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CONTENTS of BOOK Preface ix Introduction xv Acknowledgments xvii Guide and Glossary xviii The Greatest Films 20 The Great Films 207 The Near-Great Films 459 Bibliography 722 Index of Film Titles 723 CONTENTS of Films-The Greatest The African Queen 23 All About Eve 24 All Quiet on the Western Front 26 All the King's Men 28 Amarcord 30 The Asphalt Jungle 32 Bad Day at Black Rock 34 The Best Years of Our Lives 36 The Bicycle Thief 38 The Bridge on the River Kwai 39 Casablanca 41 Chinatown 43 Citizen Kane 45 City Lights 48 Cries and Whispers 49 The Dead 50 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 53 Duck Soup 55 The Earrings of Madame De... 56 8 1/2 58 Fanny and Alexander 59 Forbidden Games 60 The Four Hundred Blows 62 The General 63 The Godfather 64 The Gold Rush 67 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 68 Grand Illusion 69 The Grapes of Wrath 71 Great Expectations 73 Greed 75 The Heiress 76 Henry V 78 High Noon 80 How Green Was My Valley 82 Ikiru 84 I Know Where I'm Going 86 Intolerance 87 La Femme InfidÄle 90 La Ronde 92 La Strada 93 The Last Command 95 Last Year at Marienbad 96 Lawrence of Arabia 98 M 101 The Magnificent Ambersons 103 The Maltese Falcon 106 The Man in the White Suit 108 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 110 M. Hulot's Holiday 112 Mon Oncle 111 My Darling Clementine 114 Napoleon 116 A Night at the Opera 118 The Night of the Hunter 119 Ninotchka 121 North by Northwest 123 Notorious 125 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 128 On the Waterfront 130 The Passion of Joan of Arc 132 Paths of Glory 133 Persona 135 Potemkin 136 Pygmalion 137 Rashomon 139 Rear Window 141 The Remains of the Day 143 The Rise of Louis XIV 145 The Searchers 147 The Set-Up 149 The Seven Samurai 151 The Seventh Seal 153 Shane 155 Shoeshine 157 Singin' in the Rain 158 Some Like It Hot 160 Spartacus 161 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 163 Stagecoach 165 Stalag 17 167 Sullivan's Travels 169 Sunset Boulevard 171 The Third Man 174 The 39 Steps 177 Top Hat 179 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 180 To Be or Not To Be 182 Tokyo Story 184 Touch of Evil 186 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 189 12 Angry Men 190 The Wages of Fear 192 White Heat 194 The Wild Bunch 196 Wild Strawberries 199 Woman in the Dunes 201 Wuthering Heights 202 Z 204 CONTENTS of FILMS--The Great The Adventures of Robin Hood 211 The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 212 All the President's Men 213 Amadeus 214 American Graffiti 215 The Americanization of Emily 216 Anatomy of a Murder 217 Another Woman 219 The Apartment 220 Assault on Precinct 13 221 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 222 Babette's Feast 223 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 225 The Band Wagon 226 The Bank Dick 227 Bashu-The Little Stranger Battleground 228 The Battle of Algiers 229 Belle De Jour 231 The Big Heat 232 The Big Sleep 233 Black Narcissus 234 The Blue Angel 236 Body and Soul 237 Boomerang 238 Born Yesterday 239 Brief Encounter 240 Broadway Danny Rose 242 Broken Blossoms 243 Bullitt 244 Burn 244 Call Northside 777 246 Cape Fear 247 Carnival in Flanders 248 Charade 250 Charley Varick 251 Chimes at Midnight 252 Cinema Paradiso 253 Closely Observed Trains 255 The Conformist 255 The Conversation 257 The Court Jester 258 Crossfire 259 Dark Eyes 260 Day for Night 261 The Day of the Jackal 263 The Day the Earth Stood Still 264 Dead of Night 266 The Deer Hunter 267 Dersu Uzala 268 