Best American Films
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy
- Wuthering Heights
- Stagecoach
- Ninotchka
- Young Mr. Lincoln
- Crisis
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- The Roaring Twenties
- U-Boat 29
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“The train was crammed, the heat stifling. We feel out of sorts, but do not quite know if we are hungry or drowsy. But when we have fed and slept, life will regain its looks, and the American instruments will make music in the merry cafe described by our friend Lange. And then, sometime later, we die.”
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—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)