All-Time Top 100

After three years atop the All-Time List, Ann-Margret in The Swinger (1966) has been dethroned. And replaced by Ann-Marget in Stagecoach (1966), the remake of the John Ford western. The Swinger, I should add, hasn’t dropped by much, just down two places. Suzy Kendall as the spy Fraulein Doktor (1969) has shot up from sixth to second position.

In case it’s not obvious I should point out that the movies making the All-Time Chart are not necessarily my favorites, but yours, the movies most viewed since The Blog began six years ago. Since this little exercise is undertaken twice a year the rankings are compared to the previous standings in the all-time list from December last year.

New entries making a surprisingly high appearances including the controversial BBC television series Blackeyes (1989) – straight in at No 16 – while chase picture Vanishing Point (1971), action picture Operation Crossbow (1965) and twisty thriller Buddwing/Mister Buddwing (1966) all enter the top 30 with a bullet. Other notable new entries – thrillers The Gray Man (2022) and Stiletto, low-budget westerns Five Savage Men (1971) and Hot Spur (1969) and big-budget 100 Rifles (1969), Hayley Mills as Pollyanna (1960) and Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes (1968)

Dean Martin is the most popular actor with five entries – all of them westerns – Five Card Stud (1968), 4 for Texas (1964), Bandolero! (1968), Rough Night in Jericho (1967) and The Sons of Katie Elder (1965). On four apiece are Raquel Welch, George Peppard, Hayley Mills and Charlton Heston

Welch made her splash in spy adventure Fathom (1967), westerns Bandolero! and 100 Rifles (1969) and  crime drama Lady in Cement (1968). Peppard was seen in war picture Operation Crossbow (1965), Rough Night in Jericho and under-rated thrillers Pendulum (1969) and House of Cards (1968).

Mills made her mark in The Family Way (1966), The Trouble with Angels (1966), The Chalk Garden (1964) and Pollyanna (1960). Charlton Heston headlined Planet of the Apes (1968), The War Lord (1965), Diamond Head (1962) and The Hawaiians/Master of the Islands (1970).

Chalking up three entries were John Wayne, Senta Berger (pictured above), Elke Sommer, Omar Sharif,  James Stewart, Inger Stevens, Claudia Cardinale, Gregory Peck and Alain Delon.

The figures in brackets represent the positions in December 2025 and New Entry is self-explanatory. .

