The Top Classic Movies From The Last Century

The Graduate (1967)

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft get hot and heavy in this satirical film. Hoffman plays a character who has just finished college and is back to living at his parent's house. He ends up getting seduced by Mrs. Robinson (Bancroft) who is a bored housewife and friend of his parents. Things get tricky when he falls for her daughter (who is actually his age).

Cooley High (1975)

This film is a comedy about the Black teenager experience in the '60s. The story follows two teens, Cochise and Preach, who are just trying to make it big in basketball and writing (respectively). They end up running into some trouble when they meet some people who aren't looking out for them...

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The More You Know

  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
  • When filming Chinatown Jack Nicholson was dating Anjelica Huston, the daughter of his screen nemesis John Huston.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for.
  • Toto was paid more than the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz".
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