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The Fifty Most Important Hollywood Movies
The 50 most important Hollywood films
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The 50 most important Hollywood films
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Your chronometer is about three minutes fast.
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The Squaw Man 1914, Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille This was Hollywood’s first feature length film. Like many other movie-makers, Apfel and DeMille headed west to avoid Thomas Edison’s fees from his patents. Originally intending to film in Arizona, they moved on because it was raining. Finally settling in sunny California, they rented a horse barn for $250 a month and used it to film their movie, a Western. It cost $15,000 to make and grossed $200,000. At that time, it was considered a box office smash hit. Hollywood became the movie making capital of the world (despite that India makes more movies) and Apfel and DeMille’s “Famous Players-Lasky Co” eventually became Paramount Studios.
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966, Mike Nichols This powerful drama starring superstars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor is the film that you can thank for the modern rating system. Jack Valenti had just taken over as president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and met with Jack Warner (of Warner Bros fame) and his top aide, Ben Kalmenson, for three hours of discussions about this movie before finally agreeing to delete “screw” and retain “hump the hostess”. Valenti’s discomfort with that meeting foreshadowed an eventual Supreme Court ruling in April, 1968 that upheld the power of states and cities to shield children from books that could not be shielded from adults. On November 1, 1968, the MPAA introduced its first ratings categories: G, M, R, and X. These were modified over time, and on September 27, 1990 became the familiar G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17.
If this is a real movie, I’m rushing out and buying it. I may have found the most important film of my life. 
Fenris
But what about the 50 most important Bollywood films?
It’s real, Fenris. It’s one of those treasured Alan Smithee films.
Keep your SqawMan fallacies to yourself.
eh?
If you guys aren’t careful TubaDiva is going to move this to Cafe Society.
Yikes, yer right! Here’s a request to close the thread!
Done.
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