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Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey
Donna Reed as Mary Hatch
Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter
Thomas Mitchell as Uncle Billy
Henry Travers as Clarence
Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Bailey
updated 2010-07-18 02:13:31
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Scandal (1950 Film)
"While Scandal is point-blank a hardhitting examination of society's petty fetish with what is scandalous and what is discovered with other people's private lives, the film is much more a humanistic tale of redemption rather than a socially conscious melodrama.''—Francis Cruzhttp://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2006/07/scandal-1950.html
"Like all Kurosawa films, Scandal is motivated by considerations of humanity and justice, but rarely has the director been so witty or even as subversive as the movie must have seemed to thinking Japanese in 1950." Vincent Canby,The New York Times http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D07E6D71238F935A1575BC0A966948260
updated 2010-07-17 21:12:11
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Great Expectations (1946 Film)
"Lean fills Great Expectations with a wealth of visual detail and vivid characters and personalities... and he directs with a warmth and humor..."—Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies Onlinehttp://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=76862&category=Articles
"This is still the definitive version of Charles Dickens' atmospheric and occasionally creepy classic."—David Parkinson, Empire Magazinehttp://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=132903
updated 2010-07-17 06:44:31
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I Confess (1953 Film)
"A good, workmanlike thriller. . . is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock." Time MagazineCinema: The New Pictures
. . . is short of the suspense one would expect."Variety Staff, VarietyI Confess
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The Razors Edge (1946 Film)
"The moralistic bent of The Razor's Edge is impossible to translate into pure cinema. Therefore, screenwriter Lamar Trotti resorts to monologues and sermons, mostly coming from Larry. It's all very well for a novel, but on-screen it's a snooze."—Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazinehttp://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=1598
"Edmund Goulding's version deserves crdit for trying to adapt Maugham's difficult existential movel, but Tyrone Power is miscast and the film is too melodramatic and verbose, failing to illustrate the novel's essence."—Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.comhttp://www.emanuellevy.com/search/details.cfm?id=9313
updated 2010-07-18 00:14:21
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Top Hat (1935 Film)
"Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live."—Roger Eberthttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051023/REVIEWS08/510230301/1023
"This one can't miss and the reasons are three - Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together."—Variety Staffhttp://www.variety.com/review/VE1117795802.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
"This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form. Irving Berlin penned the score, which is catchy when it isn't witty, and there is a passable French farce serving as a premise. But mostly it's that wonderful dancing to tunes like Cheek to Cheek and Isn't It a Lovely Day to Be Caught in the Rain?"—Don DUkerhttp://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/top-hat/Film?oid=1073359
updated 2010-07-18 00:51:23
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Sergeant York (1941 Film)
"It is film biography at its best. The writers have paid more attention to character, and the backgrounds and associations which create it, than to incident."—Variety Staffhttp://www.variety.com/review/VE1117794756.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
"Sergeant York is a very well written and well acted film from director Howard Hawks with one glaring problem: a forty-year-old Gary Cooper. Yes, Cooper won an Oscar for his performance, but he’s still at least a decade too old for the part."—Frank's Movie Loghttp://www.franksmovielog.com/browse/reviews/sergeant-york-1941/
"I love this movie. It is not just about war, but about a man who struggled against impossible odds to just be a good man and make a living."—Matchflickhttp://www.matchflick.com/movie-review/2541-5346
updated 2010-07-17 21:29:40
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The Lodger (1927 Film)
"In spite of his inexperience, Hitchcock demonstrates a flair for building tension and creating an evocative atmosphere. This early silent establishes some of the idiosyncracies he later became famous for, notably his cameo appearances and his fixation on blonde actresses."—Virginie Selavy, Electric Sheep Magazinehttp://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2008/03/01/the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog/
"Hitchcock uses a few stylish gimmicks, such as a see-through glass ceiling and superimposed flashbacks over a footprint, but it's clear that he was still learning; the story vaguely resembles his beloved "wrong man" formula, but not yet refined."—Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloidhttp://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/lodger27.shtml
updated 2010-07-18 00:07:51
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One Wonderful Sunday
""Sunday" is stylistically excessive, wildly experimental, but it does presage the genius of Kurosawa's mature works, with low tracking shots, characteristically close crops and obstructive scenery making their debut."—Rita Kempley, Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/onewonderfulsundaynrkempley_a0caf5.htm
"This is an early Kurosawa common man romantic/comedy feature with the filmmaker at his maudlin worst, doing a Frank Capra sentimental tear-jerker."— Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World http://www.sover.net/~ozus/onewonderfulsunday.htm
"We can see the Japanese auteur perfect his storytelling techniques in this simple story, relying more on visual transitions and on the actors to convey his message."— John Nesbit,Oldschoolreviews.com http://oldschoolreviews.com/rev_40/one_wonderful_sunday.htm
