Spitball Army

I love films and movies almost as much as I love music. Today’s playlist, then, should come as no surprise to anyone who even only slightly knows me. The following 31 selections were taken from the soundtracks of as many films, and include music score excerpts as well as songs. Some will be familiar to you; others may not be.

To keep you on your toes, and hopefully encourage a little interaction, I’ve listed the movies alphabetically (which is not the order in which they are heard on the playlist) and, then, the release year of each film in playing order. Can you identify all of them? C’mon, give it a shot.

Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

• American Beauty
• Atonement
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Casablanca
• Doctor Zhivago
• Duck Soup
• Gigi
• The Godfather
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Hero
• The Hours
• It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Jarhead
• Juno
• Lilies of the Field
• Lolita
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Ocean’s Twelve
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
• Romeo & Juliet
• Singin’ in the Rain
• Sophie’s Choice
• The Sound of Music
• There Will Be Blood
• The Thin Red Line
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Tree of Life
• Vertigo

1. (1965)
2. (1969)
3. (1962)
4. (1968)
5. (2007)
6. (1961)
7. (1958)
8. (2007)
9. (2000)
10. (1986)
11. (1963)
12. (1952)
13. (1933)
14. (2000)
15. (2011)
16. (1965)
17. (1969)
18. (2005)
19. (2004)
20. (2007)
21. (2002)
22. (1999)
23. (2004)
24. (2003)
25. (1958)
26. (1982)
27. (1962)
28. (1966)
29. (1942)
30. (1972)
31. (1963)