Favorite Jimmy Stewart film?

[elperromagico]

Poll question: Favorite Jimmy Stewart film?

Yes, I realize Jimmy Stewart was a Republican. But he was also a damned fine actor, and I doubt he was the type of Republican you find crawling about these days.

[terrya]

1. Vertigo.

His best and my favorite.

[hippiechick]

2. Rope

"An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in their large apartment, then throw a dinner party. Will the body be discovered?

In later years Hitchcock wrote off the approach as misguided, and Rope may not be one of Hitchcock's top movies, but it's still a nail-biter. They don't call him the Master of Suspense for nothing. James Stewart, as a suspicious professor, marks his first starring role for Hitchcock, a collaboration that would lead to the masterpieces Rear Window and Vertigo." --Robert Horton, from amazon.com


:hippie:

[WI_DEM]

3. "Anatomy of a Murder" but I like all of those listed.

[BOHICA06]

4. Shenandoah .....

politically way ahead of its time.

[TX-RAT]

15. Tear jerker at the last, ( the church scene)

[Mabeline]

5. It's a Wonderful Life

But Harvey was a close favorite.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. Rear Window, Philadelphia Story, Vertigo

in that order. :D

[Phillycat]

11. Rear Window for sure.

My favorite Hitchcock!

Weirdly, being a Philadelphia native, I've never seen Philadelphia Story. I'm missing out, huh?

[ET Awful]

7. Toss up between Harvey and It's a Wonderful Life

Hard to chose.

[chaska]

8. Wow, did he ever do a lot of films...

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/

Me, I like him in westerns.

[jobycom]

14. In westerns

he was always a great counterpoint to the cocky, swaggering, John Wayne-type.

[sniffa]

9. mr smith

onLy because homer simpson and meL gibson remade it.

[Squatch]

10. The Far Country

[Bridget Burke]

12. I picked "Philadelphia Story"--but not just for Jimmy Stewart

It also featured Cary Grant, Kathryn Hepburn & writing that really crackled. But he made so many fine films. "Rear Window", "The Shop Around the Corner"--& "It's a Wonderful Life" (corn is good for you). Not to forget "Bell, Book & Candle"--featuring witches who aren't anything like Pagans, but have that urban bohemian thing going on.

And "Destry Rides Again"--which also had more to offer than Stewart:

[jobycom]

13. Just cause you left it out: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. nt

[TX-RAT]

16. How can you forget ( The Cheyenne Social Club )

Jimmy Stewart & Henry Fonda.

[mcscajun]

17. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

...yes, it's schmaltzy...but at the same time very inspiring.

A hopeful film, overall. And totally improbable today.