Greatest Movie Of All-Time

Dana and Tom review one of their favorites Westerns, the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: directed by John Ford; starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin. Plot Summary: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, wh...

Dana and Tom review their first Marx Brothers film with possibly their best one ever made, A Night at the Opera: directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, and Kitty Carlisle. Plot Summary: Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) is convinced by her business manager, Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) that donating $200,000 to the New York Opera will get her into high society. Herman Got...

Dana and Tom are back for Season 3 and start with both their favorite musical and possibly the best movie musical of all-time, Singin' In The Rain: starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor. Plot Summary: Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star who barely tolerates his vain, spoiled, conniving, and shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont, (Jean Hagen) though their studio,...

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Dana and Tom look back on Season 2 and announce their upcoming movies to review for the first part of Season 3. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast . For the entire list so far, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list

Dana and Tom finish up Season 2 with the movie most closely associated with Christmas, It's A Wonderful Life: directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore. Plot Summary: George Bailey (James Stewart) grows up in the Town of Bedford Falls, N.Y., and has spent a lifetime in the service of others, putting his family, his friends, and his community above himself an...

Dana and Tom welcome back returning guest Robb Conlon (Host; The Recruiting Hell Podcast) to discuss possibly the most influential and best action movie ever made, Die Hard: starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, and Reginald VelJohnson. Plot Summary: On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) arrives in Los Angeles, hoping to reconcile with his es...

Dana and Tom discuss Tom's favorite Christmas movie and a now cult classic, Love Actually: starring Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson, Andrew Lincoln, Colin Firth, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Martin Freeman. Plot Summary: Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Among these are David (Hu...

Dana and Tom visit another 80s Sci-Fi classic, The Terminator: directed by James Cameron; starring Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn. Plot Summary: Two time travelers from the future arrive in Los Angles in 1984. One is a cyborg (Arnold Schwarzengger) sent to hunt and terminate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), and the other is a resistance soldier (Michael Biehn) sent to prote...

Dana and Tom discuss what might be the most influential sci-fi/action movie of the last 30 years, The Matrix: starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving. Plot Summary: Computer programmer Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), known by his hacking alias "Neo", believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, c...

Dana and Tom discuss their second animated movie of the show, Shrek, for it's 20th Anniversary this year starring Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, and John Lithgow. Plot Summary: Shrek (Mike Myers) is a green ogre who loves the solitude of his swamp. However, his life is interrupted after the dwarfish Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) exiles a vast number of fairy-tale creatures to Shrek's swamp...

Dana and Tom welcome the last member of their immediate family to be on the show, Keith Techmeier (Dana's Son-In-Law and Tom's Brother-In-Law), on to discuss perhaps the greatest war movie ever made in honor of Veteran's Day this week: Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, and Matt Damon. Plot Sum...

Dana and Tom welcome guest, Chris Hood (Digital Strategist and Host of the That Digital Show/check out ChrisHood.com ) to the show to discuss what might be both the best Cable and Prison movie of all-time, The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, and Clancy Brown. Plot Summary: In 1947 in Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbi...

Happy Halloween...Dana and Tom end their month of Alfred Hitchcock with his seminal horror film that arguably launched the modern horror genre, Psycho starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, and Vera Miles. Plot Summary: Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is o...

Dana and Tom discuss an under-appreciated Alfred Hitchcock classic, Shadow of A Doubt, as they continue their month of Hitchcock starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Plot Summary: "Uncle Charlie" Oakley (Joseph Cotton) lives alone in a rooming house. Two men come looking for him so he decides to leave town and go to Santa Rosa, CA to see his sister and her family. "Young Charlie" Newton (Tere...

Dana and Tom with the help of returning guest, Christine Duncan, visit one of Alfred Hitchcock's most beloved movies for week two of Hitchcock month with Dial M for Murder starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, and John Williams. Plot Summary: Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), an English retired tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot (Grace Kelly), who is having a long term a...

Dana and Tom start their month of Alfred Hitchcock movies with The Man Who Knew Too Much (U.S.) starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Plot Summary: Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, popular singer Josephine “Jo” Conway McKenna (Doris Day), and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna (Christopher Olson) are vacationing in French Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet...

Dana and Tom are back to finish their month of James Bond with the first entry in the Daniel Craig era, Casino Royale also starring Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, and Judi Dench. Plot Summary: After James Bond (Daniel Craig) gains promotion to 00 status by killing two targets, he is soon on the trail of Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelson), a private banker to the underground world. Le Chiffre uses his clients...

Dana and Tom continue their trip through the Bond movies in anticipation of No Time to Die (In theaters October 8, 2021) by reviewing the first of film of the Roger Moore era, Live and Let Die also starring Yaphet Kotto and Jane Seymour. Plot Summary: When Bond (for the first time, played by Roger Moore) investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he finds himself a target, evading vicious as...

On this week's episode of the Greatest Movie of All-Time podcast, Dana and Tom start their month of Bond to lead up to the release of No Time to Die (2021) by starting with the movie that started it all, Dr. No: starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord, and Joseph Wiseman. Plot Summary: Intelligence officer James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to investigate the disappearance of a station chi...

Dana and Tom are back to discuss another Billy Wilder classic, Sunset Boulevard, starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. Plot Summary: Joe Gillis (William Holden), a down-on-his luck screenplay writer, cannot pay his bills and fails to sell an idea for a script. Fleeing creditors, Joe ends up at a mansion, soon recognizing the owner as a forgotten silent film star, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanso...

Dana and Tom discuss the final movie of their trip through the original Indiana Jones trilogy with The Last Crusade starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, and John Rhys-Davies. Plot Summary: In 1938, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) learns from Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) that his father, Henry Jones, Sr., (Sir Sean Connery) was searching for the Holy Grail using an incomplete insc...

Dana and Tom take on the second movie in the Indiana Jones franchise that was directly responsible for the PG-13 rating, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, and Jonathan Ke Quan. Plot Summary: In 1935, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) survives a crooked deal gone sideways with crime boss Lao Che in Shanghai with fellow travelers Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) an...

Dana and Tom are revisiting the first movie ever featured on the show from all the way back on February 27, 2020 as they celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies. Plot Summary: In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones, (Harrison Ford) briefed by Army Intelligence agents that Nazi German fo...

Dana and Tom welcome guest Ali Khamseh (Writer, Director, and Occasional Actor; Host of the Yet Another Shitty Podcast, and Creator of the AK88 YouTube Channel) to the show to discuss his favorite movie of all-time and the most well-known "Spaghetti Western" - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly directed by Sergio Leone starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef. Plot Summary: In 1862, du...