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 269 D.O.A. 270 Dodsworth 271 Dog Day Afternoon 272 Don't Look Now 274 Do the Right Thing 275 Double Indemnity 277 The Dresser 278 The Exterminating Angel 279 A Face in the Crowd 280 The Fallen Idol 281 Fargo 282 Five Easy Pieces 283 5 Fingers 284 Five Graves to Cairo 285 Foreign Correspondent 286 The Flight of the Phoenix 286 The French Connection 288 From Here to Eternity 289 The Front Page 290 Gaslight 291 General Della Rovere 293 Genevieve 294 Gigi 295 Glory 296 The Go-Between 298 The Godfather, Part II 299 Gone with the Wind 301 The Great Dictator 302 The Great McGinty 304 The Gunfighter 307 Henry V 308 Hiroshima Mon Amour 309 His Girl Friday 311 The Horse's Mouth 312 Hud 313 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 314 The Hustler 316 If 317 In a Lonely Place 319 Intruder in the Dust 321 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 322 It Happened One Night 324 It's a Wonderful Life 325 Jaws 326 Judgement at Nuremberg 327 Julius Caesar 328 Key Largo 330 The Killing 331 Kiss Me Kate 333 Kiss of Death 334 Knife in the Water 335 La Belle Noiseuse 337 Lacombe, Lucien 338 L.A. Confidential 339 La Dolce Vita 340 The Lady Eve 341 The Ladykillers 342 The Lady Vanishes 344 Last Holiday 345 The Last Hurrah 346 The Last Picture Show 347 L'Atalante 348 Laura 349 The Lavender Hill Mob 351 L'Avventura 352 Les Diaboliques 353 Les Enfants du Paradis 354 A Letter to Three Wives 356 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 357 Lifeboat 359 The Life of Emile Zola 360 The Lion in Winter 361 Local Hero 362 The Long Voyage Home 363 Los Olvidados 364 The Lost Weekend 365 Love in the Afternoon 366 Major Barbara 367 A Man Escaped 368 Manhattan 370 Man Hunt 371 Marty 372 Mean Streets 373 Missing 374 Modern Times 375 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 376 Murder My Sweet 377 My Favorite Year 379 The Naked City 380 The Narrow Margin 381 Nashville 382 Nightmare Alley 384 Nights of Cabiria 385 Odd Man Out 386 The Ox-Bow Incident 387 Point Blank 389 Pretty Poison 391 The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie 392 The Producers 393 Psycho 394 The Quiet Man 396 Raise the Red Lantern 397 Ran 398 Rebecca 399 The Red Badge of Courage 401 Red River 403 Repulsion 405 Ride the High Country 406 Rififi 408 Rocky 409 Roman Holiday 411 Rome, Open City 412 Rules of the Game 413 Sansho the Bailiff 415 Scarface 416 Scarlet Street 418 Schindler's List 420 SÄance on a Wet Afternoon 421 The Search 422 Shadow of a Doubt 424 Shame Shenandoah 425 The Shop around the Corner 426 The Silence Smiles of a Summer Night 427 The Spider's Stratagem 428 The Spiral Staircase 429 Stairway to Heaven 430 State Secret 432 The Straight Story 433 Strangers on a Train 434 A Streetcar Named Desire 436 Suspicion 437 Sweet Smell of Success 438 Taxi Driver 440 3:10 to Yuma 441 Throne of Blood 442 Tristana 443 Trouble in Paradise 445 2001: A Space Odyssey 446 Umberto D 447 Under Fire 448 The Verdict 449 Vertigo 450 Viridiana 452 Wild River 453 The Window 455 Witness for the Prosecution 456 The Wizard of Oz 457 CONTENTS of FILMS--The Near-Great A Nous La LibertÄ 465 Ace in the Hole 466 Adam's Rib 467 L'Age D'Or 467 Alexander Nevsky 468 All Through the Night 469 An American in Paris 470 Anastasia. 470 Andrei Rublev 471 Androcles and the Lion 471 Angels in the Outfield 472 Animal Crackers 472 Anna and the King of Siam 473 Annie Hall 473 Apocalypse Now 474 Atlantic City 475 L'Argent 475 Au Hasard Balthazar 476 Avanti! 