The "Right" Movie List

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Wednesday night AFI did a show honoring the 100 most inspiring movies of all time. After watching the show, many of the movies on the list, imho, weren't the most inspiring but instead were the most liberally inspiring movies I've ever seen.

SO, I had a thought. Since we here at FC are always in our "Right Mind," :smirky: , we should be able to come up with the Most Conservatively Inspiring Movies of all time. So, think hard freecers, which movies have you seen to have a conservative bent, or a right plot, or even an inspiring portrayal of the American Dream, let's add them to the list!

I don't know if we could actually compile a list of 100 (we are talking Hollweird here), but let's see how many we can come up with. If you question someone else's addition(s) to the list, post your reason and we'll bring it up for a vote as whether to include or exclude at a later time.

Okay, what movies would YOU add to the list?


I'll start things off with the original version of a classic movie:

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027996/)
Directed by Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper & Jean Arthur
Plot Summary

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life - including playing the tuba in the town band. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow picks up his tuba and moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone from the greedy opera committee to the sensationist daily newspaper. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. Babe is a hot-shot reporter who figures the best way to get close to Deeds is to pose as a damsel in distress. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Summary written by A.L.Beneteau {albl@inforamp.net} (http://www.imdb.com/SearchPlotWriters?A.L.Beneteau%20%7Balbl@inforamp. net%7D)

I'm going to record the list on this post, keep an eye on this thread, and update it as more suggestions come in. Y'all can check the list to make sure yours hasn't already been offered, then post your other suggestions in the threads. So far we have three movies on the list . . . Hello? Is anyone out there? :smirky:

Cinderella Man (2005)
Falling Down (1993)
High Noon (1952)
Independence Day (1996)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
McLintock (1963)
Minority Report (2002)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Patriot (2000)
Passion of the Christ (2004)
Patton (1970)
Red Dawn (1984)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Shane (1953)
Signs (2002)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The 10 Commandments (1956)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
We Were Soldiers (2002)


"Questionable" Conservatively Inspiring Movies

1984 (1984)
LA Confidential (1997)
The Road to Perdition (2002)

[Lubbock]

I like Miracle on 34th Street (the original) and High Noon. Both of those movies were inspirational to my way of thinking.

[Timberwolf]

The Passion of the Christ

The 10 Commandments

The Patriot

We Were Soldiers

Rules of Engagement

Independence Day

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Red Dawn

Shane

Singin' in the Rain

[Wyatt_Junker]

And let's not forget, my favorite...

http://www.affichescinema.com/insc_f/falling_down.jpg

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Thanks bunches Timberwolf! (wet noodles to me for the freecer ID faux pas!)

One thing . . . I know I'm not familiar with a few of those you've listed, and perhaps there are others who aren't as well. Care to elaborate a little on why you consider them conservatively inspiring? (And if you don't mind, in English, :D )

Wyatt, thanks for the edition.

[Timberwolf]

The Passion of the Christ

The 10 Commandments
Pretty much self-explanatory

The Patriot

We Were Soldiers

Rules of Engagement
Sheds positive light upon the American military.

Independence Day

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Depicts seeming enemies (dwarves - elves) coming together to fight a common enemy.

Red Dawn
Portrays how Americans repelled an invasion of Russian/Cubans through guerilla warfare using "local knowledge of terrain" and guts.

Shane

Singin' in the Rain
No real reason...I just liked 'em when I watched 'em.

[Lubbock]

OH!!!!!!! I nealy forgot!

To Kill A Mockingbird

Good triumphs over evil, for sure.

The movie was as good as the book. A rarity. Every six or seven or eight years, I go back and read the book again, just because Harper Lee had such a wonderful grasp of the place and time she wrote about. Poetry as prose, really.

I wonder why she never wrote but one book? That's always been a puzzle to me.

Lest anyone forget, Robert DuVall made his first screen appearance in To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Charity]

To Kill A Mockingbird
watch online
http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=958&format=movie&theme=guide

[Charity]

"The Little Princess" movie (1939)

watch free online
http://emol.org/movies/littleprincess/index.html

[Charity]

McLintock
http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=842&format=movie&theme=guide

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Thanks Lubbock!

