AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001)

Country of Origin: USA
Dates of Original Broadcast: 12 June 2001
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: black and white/colour
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: AFI/Smith-Hemion Productions
Executive Producer: Gary Smith
Executive Producer For the AFI: Frederick S. Pierce
Producers: Bob Gazzale, Dann Netter, Fred A. Rappoport
Production Coordinator: Adam Kosberg

SCRIPT
Script: Bob Gazzale
Creative Consultant: Richard Schickel

DIRECTION
Director: Gary Smith

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Debra Light, Barry A. O'Brien, Tim Preston

MUSIC
Musical Director: Ian Fraser

OTHER CREW
Special Material: Monty Farrell

CAST
Harrison Ford (host)
Anne Archer (herself)
Linda Blair (herself)
Ernest Borgnine (himself)
Sandra Bullock (herself)
John Carpenter (himself)
Jamie Lee Curtis (herself)
John Frankenheimer (himself)
Morgan Freeman (himself)
William Friedkin (himself)
Jerry Goldsmith (himself)
Tippi Hedren (herself)
Charlton Heston (himself)
Djimon Hounsou (himself)
Anjelica Huston (herself)
Samuel L. Jackson (himself)
Denis Leary (himself)
Janet Leigh (herself)
Lucy Liu (herself)
Sidney Lumet (himself)
Eva Marie Saint (herself)
Roy Scheider (himself)
Martin Scorsese (himself)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (himself)
Ridley Scott (himself)
Steven Seagal (himself)
Steven Spielberg (himself)
Donald Sutherland (himself)
Jean-Claude Van Damme (himself)
M. Emmet Walsh (himself)
Carl Weathers (himself)
John Williams (himself)
Stan Winston (himself)
Richard Schickel (himself)
Leonard Maltin (himself)
Kim Hunter (herself)
Patricia Hitchcock (herself)
Jean Picker Firstenberg (herself)
Malcolm McDowell (himself)
Ben Affleck (himself)
Matt Damon (himself)
Lynda Day George (herself)
Charles Durning (himself)
Jane Fonda (herself)
Glenn Ford (himself)
Mark Hamill (himself)
Josh Hartnett (himself)
Katharine Hepburn (herself)
Hal Holbrook (himself)
Jack Lemmon (himself)
Karl Malden (himself)
Gregory Peck (himself)
Andrew Prine (himself)
Bo Svenson (himself)
Lon Chaney (himself (in archive footage))

A look at some of Hollywood's best-loved thrillers and horror movies.

2001
June
12: USA - television broadcast

2002
Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Special Class Program (Gary Smith, Dann Netter, Bob Gazzale, Fred A. Rappoport,
Frederick S. Pierce) - nominated

SEQUEL TO
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999)
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000)

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Alien (1979)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Batman (1989)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Birds (1963)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blood Simple (1984)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Braveheart (1995)
Cape Fear (1962)
Carrie (1976)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
The China Syndrome (1979)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Contact (1997)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Deliverance (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dracula (1931)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Exorcist (1973)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Frankenstein (1931)
Gaslight (1944)
Gladiator (2000)
Goldfinger (1964)
Halloween (1978)
Independence Day (1996)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jaws (1975)
Jurassic Park (1993)
King Kong (1933)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Matrix (1999)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Omen (1976)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Poltergeist (1982)
Psycho (1960)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Superman II (1980)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Terminator (1984)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Vertigo (1958)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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