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Treasure Island (1990)
: :A tale about a fatherless boy finding dramatically different father figures throughout a remarkable adventure, Treasure Island is an entertaining coming-of-age story, with themes of family, loyalty, friendship, trust, and honesty at its core. While Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale is popular film fare, it's never been done this well. Charlton Heston stars as Long John Silver and Christian Bale as plucky Jim Hawkins in this TNT production. Directed by Heston's son Fraser (who also directed the excellent ...
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Oliver! (30th Anniversary Edition)
: :Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who ...
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Castaway (1987)
:Description:True story that started with an executive in London placing an ad for a woman to share a tropical paradise and wedded bliss, dreaming of sexual abandon. Unfortunately his partner doesn't share his dreams.
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The Trap
: :Set against the rugged and beautiful panorama of 19th century British Columbia, this movie is a dramatic adventure of the struggle for survival. Oliver Reed is the French Canadian trapper and Rita Tushingham his young mute wife in an epic tale of one woman's courage and triumph over an unknown,savage land. 106 minutes.
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Condorman
: :A pre-Phantom Michael Crawford plays Woody, a goofy cartoonist-accidentally-turned-spy in this Cold War-era lark. In Paris visiting his friend, a CIA 'file clerk,' Woody is sent on a cloak-and-dagger errand and is mistaken for an operative by his beautiful Russian counterpart. She then contacts the agency with the demand that he, and only he, help her defect. Writer adopts comic book persona and voilà: Condorman! This wide-winged hero thwarts the pesky Soviets at every turn. From the old run-down ...
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Condorman
: :A pre-Phantom Michael Crawford plays Woody, a goofy cartoonist-accidentally-turned-spy in this Cold War-era lark. In Paris visiting his friend, a CIA 'file clerk,' Woody is sent on a cloak-and-dagger errand and is mistaken for an operative by his beautiful Russian counterpart. She then contacts the agency with the demand that he, and only he, help her defect. Writer adopts comic book persona and voilà: Condorman! This wide-winged hero thwarts the pesky Soviets at every turn. From the old run-down ...
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Gor
:Description:Professor John Cabot finds a portal to another dimension with the help of a magical ring. In this other world, he is no longer an intellectual - he's become a warrior known as Tarl Cabot. It's up to him to help a group of tyrannized citizens overthrow their ruthless leader by defeating his barbaric soldiers.
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The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday
:Description:Professor John Cabot finds a portal to another dimension with the help of a magical ring. In this other world, he is no longer an intellectual - he's become a warrior known as Tarl Cabot. It's up to him to help a group of tyrannized citizens overthrow their ruthless leader by defeating his barbaric soldiers.
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The Prince and The Pauper
:Description:Professor John Cabot finds a portal to another dimension with the help of a magical ring. In this other world, he is no longer an intellectual - he's become a warrior known as Tarl Cabot. It's up to him to help a group of tyrannized citizens overthrow their ruthless leader by defeating his barbaric soldiers.
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The Return of the Musketeers
:Description:Professor John Cabot finds a portal to another dimension with the help of a magical ring. In this other world, he is no longer an intellectual - he's become a warrior known as Tarl Cabot. It's up to him to help a group of tyrannized citizens overthrow their ruthless leader by defeating his barbaric soldiers.
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