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The Palm Beach ...
Good 66 Points 1942

The Palm Beach Story hasn’t aged well.

A Preston Sturges’ classic, funny and loaded with iconic style, its heavy-handed comedy sometimes clanks.

No? Sue me. I’m into romantic comedies mostly for the comedy, albeit not those with too many pratfalls.

More egregiously, the use of "colo…

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The Magnificent...
None Yet 0 Points 1942
Spellbound
None Yet 0 Points 1945
Anna and the Ki...
Very Good 2 Points 1946

The first film made about the story of Anna Leonowens, the english school teacher who went to Siam to teach the king’s 67 children. Anna (Irene Dunne) is a strong willed woman who often butts heads with the King (Rex Harrison), but eventually becomes an important friend to his royal highness. T…

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A Matter of Lif...
Great 7 Points 1946

Blurring the lines between reality, insanity and the hope that there is something after life for us all, “A Matter of Life and Death” is one of those feel-good films that you’d heard of, or seen references to, but never seen, a classic British film that touches on the carnage of war (in particula…

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The Best Years ...
Really Great 17 Points 1946

One of the earliest of films to focus on the re-adjustment of servicemen to civilian lives – Best Years gives it two us from 3 angles: Disenchanted well-to-do banker; Working stiff who can’t hold down his job or his marriage; and a poor guy who lost both his hands and mired in self doubt. Th…

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A Foreign Affair
None Yet 0 Points 1948
The African Queen
Really Great 66 Points 1951

Grownup romances don’t get better than this, with Bogie and the Great Kate as middle-aged fogies surmounting countless obstacles on their way to love and glory. Long celebrated as one of the all-time greats, The African Queen is less well known than Casablanca_…

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Singin' in the ...
Perfect 71 Points 1952

Hollywood perfection, thy name is Singin’ in the Rain.

Forget the singing, forget the dancing, see it for the sparkling comedy. It’s simply studded with LOLs.

Though many of us have seen outtakes, especially Gene Kelly’s Singing’ in the Rain number, every movie fan should see the entir…

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The Quiet Man
None Yet 0 Points 1952