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mancoon

Favorite films

  • Frankenhooker
  • Rebecca
  • Network
  • Paths of Glory

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  • The Outfit

    ★★★½

  • Laura

    ★★★½

  • Moby Dick

    ★★★

  • Sahara

    ★★★½

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  • The Outfit

    The Outfit

    ★★★½

    There may be a plot to this movie. Maybe not? Who cares, Robert Duvall robs a bunch of people! Joe Don Baker! Robert Ryan is a mob boss? Also there's Karen Black in a role that's not actually a role. But she's definitely in the movie!

  • Intermezzo: A Love Story

    Intermezzo: A Love Story

    ★★★

    A rather schmaltzy melodrama that's only notable as being Ingrid Bergman's first Hollywood movie. Direction from Gregory Ratoff is rather flat, and Bergman, whilst the best part of the movie, hardly imposes the level of charm that she would develop only a few years on. I must say that Ratoff does manage to sneak a couple of interesting shots in here though.

    The melodrama actually reaches such heights that it might be worth seeing just for comical effect. I actually…

  • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    ★★★½

    I think this is in fact a brilliant piece of war propaganda. I think even Goebbels would've appreciated it if he ever saw it. The bit towards the end about occupying Germans hiding for cover during the air raid hits especially hard.

    Though it's nowhere near The Archers' best work, it's still worth a view, even if as just a historical artifact.

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