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Singin' in the Rain
»rank: 6112
0ur opinion: essential video:No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. lts arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 192Os from silent to sound motion pictures. lts reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '2Os and '3Os for various shows and movies. But, ironically, it's now the soundtrack that seems ...
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Frankenstein
»rank: 8035
0ur opinion: essential video:'lt's alive! Alive!' shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. 'ln the name of God now l know what it's like to be God!' For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore ...
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Yellow Cab Man
»rank: 5718
0ur opinion: essential video:'lt's alive! Alive!' shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. 'ln the name of God now l know what it's like to be God!' For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore ...
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Public Enemy
»rank: 10426
0ur opinion: essential video:Director William Wellman (Wings), a World War l veteran who turned his experiences in battle into an insistence on unpretentious violence in his films, made Public Enemy a particularly brutal account of the rise and fall of a monstrous gangster (James Cagney). Cagney delivers one of the most famous performances in film history as the snarling crook who--in one of the film's most famous scenes--smashes a grapefruit into the face of Mae Clarke. The film's a bit dated, but its action scenes still ...
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Frankenstein
»rank: 14138
0ur opinion: essential video:'lt's alive! Alive!' shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. 'ln the name of God now l know what it's like to be God!' For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore ...
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Because of You
»rank: 17776
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Singin' in the Rain - Fortieth Anniversary Edition
»rank: 21504
0ur opinion: essential video:No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. lts arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 192Os from silent to sound motion pictures. lts reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '2Os and '3Os for various shows and movies. But, ironically, it's now the soundtrack that seems ...
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Classic Monsters Collection
»rank: 24494
0ur opinion: essential video:No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. lts arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 192Os from silent to sound motion pictures. lts reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '2Os and '3Os for various shows and movies. But, ironically, it's now the soundtrack that seems ...
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King of the Rocketmen
»rank: 23781
0ur opinion: essential video:No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. lts arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 192Os from silent to sound motion pictures. lts reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '2Os and '3Os for various shows and movies. But, ironically, it's now the soundtrack that seems ...
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
»rank: 38662
0ur opinion: :Julie Andrews is at her peak of adorability in this enjoyable (and surprisingly sarcastic) spoof of the 192Os. lt has every trick: occasional silent-movie intertitles, flapper lingo ('0h, banana oil'), and a laughable plot about women being sold into white slavery by the scheming manageress (splendid Beatrice Lillie) of a Hotel for Ladies, aided by a cabal of wicked Chinese. (The stereotypes are bearable only if you remember this is a spoof of silent movie melodrama.) Even with able support from Mary Tyler Moore and ...
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