Marlon Brando's famous "I coulda been a contenda" speech is such a warhorse by now that a lot of people probably feel they've seen this picture already, even if they haven't. And many of those who have seen it may have forgotten how flat-out thrilling it is. For all its great dramatic and cinematic qualities, and its fiery social criticism, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront is also one of the most gripping melodramas of political corruption and individual heroism ever made in the United States, a five-star gut-grabber. Shot on location around the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the mid-1950s, it tells the fact-based story of a longshoreman (Brando's Terry Malloy) who is
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His Girl Friday (1940-USA; 92 min.; B & W) A newspaper editor(Cary Grant) tries to keep his star reporter(Rosalind Russell) from leaving the paper before the execution of a convicted murderer.
Penny Serenade (1941-USA; 117 min.; B&W) A couple (Cary Grant and Irene Dunne) elects to adopt after the death of their unborn child. Dunne contemplates divorce, recollecting the joys and griefs of her marriage. The film earned Grant a nomination for Best Actor. ...
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No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. Its arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 1920s from silent to sound motion pictures. Its reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '20s and '30s for various shows and movies. But, ironically, it's now the soundtrack that seems cobbled together from disparate sources, while the movie itself remains seamless. That's thanks to
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