Movie number four is what some consider to be a woman's film. I think however that although it is definitely romantic, it is such a wonderful history of the early days of the Russian Revolution that it goes far beyond the romantic genre. It is of course, Dr. Zhivago, with Julie Christie and Omar Shariff, along with a ton of other actors and actresses of great skill. It won the Nobel Prize for its author Boris Pasternak and I must have seen it a dozen times in the last forty years. It never disappoints and is always worth watching again and again. Rod Steiger is particularly good as well, showing that corruption can live in all kinds of systems, no matter the political persuasion. Tom Courtney also shows how zealotry can be turned to just plain badness. An uplifting but also depressing story.
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