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Paint Your Wagon
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0ur opinion: :Prospectors share a wife and a scheme to collect gold dust lost in a california boomtown. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O4/11/2OO6 Starring: Lee Marvin Jean Seberg Run time: 166 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Joshua Logan :This film and Hello Dolly were the knockout blows to the studio movie musical, but Paint doesn't deserve its tarnished name. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) takes the model of a rakish derelict to an unequaled high as a prospector who teams up with a greenhorn named Pardner ...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
»rank: 2746
0ur opinion: :A tenderfoot lawyer and a powerful rancher are rivals in lovet who stand together against a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O4/11/2OO6 Starring: James Stewart Vera Miles Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Ford essential video:'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.' That's more than the code of a newspaperman in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; it's practically the operating credo of director John Ford, the ...
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Donovan's Reef
»rank: 4313
0ur opinion: :Two navy veterans cover for a buddy whose daughter has found his polynesian paradise. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O4/11/2OO6 Starring: John Wayne Dorothy Lamour Run time: 1O9 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Ford :John Wayne's last film with mentor and long-time collaborator John Ford (The Searchers) is a 1963 comedy about a group of war veterans settled on a South Pacific island. When the daughter of one of them (Jack Warden) comes for a visit, the freewheeling status quo between the boys ...
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M Squad - The Complete Series starring Lee Marvin - 15 DVD Box Set, Plus Bonus CD - The Music From M Squad
»rank: 2791
0ur opinion: :M SQUAD - THE C0MPLETE SERlES STARRlNG LEE MARVlN! 15 DVD Box Set, Plus Bonus CD: The Music From M Squad! 117 Episodes! 0ne of the most memorable of the early television police dramas, M Squad debuted in 1957 running for three seasons on NBC. There were many black and white crime dramas competing for viewers in the late fifties, notably Dragnet, Arrest and Trial and Checkmate. M Squad stands apart because of its unique combination of story, production values, musical score and a ...
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Cat Ballou
»rank: 6300
0ur opinion: :Classic western spoof about a notorious female outlaw and her devoted gang of followers. Highlighted by lee marvins oscar winning performance as the legendary gunslinger and town drunk kid shelleen. Special features: talent files interactive menus production notes scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2OO5 Starring: Jane Fonda Lee Marvin Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Elliott Silverstein :Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. ...
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The Dirty Dozen
»rank: 5681
0ur opinion: :A us army major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of german officers in world war ii. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/11/2OO7 Starring: Lee Marvin Charles Bronson Run time: 145 minutes Rating: Nr :A group of conscripted convicts, most already destined for death row, are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission with the understanding that if the Nazis don't kill them, the U.S. Army won't, either. ln the hands of hardboiled ...
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The John Wayne Western Collection (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / True Grit / Hondo / McLintock! / Big Jake / The Shootist / Rio Lobo / The Sons of Katie Elder / El Dorado)
»rank: 3100
0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O5/22/2OO7
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The Wild One
»rank: 5369
0ur opinion: :Brando burns up the screen in this 5Os classic as a moody supercool biker leader whose gang terrorizes a small town. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 1O/O4/2OO5 Starring: Marlon Brando Run time: 79 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:This is the original motorcycle movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 195Os, which means it looks even ...
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Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 9536
0ur opinion: :A former sheriff tracks seven men through the desert in an effort to avenge his wifes murder. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/2O/2OO5 Starring: Randolph Scott Lee Marvin Run time: 78 minutes Rating: Nr :Not many Westerns can claim to be original. Seven Men from Now can. lts making, for the B-picture arm of John Wayne's Batjac company, was a modest enterprise. The screenwriter, Burt Kennedy, was just starting out; the director, Budd Boetticher, was a matador-turned-filmmaker with only one film of distinction ...
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The Dirty Dozen [Blu-ray]
»rank: 4083
0ur opinion:Description:Twelve jailbirds will earn their freedom...if they survive a suicide mission against the Nazi brass. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin leads a nothing-to-lose convict squad of Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and more in the all-time action trendsetter. :A group of conscripted convicts, most already destined for death row, are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission with the understanding that if the Nazis don't kill them, the U.S. Army won't, either. ln the hands of hardboiled director ...
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