The essentials
Subtitle: 52 must-see movies and why they matter
By: Jeremy Arnold ; foreword by Robert Osborne
Contributors: Turner Classic Movies (Firm); Turner Classic Movies (Firm)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780762459469
Subjects: Motion pictures; Reviews
Other titles: Fifty-two must-see movies and why they matter
Notes: At head of title: TCM Turner Classic Movies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Metropolis (1927); title: All quiet on the Western front (1930); title: City lights (1931); title: Grand Hotel (1932); title: King King (1933); title: Duck soup (1933); title: It happened one night (1934); title: The thin man (1934); title: Bride of Frankenstein (1935); title: Swing time (1936); title: Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939); title: Gone with the wind (1939); title: The lady Eve (1941); title: Citizen Kane (1941); title: Now, voyager (1942); title: Casablanca (1942); title: Double indemnity (1944); title: Meet me in St. Louis (1944); title: Leave her to heaven (1945); title: The best years of our lives (1946); title: Out of the past (1947); title: The red shoes (1948); title: The bicycle thief (1948); title: The third man (1949); title: White heat (1949); title: Adam's rib (1949); title: Winchester '73 (1950); title: Sunset Boulevard (1950); title: Gun crazy (1950); title: All about Eve (1950); title: Singin' in the rain (1952); title: Roman holiday (1953); title: Seven samurai (1954); title: On the waterfront (1954); title: Rear window (1954); title: Invasion of the body snatchers (1956); title: The searchers (1956); title: Some like it hot (1959); title: North by northwest (1959); title: Ben-Hur (1959); title: Breathless (1960); title: Lawrence of Arabia (1962); title: To kill a mockingbird (1962); title: Dr. Strangelove (1964); title: Bonnie and Clyde (1967); title: In the heat of the night (1967); title: The graduate (1967); title: Once upon a time in the West (1968); title: Jaws (1975); title: Rocky (1976); title: Annie Hall (1977); title: This is Spinal Tap (1964).