Best Picture Collection: DVD Review (2008)

Out of all of these collections from Fox, this is the one to own.

In it are some of our best movies, starting with 1941’s timely “How Green Was My Valley,” with Donald Crisp and Sara Allgood struggling to keep their family together in the face of great hardship; 1947’s “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which found Gregory Peck as a journalist posing as a Jew--and getting hit hard by prejudice in the process; and Bette Davis in William Wyler’s 1950 masterpiece “All About Eve,” which isn't just one of the finest films in Davis' storied career, but also one of our finest films, period.

On a lighter note, Julie Andrews twirls and twitters and deals with those von Trapps in 1965’s “The Sound of Music,” while on the far end of the spectrum is 1971’s “The French Connection," a great action movie about a drug bust gone wrong that stars Gene Hackman and Roy Schreider, not to mention that unforgettable car chase through the streets of New York.

Grade: A