As an admitted list addict, I descended upon the one title on Entertainment Weekly's recent "Top 50 Cult Movies of All Time" list that I hadn't seen. The Best of Everything (available at Boîte Noire) is a '59 soaper about a gaggle of women trying desperately to meet Mr. Right while navigating their way through the jungle that was Manhattan's publishing scene.

The standout here is Joan Crawford, being in the unenviable position of successful career woman who's left alone and childless due to her ambition. (Indeed, this is about as pre-feminist as it gets.) Gunning for her job is blonde young'un Hope Lange, who's about to learn the hard way that finding a good job is almost as hard as finding a decent man. Playing sleaze perfectly are dastardly womanizers Robert Evans and Louis Jordan. Best part, aside from keen cast: opening credits with sprawling shots of New York skyline, accompanied by Johnny Mathis crooning a ballad. Not bad women-and-ambition camp, but I would've bumped this for another Crawford entry, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, left mysteriously off the EW list.

» Matthew Hays