pixrox1 Review of Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership

Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)

This puff piece provides clear evidence that even its own studio . . .

[7/10 · 6 October 2020]

. . . recognized within a brief decade that its hate-filled "GWTW" filibuster was a reprehensible assault against America, People of Color and basic Common Sense. M-G-M tries to toot its own horn by showing clips from what it considers to be the Mangy Lion's top 25 flicks of a past quarter century in the ironically titled SOME OF THE BEST, and GWTW (currently joining the Washington Redskins on the renaming blotter; GASHED WITH THE WHIP is the leading candidate so far) doesn't make the cut. GWTW is not even "Leo's" pick for top flick of 1939; a children's story remake called THE WIZARD OF OZ holds that distinction. They say that a prophet garners no respect in his hometown; I guess the same goes for an ill-gotten undeserved profit!