MASTER LIST #8: The 101 Greatest Action Movies

I discovered in doing this list that the action genre was really born in the 1960s. Before then, most movie "action" came in the form of war movies, westerns, film noir, and serials (to which the #1 film on the list is a complete homage). When the long-dominating western started to lose steam in the late 60s, the action genre--which, for the most part, is a wildly-differing urban-based one--