Mrs. Miniver (BD) "Childrens"

Mrs. Miniver (BD) "Childrens"Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this memorablespirit lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize winningroses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord withAmerican audiences and became 1942's Number 1 box office hit. Greer Garsongives a formidable Oscar winning performance in the title role,comforting children in a bomb shelter, capturing an enemy parachutistand delivering an inspirational portrait

the film burns with intrigue

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he's treated like royalty because the staff thinks he's a slumming millionaire

10) careens to a wild climax

whose The Bat Whispers would be cited by comic-book legend Bob Kane as an inspiration for the creation of a certain hooded crime fighter

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he gives up a life of crime for her and the two move in together without getting married

As father and son circle each other

A Baghdad beggar-poet helps his daughter woo a caliph

trades urbane cool for sweaty grit to play Hayden

Romantic-comedy icon Cary Grant and film-debuting Betsy Drake team in this frothy

Oliver Reed and Gayle Hunnicutt star in a complex cat-and-mouse thriller packed with double-crosses