30 Years of Brilliance: 1930-1959
| 1) |  | Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) Casablanca 1941 A bitter and cynical American club owner in Casablanca, Rick Blaine is also a true romantic. Although he professes to be neutral in all matters, it is revealed that he had run guns to Ethiopia to combat the 1935 Italian invasion, and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco Franco's Nationalists. |
| 2) |  | Will Kane (Gary Cooper) High Noon 1952 From the classic Hollywood Western the image of the marshall striding out at noon to meet his fate is one of the most potent in Hollywood history. |
| 3) |  | George Bailey (James Stewart) It's a Wonderful Life 1946 George is a good man who repeatedly has had to sacrifice his dreams, the kind of nice guy who does so much for others that he ends up with almost nothing.George is taken on a journey showing him what the world would be like if he'd never been born and its a nightmare vision. |
| 4) |  | Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 The role which made Stewart a major movie star. He plays a new state senator who proves himself innocent of made-up corruption charges and succeeds in building a camp for the Boy Rangers. |
| 5) |  | Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Tom becomes personally idealized by what he has witnessed in the transient workers'camps, and he goes off to seek a new world, to join a movement committed to social justice. |
| 6) |  | Shane (Alan Ladd) 1953 A mysterious gunslinger comes to a recently-settled farm area near a quiet town and fights for the rights of homesteaders against the long-entrenched hard-bitten open-range cattlemen who control the majority of the land. |
| 7) |  | Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 The 29 year-old Errol Flynn at his swshbuckling best as the dashing, gallant, and romantic, legendary hero. This is the definitive Robin Hood picture - no-one does it better than Flynn. |
| 8) |  | Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) On The Waterfront 1954 Brando movingly portrays the ex-boxer who coulda been a contender if Charley hadn't convinced him to throw his fights -- is weary and beginning to think it's time to stand up for something. And he does. |
| 9) |  | Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) The Pride Of The Yankees 1942 Not just baseball film its an heroic story of love and perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds, a tragedy and a triumph. The stoic Gary Cooper was the perfect choice to portray the famed baseball player, Lou Gehrig. |
| 10) |  | Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) Twelve Angry Men 1957 Juror # 8's standing up against the indifference of his peers represents the ethical stance of a mature, responsible individual in democratic society. The movie ends with a unanimous Not Guilty vote and a young man's life is saved. |
