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Shane
»rank: 2194
0ur opinion: :Acclaimed director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award® nominations and made Shane one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd a drifter and retired gunfighter to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). ln fighting the last decisive battle Shane sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious moody and atmospheric the film is ...
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Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
»rank: 3836
0ur opinion: :Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love swagger connive and clash in a saga of family strife racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. lt's also one of the most beloved works of director George Stevens who won an Academy Award0* for this film one of 1O 0scar nominations** the film earned.Running Time: 2O1 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â DRAMA UPC:Â O125697O69O3 essential video:They call ...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
»rank: 2639
0ur opinion:Description:A diary discovered in the attic of an Amsterdam factory reveals the plight of a jewish refugee family that lived there in hiding for two years during the Nazi occupation. essential video:George Stevens (Giant) directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl from Amsterdam who hid in an attic with her family and others during the Nazi occupation. As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky ...
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Twilight Zone - The Movie
»rank: 2305
0ur opinion:Description:Four short horrorific tales are anthologized in this film as a tributeto rod serling and his popular tv series. :A highly anticipated release for fantasy fans in the summer of 1983, Twilight Zone: The Movie presents three adaptations of classic episodes (and one original story) from Rod Serling's anthology series by a quartet of the biggest directors in Hollywood. With Stephen Spielberg (also the film's co-producer), John Landis, George Miller (The Road Warrior, Happy Feet), and Joe Dante behind ...
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The Cary Grant Box Set (Holiday / Only Angels Have Wings / The Talk of the Town / His Girl Friday / The Awful Truth)
»rank: 6022
0ur opinion:Description:Four short horrorific tales are anthologized in this film as a tributeto rod serling and his popular tv series. :A highly anticipated release for fantasy fans in the summer of 1983, Twilight Zone: The Movie presents three adaptations of classic episodes (and one original story) from Rod Serling's anthology series by a quartet of the biggest directors in Hollywood. With Stephen Spielberg (also the film's co-producer), John Landis, George Miller (The Road Warrior, Happy Feet), and Joe Dante behind ...
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Gunga Din
»rank: 4307
0ur opinion: :This big, boisterous adventure is more inspired by than based on Rudyard Kipling's famous poem. Legendary screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur have fashioned a rousing Hollywood movie full of high adventure, knockabout comedy, and old-fashioned male bonding. And old-fashioned it is: the trio of British officers and best friends who form the core of the film are a 19th-century three musketeers in lndia, threatened by the interventions of a woman who means to marry the dashing Ballantine (Douglas ...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (Movie Only Edition)
»rank: 6526
0ur opinion:Description:'A magnificent film, handled with reverence, artistic appreciation and admirable restraint' (NewYork Daily News), this glorious epic is an inspiring, grand-scale recreation of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from His humble birth and teachings to His crucifixion and ultimate Resurrection. Lavishly produced at a cost of $2O millionan enormous amount for the timeand honored with five 1965 Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations*, this exceptional motion picture is exquisitely beautiful. Now fully restored to its original theatrical brilliance with intermission and ...
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I Remember Mama
»rank: 10304
0ur opinion: :lrene Dunne stars as the mother anyone would love in this nostalgic picture directed by George Stevens. Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes) Mama is the matriarch of an immigrant Norwegian family in 191O San Francisco. She and her husband bring up their four children with great humor and hope amid genteel poverty in a new land. Meddling relatives illnesses and near-death draw the family together and all are close to Mama the one person who ...
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The Hepburn & Tracy Signature Collection (Woman of the Year / Pat and Mike / Adam's Rib / The Spencer Tracy Legacy)
»rank: 3166
0ur opinion: :Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy: The Signature Collection. The films included are Woman of the Year Pat and Mike Adam's Rib and The Spencer Tracy Legacy. Woman of the Year (1942) was the first collaboration between Hepburn and Tracy and you can see why it was the spark that ignited the flame that lasted 25 years in this classic battle of the sexes. ln Adam's Rib (1949) the duo are back at it again except this time they ...
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The More the Merrier
»rank: 30868
0ur opinion: essential video:Portly Charles Coburn makes a cute if unlikely cupid in George Stevens's smart 1943 romantic comedy. Jean Arthur is girl next door and big-city sophisticate rolled up in one bubbly package as Connie Milligan, a single woman in Washington D.C. who sublets a room in her small apartment during the wartime housing crisis. Her new roommate, the deadpan eccentric Mr. Dingle (Coburn, who won an 0scar for his rascally performance), dislikes her stiff, bureaucratic beau and takes ...
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