I Learned Everything I Know At The Movies

1967 Doctor Dolittle The Graduate Jungle Book Thoroughly Modern Millie 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Blackbeard’s Ghost The Love Bug Oliver! Planet Of The Apes Star! 1969 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Krakatoa, East of Java The Love God? The Maltese Bippy Paint Your Wagon The Sterile Cuckoo True Grit Bambi Meets Godzilla 1970 The Aristocats Beneath the Planet of The Apes Bloody Mama The Boatnik’s Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County Darling Lili Little Big Man M*A*S*H A Man Called Horse Pippi Longstocking Pufnstuf Song Of Norway Tora! Tora! Tora! 1971 A New Leaf The Barefoot Executive Bedknobs and Broomsticks Billy Jack Cold Turkey Dad’s Army Escape from the Planet of the Apes Evel Knievel Fiddler On The Roof The Million Dollar Duck Nicholas and Alexandra The Point They Might Be Giants Walkabout Willard Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 1972 1776 Asylum Ben Conquest of the P...

Most things start out with a list: such as 'to do', 'how to', etc. and so does this. After having been 'nominated' to take part in several different social media 10 Days - 10 whatever shenanigans during the COVID-19 'lock-down' I decided to try and start one of my own. I came up with "Name the Top 10 Influential Movies from your Childhood.". Now that's a fairly easy list for most people but not me. I've always got to make it difficult. Not difficult, actually - just more precise.  If I just made a list of every movie I've ever seen the list would be unbelievable to most people. Maybe not to your average movie fan, I suppose. But that really wouldn't give me the metric I was looking for: Movies that I saw and influenced me in some manner when I was a child. The only movies that would be put on the list were those that I have a memory of seeing them in an actual theatre. Granted - there weren't VCRS and video rental joints on ...