The Magnificent Seven. In the fifth grade, this was one of my favorite movies, and a very popular favorite at Lincoin Avenue School. Not having seen it since then, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out. There are a bunch of stars in it (Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero myths:
A Midsummer's Night Dream, by the English playwright, Shakespeare, is shown every year in Lehman Hall by English 12, and it will probably outlive the Brattle's Bogart festival.
And Then There Were None. From Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians thriller, changed to "Indians" in America because the original title was considered even less enlightened. This film includes the wonderful, mumbling Roland Young. At the Welles.
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