The Big Country is a great film, great cast, great direction, great script, on my list of top 100 films. Can't forget Heston in 55 Days at Peking or Khartoum and El Cid, all good historical movies.
Great actor in every direction. One of few actors that just totally had a dominating screen presence in what ever he played in. A few honorable mentions: The naked jungle, The Greatest show on earth Dark city (1950)
Here in Argentina, we should include The Naked Jungle. It was shown very often on Saturdays in the 70's and 80's (Under the name MARABUNTA). Regarding the films on the list, I respectfully suggest a change. Midway is not a "Charlton Heston" film, it is rather a blockbuster with big names (Geln Ford, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, etc.). Personally, I would replace it with 55 Days at Peking.
I met and talked with his mother and had tea with her. She showed me many pics of her son , young and old. This was when I was a film student. I always admired him
Have great respect for Mr. Heston. As an actor and activist. He marched with Martin Luther King and was president of the NRA. A talented man who represented all Americans.
"55 Days at Peking" another Bronston mega movies. "Major Dundee" another Peckinpah might have been masterpieces. The first shows Heston's character as a near perfect man. The second shows an equally strong man pushed to and past his breaking point and coming back to triumph. Both great films and great performances.
Charlton always brought his whole self into every picture. Thanks for sharing his best! Ben-Hur remains one of my favorite movies. The chariot race is the best 'chase' scene every filmed IMO, and the ending gets me every time. One of my secret pleasures, though it didn't quite make your top ten, was 1971's The Omega Man. I saw it in theatres when I was a young man. I guess the potential world-ending Cold War at the time influenced me, but I got chills thinking about his lonely fight for survival amidst daunting odds. As for the ending, he was always good at self-sacrifice....
I agree, If this was based on my opinion this one would be here. In fact the reason I made this video was because of a conversation I had with a friend recently where we talked about this movie.
There are three Charlton Heston's movies that everybody would watch sooner or later, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, The Planet of the Apes. They are excellent with Charlton Heston in top form. I also loved The Greatest Show On Earth, The Naked Jungle, The Secret of the Incas, Touch of Evil, El Cid, Khartoum, Will Penny, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Midway with Robert Mitchum.
55 Days at Peking is one of my favourites. The film Ben Hur is not worth it after one has read the novel. By the way, you should have mentioned Hugh Griffith, he won an Oscar ! Greetings from France 🇫🇷
I AM A FAN OF CHARLTON HESTON. THE SCENE I REMEMBER BIG COUNTRY IS THE UNENDING FIST FIGHT BETWEEN HIM AND GREGORY PECK. GOOD HUMAN BEINGS. GREAT ACTORS. I WILL SOON BE 80...........
I never was a great fan of him but I know one thing, that I never saw him in a boring movie. You only need to know he is on the cast to be sure it will be a good one.
I have a deep reverence for the man. Veteran, Civil Rights activist (when it wasn't that popular), and savior of the 2nd Amendment. Will always hold a grudge against Michael Moore for trying to humiliate him as he suffered with Alzheimers, and Jim Carrey for mocking him. Check out SECRET OF THE INCAS (1954) when he was Indiana Jones long before Harrison Ford, and THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954) when he fought army ants! I would have added KHARTOUM and MAJOR DUNDEE. Great homage.
Definitely agree wbout the treatment he got from many before he died. George Clooney, SPike Lee I think also. even Paul Newman earlier who he had been friends with shunned him because of politics. Would love to see that debate they had. You can disagee with a person, but don't have to be nasty. And yes, thanks for bringing up MAJOR DUNDEE. I would have El CID AND that film ahead of THE BIG COUNTRY, he is only a supporting actor in that, and really have not seen MIDWAY to judge. Sadly I have heard here he turned down the roll that Roy Scheider got in JAWS, as I feel it would have extended him movie stardom, which strarted to decline in the 1970's. Can't blame him for turning down THE OMEN, a thourally unpleaent moive. I hfound it hiliarious in later years of his life, when Gregory Peck criticised Joe Pesci for his role in GOODFELLAS. Hey Greg he was an unpleasent person in that film, not to be liked. Of coure, I think Charelton might have regretted turning dowN THE OMEN, as he did that film THE AWAKENING. He tough would have been perfect as the priest in the third OMEN film.
