After I offered a list last Sunday of the 10 best movies set in Pennsylvania, dozens e-mailed with what they considered omissions.

"Dominick and Eugene" and the original "Angels in the Outfield" each got five votes, while "The Sixth Sense," "Wonder Boys"' and "Valley of Decision" received three apiece. But it was "Slap Shot," the comic 1977 send-up of minor league hockey, that led a field of dozens with seven votes.

"S'matter?" asked John DeLallo of Johnstown, where the movie was filmed. "You don't like hockey?"

I don't know the red line from the blue line, but that's not my beef with "Slap Shot." I'd have it in my Top 10 (listed at the column's end) if just once in this funny, bawdy flick somebody admits to being in Johnstown, Pa.

The movie is set in fictional "Charlestown," and when the hero points to the statue of Morley's dog, he says the Johnstown icon is "the dog that saved Charlestown." For this the city endured floods?

That's my own quirky standard, though. Maybe "Slap Shot" will get a waiver if Pittsburgh Filmmakers gets up a film series with a Pennsylvania theme.

"Maybe not three straight days of Pennsylvania films but a series that might run once a week, like the Sunday series we have at Regent Square," Charlie Humphrey, Filmmakers executive director, said.

I hope they can find good prints of the old ones because my own viewing has serious gaps. I knew Boris Karloff played the monster in "Frankenstein," but had no idea he also was Chief Guyasuta in "Unconquered," Cecil B. DeMille's ahistorical look at Fort Pitt.

Jim Wilson of Bethel Park pointed that out, saying colonial period re-enactors can and will do Mr. Karloff's scenes. For that, I'd spring for popcorn.

The Filmmakers might use some of these stories if they do the film series.

Terry Fitzgerald of Crafton grew up in Schuykill County and remembers when "The Molly Maguires" hit his local theater in 1970. That movie was about the bloody 19th-century struggle in coal mines there, and it aroused a little old man in town, known only as "The Boarder," whose life until then had been a shuttle from his rented room to "his seat in Jackie Williams' bar up the street."

Mr. Fitzgerald had never heard a peep from this guy, but as the town sat mesmerized in the Ritz Theater by the Sean Connery/Richard Harris movie that was filmed just miles away, "The Boarder stood up, shook his cane at the screen and yelled, 'That's it! That's it! You tell 'em!' "

Now that's a movie.

I printed a sheaf of stories like that received from Pennsylvanians who connected with movies in ways outlanders could not fathom. The correspondence inspired me to call an old Johnstown friend to hear again how Paul Newman gave him the finger 30 years ago.

Mike Kane, then a senior at Bishop McCort High School in Johnstown, was in his friend Tim Rowley's truck when they drove down to see the movie shoot in town -- and drove right onto the set of "Slap Shot." As they realized what they had done, Mr. Kane said, they looked in the beat-up car coming their way and "there was Paul Newman giving us the Hawaiian good luck sign with kind of a smile on his face."

I think about that every time I buy a jar of Newman's tomato sauce. Maybe the Filmmakers could put "Slap Shot" in a double bill with "Pittsburgh," so I can find out how John Wayne and Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges wound up in a picture together.

Winner in a landslide for worst picture set in Pennsylvania was "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh," the 1979 movie that began and ended Julius Erving's film career. "Sudden Death," "Bloodsucking Pharaohs of Pittsburgh," "Passed Away" "Inspector Gadget" and "Kingpin" also got votes.

Votes for best movies went to "Mrs. Soffel," "Gung Ho," "Dawn of the Dead," "Cemetery Club," "Gettysburg," "The Young Philadelphians," "Flashdance," "Striking Distance," "Allegheny Uprising," "Martin," "The Blob," "Screwed" and "Dogma," though the last wasn't set in Pennsylvania, just filmed here. Other readers endorsed various movies on my initial Top 10: "The Deer Hunter," "Groundhog Day," "The Philadelphia Story," "Rocky," "Witness," "Philadelphia," "The Molly Maguires," "Trading Places," "The Bread, My Sweet" and "All The Right Moves."