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Martin Scorsese’s Guilty and Unguilty Pleasures

“On the whole, these films are not good. They’re guilty. But there are things in them that make you like them, that make them worthwhile.” - Martin Scorsese

  • THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965, Carol Reed)
  • ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956, Robert Rossen)
  • BARABBAS (1961, Richard Fleischer)
  • THE BIBLE (1966, John Huston)
  • BLACK MAGIC (1944, Phil Rosen)
  • BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971, Piers Haggard)
  • THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (1958, Richard Brooks)
  • CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE KILLER (1974, Brian Clemens)
  • CARRY ON CLEO (1964, Gerald Thomas)
  • CIRCUS OF HORRORS (1960, Sidney Hayers)
  • THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953, John H. Auer)
  • DAMN YANKEES (1958, George Abbott & Stanley Donen)
  • ELEPHANT WALK (1954, William Dieterle)
  • The FBI STORY (1959, Mervyn LeRoy)
  • FANTASMI A ROMA (1961, Antonio Pietrangeli)
  • THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (1960, John Gilling)
  • FOREVER AMBER (1947, Otto Preminger & John M. Stahl)
  • THE GOLDEN MASK (1953, Jack Lee)
  • HALLS OF MONTEZUMA (1950, Lewis Milestone)
  • HELEN OF TROY (1956, Robert Wise)
  • HONOR THY FATHER (1973, Paul Wendkos)
  • HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (1959, Arthur Crabtree)
  • INVASION U.S.A. (1952, Alfred E. Green)
  • THE IRON MAIDEN (1962, Gerald Thomas)
  • KING OF KINGS (1961, Nicholas Ray)
  • THE LAST VALLEY (1971, James Clavell)
  • THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973, John Hough)
  • THE MAN FROM COLORADO (1948, Henry Levin)
  • THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956, Ronald Neame)
  • MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959, Delbert Mann)
  • MR. SARDONICUS (1961, William Castle)
  • THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954, Byron Haskin)
  • OCEAN’S 11 (1960, Lewis Milestone)
  • ONE MILLION B.C. (1940, Hal Roach & Hal Roach, Jr.)
  • PAL JOY (1957, George Sidney)
  • PEOPLE WILL TALK (1951, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  • PETE KELLY’S BLUES (1955, Jack Webb)
  • THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957, Stanley Kramer)
  • PRINCE OF FOXES (1949, Henry King)
  • THE PROUD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1953, Yves Allegret & Rafael E. Portas)
  • THE PURPLE HEART (1944, Lewis Milestone)
  • QUO VADIS? (1951, Mervyn LeRoy & Anthony Mann)
  • RAINTREE COUNTRY (1957, Edward Dmytryk)
  • SANDS OF THE KALAHARI (1965, Cy Endfield)
  • THE SCENT OF A WOMAN (1974, Dino Risi)
  • THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (1952, Henry King)
  • SODOM AND GOMORRAH (1962, Robert Aldrich)
  • THE STREETS OF LAREDO (1949, Leslie Fenton)
  • THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1948, George Sidney)
  • THE VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972, Robert Young)

“These are unguilty pleasures, films that I love, even though something spoils them.”

  • AL CAPONE (1959, Richard Wilson)
  • ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944, Frank Capra)
  • AUTUMN LEAVES (1956, Robert Aldrich)
  • BATTLEGROUND (1949, William A. Wellman)
  • THE BIG LIFT (1950, George Seaton)
  • BLANCHE FURY (1948, Marc Allegret)
  • CANYON PASSAGE (1946, Jacques Tourneur)
  • THE CHAPMAN REPORT (1962, George Cukor)
  • THE CLIMAX (1944, George Waggner)
  • THE COMIC (1969, Carl Reiner)
  • CORRIDORS OF BLOOD (1958, Robert Day)
  • THE DESERT FOX (1951, Henry Hathaway)
  • DON’T MAKE WAVES (1967, Alexander Mackendrick)
  • DRUMS (1938, Zoltan Korda)
  • THE EASY LIFE (1962, Dino Risi)
  • FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1965, Robert Aldrich)
  • THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT (1956, Frank Tashlin)
  • THE GUNS OF BATASI (1964, John Guillermin)
  • THE HAUNTING (1963, Robert Wise)
  • HILL 24 DOESN’T ANSWER (1955, Thorold Dickinson)
  • IDIOT’S DELIGHT (1939, Clarence Brown)
  • INSECT WOMAN (1959, Roger Corman & Jack Hill)
  • INVADERS FROM MARS (1953, William Cameron Menzies)
  • IT’S IN THE BAG! (1945, Richard Wallace)
  • JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963, Don Chaffey)
  • THE JUNGLE BOOK (1942, Zoltan Korda)
  • KING SOLOMON’S MINE (1950, Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton)
  • KILL BABY, KILL (1966, Mario Bava)
  • LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945, John M. Stahl)
  • LIVING IT UP (1954, Norman Taurog)
  • THE LONG SHIPS (1964, Jack Cardiff)
  • THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (1947, Zoltan Korda)
  • MAFIOSO (1962, Alberto Lattuada)
  • THE MAN BETWEEN (1953, Carol Reed)
  • THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (1939, James Whale)
  • THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1936, Lothar Mendes & Alexander Korda)
  • THE MAZE (1953, William Cameron Menzies)
  • THE NAKED PREY (1966, Cornel Wilde)
  • PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (1951, Albert Lewin)
  • PAY OR DIE (1960, Richard Wilson)
  • THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945, Albert Lewin)
  • PORK CHOP HILL (1959, Lewis Milestone)
  • THE PURPLE PLAIN (1954, Robert Parrish)
  • THE RAZOR’S EDGE (1946, Edmund Goulding)
  • THE RED TENT (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)
  • SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (1959, Michael Anderson)
  • TAKE CARE OF MY LITTLE GIRL (1951, Jean Negulesco)
  • TOO LATE BLUES (1961, John Cassavetes)
  • IL VIAGGIO (1974, Vittorio De Sica)
  • WHERE’S POPPA? (1970, Carl Reiner)