Thanks Charity! Do you want to elaborate a bit on your suggestions as to why you think they are conservatively inspirational?

We are putting together quite a list! I hope some others see this thread and contribute. When we get enough, we can vote and put them in order of importance :thumb: .

[Charity]

I just love Little Princess for may reasons.
Mclintock-a real no-nonsense man

[Lubbock]

Oh, yes. McClintock. Almost any John Wayne movie, and expecially the ones with Maureen O'Hara. Good always comes out ahead of evil. I guess that's the way conservatives look at it. The glass is half full?

I can tell you why To Kill A Mockingbird is for me, conservatively inspirational: Atticus Finch did what was right as opposed to what was easy.

It would have been real easy for Atticus to give Tom Robinson a half-hearted defense and let him go on to the hangman's noose. Atticus knew going in that Tom was going to be convicted. It was the times he lived in. No matter what evidence Atticus might have presented to the jury that Tom had been falsely accused, Tom was going to be convicted and sent to the gallows.

So, it would have been easy for Atticus to just go through the motions. He could have saved himself and his children a lot of grief. But Atticus did what was right, not what was easy.

For me, that is a conservative value.

[Trevelyan]

I'm going to say that I think you should all see "Cinderella Man." Nobody seems to have taken my advice the past few times I have offered it. :(

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I'm going to say that I think you should all see "Cinderella Man." Nobody seems to have taken my advice the past few times I have offered it. :(

Trev -- two questions:

Do you think "Cinderella Man" should be considered in a list of 100 Most Conservatively Inspirational Movies of All Time"?

and

If you do, why? Why is "Cinderella Man" conservatively inspirational?

(I ask because I did not see the moie, nor do I care to. I cannot STAND boxing, chick flicks, or tearjerkers.)

[Proud American]

Hms,

Trev can answer for himself but I think conservatives would like Cinderella Man.

It was a movie that valued hard work and perseverance.

His family was starving and his son had stolen some meat from a butcher. Braddock took his son to the butcher to return what was stolen and apologise for it.

Later Braddock went on welfare or whatever they called relief in the depression. But as soon as he started to make some money he went to the office and re payed what was given to him in need.

It was an inspiring excellent movie regardless of your political persuasion but there is a lot in it that conservatives would like.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Thanks, PA,
Sounds like an excellent movie review to me, and a good addition to the list. Thank you for helping out with that!
Blessings,
Hms

[ooh_child]

Oh, yes. McClintock. Almost any John Wayne movie, and expecially the ones with Maureen O'Hara. Good always comes out ahead of evil. I guess that's the way conservatives look at it. The glass is half full?

I can tell you why To Kill A Mockingbird is for me, conservatively inspirational: Atticus Finch did what was right as opposed to what was easy.

It would have been real easy for Atticus to give Tom Robinson a half-hearted defense and let him go on to the hangman's noose. Atticus knew going in that Tom was going to be convicted. It was the times he lived in. No matter what evidence Atticus might have presented to the jury that Tom had been falsely accused, Tom was going to be convicted and sent to the gallows.

So, it would have been easy for Atticus to just go through the motions. He could have saved himself and his children a lot of grief. But Atticus did what was right, not what was easy.

For me, that is a conservative value.
For me, that's an American value, for both liberals & conservatives. That movie affected me the exact same way as it affected you, & I'm a liberal.

Also, remember the end of the story. Atticus was told that Tom was killed "trying to escape". Up until that point, Atticus believed that he would prevail upon appeal. Once Tom was murdered, he knew that he had no appeal, & that the bigots had eliminated his chance of freeing Tom. He still held to his core values, one of which was that all men are created equal.

Harper Lee was a close friend of Truman Capote in the 60's, when the book was published & made into that wonderful movie. IMO, most conservatives today don't share the view that homosexuals like Capote deserve equal treatment under US law. I wonder if Harper shares that conservative view?

