Top Ten Tween List Part Duex
Cats: Top Ten Lists|1) Rookie of the year. 1993
Every kid’s fantasy. A 12 year old boy breaks his arm and once it heals he miraculously can pitch like a pro and thus begins a major league career. PG for mild language.
2) Adventures of Robin Hood 1939
Errol Flynn in the title role as the man who rises up against the oppressors. Shot in glorious Technicolor. Some of the best sword fighting ever put to celluloid.
3) Captain’s Courageous 1937
One of the original spoiled rich kid under goes radical transformation into a good person after falling off a boat pictures. Freddie Bartholemew is the kid rescued by Portugese fisherman Manuel (Spencer Tracy). Excellent picture.
4) Lucas 1986
A socially inept fourteen year old high school freshman experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends — Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love — fall for each other. Nice picture about the dramas of high school life that don’t involve Troy and Gabriella singing and dancing in the hallways.
5) Stagecoach1939
John Wayne, goodguy outlaw. A stagecaoch crossing the desert with the threat of an indian attack. Directed by John Ford. What more do you want? This si a very exciting picture. Dallas’s profession need not be explained at this juncture.
6) Rear Window 1954
Seems harmless now but it was scary stuff for 1954. However, younger viewers might need dome guidance. That will teach them not to peak into windows. Great introduction to Alfred Hitchcock
7) Some Like It Hot 1959
When two musicians witness the Saint Valentines day massacre in old Chicago, they hightail it south with an all girl band dressed as women. They pull it off. This is a great picture and there are jokes in there for everyone. The kids, they dig this one.
The Russian’s Are Coming, The Russian’s Are Coming 1966
Made during the height of the cold war, this picture is a “what if” situation. A Russina submarine accidentally runs aground off the coast of a small New England town and sends the locals into a tizzy.
9) King Of The Hilll - 1993
A young boy to his own devices in a run-down hotel after he is seperated from his parents and younger brother. Set in the 1930s Depression-era St. Louis this was a forgooten gem directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated PG 13 for certain thematic elements. In other words, watch this picture with the kids. It is great.
10) Ten Commandments1956
The bible, the DeMille way. Exciting stuff, not to violent. I have had to use the plot summary and actor names to explain Passover to my aethiest parents. It’s the Haggadah in Technicolor.
