Jean-Luc Godard's Top Ten American Films from the Sound Era (9 titles)

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Scarface

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• Scarface on DVD (1932)
  Starring: Paul Muni,  Ann Dvorak,  George Raft
  Director: Howard Hawks
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  Loosely based on the life of Al Capone, Howard Hawks's SCARFACE is one of the most shocking and powerful gangster films ever made, setting the standard for Hollywood screen violence for years to come. Tony 'Scarface' Camonte (Paul Muni) is an enforcer for Johnny Lovo, an ambitious gangster who ..read more »
  
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Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator

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• Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator on DVD (1940)
  Starring: Charlie Chaplin,  Chester Conklin,  Henry Daniell
  Director: Charlie Chaplin
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  Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler. Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel's balletic "pas de deux" ..read more »
  
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Vertigo

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• Vertigo on DVD (1958)
  Starring: James Stewart,  Kim Novak,  Barbara Bel Geddes
  Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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  DVD special features: The Birds: All About The Birds - Making Of, Tippi Hedren's Screen Test, Universal News Reel Stories x 2, Storyboard Sequence: Deleted Scene (Script Pages), Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards), Production Photographs. Family Plot: Plotting Family Plot - Making Of, ..read more »
  
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The Searchers

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• The Searchers on DVD (1956)
  Starring: John Wayne,  Jeffrey Hunter,  Vera Miles
  Director: John Ford
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  John Ford's classic western combines spectacular scenery with a solid narrative. A civil war veteran trails Indians to rescue his niece.
  
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Searchers, The - BLU-RAY Version

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• Searchers, The - BLU-RAY Version (1956)
  Starring: John Wayne,  Jeffrey Hunter,  Vera Miles
  Director: John Ford
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  John Ford's classic western combines spectacular scenery with a solid narrative. A civil war veteran trails Indians to rescue his niece.
  
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Singin' In The Rain

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• Singin' In The Rain on DVD (1952)
  Starring: Gene Kelly,  Donald O'Connor,  Cyd Charisse
  Director: Gene Kelly,  Stanley Donen
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  Just about the best Hollywood musical of all time, wrote Pauline Kael about SINGIN' IN THE RAIN. After years of honing his skills on the vaudeville stage, hoofer Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) has finally reached the top and become a swashbuckling star of the silent silver screen. Then the self-..read more »
  
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The Lady From Shanghai

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• The Lady From Shanghai on DVD (1948)
  Starring: Rita Hayworth,  Orson Welles,  Everett Sloane
  Director: Orson Welles
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  THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, an atmospheric film noir based on Sherwood King's novel IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE, features Orson Welles as producer, director, screenwriter, and star. Welles plays rogue seaman Michael O'Hara, complete with Irish brogue. After saving beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) ..read more »
  
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Bigger than Life

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• Bigger than Life on DVD (1956)
  Starring: James Mason,  Barbara Rush,  Walter Matthau
  Director: Nicholas Ray
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  Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone ..read more »
  
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To Be Or Not To Be

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• To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
  Starring: Carole Lombard,  Jack Benny,  Robert Stack
  Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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  Hilarious and biting war comedy. Lombard and Benny are a husband and wife acting team in occupied Poland.
  
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