a few pretty good classic films worth a glance (26 titles)
The Manchurian Candidate
A triumph of cinema, storytelling and directing. I have not seen the remake and have absolutely no intention of doing.
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The Manchurian Candidate
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Director: John Frankenheimer
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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is a complex paranoid political horror story about a brainwashed American platoon and a decorated soldier programmed to assassinate political enemies. The former platoon commander must piece together the clues to discover the killer's identity, his next target, and who is ..read more »
66%
from 8,315 members
Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection
The Servant
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Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection
(7 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Harold Pinter, Sylvia Sims, Michael York
Director: Basil Dearden
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A box set of features starring the inimitable Dirk Bogarde. Films Comprise: 1. Accident (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1967) 2. The Servant (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1963) 3. The Blue Lamp (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1950) 4. Victim (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1961) 5. Hunted (Dir. Charles Crichton, 1952) 6. The ..read more »
66%
from 1,983 member
Come September
Funnier than the Rock-Doris outings - really, you'll be laughing out loud.
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Come September
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee
Director: Robert Mulligan
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A successful New York businessman must battle to keep his girlfriend and his sanity when he discovers that his Italian villa has been turned into a hotel.
63%
from 250 members
The Ladykillers
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The Ladykillers
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Alice Krige
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers ..read more »
72%
from 8,574 members
American Graffiti
for a charasmatic Richard Dreyfuss (early) performance...yet it's not just that, the whole film's quietly brilliant.
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American Graffiti
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Le Mat
Director: George Lucas
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A series of touching and effective vignettes, AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity during the innocence of pre-Kennedy-assassination America. The film, set in 1962, follows one night in the lives of several recently graduated high school students. The ..read more »
63%
from 5,021 members
Harvey
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Harvey
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Victoria Horne
Director: Henry Koster
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Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) is a good-natured, slightly sloshed man whose faithful companion Harvey is a 6-foot-3-inch rabbit that only he can see. When his sister Veta (Josephine Hull) tries to have him committed, she's taken in instead--and it's up to Elwood and Harvey to straighten out the ..read more »
74%
from 6,549 members
A Star Is Born
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A Star Is Born
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Frederic March, Adolphe Menjou
Director: William A. Wellman
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A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 featuring Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand, this, the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declinig in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star.
60%
from 124 members
Paper Moon
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Paper Moon
(1973)
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Newly orphaned Addie (Tatum O'Neal) falls into the care of small-time con artist Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's real-life father) and turns out to be better at grifting than he is.
78%
from 90 members
I Married A Witch
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I Married A Witch
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Fredrick March, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: Rene Clair
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In seventeenth century New England, witch burning was all the rage, and puritan Jonathan Wooley (Fredric March) helps convict Jennifer (Veronica Lake) and her father Daniel (Cecil Kellaway) of sorcery. They are put to death but not before Jennifer places a curse on Wooley's family line - they will ..read more »
68%
from 239 members
Ikiru
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Ikiru
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing of significance. After discovering he is suffering from a terminal illness, Kanji becomes intensely self-absorbed until he finds a mission to build a ..read more »
74%
from 3,206 members
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