  70. Diamonds of the Night (1964)
  71. Dinner at Eight (1933)
  72. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  73. Dr. Strange, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  74. Don Quixote (1935)
  75. Double Indemnity (1944)
  76. Duck Soup (1933)
  77. Dumbo (1941)
  78. The Earrings of Madame De… (1954)
  79. East of Eden (1954)
  80. 8 ½ (1963)
  81. El Norte (1983)
  82. The Elephant Man (1980)
  83. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  84. to be continued...
Author Comments: 

Taken from VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2000: The Complete Guide to Movies on Videocassette, DVD, and Laserdisc.

My opinion is not formed on the choice of these films - but being that VideoHound has reviewed over 24,000 movies in this volume alone, this list deserves some recognition.

lbangs03/15/2006

One of my gripes against Videohound is that, year after year, they still cannot seem to generate an accurate "4 Bones" list in their index. Have you ever noticed this? The list that they have each year leaves many movies off that have a four-bone rating in the book...

I'm 99% certain the book pulls from a database, so how hard can creating an complete list be?

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

diaskeaus03/15/2006

So I've actually been going through the book, page by page. The up to this is I get all of the 4 bone movies, but the downers are the I still have about 1000 pages to go, and I'm using the 2000 version, which means I'm missing five years, and I will probably be too burned out to keep up the list with further additions. Hopefully, the list will be useful though, for what it is worth.

lbangs03/15/2006

Why can't they just get it right, eh?

I may have a list in a spiral from the latest edition. If I can find it, I'll slip you the post-2000 films...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

diaskeaus03/15/2006

That would be super-duper helpful. You'd be like, totally totally cool.

lbangs03/15/2006

I will check.

Unfortunately, Congress passed a law two years ago making it illegal for me to be cool, much less totally totally cool. Alas.

Thanks for the thought, though.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs