I've only seen Ambersons. Mrs. Miniver feels like my most significant blindspot here. Yankee Doodle Dandy as well, though I've always avoided it, as the title seems to promise jingoism.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
You're avoiding a fun, goofy picture!
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
Eh, I'll give it a shot one of these days. It's Cagney + Curtiz, after all.
Also, I always mix up Mrs. Miniver and Mildred Pierce. Is anyone a fan of the former?
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
All I've seen is The Magnificent Ambersons, but I can't imagine voting for anything else even if I were to see the other nine. (I'm the rare person who doesn't even mind the studio ending.) I believe Random Harvest is the unnamed film that Holden Caulfield mercilessly ridicules in The Catcher in the Rye.
― clemenza, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
The scenes of rural English life have a storybook glow and Richard Ney, Garson's future husband, is twink-hot. That's all I can summon.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
Greer Garson (1904–1996), married July 24, 1943, although the couple previously stated that the wedding would not take place until after the war ended.[11] Ney and Garson divorced on September 25, 1947,[12] the actress claiming that her husband was "morose and critical of her acting."
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
i saw random harvest on TCM years ago and enjoyed it for what it was. it's ambersons, of course.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Ney and Garson divorced on September 25, 1947,[12] the actress claiming that her husband was "morose and critical of her acting."
well, yeah
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
hmm, will have to think about this. between the two Teresa Wright movies - Mrs. Miniver or The Pride of the Yankees. leaning towards the latter.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
ive seen all of these except Pied Piper (aninmated? i don't even remember what it is) and Wake Island.
I find the Ambersons idolators a little tiresome bcz the butchered, flawed film is all we've got to judge, but it is likely best. Would probably go with 49th Parallel as runnerup.
My impression was that Brits found the Hollywoodization of English life in Miniver hilarious. (or just Leslie Halliwell?)
Gary Cooper isn't much like Lou Gehrig, I suspect. That also has the line "Is it three strikes, Doc?"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
Kings Row was worse than I expected when I caught it a decade ago, even Reagan.
Final rankings:
AmbersonsYankee Doodle DandyThe Talk of the TownThe 49th ParallelYankees
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Kings Row is a smalltown melodrama, better than average
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
I find the Ambersons idolators a little tiresome bcz the butchered, flawed film is all we've got to judge
What's the problem? Even in its butchered state, it's among his or anyone's best films.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
iirc, the first 45 minutes or so of ambersons were left more or less intact, w/ only minor deletions -- you can feel the choppiness taking over in the last half (prob cause this sadder part of the film is what allegedly left preview audiences complaining it was a "downer"), but even that has plenty of remarkable moments
anyway, i eagerly await the day when some fanatical welles scholar finds the whole thing in a closet in the ruins of some long-abandoned hotel in brazil
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 30 August 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 21 September 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link