1. (3) Stagecoach (1966). Under-rated remake of the John Ford western. But it’s Ann-Margret who steals the show ahead of Alex Cord in the role that brought John Wayne stardom. 
2. (6) Fraulein Doktor (1969). Grisly realistic battle scenes and a superb score from Ennio Morricone help this Suzy Kendall vehicle as a World War One German spy going head-to-head with Brit Kenneth More and taking time out for romantic dalliance with Capucine.
3. (1) The Swinger (1966). Despite shaking her booty as only she knows how, Ann-Margret brings a sprinkling of innocence to this sex comedy. 
4. (2) Anora (2024). Mikey Madison’s sex worker woos a Russian in Oscar-winner.
5. (4) In Harm’s Way (1965). Under-rated John Wayne World War Two number. Co-starring Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon and Paula Prentiss, director Otto Preminger surveys Pearl Harbor and after.
6. (9) Age of Consent (1969). Helen Mirren frolics nude in her debut as the freewheeling damsel drawn to disillusioned painter James Mason.
7. (7) Squad 36 / Bastion 36 (2025). Corruption and interdepartmental rivalry fuel this French flic directed by Olivier Marchal.
8. (8) Once Upon a Time in the West (1969). Along with The Searchers (1956) now considered the most influential western of all time. Sergio Leone rounds up Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson and that fabulous Morricone score.
9. (16) The Appointment (1969). Inhibited lawyer Omar Sharif discovers the secrets of wife Anouk Aimee in under-rated and little-seen Italian-set drama from Sidney Lumet.
10. (11) Our Man in Marrakesh / Bang! Bang! You’re Dead (1966). Humorous spy offering with Tony Randall and Senta Berger.
11. (50) The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). When James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch and Hardy Kruger crash in the desert they come up with an ingenious plan to escape. Robert Aldrich directs.
12. (10) A Dandy in Aspic (1968). Cold War thriller with Laurence Harvey as a double agent who wants out. Mia Farrow co-stars.  
13. (48) Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Ray Harryhausen steals the show in cracking fantasy.
14. (18) The Family Way (1966). Hayley Mills comes of age in this very adult drama. Co-starring her father John Mills and Hywel Bennett.
15. (6) The Last Showgirl (2024). Pamela Anderson proves she can act and how in this touching portrayal of a fading Las Vegas dancer.
16. (New Entry) Blackeyes (1989). Gina Bellman takes the titular role in British playwright Dennis Potter’s mind-bending tale with timelines and perspective all mixed up in an intoxicating brew.
17. (25) Five Card Stud (1968). Gambler Dean Martin faces off against preacher Robert Mitchum and a serial killer in Henry Hathaway western also featuring Inger Stevens.
18. (20) Young Cassidy (1965). Julie Christie came out of this best, winning her role in Doctor Zhivago as a result. Rod Taylor as Irish playwright Sean O’Casey.
19. (31) They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968). Gary Lockwood and Elke Sommer head up a heist thriller.
20. (13) Baby Love (1969). Controversy was the initial selling point but now it’s morphed into a morality tale as orphaned Linda Hayden tries to fit into an upper-class London household.
21. (33) Operation Crossbow (1965). George Peppard and Sophia Loren head up an all-star cast in World War Two in a daring mission into Occupied France. Director Michael Anderson takes a documentary-style approach. .
22. (New entry) Vanishing Point (1971). Barry Newman tears across the country in fast-moving existential cult thriller. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian.
23. (29) Fathom (1967). When not dodging the villains in an entertaining thriller, Raquel Welch models a string of bikinis as a skydiver caught up in spy malarkey.
24. (39) The Double Man (1967). Yul Brynner is the target for a kidnapping plot in complex spy thriller co-starring Britt Ekland.
25. (23) Istanbul Express (1968). Gene Barry plays a weird numbers game in spy thriller that sets him up against Senta Berger
26. (New Entry) Buddwing / Mister Buddwing (1966). James Garner suffers memory loss in twisty thriller. Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette and Katharine Ross are complications.
27. (54) The Red Tent (1969). Sean Connery adds his weight to a rescue mission for an airship crashed in the Arctic. Based on a true story. Claudia Cardinale and Peter Finch co-star.
28. (22) Signpost to Murder (1964). Joanne Woodward trapped in a millhouse with escaped lunatic Stuart Whitman in twisty thriller.
29. (12) Fireball XL5. The famous British television series (1962-1963) from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, now colorized. “My heart will be a fireball…”
30. (17) Pressure Point (1962). Nazi extremist Bobby Darin causes chaos for psychiatrist Sidney Poitier. Stunning dream sequences.
31. (21) The Sisters (1969). Incest rears its head as Nathalie Delon and Susan Strasberg ignore husbands and lovers in favor of each other. 
32. (86) Mirage (1965). Compelling thriller with Gregory Peck convinced he’s suffering from amnesia.
33. (65) Deadlier than the Male (1967). Richard Johnson as Bulldog Drummond in the clutches of femme fatales Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina.
