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Fantasia

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• Fantasia (1940)
  Starring: Deems Taylor,  deems taylor (pre/narr)
  Director: James Algar,  Samuel Armstrong,  Hamilton Luske
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  Walt Disney took a big chance with this ambitious anthology of animated fantasies. First, he set them to lengthy classical music pieces, and then he boldly experimented with different forms of animation, sometimes jettisoning any sort of narrative altogether. The result is a sometimes mesmerizing, ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 62% from 4,732 members
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Pinocchio

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• Pinocchio on DVD (1940)
  Starring: Dick Jones,  Cliff Edwards,  Christian Rub
  Director: Hamilton Luske,  Ben Sharpsteen
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  Walt Disney's second full-length animated feature is a timeless, breathtakingly beautiful classic. Based on an 1800s story by Carlo Collodi, it stars Jiminy Cricket (voiced by Cliff Edwards) as a vagabond insect who spends a rainy night at the shop of toymaker Geppetto. The Blue Fairy brings a ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 71% from 7,284 members

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Rebecca

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• Rebecca on DVD (1940)
  Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Joan Fontaine,  George Sanders
  Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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  A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 73% from 7,596 members

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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 »
  
  Rate this: 68% from 3,437 members

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The Letter

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• The Letter on DVD (1940)
  Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Herbert Marshall
  Director: William Wyler
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  William Wyler directs an unscupulously nasty Bette Davis who is at her compulsive best in Somerset Maugham's celebrated melodrama. Set in the ex- British colony of Malaya, while her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall), is away on a business trip inspecting his rubber plantation, Leslie Crosbie (Bette ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 70% from 621 members

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Citizen Kane

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• Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Orson Welles,  Joseph Cotten,  Agnes Moorehead
  Director: Orson Welles
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  CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 70% from 22,208 members

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Dumbo

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• Dumbo on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Verna Felton,  Herman Bing,  Stirling Holloway
  Director: Ben Sharpsteen
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  Deceptively simple, beautiful, moving, and hilarious, DUMBO is often overlooked when considering Disney's greatest films because perhaps of its lack of extravagance, its brief running time, and its simple story. Baby elephant Jumbo Jr. is delivered by the stork to his elephant mom with much fanfare ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 72% from 12,471 members

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High Sierra

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• High Sierra on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Ida Lupino,  Alan Curtis
  Director: Raoul Walsh
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  A gangster called Roy Earle assists in a hotel hold-up in return for being sprung from prison. He then attempts to go straight, but his luck quickly runs out.
  
  Rate this: 68% from 560 members

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The Maltese Falcon

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• The Maltese Falcon on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor,  Sidney Greenstreet
  Director: John Huston
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  Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 73% from 10,365 members

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Bambi

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• Bambi on DVD (1942)
  Starring: paul behn (voice),  Paul Behn,  Donnie Dunagan
  Director: David Hand
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  As morning light breaks across the meadow and new life awakens, Bambi's critically acclaimed coming-of-age story begins. Now completely restored and remastered with state of the art technology. A grand adventure packed with humour, breathtaking animation and heart. This Special 2 disc Edition also ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 69% from 16,400 members

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