Mr. Stroppygob's Guide To American Movies
Casablanca:
Trite drivel about the love life of some Yank layabout running a casino in North Africa while the brave British were facing down the Hun alone. His whiny teary eyed ex-girlfriend shows up, (a maudlin performance, but at least the actress isn't an American)
The movie is helped somewhat by the presence of the fine British actor Claude Rains, but he's not enough to save this turkey. And the dopes who made this cast him as a
Frenchman...
Citizen Kane:
An American bloke is born rich, gets richer, becomes corrupt, has a bit of tail on the side, and dies even richer, the end. Somehow, they managed to stretch that out to two hours. Waste of celluloid.
Gone With The Wind:
Trite drivel glorifying America's racist past. The film isn't quite as bad as some, (since the producers had the good sense to cast a British actor and two British actresses in three of the four lead roles) but it would have been improved immensely if they had cast Erroll Flynn as Rhett Butler rather than that jug-eared gravel voiced no-talent Clark Gable.
And why did they insist on having Howard, Leigh and de Havilland use those corn pone southern accents, rather than allowing them to perform their roles with the lovely British speaking voices they were born with? What's wrong with American audiences that they haven't the maturity to accept performances unless all the actors are portrayed as Americans? Why are they so culturally self-absorbed?
