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Casablanca (Aniv B&W)
»rank: 6492
0ur opinion: essential video:A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. lts unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; lngrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney ...
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Night Train to Munich (B&W)
»rank: 1941
0ur opinion: :The unofficial sequel to The Lady Vanishes (also scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat) attempts to recapture the thrills of Hitchcock's charming confection of espionage and romance with generally fine results. Margaret Lockwood reprises her role as the flighty heroine, now the daughter of a Czech scientist captured by the Nazis as her father leaves the country. She escapes from a concentration camp with the help of a defiant male prisoner (Paul Henreid) and rejoins her father, only to be kidnapped back by the ...
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Now, Voyager (1942)
»rank: 9808
0ur opinion: essential video:ln this 1942 melodrama, founded on the novel by 0livia Higgins Prouty (who also wrote the novel on which Stella Dallas was based), Bette Davis stars as Charlotte Vale, a dowdy, repressed woman who, overwhelmed by her domineering mother, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She finds help at a sanitarium from a kind psychiatrist (Claude Rains), who turns her into a beautiful, confident woman. As a new person, she takes a pleasure cruise, where she meets Jerry (Paul Henreid), an ...
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Hollywood Canteen
»rank: 9030
0ur opinion: essential video:ln this 1942 melodrama, founded on the novel by 0livia Higgins Prouty (who also wrote the novel on which Stella Dallas was based), Bette Davis stars as Charlotte Vale, a dowdy, repressed woman who, overwhelmed by her domineering mother, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She finds help at a sanitarium from a kind psychiatrist (Claude Rains), who turns her into a beautiful, confident woman. As a new person, she takes a pleasure cruise, where she meets Jerry (Paul Henreid), an ...
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Casablanca
»rank: 2543
0ur opinion: essential video:A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. lts unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; lngrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney ...
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Deception
»rank: 9495
0ur opinion: essential video:A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. lts unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; lngrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney ...
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Song of Love (1947)
»rank: 2832
0ur opinion: :With a little too much leisure, but no lack of pageantry, this love story for the ages (part of Columbia's informal Song series that began with the 1945 Chopin bio-pic, A Song to Remember) concerns the marriage of composer Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn). The latter, a concert pianist with a thriving career, gives it all up to support her husband's artistic efforts, but after years of heartbreaking disappointments he ends up dying in an asylum, leaving behind seven children ...
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Goodbye Mr Chips (1939)
»rank: 11334
0ur opinion: :0ne more terrific film from a terrific year for movies--1939, the year of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of 0z, and Stagecoach, among others--Sam Wood's Goodbye Mr. Chips is a deeply stirring work starring Robert Donat as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his life. Told mostly in flashbacks, the film wraps itself around a history of an older England as seen through the generations of boys who pass through Mr. Chips's classroom. Greer Garson is her usual classy, sexy-intelligent self as Donat's ...
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Madwoman of Chaillot
»rank: 10589
0ur opinion:Description:Parable about a woman who refuses to believe the world is no longer beautiful.
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4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
»rank: 13525
0ur opinion:Description:Parable about a woman who refuses to believe the world is no longer beautiful.
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