![]() ![]() ”˜We’ll find them in the end, I promise you. ![]() Replaced Citizen Kane as the best film of all time in the 2012 British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound critics’ poll. Parodied by Mel Brooks in his film High Anxiety and heavily referenced in Brian De Palma’s Obsession. Perhaps the greatest film score of all time by Bernard Herrmann. The first film to employ the dolly zoom effect which of course was used here to convey Scottie’s (Jimmy Stewart) acrophobia. You shouldn’t have been that sentimental.’īased on the 1954 French novel D’entre les morts, this is perhaps Hitchcock’s darkest film, but undoubtedly his best. ”˜You shouldn’t keep souvenirs of a killing. And no, Humphrey Bogart never actually said Play it again Sam. Winner of three Oscars for best picture, best director and best screenplay for twins Julius J. ![]() Curtiz’s classic has grown in reputation over time and has had a lasting influence right up to the present day. ![]() The Germans wore grey, you wore blue.’ĭoes any other film have as many quotable lines? I seriously doubt it. Based on the short story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern. Lionel Barrymore, himself a famous Ebenezer Scrooge in radio dramatizations, is suitably mean as Henry F. Donna Reed and a terrific cast provide able support. George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) gets a glimpse of what life would have been like without him. The quintessential Christmas movie that was saved by TV. ”˜Well you look about the kind of angel I’d get.’ Kieran’s Top 100 Films It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra 1946) ![]()
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