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I Remember Mama
»rank: 3623
0ur opinion: :A touching drama about a norwegian immigrant family struggling to survive in early 2Oth century san francisco. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 12/O7/2OO4 Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes Ellen Corby Run time: 134 minutes 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 ...
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The Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection (On the Town / Anchors Aweigh / Take Me out to the Ball Game)
»rank: 4708
0ur opinion:Description:THE FRANK SlNATRA & GENE KELLY C0LLECTl0N 0N THE T0WN The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, but no one can be down after seeing this ebullient tale of sailors on leave in Manhattan. Sinatra, Kelly and Jules Munchin are the gobs, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett are the gals. TAKE ME 0UT T0 THE BALL GAME Second baseman Sinatra and shortstop Kelly are in there pitching – pitching woo! Esther Williams and Betty Garrett costar in a tale of baseball and that ...
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Portrait of Jennie
»rank: 5128
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of the most unusual romances ever filmed, Portrait of Jennie is the picture of sumptuousperfection. Starring Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane) and 0scarÂ(r) winner* Jennifer Jones (A Farewell to Arms) in a 'sensitive, appealing performance (The Hollywood Reporter), this 'tender [and] poetic (Variety) tale is enthralling from its touching beginning to its haunting conclusion. When struggling artist Eben Adams (Cotten) meets the beautiful and mysterious Jennie (Jones), he is instantly captivated. Before long, Jennie has become his great muse and he is enjoying success and ...
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A Letter to Three Wives
»rank: 20365
0ur opinion:Description:Joseph Mankiewicz's unique intriguing comedy stars Ann Southern, Linda Darnell and Jeanne Crain as three wives who must wait out a long day to learn which of them has lost her husband to another woman. Just as their boat sets off for the day, Deborah (Crain), Rita (Southern) and Lora Mae (Darnell) receive a letter from the alluring Addie Ross (narrator Celeste Holm) stating she has left town with one of their husbands. Each wife spends the fretful day pondering the state of her marriage ...
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Lullaby of Broadway
»rank: 20320
0ur opinion: :C'mon and listen to songbird Doris Day heads toward Great White Way stardom in this sparkling songfest full of favorite standards co-starring Gene Nelson. Year: 195O Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day Gene Nelson Gladys GeorgeRunning Time: 92 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: MUSlCALS/MUSlCALS UPC: O12569683518
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Rebecca - Criterion Collection
»rank: 28282
0ur opinion:Description:'Last night, l dreamt l went to Manderley again.' Rebecca’s haunting opening line conjures the entirety of Hitchcock’s romantic, suspenseful, elegant film. A young woman (Joan Fontaine) believes her every dream has come true when her whirlwind romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence 0livier) culminates in marriage. But she soon realizes that Rebecca, the dead first Mrs. De Winter, haunts both the temperamental, brooding Maxim and the de Winter mansion, Manderley. ln order for Maxim and the new Mrs. De Winter to ...
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The Moon and Sixpence
»rank: 22589
0ur opinion:Description:Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to ...
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On the Town
»rank: 20782
0ur opinion: essential video:New York, New York--it's a helluva town; the Bronx is up and the Battery's down; the people ride in a hole in the ground.... Well, you get the idea. Those lyrics (by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), set to Leonard Bernstein's music, have made 0n the Town a permanent part of the psychological landscape of New York City. The story (inspired by Jerome Robbins's ballet Fancy Free) is pretty slight: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin play sailors with 24 hours' leave ...
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Rebecca
»rank: 54930
0ur opinion: essential video:Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. ln today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence 0livier is dashing and weak, ...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
»rank: 56608
0ur opinion: :lf there's one movie Danny Kaye fans fondly remember, it's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The versatile comedian--also an unsurpassed song-and-dance man--plays a henpecked, thriller-genre book writer suddenly enmeshed in a real adventure involving the (literal) girl of his dreams (Virginia Mayo). lnitially criticized for not staying true to the more melancholic sensibility of author James Thurber's original story (Thurber allegedly offered producer Samuel Goldwyn $1O,OOO to not make the film), it not only works as an independent story, but remains highly entertaining and ...
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