Anyway, I'd like to add to the list for consideration the book & movie, 1984. I would think this would be in the "right" camp, but I'll defer to the conservatives here if they disagree.

MHB

[Trevelyan]

Yeah, PA answered this well enough. I do not really have anything to add to what has been said.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

For me, that's an American value, for both liberals & conservatives. That movie affected me the exact same way as it affected you, & I'm a liberal.

If you check the AFI link for the 100 Most Inpsiring Movies, you will find To Kill A Mockingbird number 2. It seems it belongs on both lists, probably for differing reasons, :smirky: .

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 CHEERS (http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/cheers.htm)

Also, remember the end of the story. Atticus was told that Tom was killed "trying to escape". Up until that point, Atticus believed that he would prevail upon appeal. Once Tom was murdered, he knew that he had no appeal, & that the bigots had eliminated his chance of freeing Tom. He still held to his core values, one of which was that all men are created equal.

Well I intend to be a very solicitous moderator of this particular thread, and won't be allowing any rabbit trails, if I can help it. I just have one note to your comment -- while here in this country all men are created equal, you're really not unless you've passed through the birth canal . . . and that's hardly equal.

Harper Lee was a close friend of Truman Capote in the 60's, when the book was published & made into that wonderful movie. IMO, most conservatives today don't share the view that homosexuals like Capote deserve equal treatment under US law. (a blatant lie) I wonder if Harper shares that conservative view?

No more red-herring, we had fish for dinner last night and we're full now, thank you very much, :smirky: . We won't be chasing down this rabbit trail either.

Anyway, I'd like to add to the list for consideration the book & movie, 1984. I would think this would be in the "right" camp, but I'll defer to the conservatives here if they disagree.


Taken under advisement, thank you for the offer.


Okay Freecers,
Does anyone object to 1984 being added to the list -- why, or why not?

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Yeah, PA answered this well enough. I do not really have anything to add to what has been said.

:thumb: Thanks Trev, for the suggestion!

[Trevelyan]

You're welcome. :)

Hah, it is kind of difficult for me to think of certain films, because I do not characterize myself as a "conservative." It is difficult, because sometimes what I consider to be left leaning ideals, end up also being adopted as right leaning ideals by some here. Also, I certainly do not agree with everything left leaners are usually supposed to agree with.

Anyway, I'll list some films, and others can object or agree with them if they want to.

"Patton"
"LA Confidential"
"Minority Report"
"Road to Perdition"
"Signs"
"Saving Private Ryan"

[Lubbock]

Thank you for taking care of the rabbit trial, HS. I was going to if you didn't; I couldn't let an attack like that pass unanswered.

Lest the Liberal Poster think of us as the ignorant, unwashed masses, yes, we know that Truman Capote was Harper Lee's great good friend, and we even know that Dill was based on Capote.

Jeez!

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Well thanks again, Trev! You are earning your "Good-Doobie" merit badge quickly, :smirky: . You know, we forgive your liberal meandering, and are doing our best to slowly reel you in to the conservative bank :biggrin: .

Anyway, I'll list some films, and others can object or agree with them if they want to.

"Patton"
"LA Confidential"
"Minority Report"
"Road to Perdition"
"Signs"
"Saving Private Ryan"

I am quite familiar with Patton, Minority Report, Signs, and Saving Private Ryan -- I would say that all of those sound like marvellous additions to the list.

I have never seen Road to Perdition, so I'm not familiar with the plotline or premise -- could you maybe share why you think it conservatively inspirational?

As for LA Confidential, I saw that movie -- I would like to use a preemptory challenge on this one. I don't remember anything particularly "conservative" or "inspiring" about it. It has been a while since I've seen it, though, so I'll hold off and wait for your take on it . . . what did you think made it more in the conservative camp vs. the liberal one?

[Trevelyan]

I have never seen Road to Perdition, so I'm not familiar with the plotline or premise -- could you maybe share why you think it conservatively inspirational?

It's about a mob family in Illinois. Tom Hanks is the lead character, and his children do not know what he really does for a living. I don't want to give too much away, but it is ultimately about the salvation of Hanks' one son. Hanks does not want him to go down the same path he did in life.

