What one movie have you seen but will see again and again?

I think it has to be 7 brides for 7 brothers...I love musicals generally and can watch them over and over but the dance scenes in 7Bf7B were just out of this world and I honestly don't think in my whole life I've ever heard such a beautiful singing voice as when Jane Powell sang Wonderful, wonderful day (sometimes I just put the DVD on just to listen to her sing..... and I suspect I've watched that film more than any other...

Jane ..

 
At this point, possibly none of them. I saw "Gunga Din" as a boy, and I must have watched it a dozen times by now. Politically incorrect now, but I still like it.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
One that I always enjoy is Zulu. I quite enjoy The Great Escape too.
If they are on TV I usually record them and watch them some time when I am alone.
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Zulu. I've read a lot about Rorke's Drift. "Zulu" takes some huge liberties with it. It certainly does "Hookie" a huge injustice.
The real Sgt hook was a genuine hero, but anything but a raging drunk. None the less, in spite of the silly idea of men fighting for their lives taking time out to have a sing off, the idea works. The singing and chanting along with the documentary like reading of the narrator, all add up to an over all celebration of the physical courage of both sides. I always loved "Men of Harlech" anyway. Another, now politically incorrect, but great movie.
 
Yes, Underock. I love it as a movie. I've also seen Zulu Dawn but that doesn't grab me as much.

I guess there are other old movies that appeal for much the same reason - Friendly Persuasion, High Noon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Gallipoli, and The Man Who Would be King. They're all ripping yarns.
 
I'll have to look for The Man Who Would Be King. I remember seeing some of it years ago on TV and enjoying it, but never saw the whole movie. My number one favorite movie is Paths of Glory, with Kirk Douglas.
For me, its far more than a war movie. It really displays the cruelty of chance and the heartlessness and injustice that have to be faced in this world.The characters are all people who we meet in life every day. When I was working, we had a "Paths" name for several people in the office. The final scene, where the German girl's song touches the jeering soldiers before they go back in the line makes me cry every time. Its an old German song, "The True Hussar" that my wife used to play. She always referred to it as "my crying song".
 

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