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Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: essential video:David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean's unerring sense of ...
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One Night With the King
: :Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who won the heart of King Xerxes and became Esther, Queen of Persia.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: ONE NIGHT WITH THE KINGTitle: ONE NIGHT WITH THE KINGStreet Release Date: 01/30/2007DomesticGenre: DRAMA : The moving biblical tale of Esther--a humble Jewish girl who saved her people from annihilation and won the heart of the handsome Persian king Xerxes--is the subject of One Night with the King, a lush ode to one of the Old Testament's ...
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Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)
: :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 screen. That caveat aside, David Lean's masterful 'desert classic' is still enjoyable on the small screen, especially if viewed in widescreen format. (If your only option is to view a 'pan & scan' version, it's best not to bother; this is a film for ...
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The 13th Warrior
: :When exiled Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan comes across a band of Vikings, he is appalled by their way of life, but after a fortune teller warns the Northmen of a mysterious enemy, Admad is compelled to enter into battle with them.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 25-JAN-2005Media Type: DVD :What happened to The 13th Warrior? Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard), it's the tale of young Arab ambassador Ahmahd ibn Fahdalan (Antonio Banderas), who's vanquished from his homeland for loving the wrong woman. On ...
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Funny Girl
: essential video:Ah, Barbra. Of all her onscreen personas, she sparkles in none as she does in her role as 1930s comedian Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl. Portraying the life of this star of stage and radio, Brice preens and prances and sings, captivating her audience both onscreen and off. Fanny Brice started life on the Lower East Side of New York, the daughter of a Jewish saloon owner. Not the prettiest girl around, Brice still managed to quickly rise to stardom as ...
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The Last Valley
: :From acclaimed writer James Clavell (Shogun) comes this stirring war epic starring Oscar® winner* Michael Caine as a soldier who knows nothing but battle until he rediscovers the possibility of love. Co-starring Omar Sharif this powerful film is both a magnificent spectacle and an intensely personal story of love friendship and loss.The Thirty Years War rages through 17th-century Germany and a fierce captain (Caine) lays waste to any village his army encounters. But when he arrives in an undisturbed valley where he meets 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 ...
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Top Secret!
: :An American rock star teams up with a scientist's daughter to rescue her father before the enemy can force him to make a devasting weapon.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: PGRelease Date: 1-MAR-2004Media Type: DVD :In between the disaster movie satire Airplane! in 1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked Gun in 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker put together a picture that's almost as funny as their better-known hits. Top Secret! sends up spy movies and cheesy teen ...
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Hidalgo (Widescreen Edition)
: :TouchStone Hidalgo (Widescreen) - DVDA breathtakingly photographed, epic western like none produced for decades, Hidalgo recounts the life of legend Frank T.Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen). Set in the 1800s, thisfamily film chronicles the triumphant victory wonby Frank and his mustang Hidalgo in the Ocean of Fire, an often-fatal competition in which the bestriders and thoroughbreds race across Middle Eastern deserts. For Frank, who is known in the west for his prowess as a Pony Express rider and the winner of long-distance horse races, the lure ...
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Funny Girl/Funny Lady
: :Barbra Streisand won the 1968 Best Actress Oscar ® for her screen debut as rising Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL which was also nominated for Best Picture and remains one of the most popular movie musicals ever made. Co-starring Omar Sharif the film features the now-classic songs People and Don t Rain on My Parade. She reteamed with Omar Sharif in 1975 for the sequel FUNNY LADY which featured an all-star cast and was nominated for 5 Academy Awards® including Best ...
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