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Stingiest Man in Town
: :This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, Stingiest stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. The 1978 animation is serviceable and the songs are sometimes catchy and clever (a reformed Scrooge tunefully ponders 'Man's happiness should be my ...
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Jack Frost (Animated)
:Description:Related by the wise old groundhog, Pardon-Me-Pete, this animated charmer tells of a girl so beautiful she melted the heart of Jack Frost himself. While visiting the village of January Junction, Jack Frost falls head-over-snowflakes in love with Elisa, the town's prettiest maiden. Turning into a human boy, Jack begins his courtship -- only to lose Elisa to the evil clutches of Kubla Kraus the Cossack. Teaming up with his elfen friends, Jack must use all his icy powers to free Elisa from Kubla's army of mechanical men. Visit this winter ...
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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
:Description:Related by the wise old groundhog, Pardon-Me-Pete, this animated charmer tells of a girl so beautiful she melted the heart of Jack Frost himself. While visiting the village of January Junction, Jack Frost falls head-over-snowflakes in love with Elisa, the town's prettiest maiden. Turning into a human boy, Jack begins his courtship -- only to lose Elisa to the evil clutches of Kubla Kraus the Cossack. Teaming up with his elfen friends, Jack must use all his icy powers to free Elisa from Kubla's army of mechanical men. Visit this winter ...
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
: :This fizzy musical was a Broadway smash in 1962, and boy, is it a product of its era. Executive washrooms, gray-flannel-suit businessmen, hip-swinging secretaries--they're all preserved in the movie's brightly colored amber. J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) is the window washer who climbs the corporate ladder in a few days, guided by a how-to book. The Frank Loesser songs are great fun, the Bob Fosse dances are very clever and mod, and the gaudy set design may have given Andy Warhol a few ideas. The jack-in-the-box performance of the elfin Robert ...
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First Easter Rabbit
:Description:Academy Award winner Burl Ives narrates in a fanciful, tuneful and color-splashed animated tale of The First Easter Rabit. That Rabit is Stuffy, a cuddly toy who magically comes to life. Stuffy goes to Easter Valley, and enchanted real where it's always springtime, where the Bunny hopes to bring the first-ever basked of Easter goodies to children. But a cold-hearted ice creature named Zero refuses to permit such happiness. If he has his way, he'll freeze out Easter celebrations forever!
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Cocktail
:Description:Tom Cruise is electrifying as Brian Flanagan, a young, confident, and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro (Bryan Brown -- GORILLAS IN THE MIST, F/X 2), becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist (Elisabeth Shue -- ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, HOLLOW MAN), their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life. Sizzling with high-powered performances and a #1 hit soundtrack, the box office blockbuster COCKTAIL has it all! :This 1988 effort at creating ...
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Matchmaker (1958) (B&W)
:Description:Based on Thornton Wilder's 1955 play, THE MATCHMAKER features Shirley Booth playing Dolly Levi, a young matchmaker determined to find a wife for a widowed millionaire. After finding potential wives for him, Dolly discovers that she's fallen in love with him and does all that she can to ensure he doesn't fall in love with any of the women she's set him up with.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
:Description:This sensuous mystery made Peter Weir's (The Truman Show, Witness, Dead Poets Society) reputation and brought Australian film into the worldwide spotlight. Set in turn-of-the-century Australia, Picnic at Hanging Rock dramatize essential video:Situated somewhere between supernatural horror and lush Victorian melodrama, director Peter Weir's lyrical, enigmatic masterpiece is an imaginative tease. The setting is a proper turn-of-the century Australian boarding school for girls, a suffocating institution built on strict moral codes, repressed sexuality, and a subtle but enforced class structure. As the film opens, girls draped in immaculate white dress ...
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Guide for the Married Man
: :Directed with a lascivious eye by Gene Kelly, A Guide for the Married Man has the illicit kick of finding a vintage copy of Playboy in your dad's sock drawer. With its zoom shots of ample cleavage and jiggling bottoms, this sophisticated sex farce is Naughty with a capital N. Walter Matthau stars as a desperate husband with a roving eye who is 'ready to take the plunge.' Robert Morse costars as his philandering best friend who becomes his 'coach.' Morse's 'pointers' are acted out by a stellar cast of comic ...
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Brotherhood of the Rose
: :Directed with a lascivious eye by Gene Kelly, A Guide for the Married Man has the illicit kick of finding a vintage copy of Playboy in your dad's sock drawer. With its zoom shots of ample cleavage and jiggling bottoms, this sophisticated sex farce is Naughty with a capital N. Walter Matthau stars as a desperate husband with a roving eye who is 'ready to take the plunge.' Robert Morse costars as his philandering best friend who becomes his 'coach.' Morse's 'pointers' are acted out by a stellar cast of comic ...
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