476 The Awful Truth 477 The Bad and the Beautiful 478 The Baker's Wife 479 Ball of Fire 480 Barry Lyndon 480 Beau Geste 482 Beauty and the Beast 482 Being There 483 Beverly Hills Cop 483 The Big Clock 484 Billy Budd 485 The Big Parade 485 The Birds 486 The Birth of a Nation 486 The Bishop's Wife 487 Blowup 488 The Black Stallion 488 Bonnie and Clyde 489 The Body Snatcher 489 Boudu Saved from Drowning 490 Boyz N the Hood 490 Breathless 491 The Bride of Frankenstein 492 Bringing Up Baby 493 The Browning Version 494 Brute Force 495 Cabaret 496 The Caine Mutiny 497 Captains Courageous 498 The Candidate 498 Casque D'Or 499 The Chaplin Revue 499 Chariots of Fire 500 Charlie Chaplin Festival 501 The Chess Players 501 The Circus 502 The Citadel 502 Claire's Knee 503 Cluny Brown 503 Compulsion 504 Cool Hand Luke 504 Cornered 505 Cyrano de Bergerac 505 The Damned 506 Danton 507 Das Boot 508 David Copperfield 508 A Day in the Country 509 Day of Wrath 510 The Dead Poets Society 510 Deadline U.S.A. 511 The Deadly Affair 511 Death and the Maiden 512 Death in Venice 513 Decision before Dawn 513 Deliverance 514 Desperate Hours 514 Destry Rides Again 515 Devil in the Flesh 515 The Devil's General 516 Diary of a Chambermaid 517 The Diary of a Country Priest 518 Dinner at Eight 519 Doctor Zhivago 519 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 520 A Double Life 521 Dreams 522 Drums Along the Mohawk 522 Duel 523 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 523 East of Eden 524 Easy Rider 524 Edge of the City 525 The Emigrants 525 Enchanted April 526 The Enforcer 526 Europa, Europa 527 Fail Safe. 528 Fantasia 528 Fat City 529 The Farmer's Daughter 529 Father of the Bride 530 Foolish Wives 531 The Firemen's Ball 531 For Whom the Bell Tolls 532 Forbidden Planet 532 Force of Evil 533 A Foreign Affair 534 Fort Apache 535 The Four Feathers 536 Frankenstein 537 French Can-Can 538 The Front 539 The Fugitive 539 Fury 540 Gaslight 541 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 541 Gate of Hell 542 Gold Diggers of 1933 543 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 543 The Golden Coach 544 Grand Hotel 545 The Good Earth 545 Green for Danger 546 The Grey Fox 547 Gunga Din 548 Hail the Conquering Hero 548 Hamlet 549 Hamlet 550 Harvey 551 He Walked by Night 551 Heaven Can Wait 552 Hobson's Choice 552 Hold Back the Dawn 553 Hombre 554 Hope and Glory 554 Hopscotch 555 Horse Feathers 556 The House on 92nd St. 556 Howard's End 557 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 557 I Never Sang for My Father 558 I Remember Mama 559 In the Heat of the Night. 559 The Informer 560 Inherit the Wind 561 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 561 The Invisible Man 562 Isadora 563 It Happens Every Spring 563 Johnny Belinda 564 Johnny Guitar 564 Jour de FÉte. 565 Ju Dou 565 Jules et Jim 566 Kagemusha 567 The Jungle Book 567 Kansas City Confidential 568 Khane-ye Doust Kodjast? 568 The Killers 569 King and Country 571 King Kong 572 King's Row 572 Klute 573 Knock on Wood 574 La Guerre Est Finie 574 La Nuit de Varennes 575 The Lady from Shanghai 576 The Last Bridge 576 Last Tango in Paris 577 The Last Emperor 577 The Late George Apley 578 Laughter in Paradise 579 Le Boucher 579 Le Million 580 Le Plaisir 581 The Leopard 581 Les Miserables 583 Letter from an Unknown Woman 583 Limelight 585 The Letter 585 Little Big Man 586 Little Caesar 587 Little Women 588 Lola Montez 589 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 589 Lonely Are the Brave 590 Long Day's Journey into Night 591 The Longest Day 591 M.A.S.H 592 The Lost Patrol 592 The Magic Box 593 The Magician 594 The Magnificent Yankee 594 The Major and the Minor 595 A Man and a Woman 596 A Man for All Seasons 596 Man of the West 597 The Man Who Would Be King 598 The Manchurian Candidate 599 Mayerling 601 The Mask of Dimitrios 601 The McKenzie Break 602 Meeting Venus 602 Meet Me in St. Louis 603 Melvin and Howard 603 Mephisto. 