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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 24-SEP-2002Media Type: DVD essential video:Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. Indeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in ...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :Musical about composer, actor, dancer, singer, George M. Cohan.Genre: MusicalsRating: NRRelease Date: 30-SEP-2003Media Type: DVD essential video:James Cagney thrills in a rare (and limber) song-and-dance performance as composer-entertainer George M. Cohan. This nostalgic biography is told in flashbacks, covering Cohan's formative years becoming Broadway's brightest star and touching upon his loves, musicals, and artistic triumphs. Director Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood) offers Cagney ample opportunities to invent an utterly charming performance in what is practically a one-man show. If you've never ...
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
: :Julie Andrews is at her peak of adorability in this enjoyable (and surprisingly sarcastic) spoof of the 1920s. It has every trick: occasional silent-movie intertitles, flapper lingo ('Oh, banana oil'), and a laughable plot about women being sold into white slavery by the scheming manageress (splendid Beatrice Lillie) of a Hotel for Ladies, aided by a cabal of wicked Chinese. (The stereotypes are bearable only if you remember this is a spoof of silent movie melodrama.) Even with able support from Mary Tyler Moore and ...
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Frankenstein (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
: :Boris Karloff is the screen's most tragic and memorable monster in the Frankenstein 75thAnniversary Edition. Tampering with life and death Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster. Director James Whale's 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece novel remains a timeless classic and this 2-disc 75th Anniversary Edition offers an all-new digitally remastered picture of the greatest horror movie of all time. Frankenstein: It's alive!System Requirements:Running Time: 71 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 025193102126 Manufacturer No: 21021 essential video:'It's alive! ...
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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
: :Screen chronicle based on actual 1917 events outside Fatima Portugal where three shepherd children report visions of the Virgin Mary and confront anticlerical government oppression in the process.Running Time: 102 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569756922 Manufacturer No: 75692 :The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima tells the story--through an admittedly Hollywood prism--of one of the most beloved Catholic legends of the 20th century. Three young shepherd children in the remote Portuguese mountain town Fatima reported seeing a vision in 1917 of 'a beautiful lady' who ...
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The Great Caruso
: :Screen chronicle based on actual 1917 events outside Fatima Portugal where three shepherd children report visions of the Virgin Mary and confront anticlerical government oppression in the process.Running Time: 102 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569756922 Manufacturer No: 75692 :The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima tells the story--through an admittedly Hollywood prism--of one of the most beloved Catholic legends of the 20th century. Three young shepherd children in the remote Portuguese mountain town Fatima reported seeing a vision in 1917 of 'a beautiful lady' who ...
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The Public Enemy
: :James Cagney gives a tour-de-force performance in his tough-guy portrayal of a petty hoodlum who rises to big-time gangster.Running Time: 82 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569690622 essential video:Director William Wellman (Wings), a World War I veteran who turned his experiences in battle into an insistence on unpretentious violence in his films, made Public Enemy a particularly brutal account of the rise and fall of a monstrous gangster (James Cagney). Cagney delivers one of the most famous performances in film history as the snarling ...
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Odds Against Tomorrow
: :Odds Against Tomorrow a crackling crime caper with an undercurrent of racial tension combines the desperation of three men--two of whom hate each other--and the culmination of that desperation in the form of a robbery. The film which includes a fantastic jazz score by pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet is a film noir gem. David Burke (Ed Begley) a former policeman who once served a prison sentence has asked bigoted southerner Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) to rob an upstate bank with ...
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Flying Tigers
: :John Wayne plays the tough commander of Flying Tigers, the famous fighter squadron that fought to save China from the Japanese. Wayne finds he is fighting a war on two fronts: he's taking on the enemy with only a handful of inexperienced men and patched-up planes while keeping a cocky new pilot from stealing his girl. The story has little in common with real history, and lots of classic post-Pearl Harbor propaganda fills the script. Regardless, the movie is all Wayne's, and Wayne fans will ...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
:Description:As the biggest high-stake poker game in the West begins, compulsive gambler turned homesteader, Meredith, is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when delt a winning hand. Mary, his pluck penny-pinching, long-suffering wife, steps in. As she plays the hand, she assails her rivals with fortitude and guts. Each is transformed into a model of sensitivity. But a twist ending reveals Mary has had more than fortitude up her sleeve all along. : It's the ...
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