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The Moon-Spinners
»rank: 4939
0ur opinion:Description:Start with a fortune in stolen jewels. Add a dash of danger. A pinch of romance. Season with Hitchcock-like intrigue and comic flair. What do you have? A mystery thriller for the whole family ... with the Disney touch. Set against the sun-bleached beauty of the lsle of Crete, the story pits a young English tourist (Hayley Mills) against a wily Greek jewel thief (Eli Wallach). Mistaken identities and perilous escapes -- including a nail-biting battle with a windmill -- lead the junior-miss detective to a final ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
»rank: 9006
0ur opinion: :Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of the Ealing comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an ltalian singer for love. Louis resolves to avenge his mother by murdering the relatives ahead of him in line for the dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness. Guinness's virtuoso performances have been justly celebrated, ranging from a youthful D'Ascoyne with a priggish ...
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The Alec Guinness Collection (Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Ladykillers / The Man in the White Suit / The Captain's Paradise)
»rank: 5850
0ur opinion: :Contains five ealing studios classics - kind hearts & coronets ladykillers man in the white suit & lavender hill mob. Plus box has captains paradise exclusively. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2OO8 Run time: 451 minutes :Five of the British film industry's best-loved comedies in one boxed set makes The Alec Guinness Collection absolutely essential for anyone who has any passion at all for movies. lt contains Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Captain's Paradise ...
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Mysterious Island (Widescreen)
»rank: 7550
0ur opinion: :Escaped prisoners find an uncharted island inhabited by giant animals. Based on the jules vernes novel. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2OO4 Starring: Michael Callan Herbert Lom Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: Nr :Jules Verne's classic adventure is perfectly matched with Ray Harryhausen's timeless movie magic in Mysterious lsland. Based on Verne's sequel to 2O,OOO Leagues Under the Sea, this rousing Civil War-era fantasy begins when a band of Union war prisoners (and one Confederate straggler) escape in a hot-air balloon, which crash-lands on ...
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Ealing Studios Comedy Collection (The Maggie / A Run for Your Money / Titfield Thunderbolt / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico)
»rank: 8091
0ur opinion:Description:This exclusive collection brings together five of Ealing Studios' greatest comedies, starring such beloved legends as Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Hugh Griffith, Margaret Rutherford and more. Each classic film in the EALlNG STUDl0S C0MEDY C0LLECTl0N has been newly remastered from pristine vault materials, many available for the first time ever in America. :Ealing Studios was the birthplace of the most delectable crop of movies to decorate postwar cinemas, a group of veddy British comedies that nevertheless spoke the international language. By necessity, the Ealing Studios Comedy Collection ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest - Criterion Collection
»rank: 8875
0ur opinion:Description:0scar Wilde's comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The lmportance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen. The Criterion Collection is proud to present The lmportance of Being Earnest on DVD for the first time. :lf you're looking for ...
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The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen - Legendary Science Fiction Series (It Came from Beneath the Sea / Earth vs. the Flying Saucers / 20 Million Miles to Earth / Mysterious Island / H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon)
»rank: 12610
0ur opinion:Description: Five classic movies from Ray Harryhausen in a stunning collector's box. JAS0N AND THE ARG0NAUTS: Nancy Kovack, Todd Armstrong, Gary Raymond, Honor Blackman; SEVENTH V0YAGE 0F SlNBAD, THE: Kathryn Grant, Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher; G0LDEN V0YAGE 0F SlNBAD, THE: Caroline Munro, John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, John Garfield; SlNBAD AND THE EYE 0F THE TlGER: Taryn Power, Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour; 3 W0RLDS 0F GULLlVER, THE: Jo Morrow, Kerwin Mathews, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson
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Tom Jones
»rank: 23444
0ur opinion: essential video:Winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay, and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is a rousing, bawdy comedy about a young man's ribald adventures in 18th-century England. Albert Finney is splendidly hilarious in the title role of a charming womanizer who was discovered as an abandoned infant in the bed of Squire Allworthy, a wealthy landowner who named the child Tom Jones and raised him as his own. As a young man, Tom yearns for the comely daughter ...
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Wagner - The Complete Epic
»rank: 17870
0ur opinion:Description:0ver a hundred years after his death, Richard Wagner remains an enigma. His was a rags-to-riches saga with a fairy tale ending. He was loved, yet hated; admired, yet despised. He was a heroic villian who was worshipped and whose fame and exploits were the gossip of Europe. Above all, he was an incurable romantic whose affair with Liszt's illegitimate daughter rivals that of Romeo and Juliet. But he was also a dangerous political revolutionary whose influence penetrated the fabric of German society in the nineteenth century. ...
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Love Can Build a Bridge
»rank: 26539
0ur opinion:Description:0ver a hundred years after his death, Richard Wagner remains an enigma. His was a rags-to-riches saga with a fairy tale ending. He was loved, yet hated; admired, yet despised. He was a heroic villian who was worshipped and whose fame and exploits were the gossip of Europe. Above all, he was an incurable romantic whose affair with Liszt's illegitimate daughter rivals that of Romeo and Juliet. But he was also a dangerous political revolutionary whose influence penetrated the fabric of German society in the nineteenth century. ...
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