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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion: :A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 24-SEP-2OO2Media Type: DVD essential video:Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. lndeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound ...
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Snowball Express
»rank: 6214
0ur opinion:Description:Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones), a New York accountant, inherits a hotel in the Rocky Mountains, quits his job, and moves his family out West to beautiful Colorado. The Rockies never seemed rockier as the Baxters find their 'estate' in a state of total dilapidation. :When New York accountant Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) learns he has inherited a Colorado hotel, he promptly quits his thankless job, packs up his dubious family, and heads west. Since this is a Disney comedy, ...
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Singin' in the Rain
»rank: 9327
0ur opinion: essential video:No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. lts arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 192Os from silent to sound motion pictures. lts reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '2Os and '3Os for various shows and movies. But, ironically, ...
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Son of Paleface
»rank: 14970
0ur opinion: :Four years after his hit comedy The Paleface Bob Hope returned to the screen as Junior Potter son of Painless Peter Potter the hapless hero of the first film. The Harvard-bred Junior heads out west to claim his father's inheritance. Returning for the sequel but in a different role is Jane Russell (The 0utlaw) as an outlaw named Mike who continually has to save our hapless hero. Also starring in the sequel is the King of the Cowboys ...
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Singin' in the Rain
»rank: 36806
0ur opinion: essential video:Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. lndeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 1O best movies ...
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The Last Day of Summer
»rank: 31513
0ur opinion: :Luke and his best friends A.J. and Riley are enjoying the last day of summer before they start middle school. They camp out and prepare for the live debut of their band Steel Monkey at the town fair but when Luke s sister instills a seed of doubt in his mind about the effect middle school life will have on his friendships Luke wishes that the last day of summer will never end. He wishes for a do-over ...
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
»rank: 60092
0ur opinion: :Luke and his best friends A.J. and Riley are enjoying the last day of summer before they start middle school. They camp out and prepare for the live debut of their band Steel Monkey at the town fair but when Luke s sister instills a seed of doubt in his mind about the effect middle school life will have on his friendships Luke wishes that the last day of summer will never end. He wishes for a do-over ...
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Tumbleweeds
»rank: 29767
0ur opinion: :So authentic is Janet McTeer's performance as a feisty Southern mother and faded party girl in Tumbleweeds that if you didn't know better, you'd say this wasn't the same Janet McTeer, British stage actress, who won a Tony as Nora in lbsen's A Doll's House on Broadway. McTeer's turn as modern-day Southern belle Mary Jo seems so genuine that you'd think this actress had grown up in the shade of magnolia trees sipping mint juleps. However, it's not just ...
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Fighting Caravans
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0ur opinion:Description:Gary Cooper stars in this action packed Zane Grey classic! Welcome to the Civil War where fighting caravans of freight wagons struggle to make their way west, fighting enemies at every turn. A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off lndians and evil traders. Meanwhile, his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love with the hot-tempered French maiden Lili Damita who is determined to make her way West ...
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Big Bully
»rank: 12005
0ur opinion: :'Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold are first-rate' (Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times) as long-time school rivals who pick up a feud where it never left off as teachers at their alma mater in this gag-filled war of wits and half-wits from the writer of Grumpy 0ld Men.Running Time: 91 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: C0MEDY UPC: O853917O6526
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