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  • A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II-----Great Movie--- MRS. MINIVER

    05/12/2012 12:36:26 PM PDT · by djone · 26 replies
    Turner Classic Movies ^ | 5/13/12 | TCM
    MRS MINIVER : Moving drama about middle class English family learning to cope with war. Winner of six Academy Awards--for Garson, Wright, director Wyler, and Best Picture, among others--this film did much to rally American support for our British allies during WW2, though its depiction of English life
  • Random Harvest (1942)

    12/12/2011 8:18:28 PM PST · by Sick of Lefties · 9 replies
    Noman Says ^ | 12/10/11 | Noman
    It was movie night around No-house again, and last night's was a sentimental beauty: Random Harvest starring Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, and the lovely Susan Peters. The movie is based on a book by James Hilton who also wrote the novels-turned-movies Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939, starring Garson) and Lost Horizon (1937, starring Colman). Set in England, the story involves an amnesiac, John Smith, who lost all memory in a French foxhole during WWI. Ronald Colman is spectacular in the role. His face is a veritable exemplar of emotional complexity, puzzlement, confusion, frustration and resignation. He is simply pathetic, and lovable,...