The movie I've seen more than any other is probably the 1932 comedy Horse Feathers. That's a Marx Brothers vehicle (one of the early ones when Zeppo was still in the group), set on a college campus. They made it before the Production Code was introduced, so there's a lot of off-colour humour: a scene in a speakeasy, and a sexy woman euphemistically known as the College Widow. There are a lot of great lines like "The faculty can keep their seats. There'll be no diving for this cigar!" Groucho plays college president Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and has a funny song that goes, "Whatever it is, I'm against it!"
I've seen The Maltese Falcon more often than I can count. (Yet it never loses its fearsome freshness!) And I've seen several musicals quite a bit, like Mary Poppins and Oliver! The other week I saw the spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West for the fifth time! Another western I've seen a lot is John Ford's The Searchers. And I've seen Citizen Kane quite a bit. Next week I may see Stanley Kramer's slapstick comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World for at least the fifth time. I've seen Lawrence of Arabia a lot, but I sometimes leave in the intermission, before it gets gory!
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