Taster Treats

Are you looking for a film to rent for this coming Independence Day weekend? You just might get a few (or far too many) ideas from pop-culture site IFC.com’s rundown of “The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time.” Featured among the cinematic teasers are those for Anatomy of a Murder, The Manchurian Candidate, The Big Sleep, Charade, GoldenEye, 1996’s Mission: Impossible (the best of the three M:I flicks so far, released before we understood just how peculiar Tom Cruise is), and Psycho. Outside of the crime/mystery/thriller field, this list also gives us The Bishop’s Wife, A Night at the Opera (Yes! The Marx Brothers!), Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane, and topping this list: 1979’s Alien.

Anybody want to suggest a few more favorite trailers?

(Hat tip to Bill Crider.)

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Pierce (The Rap Sheet).