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The Bridge on the River Kwai
: essential video:Director David Lean's masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulle's novel remains a benchmark for war films, and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Lean's canon, The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme, narrative, and characterization that transcends genre. The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a ...
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Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition, 2 discs) - DVD
: :David Lean's splendid biography of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in a battle against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.System Requirements:Running Time: 226 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/CLASSICS Rating: PG UPC: 043396256224 Manufacturer No: 25622 :There's no getting around a simple, basic truth: watching Lawrence of Arabia in any home-video format represents a compromise. There's no better way to appreciate this epic biographical adventure than to see it projected in 70 millimeter onto a huge theater ...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (Movie Only Edition)
:Description:'A magnificent film, handled with reverence, artistic appreciation and admirable restraint' (NewYork Daily News), this glorious epic is an inspiring, grand-scale recreation of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from His humble birth and teachings to His crucifixion and ultimate Resurrection. Lavishly produced at a cost of $20 millionan enormous amount for the timeand honored with five 1965 Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations*, this exceptional motion picture is exquisitely beautiful. Now fully restored to its original theatrical brilliance with intermission and overture, it is truly The Greatest Story ...
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A Passage To India (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
: :Set in 1928 this film portrays an indelibly sardonic picture of British life in territorial India.The story concerns Adela Quested who is a free-spirited British woman played by (Judy Davis) whohas settled in India and is to marry Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers) a town magistrate. She is befriended by the charming Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) but it's a friendship that ultimately leads to tragedy.System Requirements:Running Time: 164 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/COMING OF AGE Rating: PG UPC: 043396209817 Manufacturer No: 20981 :This adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of ...
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Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
:Description:From Noël Coward's play Still Life, legendary filmmaker David Lean deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance in the dour, gray Britain of 1945. From a chance meeting on a train platform, a middle-aged married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a quietly passionate, ultimately doomed love affair, set to a swirling Rachmaninoff score. Criterion is proud to present Lean's award-winning masterpiece a beautifully restored digital transfer. essential video:To many, Brief Encounter may seem like a ...
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Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition)
:Description:Lovely, headstrong Rosy (Sarah Miles) cannot forsake her passionate romance with the handsome British officer (Christopher Jones). Yet there is a greater love ? the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles (Robert Mitchum), who stands by Rosy when her illicit affair leads to a charge of treason. Two honored alumni of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago director David Lean and screenwriter Robert Bolt frame this brooding tale within the expansive beaches, craggy cliffs and heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. Freddie Young's lush cinematography ...
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Summertime - Criterion Collection
:Description:An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome-but married-Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Katharine Hepburn's sensitive portrayal of the lonely heroine and Jack Hildyard's glorious Technicolor® photography make Summertime an endearing and visually enchanting film. essential video:There was a time before Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago when David Lean made smaller, more effortlessly picturesque movies, and this splendid Venetian travelogue and love story is one of them--the last, actually, before the epic onslaught started with ...
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A Passage to India [Blu-ray]
: :Set in 1928 this film portrays an indelibly sardonic picture of British life in territorial India.The story concerns Adela Quested who is a free-spirited British woman played by (Judy Davis) whohas settled in India and is to marry Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers) a town magistrate. She is befriended by the charming Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) but it's a friendship that ultimately leads to tragedy.System Requirements:Running Time: 164 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA/COMING OF AGE Rating: PG UPC: 043396162259 Manufacturer No: 16225 :This adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of ...
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Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31)
:Description:One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's Great Expectations brings Charles Dickens' masterpiece to robust onscreen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Lean's magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan. essential video:David Lean's handsome adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel captures the warm humor and richness of character that so many filmmakers miss in their reverent recreations of Victorian England. From the nightmarish opening sequence on the windswept graveyard where young orphan Pip (Anthony ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
: :When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI. Spectacularly produced THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI captured the imagination of the public and won seven 1957 Academy Awards(r) including Best Picture Best Actor (Alec Guinness) and Best Director. Even it's theme song an old WWII whistling tune the Colonel Bogey March became a massive hit. THE BRIDGE ONTHE RIVER KWAI continues ...
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