In no particular order, here are my favorite movies that I can watch over and over and over. And I have. Links go to Internet Move Database entry (IMDb).
Wake Me When It’s Over (1960) Come to think of it, my favorite movie EVER! Dick Shawn and Ernie Kovacs at their best, with Don Knotts and Jack Warden. This has never been released on DVD or VHS. I have a copy I recorded a long time ago when it was on a premium cable channel. Directed by one of the greatest old school directors, Mervyn LeRoy who gave us “Mister Roberts” and “No Time for Sergeants”, it is the story of a bureaucratic snafu: listed as dead after having spent 2 years in a German P.O.W. camp, the Air Force decides to issue Gus Brubaker (Dick Shawn) a new serial number instead of reinstating his old one, then discharges him the next day. As a result, with only one day’s service on his record, Brubaker is re-drafted 7 years after his official discharge, and stationed on the remote Japanese island of Shima, where the hostile inhabitants still have a shrine to a downed Japanese plane.
The Hallelujah Trail (1965) Another fav! Burt Lancaster as a US Calvary Col. Gearhart, played for laughs, Jim Hutton, Dub Taylor, Donald Pleasence, Brian Keith and Martin Landau as an Indian ‘Chief Walks-Stooped-Over. Just 15 minutes short of three hours, diirected by John Sturges in New Mexico during the the heaviest rainfall ever in recent history, it is the story of guarding a wagon train of whiskey for the miners in Denver from Indians and a Temperance movement.
