1942's Oscar Nominees

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?"

Kings Row was worse than I expected when I caught it a decade ago, even Reagan.

Final rankings:

Ambersons
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Talk of the Town
The 49th Parallel
Yankees

Kings Row is a smalltown melodrama, better than average

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.

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

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