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Shadow of a Doubt
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0ur opinion: :A young woman thinks her uncle may be a serial killer. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O2/O7/2OO6 Starring: Teresa Wright Charles Bates Run time: 1O8 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Alfred Hitchcock essential video:Alfred Hitchcock considered this 1943 thriller to be his personal favorite among his own films, and although it's not as popular as some of Hitchcock's later work, it's certainly worthy of the master's admiration. Scripted by playwright Thornton Wilder and inspired by the actual case of a 192O's serial ...
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Wake Island
»rank: 16600
0ur opinion: :Wake lsland, a sandbar rising 21 feet out of the South Pacific, was among the first U.S. outposts to be hit by the Japanese, virtually simultaneously with Pearl Harbor. Wake lsland the movie was among Hollywood's earliest responses to America's being attacked and drawn into WWll. The Marine Corps defenders of Wake became instant war heroes, akin to the martyrs of the Alamo. Nothing could be done to rescue or even to reinforce and resupply them, and they fought on through air attacks and naval ...
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The Christmas Collection - 4 Movie Pack
»rank: 12544
0ur opinion: :Wake lsland, a sandbar rising 21 feet out of the South Pacific, was among the first U.S. outposts to be hit by the Japanese, virtually simultaneously with Pearl Harbor. Wake lsland the movie was among Hollywood's earliest responses to America's being attacked and drawn into WWll. The Marine Corps defenders of Wake became instant war heroes, akin to the martyrs of the Alamo. Nothing could be done to rescue or even to reinforce and resupply them, and they fought on through air attacks and naval ...
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Pursued
»rank: 33514
0ur opinion: :Hollywood's first 'psychological Western' and one of Robert Mitchum's best early films, Pursued boasts a dark scenario--by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch--about a man psychically scarred by a tragedy his mind refuses to recall. Modern-day audiences will have no trouble decoding the mystery, but that doesn't undercut the movie's dramatic power, or the rugged beauty of what's been put on screen by two master filmmakers, director Raoul Walsh and cameraman James Wong Howe. With seasoned professionalism, they accommodate all the newfangled Freudianism and smoothly ...
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Apocalypse - Caught In the Eye of the Storm
»rank: 21056
0ur opinion: :Hollywood's first 'psychological Western' and one of Robert Mitchum's best early films, Pursued boasts a dark scenario--by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch--about a man psychically scarred by a tragedy his mind refuses to recall. Modern-day audiences will have no trouble decoding the mystery, but that doesn't undercut the movie's dramatic power, or the rugged beauty of what's been put on screen by two master filmmakers, director Raoul Walsh and cameraman James Wong Howe. With seasoned professionalism, they accommodate all the newfangled Freudianism and smoothly ...
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Summer of Fear
»rank: 47466
0ur opinion: :Hollywood's first 'psychological Western' and one of Robert Mitchum's best early films, Pursued boasts a dark scenario--by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch--about a man psychically scarred by a tragedy his mind refuses to recall. Modern-day audiences will have no trouble decoding the mystery, but that doesn't undercut the movie's dramatic power, or the rugged beauty of what's been put on screen by two master filmmakers, director Raoul Walsh and cameraman James Wong Howe. With seasoned professionalism, they accommodate all the newfangled Freudianism and smoothly ...
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Let's Make it Legal
»rank: 26497
0ur opinion:Description:A still-gorgeous grandmother (Claudette Colbert) divorces her husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey) because he's a compulsive gambler. Their daughter (Barbara Bates) does all she can to get them back together, but problems arise when Victor (Zachary Scott), Mom's high school sweetheart-turned-millionaire, suddenly arrives in town. Even though a breathtaking beauty (Marilyn Monroe) is hot on his trail, Vic only has eyes for 'Grandma'- driving ex-husband Hugh to the brink of comic insanity as he wages a wild and unforgettable battle to win his wife back.
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It Lives Again / It's Alive 3 - Island of the Alive
»rank: 33379
0ur opinion:Description:Heads up, horror fan, you've got an Alive one here! You've got the final two films in the 'lt's Alive' trilogy of terror, filmmaker Larry Cohen's cautionary cult-fave shockers that suggest that humankind's environmental meddling might lead to monstrous, mutated, born-to-kill offspring. What began as a lone little hellion in 'lt's Alive' grows more numerous when 'lt Lives Again.' Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd play parents who realize that perhaps the only way to stop the mutants' deadly spree is to become the bait for ...
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Shadow of a Doubt
»rank: 54720
0ur opinion: essential video:Alfred Hitchcock considered this 1943 thriller to be his personal favorite among his own films, and although it's not as popular as some of Hitchcock's later work, it's certainly worthy of the master's admiration. Scripted by playwright Thornton Wilder and inspired by the actual case of a 192O's serial killer known as 'The Merry Widow Murderer,' the movie sets a tone of menace and fear by introducing a psychotic killer into the small-town comforts of Santa Rosa, California. That's where young Charlie (Teresa ...
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Copper Canyon
»rank: 68112
0ur opinion: :A group of ex-confederate miners need protection from the embittered unionists and corrupt lawmen who run copper canyon. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O5/23/2OO6 Starring: Ray Milland Hedy Lamarr Run time: 83 minutes Rating: Nr :Copper Canyon is a quirky little Western with nothing distinctive to accomplish and more stylish talent on hand than it needs to get the job done. Director John Farrow, writer Jonathan Latimer, and star Ray Milland had recently collaborated on a pair of suave Paramount thrillers (The Big ...
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