34. (46) Once a Thief (1965). Ann-Margret again, in a less sexy incarnation, as a working mother whose ex-jailbird thief Alain Delon takes a detour back into crime.
35. (37) Assignment K (1967). Stephen Boyd in spy caper tangles romantically with Camilla Sparv and is on the receiving end of some tough thugs.
36. (52) Dark of the Sun / The Mercenaries (1968). Rod Taylor’s guns-for-hire break out the action in war-torn Africa. Jim Brown and Yvette Mimieux co-star.
37. (58) Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964). Yul Brynner cleans up the town in under-rated western. Janice Rule adds interest.
38. (38) Sands of the Kalahari (1965). Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman and Susannah York are stranded in the desert. Instead of working together, it’s every person for themselves.
39. (New Entry) The Gray Man (2022). Global assassin manhunt directed by the Russo Brothers features Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans.
40. (14) The Chapman Report (1962). Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom and Shelley Winters lead this investigation into contemporary sexual mores.
41. (19) Pharoah (1966). Polish epic set in Egypt sees the country’s ruler at odds with the religious hierarchy.
42. (40) The Chalk Garden (1964). Wild child Hayley Mills, trying to break out of her Disney straitjacket, duels with governess Deborah Kerr.
43. (42) Gunn (1967). Blake Edwards turns hit television series into a movie with star Craig Stevens.
44. (44) 4 for Texas (1963). Only Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin survive from the Rat Pack, but Ursula Andress and Anita Ekberg more than compensate in Robert Aldrich fun western.
45. (41) Diamond Head (1962). Over-ambitious hypocritical landowner Charlton Heston comes unstuck in love, politics and business in Hawaii. George Chakiris, Yvette Mimieux and France Nuyen turn up the heat.
46. (New entry) The Animals/Five Savage Men (1971). Apache Henry Silva comes to the aid of Michele Carey after she is raped by five men.
47. (30) Pendulum (1968). Fast-rising cop George Peppard accused of murdering unfaithful wife Jean Seberg
48. (66) The Undefeated (1969). John Wayne and Rock Hudson duke it out in superb Civil War western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.
49. (New Entry) The Chase (1966). Marlon Brando is the beleaguered sheriff in Arthur Penn’s drama set in the Deep South and co-starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.
50. (43) A Fine Pair (1968). Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale join forces for a heist picture.
51. (18) Jessica (1962). Angie Dickinson doesn’t mean to cause trouble but as a young widow arriving in a small Italian town she causes friction, so much so the local wives for on a sex strike.
52. (27) The Demon / Il Demonio (1963). Extraordinary performance by Daliah Lavi in Italian drama as she produces the performance of her career.
53. (34) The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961) Angie Dickinson (again) as African missionary falling foul of the natives and Commissioner Peter Finch. Roger Moore (again) in an early role.
54. (35) The Girl on a Motorcycle / Naked under Leather (1968). How much you saw of star Marianne Faithfull depended on where you saw it. The U.S. censor came down heavily on the titular fantasizing heroine, the British censor more liberal. Alain Delon co-stars.
55. (67) Ten Little Indians (1965). Agatha Christie whodunnit. Hugh O’Brian and Shirley Eaton are among the suspects.
56. (New entry) Stiletto (1969). Mafia assassin Alex Cord wants out. The syndicate won’t let him.
57. (62) House of Cards (1968). Ex-boxer George Peppard gets tangled up in an international fascist conspiracy and with Ingrid Stevens. Orson Welles has a cameo.
58. (58) The Trouble with Angels (1966). Hayley Mills has the nuns on the run as she causes chaos at a convent school run by Rosalind Russell.
59. (59) Genghis Khan (1965). Omar Sharif as the titular warrior up against Stephen Boyd. Co-starring James Masion and Francoise Dorleac. Robert Morley is hilariously miscast as the Chinese Emperor.
60. (36) The Battle of the Villa Florita (1965). Maureen O’Hara runs off to Italy to join lover Rossano Brazzi. When her kids follow, trouble ensues,
61. (45) Farewell, Friend / Adieu L’Ami (1968). A star is born – at least in France, the States was a good few years behind in recognizing the marquee attractions of Charles Bronson. Alain Delon co-stars in twisty French heist thriller featuring Olga Georges-Picot and Brigitte Fossey.
62. (74) Bandolero! (1968). James Stewart and brother Dean Martin team up with Raquel Welch to evade George Kennedy’s posse in another Andrew V. McLaglen under-rated western.
63. (89) Two for the Road (1967). Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney try to get their marriage off the rocks by retracing their romantic steps when younger.
64. (32) Vendetta for the Saint (1969). Prior to James Bond, Roger Moor was better known as television’s The Saint. Two television episodes combined sees our hero tackle the Mafia.
65. (New entry) Hot Spur (1968). Kidnap, rape, revenge, director Lee Frost takes full advantage of the opportunities these provide.
