Paul Newman's best movie?

[phillybri]

I'll go w/ "The Color of Money".

The last scene where he's in the green room scolding Tom Cruise gets me every time. He's flawless in that flick...

[tridim]

1. I loved him in The Sting.

Great flick.

[phatkatt]

2. Silent Movie

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[dumpster_baby]

3. "Sometimes Nothing is a Real Cool Hand"

Takin' it off here, Boss!

[TX-RAT]

4. Cool hand Luke.

Why did you say 50 eggs?
Sounds like a nice round number.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

[9119495]

8. Second that--He sings wonderfully in it.

[mitchum]

27. another vote for "Cool Hand Luke"

great movie, great cast

[lpbk2713]

5. "The Hustler"

"The Long Hot Summer" was a good one too.

[Blue_Tires]

6. the hustler

beats the hell out of color of money....close second to the sting

[mrboba1]

7. damn, that's hard.

The Hustler, I think.

It really depends though - I think a different day, I would pick something else...

[TomClash]

9. Nobody's Fool is mine

But don't forget the movie the media hates - Absence of Malice

[EstimatedProphet]

10. The Hudsucker Proxy

Sure sure

[terrya]

11. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

His best performance, IMO.

[GR]

12. Butch Cassidy Was Great....There's So Many...

Hombre...The Sting...Got a new one he's producing...The Motorcycle Diaries...about Che Guevera...

[wryter2000]

13. Can't choose

I can tell you, though, that I met him and he's every bit as nice and unassuming as he appears to be. And he worships his wife. Great folks, those two.

[Butterflies]

14. Hud

He looks better in that movie than any actor in any movie ever!

His acting in good too.

[TX-RAT]

16. Somebody's giving up their age.

Wasn't that a great movie?

[Butterflies]

18. Nope, I saw it on TV (I'll never admit my age)

Hud is so obnoxiously selfish. I like when he's in the car with that girl who he's involved with and she's emotionally telling him her troubles. She expects him to care, but he isn't even really listening to her. When she finishes talking he asks her "got any gum?" He won't give her any emotional support, and still expects to get stuff from HER.

He doesn't care about anyone but himself, but he sure looks good. I know how Patricia Neal felt . . .

[TX-RAT]

19. Right after that movie first played.

There were Cadillacs with longhorns on the hood everywhere.

[redqueen]

15. Slapshot

Yeah, so what? It's my opinion, dammit.

[FredScuttle]

17. I second that

Dave's a killer!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

22. Scouts?

My favorite part of that movie was that the script was written by a woman (Nancy Dowd). She had the whole guy/jock subculture nailed! Dowd's brother played for a minor league hockey team, and she sometimes traveled with them, and at other times, her brother acutally tape-recorded locker room conversations.

[FredScuttle]

23. Trivia

Nancy Dowd's brother not only contributed to her screenplay, he also had a small, but memorable role...can you name the player?

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

26. Ogie Oglethorpe

What do I win? Actually, I cheated. Somewhere out there yesterday I found a cool website with tons of trivia, and I saw that her brother had the part. They used several minor league hockey players in bit parts.

I even found this website where you can buy Charlestown Chiefs jerseys. You might want to put your credit card into a safe deposit box until the urge passes.

http://www.slap-shot.com/

Apparently there's a 25th anniversary DVD out there with lots of commentary from the Hanson Brothers. Yup. I'm buying it.

[Connie_Corleone]

20. HUD

I watch it every time it comes on TV.

[Gothic Sponge]

21. The Hudsucker Proxy

[Phillycat]

24. "No one can eat fifty eggs." nt

[wickywom]

25. cool hand luke

[LWolf]

28. That's a tough one.

I have to go with Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid for one reason: it was the first movie I saw him in; I was 9 years old, and I think I saw it dozens of times over the next 5 years or so. I've probably seen that movie more times than any other movie, ever. It's not that it was such a great movie; not much dialogue. But as a kid I loved it, and I've been a fan of Newman and Redford ever since.

Other Newman movies at the top of my list: Cat on a hot tin roof; Cool Hand Luke; Sting; Color of Money.

The most recent movie I saw him in was Road To Perdition; I thought it was a great movie, but he wasn't the lead in that one.

[Mandate My Ass]

29. Cool Hand Luke

followed closely by Nobody's Fool.