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100%
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Way Out West (1937) |
"
Way Out West (1937) is one of the best Laurel and Hardy comedy films, their only western spoof. Again, they reprise their most familiar"
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100%
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The Big Parade (1925) |
"
The Big Parade (1925) is director/producer King Vidor's most famous war film from the silent era -"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
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93%
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Father of the Bride (1950) |
"
Father of the Bride (1950) is a comedy of the travails and joys of a harrassed father experiencing his only daughter's expensive wedding."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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93%
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) |
"
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) is one of the best nautical adventure films of all time and one of MGM's greatest classics. The 18th century story"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
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Marty (1955) |
"
Marty (1955) is the poignant, simple character study of a lonely, unmarried, lovelorn middle-aged son who still lives with his love-smothering mother. By film's end,"
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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94%
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To Catch a Thief (2009) |
"
To Catch A Thief (1955) is a Hitchcock-directed, lush, entertaining comedy/thriller concerning jewel heists on the French Riviera. Although the polished caper film"
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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96%
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Horse Feathers (1932) |
"
Horse Feathers (1932), the fourth comedy masterpiece from the Marx Brothers, is an anarchic parody of higher education and a subversive attack"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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97%
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American Graffiti (1973) |
"
Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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97%
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GoodFellas (1990) |
"
Warner Bros.' GoodFellas (1990) is director Martin Scorsese's stylistic masterpiece - a follow-up film..."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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82%
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Mildred Pierce (1945) |
"
Mildred Pierce (1945) is a classic flashback film noir mixed with typical soap-operish elements of the woman's picture or "weeper," and with"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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95%
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She Done Him Wrong (1933) |
"
She Done Him Wrong (1933), from director Lowell Sherman, is Mae West's star-making, most famous film role as a liberated, racy woman"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
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To Have and Have Not (1944) |
"
To Have and Have Not (1944) was director Howard Hawks' wartime adventure masterpiece - a minor film classic loosely based upon part of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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98%
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Vertigo (1958) |
"
Vertigo (1958) is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most powerful, deep, and stunningly beautiful films (in widescreen 70 mm VistaVision) - it is a film noir"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
"
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is director John Ford's most famous epic drama - the classic adaptation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning, widely-read 1939 novel."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
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The Lady Eve (1941) |
"
The Lady Eve (1941) is a sophisticated romantic/sex comedy (with light romance and mock seduction scenes) - a classic screwball film,"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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98%
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
"
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the filmic retelling of T. E. Lawrence's heroic, autobiographical account of his own Arabian adventure, published in "The Seven Pillars"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
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Frankenstein (1931) |
"
The classic and definitive monster/horror film."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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85%
|
Splendor in the Grass (1961) |
"
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is another of director Elia Kazan's dramatic, hyperbolic films with daring and controversial content for its times - sexual repression"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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95%
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
"
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is one of the most taut, suspenseful, psychological thrillers ever produced."
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Night After Night (1932) |
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100%
|
I'm No Angel (1933) |
"
In the comedy classic, I'm No Angel (1933), one of Mae West's three best films, she is reunited with supporting star Cary Grant following their success in"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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94%
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) |
"
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) is a much-loved, critically-acclaimed, classic trial film, a dramatic tour-de-force of acting, a portrayal of childhood innocence, and"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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98%
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Roman Holiday (1953) |
"
Roman Holiday (1953) is a delightful, captivating fairy-tale romance shot entirely on location in Rome, and produced and directed by one of Hollywood's most"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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93%
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) |
"
Star Wars (1977), (aka Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope) is one of the most popular, profitable, entertaining, and successful science fiction/action - adventure films"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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97%
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Alien (1979) |
"
Alien (1979) is 20th Century Fox's extremely suspenseful, space science-fiction horror film about a menacing, unstoppable,"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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80%
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The Lady from Shanghai (1948) |
"
The Lady from Shanghai (1948) is an imaginative, complicated, unsettling film noir who-dun-it thriller, with fascinating visuals and tilting compositions, luminous"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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98%
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An American in Paris (1951) |
"
An American in Paris (1951) is one of the greatest, most elegant, and most celebrated of MGM's 50's musicals, with Gershwin lyrics and musical score"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
|
Red River (2001) |
"
Red River (1948) is a classic western (considered by many critics to be one of the ten best westerns ever made), a sweeping, epic story about a cattle drive"
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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—
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83%
|
Since You Went Away (1944) |
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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100%
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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
"
Bride of Frankenstein (1935), a classic masterpiece of 1930s horror films, appeared as a superior sequel to the original Frankenstein (1931)."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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—
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78%
|
Of Human Bondage (1934) |
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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96%
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The Big Sleep (1946) |
"
The Big Sleep (1946) is one of Raymond Chandler's best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed into a film noir, private detective film classic"
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The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) |
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89%
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Blazing Saddles (1974) |
"
One of Mel Brooks' funniest and most popular films, an unsubtle spoof or parody of all the cliches from the time-honored genre of westerns"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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98%
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) |
"
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is director John Frankenheimer's prophetically tragic, chilling, brilliant, blackish (film-noirish) Cold War thriller about brain-washing,"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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96%
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Gilda (1946) |
"
Gilda (1946) contains the most famous role and peak performance of WWII's GI "love goddess," the beautiful, alluring, and provocative,"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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76%
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The Jazz Singer (1927) |
"
Warner Bros.' The Jazz Singer (1927) is an historic milestone film and cinematic landmark. [Most people associate this film with the advent of sound pictures.]"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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88%
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Cleopatra (1934) |
"
The master showman Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934) is a modernistic 1930s costume spectacle that reshapes the Cleopatra story"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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89%
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Little Caesar (1930) |
"
One of the most well-known and best of the early classical gangster films is Warner Bros.' Little Caesar (1930) - often called the grandfather of the modern crime film"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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90%
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
"
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an impressive, engrossing piece of film-making from director/screenwriter Frank Darabont..."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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100%
|
Destry Rides Again (1939) |
"
Destry Rides Again (1939) is a popular, marvelous Western comedy spoof/farce from Universal Pictures."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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90%
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Network (1976) |
"
Network (1976) is director Sidney Lumet's brilliant criticism of the hollow, lurid wasteland of television journalism where entertainment value and short-term ratings"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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94%
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The More the Merrier (1943) |
"
The More the Merrier (1943) is a delightful romantic comedy of the homefront at wartime, exploring the problems of housing-bed-man shortages."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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85%
|
Dark Victory (1939) |
"
Dark Victory (1939) is a sentimental, tragic and moving melodrama ("woman's picture") from Warner Bros. studios"
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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—
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Perils of Pauline () |
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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96%
|
Elmer Gantry (1960) |
"
An entertaining melodrama with memorable performances."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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100%
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My Darling Clementine (1946) |
"
My Darling Clementine (1946) is one of the greatest classic Westerns of all time, directed by one of Hollywood's most honored directors, John Ford."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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100%
|
Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
"
Singin' in the Rain (1952) is one of the most-loved and celebrated film musicals of all time from MGM, before a mass exodus to filmed adaptations of"
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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95%
|
Being There (1979) |
"
Being There (1979), subtitled "a story of chance," is a provocative black comedy -- a wonderful tale that satirizes politics, celebrity, media-obsession and television."
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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97%
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Body Heat (1981) |
"
The plot twist at the conclusion is a knockout surprise."
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
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