Being a 74 year old Male and being raised on a farm in Southern California I had been around farming, fishing and hunting all of my life, when my Dad gave a Hunter’s Safety Class when I was 14 I became a member of the NRA and would annually send my money in. When Mr Heston became the President of the NRA I became a Life Time Member as did many of my friends. The NRA wasn’t doing enough after he left and I joined Gun Owners of America 🇺🇸.
I grew up in a small town....BEN-HUR stayed on the theater marquee by itself for a month in 1959 . Heston's voice by itself would have made him a star !!
He was also tremendous as a supporting player, see Branaughs Hamlet and Cardinal Richelieu in the Three Musketeers (a very witty and knowing performance)
@@famouspeople63……met Mr Heston, & his beautiful wife, Lydia, many times’ between 1966-1996, & yes, he was a gentleman, & they were both delightful to be in conversation with. They’re both gone now, may they R I P………
Sorry that Major Dundee didn't make the IMDB cut, but Heston had so many great movies, so it's understandable! He played so many historical persons...John the Baptist, Moses, El Cid, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson, etc.
This list glaringly left out "Treasure Island", where Heston played Long John Silver. It was a TNT made for TV movie. But it looks like a big screen production.Heston's son, Fraser, was the director. And in the director's comments, he said he kept the movie as close the the original book as was possible. Oliver Reed plays the part of Billy Bones. And he's perfect. You could put Reed in a tuxedo or a tutu and he'd still look like a pirate. And Christian Bale plays young Jim Hawkins in his first movie after "Empire Of The Sun". Well worth your time.
@@famouspeople63 Pleasance was an underrated actor. Don't think I ever saw him in a bad picture. Favorite is his performance in The Twilight Zone episode "The Changing of the Guard," where he's forced to retire from his job as a English Literature professor and contemplates suicide because he doesn't think he's accomplished much of anything. Then, he gets visitors.
Shatner was a very different actor. Heston perhaps took himself too seriously at times, your right. But was uncompromising in his values. Made him very compelling as an actor.
Good list. But Soylent Green was never about the power of big corporations. It was a morality tale about the dangers of overpopulation, and how if it went on unchecked, human life would become cheap. Ironically, one of the things allowed in this futuristic world, was suicide, which was facilitated by the state. Edward G. Robinson's character commits suicide in the film. In real life, he died only weeks later. It is iconic, in that Robinson literally acted all the way until the end of his life. He was actually acting out his own death.
When you have an all star cast in a film like MIDWAY, i don't know if you can call it a Heston movie. But perhaps he has a lot of screen time in that. I don't consider THE BIG COUNTRY a Heston film. A Peck film yes. Heston is more of a supporting actor in that film. Maybe I would have in its place EL CID. Though Heston I know was not hapy with the film. Anthony Mann and Sophia Loren he did not care for.
Ce grand acteur était voué aux rôles épiques. De Moïse au Cid et de Ben-Hur à Michel Ange...C.H a fait revivre les plus fabuleux personnages de la Bible, de la légende et de l'histoire. Mais sa stature athlétique & son visage aquilain sont souvent le masque d'une intense sensibilité dramatique.
When it came to guns, Charlton Heston was an a**hole. But, the a**hole was a good actor (not necessarily a great one), he had a commanding presence and a distinctive and resonant voice, and was fortunate to have a number of great roles in epics and exceptional films. For example: Ben Hur, El Cid, The Warlord, Planet of the Apes, and Soylent Green (in addition to Touch of Evil and The Big Country).
Big on the screen and in real life involved with guns and Civil rights however wasted In movies should have run For president handling real Issues rather than movie Make believe!
……if that turned you against him, then you lack character, & were NOT a true fan. Obviously, you’ve never met the man, or his family, which I had, many times’, over multiple years’………
I still love a lot of his films, but I despise most of his political views. ditto John Wayne & Clint Eastwood. I am able to separate an actor or artist's work from their personal lives. I still enjoy some of Bill Cosby's work, yet I don't condone rape. Harvey Weinstein produced a lot of good films. O.J. Simpson was an excellent running back. great talent does not equal great character.
Charlton Heston el Mejor Actor del Cine. Mi Actor Favorito. Extraordinarias todas sus películas e interpretaciones. Sensacional.
The Big Country is a great film, great cast, great direction, great script, on my list of top 100 films. Can't forget Heston in 55 Days at Peking or Khartoum and El Cid, all good historical movies.
He was great in epics!
All great movies.
As a little kid, I wanted to have Heston's voice when I grew up.