66. (26) Go Naked in the World (1961). Gina Lollobrigida finds that love for a wealthy playboy clashes with her profession (the oldest). Look out for highly emotional turn from the usually taciturn Ernest Borgnine.
67. (28) Claudelle Inglish (1961). Diane McBain seeks revenge for being stood up at the altar in the Deep South.
68. (98) Mackenna’s Gold (1969). J. Lee Thompson big-budget western treasure hunt starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Eli Wallach, lee J Cobb, Edward G Robinson, Julie Newmar and Eli Wallach.
69. (New entry) Marooned (1969). Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman are the astronauts trapped in space. Directed by John Sturges.
70. (New entry) Pollyanna (1960). Hayley Mills makes her Disney debut in remake of much-loved tale, supported by a cast of actors who are either Oscar-winners or nominees.
71. (57) Anatomy of a Fall (2024). Critically-acclaimed artie thriller starring Oscar-nominated Sandra Huller. The screenplay took the Oscar as well.
72. (53) Moment to Moment (1966). Hitchcockian thriller set in Hitchcock country – the South of France – as unfaithful Jean Seberg is on the hook for the murder of her lover.  Also featuring Honor Blackman. 
73. (61) Mickey One (1965). Cult Arthur Penn thriller with Warren Beatty as comedian on the run.
74. (24) Thank You Very Much/ A Touch of Love (1969). Sandy Dennis dazzles as an academic single mother in London impregnated by Ian McKellen.
75. (95) Titanic (1997). I saw this on reissue in 3D and was knocked out all over again.
76. (72) La Belle Noiseuse (1991). Emmanuelle Beart is the mostly naked model taking painter Michel Piccoli to his artistic limits.
77. (64) Rough Night in Jericho (1967). Corrupt lawman Dean Martin tangles with George Peppard in under-rated western Jean Simmons is the woman who comes between them.
78. (56) The Sons of Katie Elder (1965). John Wayne and Dean Martin join forces to find out what happened to their mother in top-notch Henry Hathaway western.
79. (49) The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl (1968). Cults don’t come any sexier than Daniele Gaubert as a French cat burglar.
80. (New entry) 100 Rifles (1968). Mexican rebels Raquel Welch, Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds take on the government. Welch models a wet shirt.
81. (75) Lady in Cement (1969). Raquel Welch models more bikinis as the gangster’s moll taken on as a client by private eye Frank Sinatra in his second outing as Tony Rome.
82. (69) 633 Squadron (1964). You remember the soaring score more than the performances of Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris in World War Two aerial mission.
83. (77) Lost Command (1966). Algerian War picture sets Anthony Quinn and Alain Delon against George Segal.
84. (73) The Venetian Affair (1966). Robert Vaughn investigates spate of suicide bombs. Elke Sommer provides the glamor.
85. (60) Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (2024). Kevin Costner’s majestic western that became one of the biggest flops of the year was underrated in my opinion.
86. (New entry) Happy Ending (1969). Jean Simmons in May-December romance.
87. (55) The Best House in London (1969). David Hemmings heads up a moralistic tale of rescuing sex workers in Victorian London.
88. (New entry) Charade (1963). Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn form a classic alliance in entertaining mystery.
89. (New entry) Shoes of the Fisherman (1968). The election of the new Pope features Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner in 70mm roadshow directed by Michael Anderson.
90. (New entry) Suspect / The Risk (1960). A cure for plague falls into the wrong hands in typical British B-movie.
91. (95) Lonely Are the Brave (1962). Prison escape picture featuring cowboy Kirk Douglas who can’t cope with the modern world. Walter Matthau co-stars.
92. (83) The Hawaiians / Master of the Islands (1962). Charlton Heston picks up where Hawaii (1966) left off and it’s chock full of corruption, racism and misogyny.
93. (New entry) Sergeant Ryker (1968). Distributors take advantage of Lee Marvin’s sudden success to push out on the movie circuit a made-for-television drama.
94. (New entry) Wonderwall (1968). Jane Birkin, psychedelia and a George Harrison score are the attractions in this cult oddity.
95. (70) Black Butterflies (2022). Twisty French mini-series majoring on sex and murder in enjoyable film noir throwback.
96. (51) Prehistoric Women / Slave Girls (1967). Martine Beswick attempts to steal the Raquel Welch crown as Hammer tries to repeat the success of One Million Years B.C. 
97. (New entry) Circle of Deception (1960). Bradford Dillman is sent on a secret World War Two mission – in the hope that he will be captured by the Germans.
98. (63) Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe and Find True Happiness? Fellini would turn in his grave at the self-indulgence of singer Anthony Newley who manages to lament that women falling at his feet cause him so much strife. Joan Collins co-stars.
99. (New Entry) Planet of the Apes (1968). Charlton Heston is terrorized in Franklin J.Schaffner’s groundbreaking sci fi.
100. (87) The War Lord (1965). Very realistic historical drama directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with Charlton Heston defending his land from invaders.