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 the first draft of the Back to the Future screenplay, the time machine wasn't a Delorean, it was a refrigerator.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • Despite pulling in over $240m My Big Fat Greek Wedding never once topped the US box office chart.
  • Brad Pitt injured his Achilles heel while playing Achilles.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.