He’s is great actor I love to watch his movies thanks for sharing this video
Great actor in every direction. One of few actors that just totally had a dominating screen presence in what ever he played in. A few honorable mentions:
The naked jungle,
The Greatest show on earth
Dark city (1950)
Here in Argentina, we should include The Naked Jungle. It was shown very often on Saturdays in the 70's and 80's (Under the name MARABUNTA).
Regarding the films on the list, I respectfully suggest a change. Midway is not a "Charlton Heston" film, it is rather a blockbuster with big names (Geln Ford, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, etc.). Personally, I would replace it with 55 Days at Peking.
You're right! Hello from Oregon, USA!
That's true, but Heston's character experienced the most personal events in the movie.
I met and talked with his mother and had tea with her. She showed me many pics of her son , young and old. This was when I was a film student. I always admired him
One of Charlton Heston’s best and most underrated movies was The Omega Man.
Good film that. Haven't seen it for ages.
Have great respect for Mr. Heston. As an actor and activist. He marched with Martin Luther King and was president of the NRA. A talented man who represented all Americans.
A Renaissance man!
"55 Days at Peking" another Bronston mega movies. "Major Dundee" another Peckinpah might have been masterpieces. The first shows Heston's character as a near perfect man. The second shows an equally strong man pushed to and past his breaking point and coming back to triumph. Both great films and great performances.
55 days is a good watch.
Charlton always brought his whole self into every picture. Thanks for sharing his best!
Ben-Hur remains one of my favorite movies. The chariot race is the best 'chase' scene every filmed IMO, and the ending gets me every time.
One of my secret pleasures, though it didn't quite make your top ten, was 1971's The Omega Man. I saw it in theatres when I was a young man. I guess the potential world-ending Cold War at the time influenced me, but I got chills thinking about his lonely fight for survival amidst daunting odds. As for the ending, he was always good at self-sacrifice....
I agree, If this was based on my opinion this one would be here. In fact the reason I made this video was because of a conversation I had with a friend recently where we talked about this movie.
@@famouspeople63 I would love to see more of your picks on the channel. It is your channel after all! :)
Je l'ai (difficilement) trouvé.
There are three Charlton Heston's movies that everybody would watch sooner or later, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, The Planet of the Apes. They are excellent with Charlton Heston in top form. I also loved The Greatest Show On Earth, The Naked Jungle, The Secret of the Incas, Touch of Evil, El Cid, Khartoum, Will Penny, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Midway with Robert Mitchum.
Have 'The Naked Jungle".Marabunta. They were the real stars of that movie:))
"Airport 1975" was the best of all 4 Airport films.
@@johnbrennan4449 you're right.
@@johnbrennan4449 I will have a look.
@@richardscanlan3419 the original ANTZ😆
Charlton Heston one of my favorite players... Ben Hur my favorite... He an John Wayne my other favorite such good role models...
They both were above the crowd.
I love a lot of their films, yet despise most of their politics.
55 Days at Peking is one of my favourites. The film Ben Hur is not worth it after one has read the novel. By the way, you should have mentioned Hugh Griffith, he won an Oscar !
Greetings from France 🇫🇷
I AM A FAN OF CHARLTON HESTON. THE SCENE I REMEMBER BIG COUNTRY IS THE UNENDING FIST FIGHT BETWEEN HIM AND GREGORY PECK. GOOD HUMAN BEINGS. GREAT ACTORS. I WILL SOON BE 80...........
You had a hard task because he made so many good movies....
I never was a great fan of him but I know one thing, that I never saw him in a boring movie. You only need to know he is on the cast to be sure it will be a good one.
"Khartoum" with Laurence Olivier a great movie!
I have a deep reverence for the man. Veteran, Civil Rights activist (when it wasn't that popular), and savior of the 2nd Amendment. Will always hold a grudge against Michael Moore for trying to humiliate him as he suffered with Alzheimers, and Jim Carrey for mocking him. Check out SECRET OF THE INCAS (1954) when he was Indiana Jones long before Harrison Ford, and THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954) when he fought army ants! I would have added KHARTOUM and MAJOR DUNDEE. Great homage.
I'm with you. Yes seen Secret of the Incas and Naked Jungle. Pretty sure I've seen all his movies.
I agree. Michael Moore isn't worthy to kiss Charlton Heston's sandals in his biblical movies.
