Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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King Rat (1965)
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Read more: King Rat (1965)In wartime, it is not always the highest ranked individuals that run the show.
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Ace In the Hole (1951)
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Read more: Ace In the Hole (1951)If it took losing his family to the ovens of Auschwitz (including his mother) in order for Billy Wilder to see humanity so clearly…
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Cool Hand Luke
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Read more: Cool Hand LukeA Natural Born World Shaker. Paul Newman has always been in the top tier of the greatest actors of all time.
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Vertigo (1958)
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Read more: Vertigo (1958)No director was more fluent in that language than Alfred Hitchcock. Vertigo is the most conspicuous example of his fluency.
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Paths Of Glory (1957)
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Read more: Paths Of Glory (1957)There are many great anti-war films. From the most horrific war movie ever, Come And See, to the preparing for a war already lost in Tigerland, these films are riveting.
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Read more: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten) in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt fails again and again to resist the urge toward self-destruction.
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The Big Heat (1953)
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Read more: The Big Heat (1953)When Lee Marvin asks if you want two lumps with your coffee, he’s not talking about sugar.
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
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Read more: Dial M for Murder (1954)‘Master of suspense’ twice… Nice! And… no. I’ll tell you what this movie is: boring to the extreme. Jesus Christ! The whole movie, from beginning to end, can be summed up like this: people walking and talking in a house.
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North By Northwest (1959)
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Read more: North By Northwest (1959)The idealized cotton candy world of the 50s, breaks free from that in the 60s, followed by the bleak reality check of the 70s, and then once again rise up in a glorious haze of yuppies, coke, and Miami Vice… of the 80s!
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Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
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Read more: Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)Lawrence Of Arabia is David Lean’s 1962 epic that won 7 Oscars, but of course, not the one that counted for the always overlooked Peter O’Toole.