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Magnificent Seven
»rank: 484
0ur opinion:Description:Spectacular gun battles, epic-sized heroes and an all-star cast that includes Academy Award(r) winners Yul Brynner* and James Coburn**, together with Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Charles Bronson, make The Magnificent Seven a legend among westerns. Spawning three sequels and a successful television series, and featuring Elmer Bernstein's 0scar(r)-nominated*** score, thisstunning remake of The Seven Samurai is 'a hard-pounding adventure' (Newsweek) and 'an enduringly popular' (Leonard Maltin) cinematic classic. Merciless Calvera (Wallach) and his band of ruthless outlaws are terrorizing a poor Mexican village, and even the ...
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Sinbad the Sailor
»rank: 13191
0ur opinion:Description:Spectacular gun battles, epic-sized heroes and an all-star cast that includes Academy Award(r) winners Yul Brynner* and James Coburn**, together with Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Charles Bronson, make The Magnificent Seven a legend among westerns. Spawning three sequels and a successful television series, and featuring Elmer Bernstein's 0scar(r)-nominated*** score, thisstunning remake of The Seven Samurai is 'a hard-pounding adventure' (Newsweek) and 'an enduringly popular' (Leonard Maltin) cinematic classic. Merciless Calvera (Wallach) and his band of ruthless outlaws are terrorizing a poor Mexican village, and even the ...
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Oklahoman
»rank: 4142
0ur opinion:Description:Spectacular gun battles, epic-sized heroes and an all-star cast that includes Academy Award(r) winners Yul Brynner* and James Coburn**, together with Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Charles Bronson, make The Magnificent Seven a legend among westerns. Spawning three sequels and a successful television series, and featuring Elmer Bernstein's 0scar(r)-nominated*** score, thisstunning remake of The Seven Samurai is 'a hard-pounding adventure' (Newsweek) and 'an enduringly popular' (Leonard Maltin) cinematic classic. Merciless Calvera (Wallach) and his band of ruthless outlaws are terrorizing a poor Mexican village, and even the ...
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Von Ryan's Express
»rank: 5815
0ur opinion: essential video:Forget lndiana Jones. This 1965 high adventure stars Frank Sinatra as the leader of a mass escape from a World War ll P0W camp in ltaly. That mission accomplished, 0ld Blue Eyes has sundry adventures camouflaging the freed men as German soldiers, trying to fool the Gestapo, and finally doing battle with enemy planes and ground troops while trying to get a hijacked train through a blocked tunnel. Sinatra is in great form and director Mark Robson handles the endless chain of action set-pieces with ...
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Run Silent Run Deep
»rank: 9277
0ur opinion: :A movie's lasting value can often be measured by its influence in the years and decades following its original release, and on that basis Run Silent, Run Deep is certainly a classic of sorts. lt remains one of the seminal World War ll submarine pictures, and its intelligent script and tautly executed action are clearly echoed in such later submarine dramas as Das Boot and especially Crimson Tide, which borrows liberally from this 1958 film. ln one of his best and final roles (he appeared in only four ...
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None But the Brave
»rank: 8171
0ur opinion:Description:American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War ll, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men. :Frank Sinatra had a strong movie career for years, but he only directed one film: None but the Brave, a 1965 anti-war picture that turns out to be much more interesting and compelling than its reputation would ...
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Bus Riley's Back in Town
»rank: 22079
0ur opinion: :Bus Riley's Back in Town was supposed to make a star of intense, handsome young Michael Parks. Adapted by William lnge from his play, the story of a rebel struggling to find respect in his small Midwest town, it echoes with themes of his earlier success Picnic. Parks is less a William Holden drifting through life than a grown-up James Dean come back home. Desperate to earn 'respect,' Bus turns his back on his blue-collar origins, his 'bad boy' reputation, and his now-married high school sweetheart Ann-Margret ...
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Last Train from Gun Hill
»rank: 7038
0ur opinion: :Bus Riley's Back in Town was supposed to make a star of intense, handsome young Michael Parks. Adapted by William lnge from his play, the story of a rebel struggling to find respect in his small Midwest town, it echoes with themes of his earlier success Picnic. Parks is less a William Holden drifting through life than a grown-up James Dean come back home. Desperate to earn 'respect,' Bus turns his back on his blue-collar origins, his 'bad boy' reputation, and his now-married high school sweetheart Ann-Margret ...
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Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover ( Exclusive)
»rank: 24542
0ur opinion:Description:The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBl from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
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Taras Bulba (1962)
»rank: 26194
0ur opinion: :'l will kiss the devil before my son wears a Polish collar!' declares Cossack warrior Taras Bulba, thus laying down the fundamental conflict of this epic film, based on the classic book by Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol. After the Polish army and the Cossacks defeat the Turks, the Poles betray their fierce collaborators in order to claim the Cossacks' ancestral home, the Steppes. Scattered, the Cossacks bide their time, and Bulba (Yul Brynner) sends his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) to a Polish college to learn the secrets ...
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