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Red Headed Stranger
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Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
»rank: 2135
: :This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two 0scar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadway production of 'A Christmas Carol' in this minimally animated hour. The play-within-the-show features forgettable songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill: Tiny Tim ('played' by the animated character Gerald McBoing-Boing) sings, oddly, of 'razzle berry dressing' and 'woofle jelly cake.' This retelling of Dickens's holiday standard is much ...
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Skin Game
»rank: 5183
: :This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two 0scar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadway production of 'A Christmas Carol' in this minimally animated hour. The play-within-the-show features forgettable songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill: Tiny Tim ('played' by the animated character Gerald McBoing-Boing) sings, oddly, of 'razzle berry dressing' and 'woofle jelly cake.' This retelling of Dickens's holiday standard is much ...
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Outlaw Josey Wales
»rank: 10591
: essential video:Clint Eastwood fired the original director, Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff), and took over the reins of this project himself. He may have had a point: this brutal, thoughtful western, a near-tragedy about a Civil War veteran whose past comes looking for him, is probably Eastwood's most mature frontier drama prior to the 0scar winning Unforgiven. Hoping to build a quiet life in a cooperative community of settlers, Eastwood's Wales blames himself when his enemies attack the homestead, and he has ...
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Johnny Guitar
»rank: 8080
: essential video:'l've never seen a woman who was more like a man,' a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a peripatetic tough guy-turned-troubadour with whom she has a past. When the Kid's gang (which includes Ernest Borgnine) decides to ...
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Man of the West
»rank: 6531
: :Western auteur Anthony Mann and aging Western icon Gary Cooper team up in this stark tale of a trio of train passengers stranded in the middle of the desert after a railway holdup. Taking responsibility for his helpless compatriots (Julie London as a sad-eyed prostitute and Arthur 0'Connell as a garrulous but cowardly banker), craggy-faced Link Jones (Cooper) takes them into a veritable viper's nest in a desperate gamble. lt turns out the respected town elder is a former member of the outlaw ...
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Far Country
»rank: 6840
: essential video:The far country of the title is Alaska, where James Stewart, a cold-hearted cattleman, and his sidekick Walter Brennan, a garrulous old codger, drive a herd of cattle to cash in on the gold rush. Stewart is the ultimate loner, a point the film takes pains to paint as he watches helpless miners murdered by a gang of thugs without lifting a finger. John Mclntyre plays his nemesis, a magnetic but corrupt Roy Bean-like judge and merchant who preys off the ...
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Teachers
»rank: 10578
: essential video:The far country of the title is Alaska, where James Stewart, a cold-hearted cattleman, and his sidekick Walter Brennan, a garrulous old codger, drive a herd of cattle to cash in on the gold rush. Stewart is the ultimate loner, a point the film takes pains to paint as he watches helpless miners murdered by a gang of thugs without lifting a finger. John Mclntyre plays his nemesis, a magnetic but corrupt Roy Bean-like judge and merchant who preys off the ...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
»rank: 12122
: essential video:The far country of the title is Alaska, where James Stewart, a cold-hearted cattleman, and his sidekick Walter Brennan, a garrulous old codger, drive a herd of cattle to cash in on the gold rush. Stewart is the ultimate loner, a point the film takes pains to paint as he watches helpless miners murdered by a gang of thugs without lifting a finger. John Mclntyre plays his nemesis, a magnetic but corrupt Roy Bean-like judge and merchant who preys off the ...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
»rank: 13655
: :Ray Bradbury adapted his own novel for Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jack Clayton's beautiful rendering of the turn-of-the-century fantasy of a mysterious carnival that literally blows into a small town to taunt and tempt the inhabitants. Jonathan Pryce (Brazil), the handsome but demonic proprietor of Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, preys upon the vanities, the delusions, and the regrets of the townspeople by granting their wishes at the expense of their souls. Jason Robards, as the meek librarian Charles Halloway, becomes his unlikely nemesis ...
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