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Grand Illusion

The sixteenth-annual TCM Classic Film Festival just kicked off in Hollywood, and this year’s theme is “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film”. For this week’s Showdown, create a list of your ten favorite sci-fi and/or fantasy films released a long time ago in a galaxy not-so far away—i.e. during or before 1980, the debut year of TCM Fest’s opening-night film, The Empire Strikes Back. Harken back to a land that time forgot, where effects were practical, green screens weren’t yet popularized and dancing penguins were hand-drawn rather than CGI…

  • Star Wars
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Westworld
  • A Trip to the Moon
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Alien
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture