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  ovies
mirror society. Many of the great conservative films were produced
during Hollywood’s Golden Age of the Thirties and Forties,
when
the ideals of
Western civilization were almost universally accepted. By the Seventies,
alas, the counterculture was being reflected in the new Hollywood’s
nihilistic themes and chaotic styles. The trend began with Midnight
Cowboy and Easy Rider in 1969, and reached its nadir in
1973 with Marlon Brando’s pornographic sexual epic of alienation,
Last Tango in Paris. Pauline Kael, voluble critic of The
New Yorker, cried out with joy: “The movie breakthrough has
finally come.” (Indeed, and the social wreckage from such breakthroughs
against traditional restraint is everywhere to be seen.) Today the
film is as dated as any Shirley Temple movie, though without the charm.
The recovery
began with Star Wars (1977) and its sequels, The Empire
Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), whose
simple truths about heroism and the triumph of good over evil (not
to mention space defense) were harbingers of the Reagan Eighties.
The Reagan years saw quite a number of conservative films —
not to mention destruction of the real-life Evil Empire. Hence our
honorees include many recent films as well as classics from the
Thirties and Forties.
Then envelopes,
please.”
National
Review
October 24, 1994
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List
1.
A Man for All Seasons
2. Chariots of Fire
3. Therese
4. King of Kings
5. The Ten Commandments
6. Johnny Belinda
7. Quo Vadis?
8. Carnal Knowledge
9. Ten
10. Tender Mercies
11. Three Godfathers
12. The Bicycle Thief
13. My Left Foot
14. Stand and Deliver
15. Lean on Me
16. Meet Me in St. Louis
17. Little Women
18. Since You Went Away
19. Penny Serenade
20. How Green Was My Valley
21. Fort Apache
22. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
23. Rio Grande
24. The Quiet Man
25. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
26. A Canterbury Tale
27. I Know Where I’m Going
28. Dumbo
29. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
30. You Can’t Take It with You
31. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
32. Meet John Doe
33. It’s a Wonderful Life
34. My Darling Clementine
35. Sergeant York
36. Yankee Doodle Dandy
37. Red Dawn
38. The Hanoi Hilton
39. Rambo: First Blood Part II
40. The Deer Hunter
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41.
Heartbreak Ridge
42. Wake Island
43. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
44. That Hamilton Woman
45. King’s Row
46. Knute Rockne All American
47. The Inner Circle
48. Ninotchka
49. Marie Antoinette
50. A Tale of Two Cities
51. Viva Villa
52. There Was a Crooked Man
53. The Next Voice You Hear
54. Going My Way
55. The Song of Bernadette
56. Lilies of the Field
57. High Noon
58. The Fountainhead
59. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
60. The Yearling
61. I Remember Mama
62. Father of the Bride
63. Father’s Little Dividend
64. Sounder
65. Baby Boom
66. Judge Priest
67. State Fair
68. Shane
69. Drums Along the Mohawk
70. Ruggles of Red Gap
71. To Kill a Priest
72. Man of Marble
73. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
74. Animal Farm
75. Eleni
76. Dr. Zhivago
77. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
78. Ghostbusters
79. Too Hot to Handle
80. White Nights
81. Forbidden Planet |
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