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www.movie-vault.com - : There are a lot of movies that get brought up a lot when discussing a certain genre. When talking about movies that defined sci-fi, it's hard to avoid ''Star Wars'', ''Metropolis'' or ''Alien''. When discussing slapstick, ''Duck Soup'' and ''Bringing Up Baby'' are unavoidable. Prison movies have ''Cool Hand Luke'' and ''The Shawshank Redemption'', gangster movies take their cues from ''The Godfather'' and ''Goodfellas'', and musicals will always invariably come back to two movies that stand head and shoulders above the rest. more...
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www.movie-gurus.com - : Even though ''Chicago'' and ''Moulin Rouge'' are doing a fine job of making the case for the viability of movie musicals, I can't help but be drawn to the classics of the genre that have lived on for years. My favorite musical is ''The Wizard of Oz,'' but there is another that I love nearly as much, and that is ''My Fair Lady'' (1964). more...
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www.ram.org - : The film is based on the story Pygmalion (1912) by George Bernard Shaw (the name refers to the King of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue of his own making). Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is an English Linguistics Professor who takes on Eliza Doolittle (a beautiful Audrey Hepburn) under his tutelage to change her from an unrefined flower girl with a Cockney accent to a genteel who brings forth the majesty and grandeur of the English language (which hasn't been used in America for years) with every utterance. more...
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