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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
»rank: 4460
0ur opinion: :There is no more ringing title among World War ll movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 4OO-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWll pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee eloquently defined both its virtues and limitations as 'a big-studio, big-scale film, free of artistic pretension ... transformed by ...
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Make Haste to Live
»rank: 8804
0ur opinion: :There is no more ringing title among World War ll movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 4OO-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWll pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee eloquently defined both its virtues and limitations as 'a big-studio, big-scale film, free of artistic pretension ... transformed by ...
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Keeper of the Flame
»rank: 11526
0ur opinion: :There is no more ringing title among World War ll movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 4OO-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWll pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee eloquently defined both its virtues and limitations as 'a big-studio, big-scale film, free of artistic pretension ... transformed by ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
»rank: 7728
0ur opinion: :There is no more ringing title among World War ll movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 4OO-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWll pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee eloquently defined both its virtues and limitations as 'a big-studio, big-scale film, free of artistic pretension ... transformed by ...
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For Me & My Gal
»rank: 6920
0ur opinion: essential video:'Say, he looks like an actor,' says the platform conductor. And with that introduction, Gene Kelly steps off the train and into his film career. After starring on Broadway in Pal Joey, Kelly made his film debut in For Me and My Gal opposite Judy Garland, with the pair playing vaudeville performers who team up to find success and, of course, romance. But just when things are looking up, World War l intervenes, and Kelly has to take drastic measures to keep a ...
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Harvey Girls
»rank: 13978
0ur opinion: :Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why '0n the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe' won the best song 0scar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines ...
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Duel at Silver Creek
»rank: 17175
0ur opinion: :Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why '0n the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe' won the best song 0scar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines ...
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Tribute to a Bad Man
»rank: 4656
0ur opinion: :Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why '0n the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe' won the best song 0scar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines ...
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Johnny Belinda (1948)
»rank: 15540
0ur opinion: :Jane Wyman won a Best Actress 0scar for her strong performance in this touching drama of a deaf-mute girl (Wyman) and a doctor (Lew Ayres) who works closely with her. The story (based on Elmer Harris's play) seems intent on dumping one grievance after another onto the poor character, from rape to community pressure to give up the resultant baby, plus a terrible loss sustained somewhere in there as well. But Wyman and director Jean Negulesco manage to make the film more than the sum ...
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Black Castle
»rank: 22361
0ur opinion: :Jane Wyman won a Best Actress 0scar for her strong performance in this touching drama of a deaf-mute girl (Wyman) and a doctor (Lew Ayres) who works closely with her. The story (based on Elmer Harris's play) seems intent on dumping one grievance after another onto the poor character, from rape to community pressure to give up the resultant baby, plus a terrible loss sustained somewhere in there as well. But Wyman and director Jean Negulesco manage to make the film more than the sum ...
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