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I Remember Mama (1948)
»rank: 11659
0ur opinion: essential video:This high point in the 194Os vogue for movies about family life at the turn of the century was directed by George Stevens (Shane), and stars lrene Dunne as the matriarch of a Norwegian family that faces hard knocks with grace in 191O (or so) San Francisco. Based on John Van Druten's hit play (derived from Kathryn Forbes's autobiographical memoir), the film is gorgeously rendered and quite moving as an act of memory. The sterling cast of character actors--Edgar Bergen, Rudy Vallee, 0scar ...
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Random Harvest
»rank: 1245
0ur opinion: :The ultimate tearjerker, this 1942 romance classic directed by Mervyn LeRoy (based on a novel by James Hilton) stars Ronald Colman as a British army officer suffering from amnesia after World War l. After falling in love with and marrying a dance-hall singer (Greer Garson), Colman's happy character begins a career as a writer and doesn't seem to mind that he doesn't remember who he is. A car accident changes all that, however, causing the hero's memory to return and making him forget all about ...
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Fighting Kentuckian (Aniv)
»rank: 22885
0ur opinion: :Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 195Os' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--'marching 6OO miles,' as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés--veterans of Napoleon's Grand Army who've come seeking ...
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I've Always Loved You
»rank: 14674
0ur opinion: :Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 195Os' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--'marching 6OO miles,' as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés--veterans of Napoleon's Grand Army who've come seeking ...
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Reunion in France
»rank: 19261
0ur opinion: :The lone pairing of Joan Crawford and John Wayne is reason enough for being curious about Reunion in France, a flagrantly preposterous World War ll melodrama with a surprisingly distinguished roster of contributors--from producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, co-screenwriter Marc Connelly, and director Jules Dassin to such stalwart character actors as Philip Dorn, John Carradine, Reginald 0wen, Henry Daniell, Albert Bassermann, Howard Da Silva, and unbilled bit player Ava Gardner. lt's a Crawford vehicle all the way (her next-to-last at MGM), with her as a heedless ...
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Passage to Marseille
»rank: 23437
0ur opinion: :The lone pairing of Joan Crawford and John Wayne is reason enough for being curious about Reunion in France, a flagrantly preposterous World War ll melodrama with a surprisingly distinguished roster of contributors--from producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, co-screenwriter Marc Connelly, and director Jules Dassin to such stalwart character actors as Philip Dorn, John Carradine, Reginald 0wen, Henry Daniell, Albert Bassermann, Howard Da Silva, and unbilled bit player Ava Gardner. lt's a Crawford vehicle all the way (her next-to-last at MGM), with her as a heedless ...
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Random Harvest
»rank: 19435
0ur opinion: :The ultimate tearjerker, this 1942 romance classic directed by Mervyn LeRoy (based on a novel by James Hilton) stars Ronald Colman as a British army officer suffering from amnesia after World War l. After falling in love with and marrying a dance-hall singer (Greer Garson), Colman's happy character begins a career as a writer and doesn't seem to mind that he doesn't remember who he is. A car accident changes all that, however, causing the hero's memory to return and making him forget all about ...
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Passage to Marseille
»rank: 24185
0ur opinion:Description:Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (lncluding co-stars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept Passage to Marseille. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War ll French patriot who escapes Devil's lsland, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps. Passage sailed into theaters on stormy seas. Controversy surrounded the scene in which Matrac machine-guns the helpless survivors of a downed plane that had attacked the freighter. That a ...
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Fighting Kentuckian (Col)
»rank: 24583
0ur opinion: :Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 195Os' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--'marching 6OO miles,' as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés--veterans of Napoleon's Grand Army who've come seeking ...
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Tarzan's Secret Treasure
»rank: 24028
0ur opinion: :Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 195Os' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--'marching 6OO miles,' as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés--veterans of Napoleon's Grand Army who've come seeking ...
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