……couldn’t agree more about those two others’ you mentioned. Nasty individuals’ the way they treated Mr Heston………
Definitely agree wbout the treatment he got from many before he died. George Clooney, SPike Lee I think also. even Paul Newman earlier who he had been friends with shunned him because of politics. Would love to see that debate they had. You can disagee with a person, but don't have to be nasty. And yes, thanks for bringing up MAJOR DUNDEE. I would have El CID AND that film ahead of THE BIG COUNTRY, he is only a supporting actor in that, and really have not seen MIDWAY to judge. Sadly I have heard here he turned down the roll that Roy Scheider got in JAWS, as I feel it would have extended him movie stardom, which strarted to decline in the 1970's. Can't blame him for turning down THE OMEN, a thourally unpleaent moive. I hfound it hiliarious in later years of his life, when Gregory Peck criticised Joe Pesci for his role in GOODFELLAS. Hey Greg he was an unpleasent person in that film, not to be liked. Of coure, I think Charelton might have regretted turning dowN THE OMEN, as he did that film THE AWAKENING. He tough would have been perfect as the priest in the third OMEN film.
Being a 74 year old Male and being raised on a farm in Southern California I had been around farming, fishing and hunting all of my life, when my Dad gave a Hunter’s Safety Class when I was 14 I became a member of the NRA and would annually send my money in. When Mr Heston became the President of the NRA I became a Life Time Member as did many of my friends. The NRA wasn’t doing enough after he left and I joined Gun Owners of America 🇺🇸.
I grew up in a small town....BEN-HUR stayed on the theater marquee by itself for a month in 1959 . Heston's voice by itself would have made him a star !!
Don't make em like him any more
Well done Wrangler! I really enjoyed this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
He was also tremendous as a supporting player, see Branaughs Hamlet and Cardinal Richelieu in the Three Musketeers (a very witty and knowing performance)
Apparently he was great on stage as well. According to Laurence Olivier. Would have loved to have seen.
he s my all-time hero
What about Major Dundee ?
I met him twice, once in New York in 1978 at a book signing and once in Birmingham in 1994 where the was a tribute to him!
Your so lucky, I'm sure he was a gentelman?
@@famouspeople63……met Mr Heston, & his beautiful wife, Lydia, many times’ between 1966-1996, & yes, he was a gentleman, & they were both delightful to be in conversation with. They’re both gone now, may they R I P………
Always a fan of Heston, let's not forget "The Mountain Men" with Brian Keith, great scenery.
Sorry that Major Dundee didn't make the IMDB cut, but Heston had so many great movies, so it's understandable! He played so many historical persons...John the Baptist, Moses, El Cid, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson, etc.
Among my favorites, not listed: The Buccaneer, The Greatest Show On Earth, Warlord, Omega Man, The Mountain Men, and 55 Days In Peking.
The Three Musketeers. Heston plays the evil but Machivelln Cardinal Rechilu.
A Man for All Seasons . Heston plays Thomas Moore.
A Charlton Heston fan. Two other movies perhaps should be included; the Hawaiians and Naked Jungle.
Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas are two of my favorite actors. Thank you for sharing, already planning a movie binge watch.
This list glaringly left out "Treasure Island", where Heston played Long John Silver. It was a TNT made for TV movie. But it looks like a big screen production.Heston's son, Fraser, was the director. And in the director's comments, he said he kept the movie as close the the original book as was possible. Oliver Reed plays the part of Billy Bones. And he's perfect. You could put Reed in a tuxedo or a tutu and he'd still look like a pirate. And Christian Bale plays young Jim Hawkins in his first movie after "Empire Of The Sun". Well worth your time.
Donald Pleasance was terrifying in Will Penny.
He always made a great villain.
@@famouspeople63 Pleasance was an underrated actor. Don't think I ever saw him in a bad picture. Favorite is his performance in The Twilight Zone episode "The Changing of the Guard," where he's forced to retire from his job as a English Literature professor and contemplates suicide because he doesn't think he's accomplished much of anything. Then, he gets visitors.
Very surprised Omega Man didn't make the cut.
In the Ten Commandments, baby Moses was played by his own son Fraser. 6:26
One movie you forgot and one of my favorites was the warlord 1965. As the Norman lord protecting his land from the Frisian raiders.
55 Days at Peking? Eva Gardiner?
Great actor
Lew Wallace wrote Ben Hur when he was the Government of New Mexico Territory, the same Lew Wallace who met William H Bonney AKA Billy the Kid.
Thanks for that info!
And the Palace of the Governors where Wallace wrote Ben Hur is still there in Santa Fe, beautiful old place.
@billolsen4360 👍
i may have missed it but no Omega Man?