This is a quote between Hanks and his adoptive mob boss father from the film.

John Rooney (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/): There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.
Michael Sullivan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/): Michael could.
John Rooney (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/): Then do everything that you can to see that that happens.

As for LA Confidential, I saw that movie -- I would like to use a preemptory challenge on this one. I don't remember anything particularly "conservative" or "inspiring" about it. It has been a while since I've seen it, though, so I'll hold off and wait for your take on it . . . what did you think made it more in the conservative camp vs. the liberal one?

Hah, I saw "Falling Down" on the list and figured I would just throw it out there, because I love this movie. Also, I saw it listed on an article by someone who was listing some of the great films of "conservative cinema." In the same article, they listed "Cinderella Man" as last years finest, and Narnia the fourth best of 2005.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

It's about a mob family in Illinois. Tom Hanks is the lead character, and his children do not know what he really does for a living. I don't want to give too much away, but it is ultimately about the salvation of Hanks' one son. Hanks does not want him to go down the same path he did in life.

This is a quote between Hanks and his adoptive mob boss father from the film.

John Rooney (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/): There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.
Michael Sullivan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/): Michael could.
John Rooney (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/): Then do everything that you can to see that that happens.



Hah, I saw "Falling Down" on the list and figured I would just throw it out there, because I love this movie. Also, I saw it listed on an article by someone who was listing some of the great films of "conservative cinema." In the same article, they listed "Cinderella Man" as last years finest, and Narnia the fourth best of 2005.

Hmmm, well I don't want to be "The Final Word" on this, so I'll tell you what, I'll also put a list of "questionable" movies in the original post, and as we get closer to the 100, I'll put them up for votes by FC at large. We'll solicit movie reviews that explain why these particular "questionable" movies should be included in the list.

In any case, I do appreciate all the suggestions . . . I think we are well on our way to compiling and completing a good list! :thumb:

[ooh_child]

Thank you for taking care of the rabbit trial, HS. I was going to if you didn't; I couldn't let an attack like that pass unanswered.

Lest the Liberal Poster think of us as the ignorant, unwashed masses, yes, we know that Truman Capote was Harper Lee's great good friend, and we even know that Dill was based on Capote.

Jeez!
Hi Lubbock, I hope you don't persist in your delusion that I think you're ignorant or unwashed. Far from it: I've read many of your postings here. I respect your POV, as well as Homes & many other Freecers.

I am glad we both took To Kill a Mockingbird as an inspirational piece of literature. Let's not dirty Harper Lee's reputation by dragging homosexuality through the mud. She obviously had a great affection for Truman, and her silence on gay issues probably stems from this. She has hardly taken a political stance on any subject, so to claim her literature as "conservative" smacks of partisanship.

If you had befriended Dill as described in her novel, would you harbor ill feelings against gays?

MHB

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

And now, back to the thread folks, :thumb:

[Lubbock]

"If you had befriended Dill as described in her novel, would you harbor ill feelings against gays?"

Take this to another thread!!!

Don't come here and sully this nice discussion with your condescending Liberal Bullcorn!

This is so typical Liberal!

Sorry, HS. But, I'm not going to let this bull go unanswered.

Can you delete these tacky posts (his/hers and mine) and let's get back to the subject at hand.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

No prob, Lubbock, these things happen. No need to delete any posts, I think we've managed to pull ourselves back on track.

I gots my eagle eyes on, and we're headed in the right direction now.

Hopefully we can get some more great suggestions! I would love for us to be able to put together a list of 100. We'd have quite a recomendation for anyone joining who might want to get a better understanding of how conservatuves see things culturally through a film lens.

Keep 'em coming, y'all!

[Lubbock]

For conservative values, I think we might include the Dirty Harry movies. It's conservative to want to see the good guys win and the bad guys lose.

I don't remember there being a lot of bad language in the movies; some I'm sure, but not every other word being four letters and beginning with "F"; if they had, I wouldn't have watched long.

As I remember, there wasn't nudity either.

Almost any Eastwood movie (I never watched the Spagetti Westerns) is Good Vs. Evil.

