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My 25 Most Favorite Films<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Having viewed over 5,000 films I have cataloged, on this site, the twenty five films that I would consider my top echelon favorites. The list is ever changing and currently I am thinking about making the list my top 50 films The quality of the films can be questionable as of critical reviews. With that, each and every one of these 25 have made an emotional impact on me, and I love viewing these films.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

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Kings Row\u00a0 1942\u2026\u2026Directed by Sam Wood from the novel by Henry Bellamann<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Ronald Reagan, \u201cwhere is the rest of me?\u201d,\u00a0 gives his best performance in a complex psychological drama about a small town that has issues that cannot be shown or mentioned in the film as of the book by Henry Bellamann.\u00a0 \u00a0Reagan\u2019s take on the \u201cDrake McHugh\u201d character along with his great chemistry with Ann Sheridan\u2019s \u201cRandy Monaghan\u201d must be noted as top shelf. Sheridan should never be forgotten and gives us a complete \u201ctomboy\u201d and \u201cstable young women\u2019s\u201d performance. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Adult melodrama that the censors would not allow certain topics to be used in the film, is a damn shame.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\u201cExposing hypocrisy and small-town secrets, the novel deals with themes of mental illness, incest, homosexuality, suicide, gender equality in relationships, and sadistic vengeance.\u00a0 <\/sup>\u00a0Such themes were still somewhat taboo in early 20th-century American literature, but not unheard of.\u201d\u00a0 Even with the censor restrictions of subject matter, the director get us to the crux of the points in the novel as this film rocks as one of the best and on my list as superior and most entertaining.\u00a0 \u00a0Besides Cummings and Sheridan, Betty Field, Claude Rains and Charles Coburn are also outstanding in the best acted film of 1942.\u00a0 Charles Coburn, playing \u201chidden\u201d evil as the bad human being, a sadistic physician, is unlike his more comic roles he has undertaken.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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A movie remake without censorship would bring an X rating today if the director stayed to the story line of the book.\u00a0 One of my top 100 films and one that I would want with me, anytime and any place.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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