Movie Recommendations

The best of the Astaire-Rogers outings. The “Pick Yourself Up” and “Never Gonna Dance” numbers are screen magic; only a weak ending mars this masterpiece.

Errol Flynn only! Simply the best costume epic ever: stars, direction, script, and music all come together perfectly in glorious Technicolor.

Gene Kelly and Van Johnson stumble into a Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years. Some nice Lerner & Loewe tunes.

Relentless, true story of a botched bank robbery in Brooklyn.

An over-eager angel takes boxer Robert Young too soon, so Young is offered a choice of recently deceased bodies to inhabit.

See the director’s cut in widescreen for the full effect of stupendous cinematography. Peter O’Toole’s breakthrough role as the British agent who becomes an Arab to muster support in WW I.

Brilliant exploration of guilt and secrecy in the new postwar Germany. Humorous and disturbing. (subtitled)

The rare movie musical not based on a play. Features catchy tunes, exuberant dancing, and (of course) an ensemble cast of 14.

Jean Arthur is caught between Ronald Colman as a respected law professor renting her house and Cary Grant as the escaped convict hiding in her attic.

Bogart and Hepburn as unlikely lovers who travel up the Congo in wild hopes of torpedoing a German gunner during WW I.