TOP TEN CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MOVIES

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The Godfather

Director: Francis Ford Coppola Writer: Mario Puzo Actors: Marlon Brando, Al

Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall

Plot: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

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Citizen Kane

Director: Orson Welles Writers: Herman J.

Mankiewicz and Orson Welles

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Plot: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

Casablanca

Director: Michael Curtiz Writers: Julius and Philip

Epstein Actors: Humphrey Bogart,

Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Plot: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Lawrence of Arabia

Director: David Lean Writers: T.E. Lawrence and

Robert Bolt Actors: Peter O’Toole, Alec

Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

Plot: Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.

Gone with the Wind

Director: Victor Fleming Writers: Margaret Mitchell,

Sydney Howard Actors: Thomas Mitchell,

Barbara O’Neil, Vivian Leigh, George Reeves

Plot: American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

On the Waterfront

Director: Elia Kazan Writers: Malcolm Johnson

and Budd Schullberg Actors: Marlon Brando,

Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb Plot: An ex-prize fighter

turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

It’s A Wonderful Life

Director: Frank Capra Writers: Frances Goodrich

and Albert Hackett Actors: James Stewart,

Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Plot: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

The Graduate

Director: Mike Nichols Writers: Calder Willingham

and Buck Henry Actors: Anne Bancroft,

Dustin Hoffman Plot: Recent college

graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.

Schindler’s List

Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Thomas Keneally

and Steven Zaillian Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben

Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Plot: Oskar Schindler uses

Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

Some Like It Hot

Director: Billy Wilder Writers: Robert Thoeren

and Michael Logan Actors: Marilyn Monroe,

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon Plot: When two musicians

witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

References

Star Theatre / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.. (2002, April 18). American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?papr:41:./temp/~ammem_Vvc7:

American Memory Collection (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Library of Congress). (n.d.). Library of Congress Home. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ndlmps.html