Top Movie Moments

Great movie moments may include Marilyn Monroe's dress billowing upward in The Seven Year Itch or Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments.

Now, the latest installment of Entertainment Weekly magazine has gathered together what it calls the top 100 movie moments of all time. Staff writer Dave Karger gave CBS This Morning a ride on memory lane through some of the best films.

"We tried to pick the moments or scenes or lines or even behind-the-scenes deals that not only made a stir in their time period, but have had lasting influences since they happened," says Karger.

The list covers only from 1950 to the present and Karger highlights the top five films:

1. Francis Ford Coppola's Family jewel, The Godfather.

The whole issue talks about moments, but in The Godfather, the entire movie is the moment, says Karger. From start to finish, it's classic in every frame. Every relationship is unforgettable; every line of dialogue is perfect. The film is an instant classic, a huge hit, an Oscar winner, he notes.

2. Janet Leigh Showers in Psycho.

A high point from the master of suspenseful filmmaking. The movie changed the way movies scare us.

"It was all in your mind. The way that Hitchcock cut it altogether, it makes the audience do the work. You think you're seeing the blood and gore, but you're not," Karger notes.

And that subtlety is finding its way back into movies now, after the gore-fests of the '70s and '80s, in films like Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project.

3. Marlon Brando Bellows in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Before Brando, movie acting was hyperbolic, stagy. Brando brought it into an era of realism, modernism. We see his impact to this day, the way our best actors approach their roles, says Karger, who calls Brando "one of the best actors, if not the best."

4. Star Wars' F/X Blast Other Movies to Smithereens.

In the middle of the '70s, amid all those gritty movies, came this feel-good action film. The effects were like nothing seen before, and changed the way movies were made and marketed ever since.

5. Steven Spielberg Makes the Best of Jaws.

This film had every problem a movie could have during production: shooting delays, budget overruns, over-schedule, a disaster in the making.

"It was the first proof of Steven Spielberg's commercial genius. This was a movie that transcended anything that could be a little bit cheesy and scared the pants out of the whole country and for two years after it came out in '75 was the highest grossing movie ever," adds Karger.

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