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2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]
:Description:A space mission that could reveal man?s destiny is jeopardized by a malfunctioning shipboard computer. A dazzling journey that tops them all ? and showed the way for other effects-packed films that followed. essential video:When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on 'the proverbial intelligent science fiction film,' it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in ...
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2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
:Description:A space mission that could reveal man?s destiny is jeopardized by a malfunctioning shipboard computer. A dazzling journey that tops them all ? and showed the way for other effects-packed films that followed. essential video:When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on 'the proverbial intelligent science fiction film,' it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in ...
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2001 - A Space Odyssey [HD DVD]
:Description:A space mission that could reveal man?s destiny is jeopardized by a malfunctioning shipboard computer. A dazzling journey that tops them all ? and showed the way for other effects-packed films that followed. essential video:When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on 'the proverbial intelligent science fiction film,' it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in ...
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Halloween II
: :'You can't kill the boogeyman,' explains John Carpenter in Halloween, and to prove it he brings Michael Myers back in this handsome but grisly sequel. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasence runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill, and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty ...
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The Mouse That Roared
: :The Mouse That Roared (1959) is mostly remembered as a tour-de-force by a peerless comic actor, Peter Sellers, playing all three of the principal roles. It's worth seeing for that reason alone, but the film is also one of the most memorable satires of nuclear geopolitics produced during the cold war and, along with another Sellers vehicle, Dr. Strangelove, provides an unbeatable illustration of the paranoia and helplessness engendered by that period. The Mouse That Roared tells the story of ...
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
: essential video:When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on 'the proverbial intelligent science fiction film,' it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story 'The Sentinel,' 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From ...
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Up Periscope
:Description:A navy lieutenant (James Garner 'Maverick') during World War II is ordered aboard a submarine to get special photographs of a Japanese-controlled island. DVD Features:FeaturetteTheatrical Trailer :Anyone with a fondness for the conventions of the submarine picture will be content with the modest pleasures of Up Periscope, a World War II melodrama starring James Garner in one of his early Maverick-era roles. Pulled away from a week-long romance, Garner tags along with the sub to a Japanese-held island, where he ...
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Town Without Pity
:Description:Three-time OscarÂ(r) nominee* Kirk Douglas is downright brilliant (The New Yorker)in this honest and gripping drama about a sleepy, occupied German town suddenly shocked awake by the brutal actions of four American soldiers. As timely today as it was shocking upon its release, Town Without Pity is an excellent productionone of the decade's finest jobs of filmmaking (Limelight) and will keep you on the edge of your seat! Attorney Steve Garrett (Douglas) is brought in to defend four enlisted men ...
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The Road to Hong Kong
:Description:'The laughs come thick and fast' (Variety) in this seventh hilarious Road movie from Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Cavorting through a series of madcap adventures with Joan Collins, DorothyLamour and Robert Morleyas well as Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and David NivenCrosby and Hope dish out a 'fricassee of jokes and gags' (Los Angeles Times) in what may be the wildest entry in their popular film series! Vaudevillians Harry (Crosby) and Chester (Hope) travel to Tibet to search ...
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Walt Disney Treasures - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studio
:Description:This volume goes inside the walls of the world’s most famous magic factory for an inside tour, via several 'behind-the-scenes' films and television shows. :As Walt Disney's fame grew during the 1930s, people wanted to know more about his studio and how the 'Silly Symphonies' and Mickey Mouse shorts were created. Although Disney seldom allowed visitors, he periodically offered viewers peeks inside into the studio through the films in this collection. In 1937, Disney made A Trip Through the Walt ...
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