re: Your Favorite Paul Newman Movie?

Hustler. Long Hot Summer

Newman got to work with a ton of really great actors. Orson Wells, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Liz Taylor, Burl Ives, Orson Wells, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Geraldine Page, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Barbara Rush, George Kennedy, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Robert Redford, Richard Farnsworth, Sally Field, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charlotte Rampling, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning, John Mahoney, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Daniel Craig & an 18 year-old & 37 year-old (topless)Melanie Griffith

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (I love Goober's woman's "No-neck monsters" & have relatives that owned a cotton gin and everything else in a small town. My Uncle Lester was the Big Daddy of his town)

The Long Hot Summer (His future father-in-law is impressed when he scams his future brother-in-law & the neighborhood boys make cat calls. There's even an Ashley Wilkes type character in it)

HUD (The greatness of Patricia Neal and Newman going back & forth makes it a must see.)Sweet Bird of Youth is almost an East Coast version of the same movie with Newman's worthless character interacting with an innocent little brother.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Which scene is beter: Butch's fight or Sundance's poker game?)

Cool Hand Luke (George Kennedy after he eats the eggs, " Stand back you pedestrians, this ain't no automobile accident".

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (after he shoots the guy who shot Lillie's poster, "I fine this man, uh, $50 for disturbing the peace and $10 for lying around".)

The Sting (Just the way they do Redford's character)

Absence of Malice (The end scene with Wilford Brimley is an all time great: We're gonna sit right here and talk about it. Now if you get tired of talking here, Mr. Marshal Elving Patrick there will hand you one of them subpoenas he's got stuck down in his pocket and we'll go downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury; Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat, just line after line in that one scene make it worth the watch)

The Verdict(His lows are so damn low in this & Charlotte Rampling's character is the coldest woman alive)

Bookmarked this thread. I just realized I have only seen three of his movies and liked them all and need to see some of the others.

Nobody's Fool (favorite of the 3 I have seen)

Cool Hand Luke

Color of Money

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he's been in so many good movies.

Nobody's Fool (newer film)

The Long Hot Summer (older film)

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Yeah, Butch Cassidy would probably be his best to me, but I really enjoy Nobody's Fool, it would be pretty close.

"What was I supposed to do? Call him for cheating better than me in front of the others?!"

Goldman wrote a Book about his (Mis)Adventures in Hollywood: "Adventures In The Screen Trade".

My favorite...

<<<<<<The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Lots of the others mentioned are better movies, but a great example of the Newman nonconformist attitude.

His Book was Titled "Horseman, Pass By".
Everyone, and Everything, in The Movie, was On Point.