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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 119218" data-attributes="member: 960">OK, I've seen most of these (or at least most of them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  The two I have not seen are HAMLET and GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT.The other eight, however, are all good films.  GOING MY WAY is the "lightest" of the bunch, but it was a fun film (just saw it on cable a few weeks ago).  Kind of a "puff piece" but enjoyable.  The rest I liked, all for various reasons, and I would call them great films.  Not "the greatest ever" but certainly the greatest of the decade, with a few (like CASABLANCA) having no such time limitation.  REBECCA is really good, even if they toned down her death scene for the movie (she's dead at the outset, so no spoiler)--and Judith Evans is great as Mrs. Danvers.  Not even Hitchcock's best, but the only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture.  ALL THE KING'S MEN is a great American history piece (Huey P. Long)--I saw this film in high school.  Among the Oscar-winners here is Mercedes McCambridge (who did the devil's voice in THE EXORCIST).  THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES is a fascinating look at post-WWII America (specifically, three men from the armed services--of very different ranks--who return to civilian life in the same town).  THE LOST WEEKEND is just a classic--I'll drink to that!  MRS. MINIVER takes a look at Britain during WWII.  CASABLANCA needs no explanation (if it does, go see it!  Love it or hate it, it's one of the most famous movies ever made).  I have not seen all of HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, but what I have seen makes me want to see it all, including Roddy McDowell before he grew up and became an ape.Since I don't really care for Shakespeare on film, I've never seen Olivier's HAMLET, and I've just never gotten around to seeing GENTELMAN'S AGREEMENT (a film about discrimination faced by a Jewish man, which was considered less 'objectionable' than the original idea of discrimination faced by a homosexual man).I think the 1940's might be the best decade of Best Picture winners.  I've seen more of the 1940's Best Picture films than the 1990s ones (or any other decade, for that matter).</blockquote>

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