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Bold_Fortune's "Bold_Fortune's The Very Best English-Speaking Movies I Own On DVD"

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This is a list of my favorite English-Speaking movies I own on DVD. I call them "The Very Best" because each of these movies is listed on more than one, credible Best Movies list. That’s how I make my decision to purchase them, by scouring credible movie lists. If a movie keeps showing up on lists, there’s a good chance I’ll buy it on DVD. (I just got tired of investing my money on low-rated movies that I thought would be good, only to be disappointed. These aren’t listed here.)

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    A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version)
    by Elia Kazan

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    The Fugitive Kind
    by Sidney Lumet

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    Hud
    by Martin Ritt

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    The Hustler
    by Robert Rossen

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    Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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    The Rose Tattoo
    by Daniel Mann

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    Ice Station Zebra
    by John Sturges

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    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Robert Mulligan

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    Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet

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    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    by Frank Capra

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    Captains Courageous
    by Victor Fleming

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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    by Stanley Kramer

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    Inherit the Wind

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    Coming Home
    by Greg Carson

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    Blackboard Jungle

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    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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    East of Eden (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

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    Lost Horizon
    by Frank Capra

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    Random Harvest
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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    Stella Dallas
    by King Vidor

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    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler

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    Of Mice and Men
    by Lewis Milestone

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    Tears of the Sun (Unrated Director's Cut)
    by Antoine Fuqua

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    Saving Private Ryan
    by Steven Spielberg

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    The Young Lions
    by Edward Dmytryk

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    From Here to Eternity

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    Apocalypse Now Redux

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    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

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    Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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    Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
    by Edward Zwick

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    Sergeant York
    by Howard Hawks

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    The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set)
    by John Sturges

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    Gunga Din
    by George Stevens

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    Die Hard (Widescreen Edition)
    by John McTiernan

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    Memoirs of a Geisha (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Rob Marshall

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    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

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    Gone With the Wind
    by Victor Fleming

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    Straw Dogs
    by Sam Peckinpah

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    Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alfonso Cuarón

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    Sahara
    by Zoltan Korda

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    Gaslight
    by George Cukor

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    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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    The Caine Mutiny (Collector's Edition)
    by Edward Dmytryk

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    Seven Days in May
    by John Frankenheimer

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    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger

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    Ray

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    The Buddy Holly Story
    by Steve Rash

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    Coal Miner's Daughter - 25th Anniversary Edition
    by Michael Apted

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    Cinderella Man (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ron Howard

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    The Pianist

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    Walk the Line (Full Screen Edition)
    by James Mangold

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    Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition)

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    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

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    The Natural
    by Barry Levinson

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    A Face in the Crowd
    by Elia Kazan

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    City for Conquest
    by Anatole Litvak

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    The Roaring Twenties
    by Raoul Walsh

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    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

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    They Drive by Night (Keepcase)
    by Raoul Walsh

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    The Desperate Hours
    by William Wyler

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    Key Largo (Snap Case)
    by John Huston

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    Dark Passage (Snap Case)
    by Delmer Daves

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    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

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    To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

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    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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    High Sierra (Snap Case)
    by Raoul Walsh

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    Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

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    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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    Laura
    by Otto Preminger

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    Nightmare Alley
    by Edmund Goulding

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    Sudden Fear
    by David Miller

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    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Robert Aldrich

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    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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    Night and the City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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    Pickup on South Street - Criterion Collection
    by Samuel Fuller

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    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

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    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Michael Curtiz

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    Gilda
    by Charles Vidor

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    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder

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    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by Tay Garnett

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    Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) (Ws Sub)
    by Ralph Nelson

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    Cat People
    by Paul Schrader

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    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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    Brute Force (Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

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    Atlantic City
    by Louis Malle

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    Bullitt
    by Peter Yates

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    Scarface
    by Brian De Palma

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    The French Connection (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by William Friedkin

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    This Gun for Hire
    by Frank Tuttle

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    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

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    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

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    Kings Row
    by Sam Wood

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    Detective Story (1951)
    by William Wyler

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    The Bad and the Beautiful
    by Vincente Minnelli

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    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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    Crossfire
    by Edward Dmytryk