604 The Merry Widow 605 Midnight Run 606 The Ministry of Fear 606 Miracle in Milan 607 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 607 The Miracle Worker 608 Mister Roberts 609 Moby Dick 609 Moonstruck 610 Mother 611 Movie Movie 611 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 612 Mutiny on the Bounty 612 My Fair Lady 613 My Man Godfrey 614 My Night at Maud's 615 Mysteries of the Treasure of Phantom Valley 616 Network 617 Never on Sunday 617 A Night to Remember 618 The New Land 618 None But the Lonely Heart 619 Norma Rae 619 Nothing Sacred 620 Oblomov 621 The Old Man and the Sea 622 Oliver Twist 623 Ossessione 624 Othello 624 Our Man in Havana 625 Out of the Past 626 Paisan 627 The Pajama Game 627 The Palm Beach Story 628 Panic in the Streets 629 The Paper Chase 629 A Passage to India 630 The Parallax View 630 The Passenger 631 Pather Panchali 632 Patton 633 Pelle the Conqueror 634 Pepe Le Moko 635 Petulia 635 Phantom Lady 636 The Phenix City Story 636 The Philadelphia Story 637 A Place in the Sun 638 Pinocchio 638 Play It Again, Sam 639 Playtime. 640 The Postman 640 The Postman Always Rings Twice 641 Pride and Prejudice 642 Pride of the Yankees 643 The Prisoner 643 The Prisoner of Zenda 644 The Private Life of Henry VIII 644 Prizzi's Honor 645 The Public Enemy 646 Quartet 647 Radio Days 648 Raging Bull 648 The Reckless Moment 649 The Red Inn 650 The Red Shoes 650 Reign of Terror 651 Rio Bravo 652 The River 653 Rocco and His Brothers 654 Room at the Top 654 Sahara 655 Sammy Going South 656 The Scarlet Empress 656 The Scarlet Pimpernel 657 Seconds 658 Sergeant York 659 Seven Days in May 660 Seven Days to Noon 661 Seven Thieves 661 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 662 The Seventh Cross 663 The Shawshank Redemption 663 She Done Him Wrong 664 Ship of Fools. 664 Shoot the Piano Player 665 Show Boat 666 The Shooting Party 666 The Silence of the Lambs 667 Sitting Pretty 668 Sleuth 668 A Slight Case of Murder 669 Spellbound 670 The Southerner 670 The Stalking Moon 671 Star Wars 672 The Stars Look Down 673 State of the Union 674 The Sting 674 The Story of G.I. Joe 675 Straw Dogs 676 The Stranger 676 Summertime 678 Sunrise at Campobello 679 The Sundowners 679 Swing Time 680 A Tale of Two Cities 681 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 681 Targets 682 The Talk of the Town 682 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 684 They Were Expendable 685 The Thief of Baghdad 686 The Thin Man 687 This Gun for Hire 687 T-Men 688 Tight Spot 688 To Have and Have Not 689 To Kill a Mockingbird 690 Tom Jones 691 Topkapi 692 Torment 692 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 693 Trio 694 Twelve O'clock High 695 Two Women 696 Ugetsu Monogatari 696 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 697 Un Carnet De Bal 698 Unfaithfully Yours 698 Unforgiven 700 Utz 701 Vanya on 42nd Street 702 Village of the Damned 702 The Virgin Spring 703 I Vitelloni 704 Viva Zapata! 704 Walkabout 705 War and Peace 706 Way Out West 706 Weekend 707 The White Balloon 708 Whisky Galore 708 White Mischief 709 Wilson 710 Winchester '73. 711 The Winslow Boy 712 Woman in the Window 712 The Wrong Man 713 Yankee Doodle Dandy 715 Yojimbo 715 Young Frankenstein 716 Young Mr. Lincoln 717 Zero De Conduite 718 Zorba the Greek 718 Zulu 719
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