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Citizen Kane or Casablanca?


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Casablanca hands down

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Neither, though at least I did enjoy Casablanca a bit.

I can think of dozens and dozens of black and white films which I'd rather be watching...and yes, all of them were released before 1970.

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen 🎇

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you define these films by the fact they are black and white, you should desist from commenting ever again

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I'm not smart enough to grasp anything else. To me, a film is either black & white or it's in color.

I'm still working hard at trying to understand the Mickey Mouse episodes. Those are more up my alley, but I find them to be quite complex a times. Perhaps the Road Runner episodes are in order here, or maybe some episodes of The Friendly Giant.
I'm still hoping that someone will explain to me how the giant in The Friendly Giant fit into that tiny castle.

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen 🎇

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Citizen kane for sure.

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Casablanca is my favorite movie of all time, so obviously I'd choose that, but Citizen Kane is amazing in its own right (although it's not even my favorite Welles/Cotten collaboration).

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Kane. Though Casablanca is a perfect film too.

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A+ the both of them... Casablanca is my #2 all time, Kane my #3. Pretty much sums it up for me.

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What's you first?

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Stand By Me.

My top 50 is a hybrid favs & bests. SBM is my #1 all time & it's not close.

...top 50 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056413299/

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funny story, a few years ago I was on vacation and actually found both of them on VHS at a thrift store. I still haven't watched Citizen Kane (I remember trying to on an especially rainy day and fell straight to sleep, but that could have happened with any movie), but I finally got around to watching Casablanca last year and I'm still not over it. What a film.

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Definitely Citizen Kane.

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