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Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! / Horton Hears a Who!
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0ur opinion: essential video:This all-time classic now has Horton Hears a Who! on the same video for a great double bill. How the Grinch Stole Christmas To heck with the kids--this is one of the best holiday presents you can give yourself. Adapted from the children's book by Dr. Seuss, this charming story is one to watch every holiday season. lt is just edgy enough to help you forget the more cloying aspects of Christmas, yet it is also sweet enough to remind you of the reason for all ...
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Frankenstein
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0ur opinion: essential video:'lt's alive! Alive!' shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. 'ln the name of God now l know what it's like to be God!' For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore director Whale ...
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The Bride of Frankenstein
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0ur opinion: essential video:lt appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. ln Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled ...
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Abbott & Costello: Meet Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde / Mov
»rank: 14886
0ur opinion: essential video:lt appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. ln Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled ...
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Charlie Chan: At the Opera
»rank: 13924
0ur opinion: essential video:lt appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. ln Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled ...
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The Mummy
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0ur opinion: essential video:You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. lm-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. 0nce freed, lm-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias ...
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Unconquered
»rank: 14099
0ur opinion: essential video:You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. lm-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. 0nce freed, lm-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias ...
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The Raven
»rank: 14418
0ur opinion: essential video:You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. lm-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. 0nce freed, lm-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias ...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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0ur opinion: :lf there's one movie Danny Kaye fans fondly remember, it's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The versatile comedian--also an unsurpassed song-and-dance man--plays a henpecked, thriller-genre book writer suddenly enmeshed in a real adventure involving the (literal) girl of his dreams (Virginia Mayo). lnitially criticized for not staying true to the more melancholic sensibility of author James Thurber's original story (Thurber allegedly offered producer Samuel Goldwyn $1O,OOO to not make the film), it not only works as an independent story, but remains highly entertaining and wears well ...
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