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I Remember Mama
»rank: 3005
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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Random Harvest
»rank: 6999
0ur opinion: :A showgirl married to a war victim of amnesia is soon forgotten when his amnesia is reversed. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O1/11/2OO5 Starring: Ronald Colman Greer Garson Run time: 126 minutes Rating: Nr :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 ...
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The Fighting Kentuckian
»rank: 33402
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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Ziegfeld Girl
»rank: 34618
0ur opinion:Description:An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a Ziegfeld Girl. Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively ...
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Underground
»rank: 80795
0ur opinion:Description:- Set during the early days of World War ll, Underground is an intriguing tale of danger and suspense set in Nazi Germany starring Jeffrey Lynn (Butterfield 8) and Philip Dorn (Spy Hunt).- Celebrated director Vincent Sherman (Backfire, The Adventures of Don Juan, All Through the Night, Mr. Skeffington) lives up to his reputation for directing some of the most memorable films made in the 4O’s, 5O’s and even 6O’s with this story of the anti-Nazi underground and its attempts to usurp the Nazi regime ...
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Paris Underground
»rank: 91160
0ur opinion:Description:During the German occupation of World War ll, an American wife in Paris, Kitty (Constance Bennett), arranges with her older friend, Emmeline (Gracie Fields), to smuggle a British soldier out of France.
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The John Wayne Collection, Vol. 2
»rank: 140438
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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