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Humoresque
John Garfield, Oscar Levant
The greatness of John Garfield was that he was a tough guy who wasn't afraid to wear his sensitivity on his sleeve. What makes this such a great film is that director Jean Negulesco and his two writers (including Clifford Oddets) construct a complex web of ambiguity around Garfield's own torment. He's a violin virtuoso from the slums of New York who rises to the top with the assistance of ...
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Homecoming (1948)
Clark Gable, Lana Turner
MGM (Warner), 1998
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Not as a Stranger
Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum
MGM/Ua Studios, 1993
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Arch of Triumph
Ingrid Bergman, Charles Laughton
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Clock
Judy Garland, Robert Walker
MGM (Warner), 1992
Sometimes simplicity can be heartbreaking. So it is with The Clock , a wonderfully simple love story that stands as one of the gems of the MGM golden years. It should be noted right off that this 1945 film is not a musical, despite a talent roster led by the maestro of MGM musicals, producer Arthur Freed. Rather, it's a straight, black and white romance about a soldier (Robert Walker) with a ...
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Random Harvest
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson
Warner Home Video, 2000
The ultimate tearjerker, this 1942 romance classic directed by Mervyn LeRoy (based on a novel by James Hilton) stars Ronald Colman as a British army officer suffering from amnesia after World War I. After falling in love with and marrying a dance-hall singer (Greer Garson), Colman's happy character begins a career as a writer and doesn't seem to mind that he doesn't remember who he is. A car ...
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Brief Encounter
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
MGM (Video & DVD)
To many, Brief Encounter may seem like a relic of more proper times--or, specifically, more properly British times--when the pressures of marital decorum and fidelity were perhaps more keenly felt. In truth, David Lean's fourth film remains a timeless study of true love (or, rather, the promise of it), and the aching desire for intimate connection that is often subdued by the obligations of ...
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Summertime
Mari Aldon, Gaetano Autiero
Homevision, 2000
There was a time before Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago when David Lean made smaller, more effortlessly picturesque movies, and this splendid Venetian travelogue and love story is one of them--the last, actually, before the epic onslaught started with the Oscar-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957. "Sometimes I think a schedule in Venice is just, well, all wrong," observes a ...
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Casablanca (1942) (Spec)
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Warner Home Video, 2001
A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid ...
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Now, Voyager (1942)
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid
Warner Home Video, 2001
In this 1942 melodrama, founded on the novel by Olivia Higgins Prouty (who also wrote the novel on which Stella Dallas was based), Bette Davis stars as Charlotte Vale, a dowdy, repressed woman who, overwhelmed by her domineering mother, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She finds help at a sanitarium from a kind psychiatrist (Claude Rains), who turns her into a beautiful, confident ...
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Love Affair (B&W)
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer
Madacy Records, 1997
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Rebecca
Judith Anderson, Florence Bates
Anchor Bay, 1998
Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not ...
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Dodsworth
Mary Astor, John Barclay
MGM (Video & DVD), 2000
One of the finest films of the 1930s, this classic Samuel Goldwyn production was based upon the hit Broadway play written by Sidney Howard, which had in turn been adapted from the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ahead of its time in dramatizing the disintegration of a marriage, the story centers on the title character (superbly played by Walter Huston, who originated his role onstage), a wealthy ...
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
William Holden, Jennifer Jones
20th Century Fox, 1993
This love story made in 1955 and set against the backdrop of war is a many-splendored thing: it features a drop-dead gorgeous Eurasian doctor seeking meaning in her life (Jennifer Jones), a dashing but married American war correspondent who's macho yet not afraid to declare his love (William Holden), and a couple of murky subplots to give their relationship its oh-what's-going-to-happen-next edge ...
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Force of Arms
William Holden, Nancy Olson
Warner Home Video, 1995
Film adaptation of Hemingway's novel 'A Farewell to Arms' set during World War II. The Germans have successfully stopped the Americans from making it any further into the Italian mountains. The battles have reduced Joe Peterson's platoon to a mere shell of it's former self. Joe is given leave to recuperate in Naples where he meets WAC Lieutenant Eleanor MacKay. A romance develops, even as Joe has ...
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