`Dr No` voted in top 100 landmark films poll

06-Oct-2006 • Bond News

The Radio Times magazine (UK) has compiled a lit of the top 100 landmark films. James Bond's debut movie "Dr No" made the cut.

Andrew Collins, the magazine's film editor, said: "While many of these movies are truly great, this is not a list of the greatest films of all time.

"These are films, major and minor, whose influence is still felt; time, context and circumstances have made them significant."

Here is the list, according to the Radio Times, in date order:

1 Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
2 Life of an American Fireman (1903)
3 The Birth of a Nation (1915)
4 Intolerance (1916)
5 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
6 Nanook of the North (1922)
7 Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horrors (1922)
8 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
9 The Gold Rush (1925)
10 Metropolis (1926)

11 The General (1927)
12 It (1927)
13 The Jazz Singer (1927)
14 Napoleon (1927)
15 Un Chien Andalou (1928)
16 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
17 Frankenstein (1931)
18 M (1931)
19 Scarface (1932)
20 Ecstasy (1933)

21 42nd Street (1933)
22 King Kong (1933)
23 The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
24 L'Atalante (1934)
25 Becky Sharp (1935)
26 Triumph of the Will (1935)
27 The Story of a Cheat (1936)
28 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
29 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
30 Gone With The Wind (1939)

31 La regle du Jeu (1939)
32 Stagecoach (1939)
33 Fantasia (1940)
34 Citizen Kane (1941)
35 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
36 Cat People (1942)
37 Rome, Open City (1945)
38 It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
39 Song of the South (1946)
40 The Bicycle Thieves (1948)

41 Rashomon (1950)
42 M Hulot's Holiday (1953)
43 The Robe (1953)
44 Les Diaboliques (1954)
45 On The Waterfront (1954)
46 Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
47 The Court Jester (1956)
48 Vertigo (1958)
49 A Bout de Souffle (1959)
50 The 400 Blows (1959)

51 Psycho (1960)
52 Victim (1961)
53 Dr No (1962)
54 A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
55 A Hard Day's Night (1964)
56 Blowup (1966)
57 Persona (1966)
58 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
59 The Chelsea Girls (1967)
60 In The Heat of the Night (1967)

61 The Graduate (1967)
62 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
63 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
64 Easy Rider (1969)
65 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
66 Get Carter (1971)
67 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
68 Deep Throat (1972)
69 Pink Flamingos (1972)
70 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

71 The Exorcist (1973)
72 Mean Streets (1973)
73 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
74 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
75 Jaws (1975)
76 Nashville (1975)
77 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
78 Rocky (1976)
79 Annie Hall (1977)
80 Star wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

81 Hallowenn (1978)
82 National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
83 Superman (1978)
84 Alien (1979)
85 Blade Runner (1982)
86 ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
87 Tron (1982)
88 This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
89 Blue Velvet (1986)
90 Withnail & I (1986)

91 Do The Right Thing (1989)
92 Jurassic Park (1993)
93 Pulp Fiction (1994)
94 Toy Story (1995)
95 Ring (1998)
96 Festen (1998)
97 The Blair Witch Project (1999)
98 The Matrix (1999)
99 Shrek (2001)
100 Brokeback Mountain (2005