Fa parte degli undici film preferiti da Quentin Tarantino che per la rivista -EMPIRE MAGAZINE- nel 2008 ha stilato una sua personalissima classifica e lo ha inserito in settima posizione.
* 1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
* 2. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
* 3. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
* 4. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
* 5. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
* 6. 5 Fingers of Death / King Boxer (1972, Chang-hwa Jeong)
* 7. Pandora's Box (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
* 8. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
* 9. Unfaithfully Yours (1948, Preston Sturges)
* 10. 5 Graves to Cairo (1943, Billy Wilder)
* 11. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg).
Choices 2, 3 and 4 are marked as "interchangeable".