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The 100 greatest classic films ever and where you can watch them right now: Veteran critic BRIAN VINER'S movies everyone should see at least once - and they don't include Marvel, Shawshank Redemption or Titanic
BRIAN VINER: Here are 100 films which I believe everyone should see at least once in their lifetime, and all of which should make you laugh, cry, gasp or think. Maybe all four, in certain cases.
And this stands at the summit of them, a radiant comedy in which Wilder, with the very considerable assistance of Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, spins a sublimely silly yarn – about two musicians posing as women so they can join an all-girl band and shake off the Chicago gangsters on their tail – into pure gold. Bogart at his coolest, Bergman at her loveliest, Peter Lorre at his shiftiest, oodles of romance, suspense, even comedy, and a superb screenplay – for me it vies with director Michael Curtiz’s hit The Adventures Of Robin Hood as the quintessence of Hollywood’s Golden Age. The swagger of George Roy Hill’s caper movie makes it one for the ages, as a pair of Depression-era con artists (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) take a Chicago mob boss to the cleaners, to the tinkling of Scott Joplin’s ragtime piano.
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