250 Films of Quarantine
Seattle attorney and cinephile Bob Cumbow shares his movie list
Published in 2021 Washington Super Lawyers magazine
By Beth Taylor on February 5, 2021
Bob Cumbow is a partner at the Seattle office of Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, where he focuses on trademark and copyright law. He also knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the art of film, having written books and articles on film for 50 years, taught film at Seattle University, and frequently lectured with the Seattle International Film Festival’s film education program.
Over the past year, the intellectual property attorney has kept track of the films he watched during quarantine—“catching up with movies I hadn’t seen before, and revisiting old friends that I’ve watched many times.”
As the lockdown approached the one-year mark, Cumbow’s list approached 250 films and series. Here they are, starting at Day 1 of Week 1, reading down each column.
| Tex Avery Screwball Classics Vol. 1 | The Maggie | Homicide | Dead Dicks | They Live |
| Duck Soup | Whisky Galore | Lust for Gold | I Walked with a Zombie | The Rock |
| Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | Taste the Blood of Dracula | Sayonara | The Colditz Story | The Outfit |
| Scissors | Moonfleet | Top Secret | The Grey Fox | Letting Him Go |
| Brawl in Cell Block 99 | You Only Live Once | The Molly Maguires | Beanpole | Fury (1936) |
| Dragged Across Concrete | “The Purple Room” (Thriller, season 1, ep. 6) | Point Break | “The Incredible Doctor Markesan” (Thriller, season 2, ep. 22) | Hangmen Also Die |
| Carlito’s Way | Underwater | River’s Edge |
Beau Travail |
The Wind and the Lion |
| Heat | Mad Max | Isle of the Dead | Brute Force | The Offence |
| Miami Vice | The Road Warrior | Peyton Place | Naked City | Queen Bee |
| Blackhat | Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | Death Rides a Horse | Barry Lyndon | Marlowe |
| All Through the Night | Mad Max: Fury Road | First Cow | The Comfort of Strangers | The Last Run |
| The Red House | Split Second | Hacksaw Ridge | Eyes Wide Shut | The Purple Plain |
| Passion | A Lady Without Passport | In Collaboration: Strasbourg 1518 | Black Gravel | The Man Who Would Be King |
| The Invisible Man (2020) | Desperate Search | The Sweet Hereafter | Formaldehyde | The Crown |
| Dr. No | The Big Combo | Exotica | The Fall | Outland |
| From Russia with Love | Thousand Pieces of Gold | South Pacific | Enola Holmes | Trapped |
| Goldfinger | Big Trouble in Little China | 52 Pick-Up | Clash by Night | Woman on the Beach |
| Asako I & II | Escape from L.A. | Went the Day Well? | The Dam Busters | Dionysus in ’69 |
| Leave Her to Heaven | Airplane! | Day of the Jackal | Miller’s Crossing | Timecop |
| Noises Off | Ice Cold in Alex | All the President’s Men | Blood Simple | 2010: The Year We Make Contact |
| Moby Dick | Goodnight My Love | The Parallax View | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Boogie Nights |
| Blowout | Dunkirk (1958) | The Snake Woman | Goodnight, My Love | Return to Seattle |
| Femme Fatale | On Dangerous Ground | The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake | Fargo | Cherry 2000 |
| The House by the River | The 4th Man | The Public Eye | Curse of the Undead | The Two Jakes |
| Experiment in Terror | The Handmaiden | The Face of Marble | The Leech Woman | Macao |
| The Talking of Pelham 123 | House of Games | Straight Shooting | The King of Marvin Gardens | American Buffalo |
| Cash on Demand | Police Squad! | Madchen in Uniform | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Dragnet |
| Vampire Circus | The Spanish Prisoner | Sunset Blvd | Mikey and Nicky | Pete Kelly’s Blues |
| The Quick and the Dead | State and Main | I Bury the Living | Wanda | Flaming Star |
| Return from the Ashes | Glengarry Glen Ross | The Godfather | The Wedding Party | Short Cuts |
| Robbery | Red Belt | The Godfather II | Greetings | Dead Again |
| Endless Night | Spartan | The Godfather III | Hi, Mom! | The Town |
| Bunny Lake is Missing | Sorcerer | Existenz | Murder a la Mod | After the Sunset |
| The Island Earth | Starship Troopers | Coroner Creek | Providers of Joy and Solace | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) |
| The Ipcress File | Airplane II | The Walking Hills | Smile | The Exquisite Thief |
| Destry Rides Again | The Law and Jake Wade | The Doolins of Oklahoma | The Moving Finger | The White Tiger |
| Blood on the Moon | Selfish Son | 7th Calvary | An Eye for the Girls | Drifting |
| The Big Heat | A Muse | The Year of Living Dangerously | Where Danger Lives | The Laughing Policeman |
| The Big Fix | Point Blank | Streets of Fire | Tension | Wonder Woman 1984 |
| Charade | Deliverance | “Girl with a Secret” (Thriller, season 1, ep. 9) | Criss Cross | Berlin Express |
| Bad Day at Black Rock | Days of Heaven | “The Cheaters” (Thriller, season 1, ep. 15) | Moonrise | Tank Girl |
| The Magnificent Seven | The Thin Red Line | Comes a Horseman | The Narrow Margin (1952) | Casablanca |
| The Wind (1986) | Slap Shot | When Forever Dies | The Narrow Margin (1990) | Good Night and Good Luck |
| Beau Geste | A Foreign Affair | Collateral | Rebecca (2020) | Shout at the Devil |
| Cult of the Cobra | Reflections in a Golden Eye | The French Connection | The Touch | The Woman in the Window |
| Dr. Cyclops | Wild Palms | The Quatermass Xperiment | The Presidio | Seven Days in May |
| The Land Unknown | The Young Lions | Quatermass 2: Enemy From Space | The Highway | Vast of Night |
| The Deadly Mantis | Straight Time | Hell-Bent | Sudden Death | Phantom of the Paradise |
| The Great Escape | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Red Ball Express | Carnival of Souls | The Silent Partner |
| Ride the Pink Horse | Heist | Mulan (2020) | Village of the Damned (1995) | Fatale |
| Robocop | Tricked | Bacurau | Wild Things | Dracula (1979) |
| The Old Dark House | The Tailor of Panama | Barbarosa | Sudden Fear | Force of Evil |
| Synchronic | The Little Things | The Russia House | Groundhog Day |
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