I really shouldn't be commenting on this anyway; I quit going to movies 20+ years ago, and for the most part, I don't watch the ones that come on television because I don't like the values of the celebs who star . . . unless it's an Eastwood movie.

I like car chases and seeing the bad guy get blown away.

[Trevelyan]

Bump. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Trevelyan/face.gif

[jayson]

We Were Soliders
Loved this movie, it's one of the first (though more are to come now that Vietnam vets are finally getting some positive recognition) movies about Vietnam that put the vets in a good light. It portrayed Vietnam vets as something other than druggie baby-killing rapists that they were not (thank you very much Apocalypse Now and Platoon!). Really a good story, exciting and has a good moral to it.

It's a Wonderful Life
Need I say more? Just to the side, Jimmy Stewart is my all-time favorite actor (up there with Stargate SG1's.. and more importantly MACGUYVER!!! Richard Dean Anderson), and he does extreme justice to this movie. I guess in a society so bent on death, tragedy and suicide, this is a great movie classic to bring us back from doom and gloom to a happier time.

Anything with Chuck Norris
And I'm serious, any movies Chuck starred in that he helped write or direct, they are right leaning. INVASION USA is a good example (USA gets invaded, Chuck and many other [coservative?] Americans fight off the invasion). He actually "came out of the closet" as one of the few Conservatives in Hollywood a few years ago... and you gotta love the Chuck-Fu.

Red Dawn
Actually this one is a must see. I really liked it, surprisingly, because it was pretty accuracte, militarily. And it was pretty right-leaning too with words of caution. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia:
Red Dawn is a 1984 film by John Milius about an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the resulting guerrilla actions of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado.

...SNIP...

Much of the progress and politics of the war is left to the viewers' speculation in the film's first half, but specific facts are later provided by a downed USAF F-15 Pilot, Lt. Colonel Andrew Tanner (Powers Boothe).

The film's backstory involves several alternate history political precedents. The Green Party came to power in West Germany, forcing the removal of US forces from that nation. The resulting upheaval left NATO a political afterthought, with only Britain remaining as a US ally. At the same time, Soviet allies Cuba and Nicaragua each expanded their armies to 500,000 men, subsequently overrunning El Salvador and Honduras. A civil war in Mexico resulted in that country falling behind the Communist iron curtain. In a parallel to Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union, like Nazi Germany, now had a broad base from which to invade its primary enemy, and thousands of troops from satellite nations to augment their own armies.

... SNIP...

The private ownership of firearms is also presented as part of the film's anti-communism. Early in the film an advertisement seen on a small truck states a classic gun owner's creed, "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers." The shot moves down to a dead hand holding a Colt M-1911A1 pistol being removed by a Soviet paratrooper. As our group of heroes flees the initial invasion of Calumet, they stop at a local sporting goods store owned by one of their fathers. He tells them to gather supplies and gives them several rifles and pistols along with boxes of ammunition. (The father and his wife are later executed because of the guns missing from the store's inventory.) In a later scene a Cuban officer orders one of his men to report to the local office of records and obtain the paperwork of local citizens who own firearms. The Cuban officer specifically refers to Form 4473, which is the actual form used to record the sale of a firearm by a dealer to a private citizen in the United States. These scenes speak to the long-standing issues of government gun control.

I'll add more as I think of them.

[BEST45CAL]

Number 19 on AFI's list:

The Right Stuff (1983) PG

Based on the book written by Tom Wolfe

Written and directed by Phillip Kauffman

Winner of 4 Academy Awards: Best sound, editing, effects and music.

Remastered in Dolby Surround 5.1 for DVD release.

This movie is about the space race between the Americans and the Russians, early 1960s.

At the time, the actors in this movie were a bunch of unknowns, but just about all of them have gone on to become very famous.

Warning: This DVD has 42 chapters and is 3 hrs and 13 mins. long, but it doesn't seem like it. Just make sure you've got the time to watch it.

