The Movie Book

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 59 The movie was a success on its initial release, but the cost of the production meant that it ...

60 EVERYBODY HAS THEIR REASONS THE RULES OF THE GAME / 1939 T he Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) is a biting satire about th ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 61 Love is a game that is played according to complex, dangerous rules in the enclosed, upper-cl ...

62 TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY GONE WITH THE WIND / 1939 N ow viewed nostalgically as a relic of a long-gone Hollywood, Gone with th ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 63 What else to watch: The General (1926) ■ Little Women (1933) ■ A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 ...

64 YOU’RE WONDERFUL, IN A LOATHSOME SORT OF WAY HIS GIRL FRIDAY / 1940 H oward Hawks’s sharply scripted screwball comedy about t ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 65 The movie uses much of the script from the original play, but Hawks also encouraged the actor ...

IT ISN’T ENOUGH TO TELL US WHAT A MAN DID. YOU’VE GOT TO TELL US WHO HE WAS CITIZEN KANE / 1941 ...

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68 CITIZEN KANE I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life,” says Charles Foster Kane, the towering press-baron protagonist ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 69 00:12 Following a newsreel of Kane’s life, reporter Jerry Thompson is charged with discoverin ...

70 CITIZEN KANE technique that will finally allow him to reveal the truth that will elude Thompson and all the others. A good de ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 71 extensive creative partnership with Alfred Hitchcock. But more than anything, the movie’s bri ...

72 OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS IN ALL THE TOWNS IN ALL THE WORLD, SHE WALKS INTO MINE CASABLANCA / 1942 M ade at the height of World W ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 73 What else to watch: Only Angels Have Wings (1938) ■ The Maltese Falcon (1941, p.331) ■ To Hav ...

CASABLANCA anthems, and Rick must choose sides. He allows the band to play the Marseillaise to drown out the Germans. At the ver ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE Actors Henreid, Bogart, and Bergman did not know, until the final day of shooting, who would get ...

76 HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A HAM? TO BE OR NOT TO BE / 1942 I t’s astonishing now to realize that Ernst Lubitsch’s hilarious satire ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 77 What else to watch: Trouble in Paradise (1932) ■ Ninotchka (1939) ■ The Shop Around the Corne ...

78 What else to watch: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) ■ The Bicycle Thief (1948, pp.94–97) ■ The Leopard (1963) ■ Death i ...