Movies That You Can Watch Over and Over, and Still Enjoy..

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20. Nobody's Fool is badly overlooked

Chinatown is just about my all-time fave.

The Big Sleep is mentioned downthread. See the original 1945 cut to answer some of the questions from the 1946 theatrical release. Between shooting and release of The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not came out, establishing Lauren Bacall as a new star of the big screen. Howard Hawks, who directed The Big Sleep, was no dope. When he saw what a sensation Bacall had become, he re-shot some of the scenes and added a few new ones to more prominently feature Bacall.

In those days, if you added something, you had to cut something else to reduce the running time. A couple of key scenes got cut or taken out entirely, resulting in some confusion about who committed the first murder in the Eddie Mars house. Most DVDs that I've seen for The Big Sleep are two sided and have the 1945 cut as well as the 1946 theatrical release.