HBO used to have an intermission when they played it regularly back in 1985.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Forest Gump

[Maggie_T]

And let's not forget, my favorite...

http://www.affichescinema.com/insc_f/falling_down.jpg


I agree, Wyatt. That one was priceless.

I wonder if Michael Douglas ever regretted making it. Nah. He made money from it. That's all that really counts.

Besides, depending on how good a spinmeister one is, one can always say it portrays Americans as the violent, racists they are, blah, blah, blah.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I agree, Wyatt. That one was priceless.

I wonder if Michael Douglas ever regretted making it. Nah. He made money from it. That's all that really counts.

Besides, depending on how good a spinmeister one is, one can always say it portrays Americans as the violent, racists they are, blah, blah, blah.

Its probably one of the most underrated movies of the last 15 years in terms of the importance of its content.

DEFENZ has always been one of my heros.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

It's a great film, and, yes, very underrated. Hollywood didn't know what to do with it. When it was first released a lot of critics figured Douglas' performance was a sure nomination, but then the mantra of bigotry and angry white man started, and the film faded off the radar. Hollywood just wanted it to go away.

[RightTurns]

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. (DVD)
Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000DZIGEO/sr=1-1/qid=1156501391/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5676276-8093512?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Promotes American values, family values, children, keeping the family together, resourcefulness, religion, independent thinking and actions, love of language and words, and the belief in miracles.

Can't say enough about this little flick. RENT IT!
I've since listened to the book on tape and read the book.

Inspirational, to say the least.
And a true story.

[Timberwolf]

Red Dawn
Actually this one is a must see. I really liked it, surprisingly, because it was pretty accuracte, militarily. And it was pretty right-leaning too with words of caution. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia:
The private ownership of firearms is also presented as part of the film's anti-communism. Early in the film an advertisement seen on a small truck states a classic gun owner's creed, "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers." The shot moves down to a dead hand holding a Colt M-1911A1 pistol being removed by a Soviet paratrooper. As our group of heroes flees the initial invasion of Calumet, they stop at a local sporting goods store owned by one of their fathers. He tells them to gather supplies and gives them several rifles and pistols along with boxes of ammunition. (The father and his wife are later executed because of the guns missing from the store's inventory.) In a later scene a Cuban officer orders one of his men to report to the local office of records and obtain the paperwork of local citizens who own firearms. The Cuban officer specifically refers to Form 4473, which is the actual form used to record the sale of a firearm by a dealer to a private citizen in the United States. These scenes speak to the long-standing issues of government gun control.
I have no doubt in my mind that the above scenario isn't too far off...but, it won't be a foreign government, but OUR OWN, that'll be rifling through those 4473s.

[Rhino]

Mclintock-a real no-nonsense man
Yep. One of my all time favorites.

George Washington McLintock: I know I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in 40 years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this monring, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't


George Washington McLintock: I've got a touch of hangover, bureaucrat. Don't push me.

Katherine McClintock: Are you going to stand there with that stupid look on your face while the hired help insults your wife?
George Washington McLintock: He can't help it - he's just ignorant. He doesn't know any better than to tell the truth. And I can't help this stupid look. I started acquiring it as you gained in social prominence!

George Washington McLintock: And I am [b]not intoxicated........ yet!

George Washington McLintock: You know, if we had any moral character, we wouldn't be standing here covered with mud drinkin', when we should be washing.
Drago: [raises his glass] G.W.?
George Washington McLintock: [raises his glass] Drago.
[they click glasses and down their drinks]

George Washington McLintock: If these settlers get burned out, there'll be a lot of hollerin' that this country is too wild to be a state. We'll go on bein' a territory some more, with a lot of political appointees runnin' it according to what they learned in some college where they think cows are somethin' you milk and Indians are somethin' in front of a cigar store.

George Washington McLintock: I don't give jobs. I hire men

[Patriot Heart]

Ben Hur. (Obvious reasons). Sound of Music. (Big families are good. Stand by your country). Original "Yours, Mine and Ours" (The military is good, big families are great!)

[Jim Sentry]

The Green Berets. John Wayne opens the eyes of Liberal Newspaper columinst David Janssen