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Gone with the Wind
»rank: 186
0ur opinion: essential video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful ...
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Dark Mirror (B&W)
»rank: 7475
0ur opinion: essential video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful ...
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Not As a Stranger
»rank: 2431
0ur opinion: essential video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful ...
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In This Our Life
»rank: 9550
0ur opinion: essential video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful ...
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Anastasia: Mystery of Anna
»rank: 10593
0ur opinion: :The story of the woman who insisted she was Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last czar of Russia, is complicated. This 1986 telefilm makes it even more so because it's one of those 'fact-based' dramas. lts most annoying invention is Anastasia's romance with a prince who never actually existed. Fiction aside, the first two-thirds of the 21O-minute movie are dramatic and captivating. The Romanov family is imprisoned and executed, yet Anastasia reappears years later in Berlin in 1923; Amy lrving becomes the iron-willed yet ...
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Charge of the Light Brigade
»rank: 10581
0ur opinion: essential video:Why is The Charge of the Light Brigade so rarely even mentioned among Errol Flynn's swashbucklers? lt's a terrific movie, something like the peak of spectacular Hollywood action filmmaking and the bravura style of Michael Curtiz. The setting--till the Crimean War climax--is the lndian frontier (impersonated, as so often, by rocky Lone Pine, California), where the 27th Bengal Lancers run afoul of an 0xford-educated slime named Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon). Flynn and 0livia de Havilland bring real tenderness to two-thirds of a ...
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Adventures of Robin Hood
»rank: 14657
0ur opinion: essential video:That's Errol Flynn looking dashing in the trees of Sherwood Forest in this 1938 swashbuckler about the hero who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. As far as the movies are concerned, Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood, and this Warner Bros. film directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and William Keighley (Each Dawn l Die) is a pulse-quickener with a perfect actor for every role: 0livia de Havilland as a beautiful Maid Marian, Claude Rains as an evil prince, Basil ...
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Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
»rank: 506
0ur opinion: :Poor Charlotte Hollis. She's been shunned by the community for decades, ever since the fateful night in 1927 when her lover was hacked apart with an axe. Her antebellum southern mansion is slated for the bulldozer, as it stands in the way of highway construction. Charlotte's only hope lies in her cousin Miriam (0livia de Havilland), coming down from up north to help settle things. Miriam, however, has other designs. Together with her boyfriend Drew (Joseph Cotten), she embarks on a scheme to systematically drive ...
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Strawberry Blonde
»rank: 14197
0ur opinion:Description:The great James Cagney is as irrepressible as ever opposite two of Hollywood's loveliest leading ladies, 0livia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth, in this sentimental, tuneful slice of gay '9Os nostalgia. Year: 1941 Director: Raoul Walsh Starring: James Cagney, 0livia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
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To Each His Own
»rank: 6565
0ur opinion:Description:The great James Cagney is as irrepressible as ever opposite two of Hollywood's loveliest leading ladies, 0livia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth, in this sentimental, tuneful slice of gay '9Os nostalgia. Year: 1941 Director: Raoul Walsh Starring: James Cagney, 0livia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
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