
William Wyler, The Heiress, 1949
This one has a 100% Fresh rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, and it's fully deserved. It's a very fine film adaptation by Ruth and Augustus Goetz of their 1947 Broadway play based on Henry James's Washington Square, with a truly stellar cast (Richardson, Clift and de Havilland were never better) and great dialogue, much of it culled directly from Henry James. Plus a fine Oscar-winning soundtrack by Aaron Copland, who should have written more for the movies than he did. Excellent in every way.