Mark maintains an unranked Top 30 Movies collection, alongside a broader list of favorite movie clips, which span the Golden Age of cinema to modern blockbusters.
His selected top favorites across different cinematic eras showcase a deep appreciation for classic epics, suspenseful westerns, war dramas, and high-octane modern sci-fi, some examples below:
Golden Age & Classic Cinema (1940s–1950s)
- El Cid (1961)
- Scaramouche (1952)
- The Song of Bernadette (1943)
- Warlock (1959)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
War & Action Epics (1960s–1970s)
- Zulu (1964)
- The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
- First Blood (1982)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
Modern Blockbusters & Comedies (1980s–Present)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Aliens (1986)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Wall Street (1987)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
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Mark Whitfield
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After graduating in Computing in 1990, I accepted a position as a programmer at a Runcorn based software house specialising in electronic banking software, namely sp/ARCHITECT-BANK on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop). This was before the internet became more prevalent and so the notion of enabling desktop access to company accounts for inter-account transfers and book keeping was still quite a cutting edge idea (and smartphones only ever hinted at in Space 1999). The company was called The Software Partnership (which was taken over by Deluxe Data in 1994).
I spent 5 years in Runcorn developing code for SP/ARCHITECT for various banks like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank and Girofon (Denmark) to name but a few. I then moved onto a software house in Salford Quays for further bank facing projects. After a further 23 years in the IT industry and now a Senior IT Project Manager (both Agile and Waterfall delivery), I thought I would echo out my Career Profile in this corner of the internet for quick and easy access.
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