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Splendor in the Grass
: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/12/2005 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William Inge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 1920s whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her pent-up adolescent ...
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
: :A spunky backwoods girl is determined to break into the upper crust of denvers high society and along the way survives the sinking of the titanic. This energetic version of the broadway musical contains many meredith wilson songs and lots of good natured fun. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Debbie Reynolds Harve Presnell Run time: 135 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Charles Walters :Not only was Molly Brown unsinkable, so is the musical based on her amazing life. Released in 1964, The Unsinkable Molly Brown gave Debbie Reynolds ...
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Mame
:Description:Lucille Ball plays Auntie mame, loving life and living it to the hilt with her nephew and assorted eccentrics in tow. Robert Preston, Beatrice Arthur and Jerry Herman's smashing Broadway score add pizazz. Year: 1974 Director: Gene Saks Starring: Lucille Ball. Robert Preston, Bea Arthur :The 1974 film version of Mame stars legendary Lucille Ball and is based on the 1966 hit Broadway musical, not the 1958 movie. When 10-year-old Patrick Dennis's father dies, he is sent to live with his eccentric Auntie Mame. Mame may know nothing about being a ...
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Carousel (50th Anniversary Edition)
:Description:Gordon MacRae is Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker who falls in love with a millworker (Shirley Jones) on the colorful coast of Maine. Filmed on location, with a beautiful seaside setting as a backdrop and a thrilling score for accompaniment, their romance unfolds. But right before the birth of his daughter, Billy is killed while committing a robbery. Now in heaven, years later, he returns to earth for one day to attend his daughter's high school graduation and teach her one very important lesson. : Like its immediate predecessor, Oklahoma!, ...
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Harper Valley P.T.A.
:Description:What happens when Stella Johnson and her daughter Dee come up against the unwelcome wagon of the Harper Valley P.T.A.? Hilarious comedy that's fun for the entire family!
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Frankie and Johnny
:Description:The Mississippi River's never seen as many wild twists as in this spirited and extravagant riverboat ride, which stars the King of Rock'n'Roll Elvis Presley and the lovely Donna Douglas of 'The Beverly Hillbillies!' Featuring hilarious support from Harry Morgan ('M.A.S.H.') and eleven original Presley tunes as well as his motion-picture dancing debut, Frankie and Johnny is a 'sure-fire romppretty girls, a toe-tapping score and Elvis all the way' (Variety)! Presley is Johnny, a riverboat singer whose life, according to girlfriend and singing partner Frankie (Douglas),has become 'one great big roulette ...
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Carousel
: :Like its immediate predecessor, Oklahoma!, this 1956 screen musical boasted then state-of-the-art widescreen cinematography, stereophonic sound, a starring romantic duo with onscreen chemistry, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein imprimatur. Adding to its promise was a source (the venerable Ferenc Molnar play Liliom) that had already been filmed three times. Yet unlike the original Broadway production, and despite evident craft, Carousel proved a box-office disappointment. Why? Hindsight argues that '50s moviegoers may have been unprepared for its tragic narrative, the sometimes unsympathetic protagonist, and a spiritual subtext addressing life after death. Whatever ...
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Carousel [Region 2]
: : Like its immediate predecessor, Oklahoma!, this 1956 screen musical boasted then state-of-the-art widescreen cinematography, stereophonic sound, a starring romantic duo with onscreen chemistry, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein imprimatur. Adding to its promise was a source (the venerable Ferenc Molnar play Liliom) that had already been filmed three times. Yet unlike the original Broadway production, and despite evident craft, Carousel proved a box-office disappointment. Why? Hindsight argues that '50s moviegoers may have been unprepared for its tragic narrative, the sometimes unsympathetic protagonist, and a spiritual subtext addressing life after death. ...
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1960s Classics 6-Pack (Cool Hand Luke / My Fair Lady / Robin and the 7 Hoods / Ocean's 11 (1960) / The Dirty Dozen / Doctor Zhivago)
:Description:This 6-DVD set includes Cool Hand Luke, My Fair Lady, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Ocean's 11 (1960), The Dirty Dozen, and Doctor Zhivago.
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