What are your Top Five Paul Newman Movies?

Cafe Society
1

Refer (if you need to) to Highest Rated Feature Film Actor Titles With Paul Newman and select (and post) your favorite Newman acting job.

For me they would have to be:

  1. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  2. The Hustler (1961)
  3. The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
  4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  5. The Sting (1973)
2

The Sting
Slap Shot
Butch Cassidy
The Hudsucker Proxy
Cool Hand Luke

3

Hombre
The Verdict
The Hustler
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Slapshot and The Sting should be in there too.

4
  1. Nobody’s Fool, which I will watch any time it’s on.
  2. The Hustler
  3. Hud
  4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  5. Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
5

Cool Hand Luke
slapshot
the sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
sometimes a great notion

6

In no particular order. It is hard to limit this to five.

Cool Hand Luke
Hombre
The Sting
Absence of Malice
The Hustler

7

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
The Sting
Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
Nobody’s Fool

8

Slap Shot
Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
Road to Perdition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

…just outside Fort Apache: The Bronx

9

Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
The Sting
Hud
Harper

10

Here’s a manual counting of the votes through Snowboarder Bo:



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8 - Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke
7 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 
    Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
6 - The Hustler The Hustler The Hustler The Hustler The Hustler The Hustler
6 - The Sting The Sting the sting The Sting The Sting The Sting
3 - Slap Shot slapshot Slap Shot
2 - Hombre Hombre
2 - Hud Hud
2 - Nobody's Fool Nobody's Fool 

Absence of Malice
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harper 
The Hudsucker Proxy
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean  
The Long, Hot Summer 
Road to Perdition
sometimes a great notion 
The Verdict 

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ETA: Just to have said it, I didn’t want to presume to do this as a poll! :smiley:

11

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hustler
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Slap Shot
The Verdict

12

Hud
The Hustler
Cool Hand Luke
Slap Shot
The Verdict

13

In chrono order

The Hustler
Hud
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Slap Shot
The Verdict

14

Butch Cassidy
Cool Hand Luke
Slap Shot
The Hustler
Towering Inferno (not even kidding)

15

Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the other guy
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Slap Shot

16

Butch, Luke, Slap, Sting and…Slap! :smiley:

17

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
The Hustler
The Hudsucker Proxy

18
  1. It is The Verdict far and away.
  2. Nobody’s Fool
  3. Butch and Sundance
  4. The Hustler
  5. Slap Shot (just one of many at a lower tier)
19

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Cool Hand Luke
Slap Shot
Cars (for sentimental reasons–I just think it was really cool that he did it)

20

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Slap Shot
The Hustler
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid