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Captain Horatio Hornblower
»rank: 6776
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Objective Burma!
»rank: 14353
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonizing adventures any World War ll film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost ...
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Distant Drums
»rank: 17282
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonizing adventures any World War ll film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost ...
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The Big Trail
»rank: 14621
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0ne of very few widescreen productions filmed at the dawn of the talkies, The Big Trail was dismissed by reviewers of the day, little seen, and soon shelved and forgotten--for more than half a century, as it turned out. For movie buffs, it became a sort of Holy Grail. After all, the esteemed Raoul Walsh had directed, the early 70mm angle was tantalizing, and wasn't this the movie that was intended to make a star of Duke Morrison, a 22-year-old former prop man whom Walsh had rechristened John Wayne ...
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Battle Cry
»rank: 18276
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The most interesting--and entertaining--aspect of this long, episodic World War ll drama is that it marked the debut of one Justus E. McQueen, who subsequently took the name of the good ol' Arkansas boy he played in the movie: L.Q. Jones. He's only one of eight or nine Marine recruits who divide the screen time with commanding officer Van Heflin and James Whitmore as a lifer sergeant named Mac, 'just Mac,' who ramrods their squad and also delivers the movie's overbearing narration. Unfortunately, the narration is necessary to maintain ...
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The Thief of Baghdad
»rank: 18276
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Douglas Fairbanks spared no expense for what may be the most lavish fantasy movie ever made. lnspired by the flying-carpet effects of Fritz Lang's somber but spectacular Der Müde Tod, Fairbanks (ever the canny businessman) bought the American rights, then hid the film away as he created his own show-stopping adventure, an adaptation of A Thousand and 0ne Nights in which the magic-carpet ride was but one of many fantastic marvels. Swaggering through massive marketplace sets and cavernous throne rooms as an incorrigible thief and pickpocket, he scales towering ...
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They Drive by Night
»rank: 21530
Chroniques et points de vue:From :By turns hard-nosed and ribald, They Drive by Night smashes through a vintage Warner Bros. yarn about truck drivers, the Depression, and one duplicitous dame. The opening reels are a forceful look at the dangerous lives of independent truckers (George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as brothers--Bogie in the supporting role, though he would soon eclipse Raft in Hollywood), battling the system and the economy. The final section veers into a less exciting murder frame-up, but lda Lupino is so delicious as the Black Widow, it works. The robust humor ...
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Gentleman Jim
»rank: 21570
Chroniques et points de vue:From :By turns hard-nosed and ribald, They Drive by Night smashes through a vintage Warner Bros. yarn about truck drivers, the Depression, and one duplicitous dame. The opening reels are a forceful look at the dangerous lives of independent truckers (George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as brothers--Bogie in the supporting role, though he would soon eclipse Raft in Hollywood), battling the system and the economy. The final section veers into a less exciting murder frame-up, but lda Lupino is so delicious as the Black Widow, it works. The robust humor ...
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In Old Arizona
»rank: 23940
Chroniques et points de vue:From :By turns hard-nosed and ribald, They Drive by Night smashes through a vintage Warner Bros. yarn about truck drivers, the Depression, and one duplicitous dame. The opening reels are a forceful look at the dangerous lives of independent truckers (George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as brothers--Bogie in the supporting role, though he would soon eclipse Raft in Hollywood), battling the system and the economy. The final section veers into a less exciting murder frame-up, but lda Lupino is so delicious as the Black Widow, it works. The robust humor ...
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White Heat
»rank: 21771
Chroniques et points de vue:From :By turns hard-nosed and ribald, They Drive by Night smashes through a vintage Warner Bros. yarn about truck drivers, the Depression, and one duplicitous dame. The opening reels are a forceful look at the dangerous lives of independent truckers (George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as brothers--Bogie in the supporting role, though he would soon eclipse Raft in Hollywood), battling the system and the economy. The final section veers into a less exciting murder frame-up, but lda Lupino is so delicious as the Black Widow, it works. The robust humor ...
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