The Woodguy's Favorite Things Page

Welcome to the Woodguy's Favorite Things page. This page is a hodgepodge of various, assorted, sundry things that I happen to like. Some items have links to other sites, some don't. Some links may not take you to where you think they might. I'm funny that way.
Note: I'm adding sub-pages to this page. Currently the Favorite Places and Favorite Interesting pages are active.

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• Some of My Favorite Movies
• Some of My Favorite Books
• Some of My Favorite Authors

Some of My Favorite Movies

(In no particular order)

• Lawrence of Arabia
  Directed by David Lean (1962), starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains, and a cast of thousands.
• Casablanca
  Directed by Michael Curtiz (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
• Braveheart
  Directed by Mel Gibson (1995), starring Mel Gibson and Patrick McGoohan
• Citizen Kane
  Directed by Orson Welles (1941), starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.
• Michael Collins
  Directed by Neil Jordan (1995), starring Liam Neeson, Aiden Quinn, Stephen Rey, and Julia Roberts
• The Sands of Iwo Jima
  Directed by (1955), starring John Wayne, John Agar, and Forrest Tucker.
• A Man for All Seasons
  Directed by Fred Zinneman (1966), starring Paul Scofield, Susannah York, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Leo McKern, and John Hurt.
• Zulu
  Directed by Cy Endfield (1963), starring Micheal Caine and Stanley Baker.
• Doctor Zhivago
  Directed by David Lean (1965), starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Geraldine Chaplin.
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Directed by (1939), starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and Olivia DeHavilland.
• Das Boot
  Directed by Wofgang Petersen (1985), starring Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, and Klaus Winneman.
• The Maltese Falcon
  Directed by John Huston (1941), starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  Directed by John Huston (1948), starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt.
• Captain Horatio Hornblower
  Directed by Raoul Walsh (1951), starring Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo.
• Rollerball
  Directed by Norman Jewison (1975), starring James Caan and John Houseman.

Some of My Favorite Books

(favorite books are books I have read several times, they are like my old friends)

• The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
• Rebels, by Peter De Rosa
• Dune, by Frank Herbert
• Theodore Roosevelt, A Life, by Nathan Miller
• Cider House Rules, by John Irving
• Talking to the Ground, by Douglas J. Preston
• Goshawk Squadron, by Derek Robinson
• A Piece of Cake, by Derek Robinson
• Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

Some of My Favorite Authors

• William Shakespeare
• Mark Twain
• Derek Robinson
• John Irving
• C. S. Forester
• Patrick O'Brian
• Tony Hillerman
• Tom Clancy

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