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Bond: Live & Let Die
: :Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately reestablished Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the feel-good '70s. This film also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force ...
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Enemy Below
: :In The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a U.S. destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men with a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the cold war of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of co-operation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story which ...
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Bond: License to Kill
: :Timothy Dalton's second and last shot at playing James Bond isn't nearly as much fun as his debut, two years earlier, in the 1987 The Living Daylights. This time Bond gets mad after a close friend (David Hedison) from the intelligence sector is assassinated on his wedding day, and 007 goes undercover to link the murder to an international drug cartel. Robert Davi makes an interesting adversary, but as with most of the Bond films in the '70s, '80s, and '90s--and especially since the end of the cold war--one has to ...
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Enemy Below
: :In The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a U.S. destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men with a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the cold war of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of co-operation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story which ...
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Fly (1950)
:Description:A brilliant scientist (Al 'David' Hedison) becomes obsessed with perfecting a device that can transmit matter from one location to another. Successful in his initial tests, he decides to experiment using a human being¿himself. But an ordinary house fly also makes the journey with him, and when they emerge at the other end, both creatures have been terribly changed. This is the chilling story of a man fighting to retain his humanity, and a desperate woman's attempt to save the man she loves. Vincent Price and Patricia Owens co-star. :A dashing ...
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Lost World (1960)
: : The Lost World (Special Edition) is a terrific two-fer that includes Irwin Allen's glossy, 1960 adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel as well as the fantastic, 1925 silent version of the same story. In essence, The Lost World is Doyle's tale of an expedition to a mysterious plateau deep in the Amazon rainforest, where cantankerous adventurer Professor Challenger leads an expedition to prove the existence of prehistoric creatures living far from the civilized world. Allen's film, as with his many movie and television productions focusing on disasters (The Poseidon Adventure) ...
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Art of Crime
: : The Lost World (Special Edition) is a terrific two-fer that includes Irwin Allen's glossy, 1960 adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel as well as the fantastic, 1925 silent version of the same story. In essence, The Lost World is Doyle's tale of an expedition to a mysterious plateau deep in the Amazon rainforest, where cantankerous adventurer Professor Challenger leads an expedition to prove the existence of prehistoric creatures living far from the civilized world. Allen's film, as with his many movie and television productions focusing on disasters (The Poseidon Adventure) ...
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Licence To Kill
: :Timothy Dalton's second and last shot at playing James Bond isn't nearly as much fun as his debut, two years earlier, in the 1987 The Living Daylights. This time Bond gets mad after a close friend (David Hedison) from the intelligence sector is assassinated on his wedding day, and 007 goes undercover to link the murder to an international drug cartel. Robert Davi makes an interesting adversary, but as with most of the Bond films in the '70s, '80s, and '90s--and especially since the end of the cold war--one has to ...
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To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill
:Description:' Grab some popcorn and settle in for a feature-length journey through the history of sci-fi cinema. From Thomas Edison's Frankenstein, filmed in 1910, to 90's blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Independence Day, science fiction filmmakers have stretched the technical limits of the movies, speaking to our deepest fears and greatest dreams. Star Wars' Mark Hamill hosts this fast paced exploration that features clips from some of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time. Discover how audiences were thrilled and haunted by the disembodied voice of Claude Rains in ...
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:Description:' Grab some popcorn and settle in for a feature-length journey through the history of sci-fi cinema. From Thomas Edison's Frankenstein, filmed in 1910, to 90's blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Independence Day, science fiction filmmakers have stretched the technical limits of the movies, speaking to our deepest fears and greatest dreams. Star Wars' Mark Hamill hosts this fast paced exploration that features clips from some of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time. Discover how audiences were thrilled and haunted by the disembodied voice of Claude Rains in ...
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