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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
: :This is the second version of victor of hugos classic and its a good one. Laughton plays the piteous hunchback who falls in love with a lovely gypsed girl. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Edmond Obrian Maureen Ohara Run time: 115 minutes :Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney. In his triumphant attempt to create a performance as memorable as Chaney's, Charles Laughton played ...
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Arch of Triumph
:Description:Set in pre-WWII Paris, the film stars Charles Boyer as Dr. Ravic, a brilliant German surgeon who has fled to Paris to escape the growing power of the Nazis. There he meets Joan Madou (Ingrid Bergman), a depressed, unemployed cabaret singer. Ravic finds her a job and they fall in love. Suddenly, after being unable to produce his passport, he's deported. When he's finally able to return to Paris, matters come to a crisis.
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Cover Girl
: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Nr essential:Cover Girl was one of the big hits of Rita Hayworth's run as movie queen (and World War II pinup girl), a splashy musical geared to the talents of its redheaded star. Be warned: this is the kind of movie in which a single magazine cover turns an unknown dancer into the toast of her own Broadway show, virtually overnight. The corn runs high, but so do the spirits; plus, Eve Arden is around to ...
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Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
:Description:From Oscar®-nominated* writer/director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club) comes this 'exhilarating' (Vanity Fair) and life-affirming tale that won him the 1987 Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and inspired City of Angels. Co-written with Peter Handke, this 'enchanting' (The New York Times) film about the joy of life is 'that rare thing a work of true originality' (Newsweek)! Damiel (Bruno Ganz) is a lonely angel who roams the streets of Berlin providing comfort to mortals in need. But when he is drawn into the life of a beautifuland ...
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That Night in Rio (Fox Marquee Musicals)
:Description:Her girl-next-door looks combined with a sultry singing voice made Alice Faye one of HollywoodÂ's biggest stars in the Golden Age of Cinema. Don Ameche and Alice Faye pair up as husband and wife, Baron and Baroness Duarte and head to South America in this musical classic. In order to avoid some financial problems, the Baron switches places with impersonator Larry Martin Â'Direto da BroadwayÂ' (also Ameche). When MartinÂ's affections for the Baroness are too kind and romantic, both the Baroness and MartinÂ's girlfriend Carmen (Carmen Miranda) realize their men are ...
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Hollywood Hotel
: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008
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Casablanca
: essential video:A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt ...
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Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
: :Fortunes of Captain Blood & Captain PirateLouise Hayward (The Man in the Iron Mask) portrays Captain Peter Blood a former doctor who takes to piracy after he is exiled from England for treating the wounds of an enemy solider. During his travels Blood meets the beautiful Isabelita who happens to be the niece of Blood s arch-nemesis the Marquis de Riconete.Captain PiratePassions run hot and blood runs cold in CAPTAIN PIRATE. Louis Hayward (The Man in the Iron Mask) returns as Captain Peter Blood the doctor-turned-swashbuckler who comes out of ...
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The Boat Is Full
:Description:During WWII, a ragtag band of refugees from Germany crosses into Switzerland seeking shelter. The owner of a small inn takes them in with the provision that they pose as a family in order to escape suspicion and deportation, as refugee families with children under six were allowed to maintain asylum in Switzerland during the war. The group includes a child who speaks only French, while its adults are all German-speakers. Can the boy be made to understand the gravity of maintaining his silence as he holds their fate in his ...
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Gold Diggers in Paris
: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008
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