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    The Lady from Shanghai

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  104. 112.
    Mystic River (Full Screen Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

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    In Cold Blood
    by Richard Brooks

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    Flawless
    by Joel Schumacher

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    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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    Blood In, Blood Out
    by Taylor Hackford

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    Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

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    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

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    Bad Day at Black Rock
    by John Sturges

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    Naked City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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    Witness For the Prosecution
    by Billy Wilder

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    The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
    by Bryan Singer

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    Basic Instinct
    by Paul Verhoeven

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    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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    The Departed (Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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    Seven (Single Disc Edition)
    by David Fincher

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    Angel Heart (Special Edition)
    by Alan Parker

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    Heaven's Prisoners
    by Phil Joanou

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    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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    The Prestige
    by Christopher Nolan

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    Chinatown

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    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch

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    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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    Pocketful of Miracles
    by Frank Capra

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    Shall We Dance? (Widescreen Edition)
    by Peter Chelsom

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    Tin Men
    by Barry Levinson

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    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

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    The Sting
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    One Night at McCool's
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  132. 141.
    Born Yesterday
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    To Be or Not to Be
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    My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
    by Gregory La Cava

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    Heaven Can Wait (Criterion Collection)
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    Easter Parade (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Walters

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    Here Comes Mr. Jordan
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    The Apartment

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    The Birdcage
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    As Good As It Gets
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    The Big Lebowski
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    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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    Jerry Maguire
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    Love Actually

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    Journey to Center of the Earth
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    Days of Heaven
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    Dial M for Murder
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    North By Northwest

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    Saboteur

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    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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    Lifeboat (Special Edition)
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    Strangers on a Train

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    Foreign Correspondent

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    Shadow of a Doubt
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    Suspicion

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    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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    The Birds (Collector's Edition)

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    The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
    by William Friedkin

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    Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition)
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    Batman
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Widescreen Edition)
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    King Kong (Full Screen Edition)

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    War of the Worlds (Full Screen Edition)
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    Sin City

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    Open Range

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    The Missouri Breaks

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    3 Godfathers
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    Silverado (2 Disc Superbit Gift Set)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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    Duel in the Sun
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    The Unforgiven
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    The Magnificent Seven (Special Edition)
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    Shane

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    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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    Yellow Sky
    by William A. Wellman

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    The Big Country
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    Red River
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    Rio Bravo
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    The Alamo

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    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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    The Searchers
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    The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
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    The Outlaw Josey Wales

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    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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    The Longest Day
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    Raging Bull (Special Edition)

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    Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Digipack)
    by George Stevens

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    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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    Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
    by John Schlesinger

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    The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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    Schindler's List
    by Steven Spielberg

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    Dark City (New Line Platinum Series)
    by Alex Proyas

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    The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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    Planet of the Apes (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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    Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by David Lean

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    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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    Miracle on 34th Street
    by George Seaton

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    The Lemon Drop Kid
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    O Henry's Full House
    by Jean Negulesco

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    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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    Wait Until Dark
    by Terence Young

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    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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    Texas (1941)
    by George Marshall

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    The Defiant Ones
    by Stanley Kramer

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    A Star Is Born
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    The Enemy Below
    by Dick Powell

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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition)
    by Richard Brooks

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    Sorry Wrong Number (1948) (Sub)
    by Anatole Litvak

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    All the King's Men
    by Robert Rossen

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    The Time Machine
    by George Pal

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    Pursued
    by Raoul Walsh

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    The Boys From Brazil
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  222. 242.
    Spartacus - Criterion Collection
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  223. 243.
    Ed Wood (Special Edition)
    by Tim Burton

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    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  225. 245.
    Casino Royale (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Campbell

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    The Story of G.I. Joe
    by William A. Wellman

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    On the Beach
    by Stanley Kramer

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    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman

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    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg

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    Paris, Texas
    by Wim Wenders

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    They Were Expendable

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    The Trial

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    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens

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    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer

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    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    by Otto Preminger

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  237. 257.
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    by Lewis Milestone

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    The Frighteners (Director's Cut)

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    Treasure Island
    by Byron Haskin

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