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TOP TEN CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MOVIES
Corey HammertonETE 100 sec 2November 23, 2009
www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ndlmps.html
from http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?papr:41:./temp/~ammem_Vvc7:
The Godfather
Director: Francis Ford Coppola Writer: Mario Puzo Actors: Marlon Brando, Al
Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall
Plot: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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Citizen Kane
Director: Orson Welles Writers: Herman J.
Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Plot: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Casablanca
Director: Michael Curtiz Writers: Julius and Philip
Epstein Actors: Humphrey Bogart,
Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Lawrence of Arabia
Director: David Lean Writers: T.E. Lawrence and
Robert Bolt Actors: Peter O’Toole, Alec
Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Plot: Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
Gone with the Wind
Director: Victor Fleming Writers: Margaret Mitchell,
Sydney Howard Actors: Thomas Mitchell,
Barbara O’Neil, Vivian Leigh, George Reeves
Plot: American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
On the Waterfront
Director: Elia Kazan Writers: Malcolm Johnson
and Budd Schullberg Actors: Marlon Brando,
Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb Plot: An ex-prize fighter
turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
It’s A Wonderful Life
Director: Frank Capra Writers: Frances Goodrich
and Albert Hackett Actors: James Stewart,
Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Plot: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.
The Graduate
Director: Mike Nichols Writers: Calder Willingham
and Buck Henry Actors: Anne Bancroft,
Dustin Hoffman Plot: Recent college
graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.
Schindler’s List
Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Thomas Keneally
and Steven Zaillian Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben
Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Plot: Oskar Schindler uses
Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
Some Like It Hot
Director: Billy Wilder Writers: Robert Thoeren
and Michael Logan Actors: Marilyn Monroe,
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon Plot: When two musicians
witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
References
Star Theatre / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.. (2002, April 18). American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?papr:41:./temp/~ammem_Vvc7:
American Memory Collection (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Library of Congress). (n.d.). Library of Congress Home. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ndlmps.html