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Desert Island Oldies - a list by kayzee

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Classic movies to take with you on that proverbial desert island. Even if you were there alone, with these, you'd never be lonely.

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This adaptation of the play The Front Page was brilliantly changed to make Hildy a woman, brilliantly played by Rosalind Russell. She divorces her husband and editor, Cary Grant, and turns up with her fiance, Ralph Bellamy. (In Romantic Comedy writing, that kind of dull romantic foil is called "a Bellamy," he played the part so well and so often.) Full of clever dialogue and perfect comic timing. Cary Grant has never been funnier.

Updated Aug 21, 2008

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Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock is so ahead of his time that this movie feels like it could have been released last week. But of course the point of view is 63+ years old, and it's fascinating to think about how the world has changed since then -- and how it hasn't.

Plus, it's just a really entertaining film. The atmosphere, the style, the classic actors and a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Updated Sep 22, 2009

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Laura (Fox Film Noir)

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Dana Andrews is so sexy as a detective who falls in love with a dead woman. Classic film noir.

Updated Aug 21, 2008

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North By Northwest

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See Cary Grant chased by a crop duster on the barren cornfields of Illinois. In the thriller genre, a cad finds himself in danger. CG plays a classic cad in this brilliant Hitchcock film. "They're onto you. I'm in your room."

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Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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When Cary Grant is asked why he's wearing a woman's dressing gown, he exclaims: "I've just gone GAY!"
I think this may be the funniest movie ever made.

Updated Aug 21, 2008