Casablanca (1942)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
Rated: PG
Run Time: 1h 42m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
Strengths: Cinematography, Acting, Lighting
Weakness: Nothing
When Rick, the owner of a club in Casablanca, is given travel papers for safe keeping, he is unwittingly placed at the center of a love triangle, refugee escape plan, and Nazi manhunt.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Directed by: Orson Welles
Starring: Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotton, Dolores Costello
Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Thematic Material)
Running Time: 1 h 28 m
TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Acting, Cinematography, Story
WEAKNESSES: Last Five Minutes
A spoiled young child of a wealthy family comes between his widowed mother and the man she always loved.
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The Wolf Man (1941)
Directed by: George Waggner
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Warren William, Bela Lugosi
Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Some Scary Moments and Mild Violence)
Running Time: 1 h 10 m
TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Moral Dilemma, Production Design, Old Hollywood Charm, Pacing
WEAKNESSES: Theatricality and Melodrama
A man returns to his family estate for his brother’s funeral only to be attacked by a wolf and possibly turned into a creature of legend.
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