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Harvey
»rank: 3790
0ur opinion: essential video:lt's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce ...
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Private War of Major Benson
»rank: 3442
0ur opinion: essential video:lt's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce ...
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Follow the Sun: The Ben Hogan Story
»rank: 2977
0ur opinion: essential video:lt's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce ...
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
»rank: 2276
0ur opinion: essential video:lt's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce ...
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Mad About Music
»rank: 11269
0ur opinion: essential video:lt's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce ...
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Theodora Goes Wild
»rank: 14069
0ur opinion: essential video:lt's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce ...
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Hangmen Also Die
»rank: 10725
0ur opinion: :Fritz Lang invited Bertolt Brecht to Hollywood to write the screenplay of this 1943 propaganda film, based on the events surrounding the assassination of Richard Heydrich, the despised chief of the Nazi occupying forces in Prague. Brecht and Lang's partnership ended bitterly when Lang was forced to cut over half of Brecht's lengthy treatment, and Brecht himself was cheated of his screenplay credit by cowriter John Wexley (the credits now attribute the original story to Lang and 'Bert Brecht'). But seen today, the film is ...
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Nice Girl (B&W)
»rank: 16165
0ur opinion: :Fritz Lang invited Bertolt Brecht to Hollywood to write the screenplay of this 1943 propaganda film, based on the events surrounding the assassination of Richard Heydrich, the despised chief of the Nazi occupying forces in Prague. Brecht and Lang's partnership ended bitterly when Lang was forced to cut over half of Brecht's lengthy treatment, and Brecht himself was cheated of his screenplay credit by cowriter John Wexley (the credits now attribute the original story to Lang and 'Bert Brecht'). But seen today, the film is ...
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Reluctant Dragon
»rank: 13395
0ur opinion: :Fritz Lang invited Bertolt Brecht to Hollywood to write the screenplay of this 1943 propaganda film, based on the events surrounding the assassination of Richard Heydrich, the despised chief of the Nazi occupying forces in Prague. Brecht and Lang's partnership ended bitterly when Lang was forced to cut over half of Brecht's lengthy treatment, and Brecht himself was cheated of his screenplay credit by cowriter John Wexley (the credits now attribute the original story to Lang and 'Bert Brecht'). But seen today, the film is ...
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Perfect Marriage
»rank: 19473
0ur opinion: :Fritz Lang invited Bertolt Brecht to Hollywood to write the screenplay of this 1943 propaganda film, based on the events surrounding the assassination of Richard Heydrich, the despised chief of the Nazi occupying forces in Prague. Brecht and Lang's partnership ended bitterly when Lang was forced to cut over half of Brecht's lengthy treatment, and Brecht himself was cheated of his screenplay credit by cowriter John Wexley (the credits now attribute the original story to Lang and 'Bert Brecht'). But seen today, the film is ...
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