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Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
»rank: 295
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 19O3, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 2Oth century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers ...
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Kismet (1955)
»rank: 218
0ur opinion: :Hollywood's excursions into Arabian Nights exotica don't come much daffier than Kismet, a 1955 MGM adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The score includes two standards, 'Baubles, Bangles, and Beads' and 'Stranger in Paradise,' but the blend of Broadway razzmatazz and Middle Eastern culture is, to say the least, awkward. (0ne comic number revolves around a man about to have his hand chopped off for thievery.) There's plenty here for musical fans to enjoy, and a well-cast Howard Keel does his chesty best as an ...
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Lovely to Look at
»rank: 4804
0ur opinion: :Hollywood's excursions into Arabian Nights exotica don't come much daffier than Kismet, a 1955 MGM adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The score includes two standards, 'Baubles, Bangles, and Beads' and 'Stranger in Paradise,' but the blend of Broadway razzmatazz and Middle Eastern culture is, to say the least, awkward. (0ne comic number revolves around a man about to have his hand chopped off for thievery.) There's plenty here for musical fans to enjoy, and a well-cast Howard Keel does his chesty best as an ...
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The Long, Long Trailer
»rank: 2831
0ur opinion: :Success in that newfangled television business prompted Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to bring their slapstick chemistry to the big screen, courtesy of a 28-foot monster of a trailer home. The Long, Long Trailer is one of those domestic nightmare movies, in which an ordinary couple has their existence upended by a new contraption: in this case, a lemon-yellow motor home. They make the mistake of towing said behemoth to Colorado, a honeymoon journey fraught with tilted axles and Lucy's ill-advised collection of large souvenir ...
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Goodbye Charlie
»rank: 3781
0ur opinion: :Success in that newfangled television business prompted Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to bring their slapstick chemistry to the big screen, courtesy of a 28-foot monster of a trailer home. The Long, Long Trailer is one of those domestic nightmare movies, in which an ordinary couple has their existence upended by a new contraption: in this case, a lemon-yellow motor home. They make the mistake of towing said behemoth to Colorado, a honeymoon journey fraught with tilted axles and Lucy's ill-advised collection of large souvenir ...
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Meet Me in St Louis
»rank: 10174
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 19O3, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 2Oth century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers ...
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Reluctant Debutante
»rank: 10133
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 19O3, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 2Oth century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers ...
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Meet Me in St. Louis
»rank: 10166
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 19O3, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 2Oth century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers ...
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Tea & Sympathy
»rank: 8562
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 19O3, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 2Oth century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers ...
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I Dood It
»rank: 7134
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 19O3, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 2Oth century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers ...
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