Movies: All-Time Greatest, Nos. 50-26
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50. Intolerance (1916)
Directed by D.W. Griffith
The silent master Griffith did more than anyone else to invent the language of movie storytelling, and this four-part parable of intolerance through the ages is his loopiest, most colossal, and most inspired achievement. The Babylonian sequence seems to exemplify the infinite possibilities of movies.
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49. Goldfinger (1964)
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48. It Happened One Night (1934)
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47. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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46. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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45. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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44. On the Waterfront (1954)
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43. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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42. Taxi Driver (1976)
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41. The Road Warrior (1981)
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40. Double Indemnity (1944)
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39. The Rules of the Game (1939)
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38. Vertigo (1958)
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37. Manhattan (1979)
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36. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
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34. Adam's Rib (1949)
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33. The Graduate (1967)
Directed by Mike Nichols
The story of a boy, a girl, and a Mrs. Robinson is one of the most revolutionary movies of the '60s. As Benjamin Braddock, a lad torn between respectability and dropping out (and as confused about it as Hamlet), Dustin Hoffman redefined movie stardom.
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32. Duck Soup (1933)
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31. Chinatown (1974)
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30. Sunrise (1927)
Directed by F.W. Murnau
The most heart-wrenching and lyrical of all silent films, Murnau's rapturous tale uses breathtakingly advanced cinematographic techniques to tell the story of a couple who must fall apart in order to come together.
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29. North by Northwest (1959)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's globe-trotting suspense classic, starring Cary Grant as an innocent man mistaken for a spy. It's the first true contemporary thriller, with an out-of-the-frying-pan existential wildness typified by the famous crop-dusting sequence.
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28. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed by Victor Fleming
The most powerfully odd and enchanting fairy tale to come out of Hollywood, the adventure of Dorothy in Oz has the enduring magic of a backlot daydream, with a shivery touch of nightmare in Margaret Hamilton's performance as the Wicked Witch of the West.
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27. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed by John Huston
Film-noir perfection and the stuff that dreams are made of: Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade, a detective entangled with a valuable carved bird, unsavory types who covet it, and a divinely shady dame. It was the amazing directorial debut of Huston, who went on to form a beautiful professional friendship with Bogart.
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