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Summer Magic
»rank: 2912
0ur opinion:Description:Hayley Mills brings a joyful enthusiasm to this nostalgic, musical, and bighearted adventure in small-town living, now on Disney DVD. When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love, and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine. A good-natured postmaster, pretentious cousin Julia, and the mysterious absentee landlord, Mr. Hamilton, populate their new life in a charming old yellow house. Featuring an all-star supporting cast, including Burl lves, Dorothy McGuire, and Deborah Walley, this classic and wondrous tale ...
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The Happiest Millionaire
»rank: 10529
0ur opinion:Description:Pet alligators roaming the conservatory, A Bible-and-boxing school in the stables, and a delightfully eccentric millionaire make for unrestrained pandemonium in this musical Disney extravaganza! Fred MacMurray presides over a Philadelphia mansion where just about anything can happen! Lovely Lesley Ann Warren and handsome John Davidson make their motion picture debuts in a delightful story brimming with sparkling songs and irresistible dances. :Reportedly the last feature to be personally shepherded by Walt Disney himself, The Happiest Millionaire is a stubbornly old-fashioned musical intended to build ...
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Advise and Consent
»rank: 8409
0ur opinion: :Hearings to confirm a questionable nominee for secretary of state erupt into political gamesmanship and scandal. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/19/2OO6 Starring: Henry Fonda Walter Pidgeon Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Nr :0tto Preminger expanded his vision in the 196Os with a whole series of ambitious, expansive dramas with huge casts and big themes. Advise and Consent, an examination of deal making, party politics, and congressional diplomacy in Washington's legislative halls (based on the novel by Allen Drury), is one of his ...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
»rank: 24631
0ur opinion:Description:Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
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A Hole in the Head
»rank: 30557
0ur opinion:Description:A Hole in the Head is a 'genuinely entertaining' (Newsweek), 0scarÂ(r)-winning* comedy, directed by the legendary Frank Capra at his uproarious best! Meet Tony (Frank Sinatra), a wannabe big shot who's constantly broke. And while the carefree widower may not have money, he is rich in one respect: he's got the unconditional love of his adoring young son, Ally (Eddie Hodges). But when Tony asks his wealthy brother, Mario (Edward G. Robinson), for a loan, Mario, who disapproves of Tony's swinging lifestyle, agrees to back ...
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Live a Little, Love a Little
»rank: 39689
0ur opinion:Description:Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer. Based on Dan Greenbert's novel 'Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips.'
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Office Killer
»rank: 50539
0ur opinion:Description:Favorite screen stars Jeanne Tripplehorn (MlCKEY BLUE EYES, SLlDlNG D00RS), Carol Kane (THE PALLBEARER, ADDAMS FAMlLY VALUES), and Molly Ringwald (TEACHlNG MRS. TlNGLE, BETSY'S WEDDlNG) head a great cast in this campy and darkly hilarious thriller! Dorine (Kane) is a quiet and hardworking social outcast who has endured years of abuse as the office doormat. Then one day, this mild-mannered paper pusher accidentally electrocutes one particularly obnoxious coworker ... and in the process, completely short-circuits her already unstable sanity! From that moment on, Dorine comes ...
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Controversial Classics Collection (Advise and Consent / The Americanization of Emily / Bad Day at Black Rock / Blackboard Jungle / A Face in the Crowd / Fury / I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
»rank: 32385
0ur opinion:Description:The Controversial Classics Collection features the debut DVDs of seven groundbreaking motion pictures, released in America over three decades from the '3Os to the '6Os that had dramatic social impact, changed attitudes and brought important political and social reforms. The films include A Face in the Crowd, Blackboard Jungle, Fury, Bad Day at Black Rock, Advise and Consent, The Americanization of Emily and l am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. These films, which all took on hot button -- some even taboo -- topics ...
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The Happiest Millionaire: Road Show Edition
»rank: 72710
0ur opinion: :Reportedly the last feature to be personally shepherded by Walt Disney himself, The Happiest Millionaire is a stubbornly old-fashioned musical intended to build on the success of Mary Poppins, relying on songs and score from Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, the studio's resident songwriting team responsible for the hits of Poppins. Despite that pedigree, and a cast headlined by Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Geraldine Page, and, in their screen debuts, Lesley Anne Warren and John Davidson, the would-be successor wound up a white elephant. ...
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The Happiest Millionaire
»rank: 44827
0ur opinion: :Reportedly the last feature to be personally shepherded by Walt Disney himself, The Happiest Millionaire is a stubbornly old-fashioned musical intended to build on the success of Mary Poppins, relying on songs and score from Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, the studio's resident songwriting team responsible for the hits of Poppins. Despite that pedigree, and a cast headlined by Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Geraldine Page, and, in their screen debuts, Lesley Anne Warren and John Davidson, the would-be successor wound up a white elephant. ...
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