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TOP TEN CRITICALLY
ACCLAIMED MOVIES
Corey Hammerton
ETE 100 sec 2November 23, 2009
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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 anorganized crime dynasty transferscontrol of his clandestine empire tohis reluctant son.
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Citizen Kane
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Herman J. Mankiewiczand Orson Welles
Actors: Joseph Cotten, DorothyComingore, Agnes Moorehead
Plot: Following the death of apublishing tycoon, newsreporters scramble to discover
the meaning of his finalutterance.
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Casablanca
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius and Philip Epstein
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, IngridBergman, Paul Henreid
Plot: Set in unoccupied Africaduring the early days of WorldWar II: An American expatriatemeets a former lover, with
unforeseen complications.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Director: David Lean
Writers: T.E. Lawrence andRobert Bolt
Actors: Peter OToole, AlecGuinness, Anthony Quinn, JackHawkins
Plot: Epic rumination on aflamboyant and controversialBritish military figure and hisconflicted loyalties duringwartime service.
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Gone with the Wind
Director: Victor Fleming
Writers: Margaret Mitchell,Sydney Howard
Actors: Thomas Mitchell,Barbara ONeil, Vivian Leigh,George Reeves
Plot: American classic in which amanipulative woman and aroguish man carry on a turbulentlove affair in the American southduring the Civil War andReconstruction.
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On the Waterfront
Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Malcolm Johnson andBudd Schullberg
Actors: Marlon Brando, KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb
Plot: An ex-prize fighter turnedlongshoreman struggles tostand up to his corrupt unionbosses.
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Its A Wonderful Life
Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Frances Goodrich andAlbert Hackett
Actors: James Stewart, DonnaReed, Lionel Barrymore, ThomasMitchell
Plot: An angel helps acompassionate but despairinglyfrustrated businessman byshowing what life would hadbeen like if he never existed.
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The Graduate
Director: Mike Nichols
Writers: Calder Willingham andBuck Henry
Actors: Anne Bancroft, DustinHoffman
Plot: Recent college graduateBenjamin Braddock is trappedinto an affair with Mrs.Robinson, who happens to bethe wife of his father's businesspartner and then finds himselffalling in love with her teenagedaughter, Elaine.
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Schindlers List
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Thomas Keneally andSteven Zaillian
Actors: Liam Neeson, BenKingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Plot: Oskar Schindler uses Jewsto start a factory in Polandduring the war. He witnesses thehorrors endured by the Jews,and starts to save them.
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Some Like It Hot
Director: Billy Wilder
Writers: Robert Thoeren andMichael Logan
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, TonyCurtis, Jack Lemmon
Plot: When two musicianswitness a mob hit, they flee thestate in an all female banddisguised as women, but furthercomplications set in.
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