The original Lost World, Young Frankenstein, The Thing (Hawks & Carpenters), The Thin Man, and Fermat's Room (a cracking low budget Spanish film that puts maths & murder in the same small room)

?

... never have... but I confess to falling asleep several times!

Hitch, Besson,

lots of the Hammer guys who worked wonders with very little.. (Thorley Walters, Andre Morrell, the man himself Peter Cushing)... and of course Leslie Banks, star of Arsenal Stadium Mystery, overcoming severe disfigurement from WW1 to play my favourite copper

Roger Zelazney, mad man Dick, and Dick Matheson

... anything by the various Gongbongers, Todd, even some Dead, and John Martin for the quiet moments

The Wild Numbers, Uncle Petros & Golbach's Conjecture, The Drawing of the Dark

beer... I'd want to go out singin' n dancin'...

membership to a few cracking organisations