Will Penny is a great one
"CHAAL-tun HIS-tun" 😂
youmust watch "the private war of major benson" it s a comedy but still fantastic
I have always liked the 1976 Western 'The Last Hard Men' co-starring James Coburn and Barbara Hershey.
Heston is a Shatner Class Actor ... Major Difference is that he isnt able to make Fun of hisself ... unlike Shatner, who learned to do that as he aged
Shatner was a very different actor. Heston perhaps took himself too seriously at times, your right. But was uncompromising in his values. Made him very compelling as an actor.
Películas épicas!!!
¿A quién no le gusta una epopeya?
Soylent Green is People!!!!
Esqueceram do "Maior Espetáculo da Terra" que lançou Heston ao estrelato. E do "Omega Man".
Omega Man
Très grand acteur!
Omega man
The real thing coming soon! :)
His best film/western is Will Penny.
HEY! What happened to Major Dundee, The Naked Jungle and the ever cheerful The Omega Man?
According to IMDB they didn't make the top 10. I have mentioned these movies in other videos about Heston in my channel, take a look
@@famouspeople63 Ok, will do 👍
Where’s The Omega Man?
A real man
Yes a great role model
Good list. But Soylent Green was never about the power of big corporations. It was a morality tale about the dangers of overpopulation, and how if it went on unchecked, human life would become cheap. Ironically, one of the things allowed in this futuristic world, was suicide, which was facilitated by the state. Edward G. Robinson's character commits suicide in the film. In real life, he died only weeks later. It is iconic, in that Robinson literally acted all the way until the end of his life. He was actually acting out his own death.
An overpopulation crisis is always a myth.
Sebastián Rulli se parece al Gran Actor Charlton Heston.
"omega man"
"soleil vert"
"la soif du mal"
"la planète des singes"
"major dundee"
Soylent Green & The Omega Man
Take a look at todays video I did on my favorite Heston Movies
When you have an all star cast in a film like MIDWAY, i don't know if you can call it a Heston movie. But perhaps he has a lot of screen time in that. I don't consider THE BIG COUNTRY a Heston film. A Peck film yes. Heston is more of a supporting actor in that film. Maybe I would have in its place EL CID. Though Heston I know was not hapy with the film. Anthony Mann and Sophia Loren he did not care for.
It was Heston's role in The Big Country that got him the Ben Hur role
Ce grand acteur était voué aux rôles épiques. De Moïse au Cid et de Ben-Hur à Michel Ange...C.H a fait revivre les plus fabuleux personnages de la Bible, de la légende et de l'histoire. Mais sa stature athlétique & son visage aquilain sont souvent le masque d'une intense sensibilité dramatique.
You forgot the War Lord.
Based on IMDBs data, many movies didn't make it. There are some I'd like to see in the top 10. See my other videos on Heston in my channel.
When it came to guns, Charlton Heston was an a**hole. But, the a**hole was a good actor (not necessarily a great one), he had a commanding presence and a distinctive and resonant voice, and was fortunate to have a number of great roles in epics and exceptional films. For example: Ben Hur, El Cid, The Warlord, Planet of the Apes, and Soylent Green (in addition to Touch of Evil and The Big Country).
EARTHQUAKE?
Echo en falta su actuación en khartoum
I would say his top three are Ten Commandments, Ben Hur and then Midway. Toss of after that, the Greatest Show on Earth is a favorite.
Big on the screen and in real life involved with guns and
Civil rights however wasted
In movies should have run
For president handling real
Issues rather than movie
Make believe!
Don't know why he didn't go down that road?
@@famouspeople63……he was asked several times’, but declined…………
I used to be a fan of Charlton Heston untill... I learned that he advocated the NRA; suddenly, his image faded in my mind!
He was the head of the NRA.
……if that turned you against him, then you lack character, & were NOT a true fan. Obviously, you’ve never met the man, or his family, which I had, many times’, over multiple years’………
I still love a lot of his films, but I despise most of his political views. ditto John Wayne & Clint Eastwood. I am able to separate an actor or artist's work from their personal lives.
I still enjoy some of Bill Cosby's work, yet I don't condone rape. Harvey Weinstein produced a lot of good films. O.J. Simpson was an excellent running back. great talent does not equal great character.
I, too, was a fan of Charlton Heston before I learned he was an advocate of the NRA.
I became an even bigger fan after I learned of his advocacy.
@@Narsuitus so you approve of school shootings?
Omega man
Omega Man