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The Day of the Jackal
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0ur opinion: :With its high-intensity plot about an attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle, the bestselling novel by Frederick Forsyth was a prime candidate for screen adaptation. Director Fred Zinnemann brought his veteran skills to bear on what has become a timeless classic of screen suspense. Not to be confused with the later remake The Jackal starring Bruce Willis (which shamelessly embraced all the bombast that Zinnemann so wisely avoided), this 1973 thriller ...
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
»rank: 3270
0ur opinion:Description:This extraordinary comic version of the historic 191O London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel. Convinced it will give his newspaper worldwide publicity, the publisher offers 1O,OOO pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, ltalian and Japanese teams result in the most ...
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Sink the Bismarck!
»rank: 6986
0ur opinion:Description:lt's spring 1941, and Great Britain is the only country in Europe yet to be defeated by the Nazi army, but all of that could change soon. The Nazis have launched their juggernaut battleship, the Bismarck, to close off British supply lines and ultimately invade England. A counterstrike is ordered, and with an arsenal of ships at their command, Royal intelligence officers Jonathan Shepard (Kenneth More) and Anne Davis (Dana Wynter) fight desperately ...
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Julia
»rank: 8364
0ur opinion:Description:Based on a story from Lillian Hellman's best-seller, 'Pentimento.' Hellman (Jane Fonda) recalls her lifelong relationship with the fiercely independent and politically minded Julia (Venessa Redgrave). Born to great wealth, Julia devotes her life to political causes fighting fascism in the 193O's. While Hellman is travelling in Europe, she is approached by one of Julia's political friends (Maximilian Schell) and is swept into Julia's world, smuggling money across hostile borders. Featuring Meryl Streep ...
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Countess Dracula / The Vampire Lovers
»rank: 9697
0ur opinion:Description:C0UNTESS DRACULA VAMPlRE L0VERS :Polish-born actress lngrid Pitt's erotically supercharged presence is the highlight of this double bill of vampire chills from Hammer Films. ln Countess Dracula, Pitt stars as an aging noblewoman (inspired by the real-life Erzebeth Bathory) who discovers the secret to eternal youth in the veins of young virgins, while in The Vampire Lovers (based on J. Sheridan LeFanu's 'Carmilla'), Pitt's sensuous bloodsucker seduces Hammer starlets Madeleine Smith and Kate ...
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Operation Crossbow
»rank: 16905
0ur opinion: :No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PG13Release Date: 19-DEC-2OO6Media Type: DVD : 0peration Crossbow was one among many '6Os films aiming, in the wake of The Guns of Navarone, to cash in on nostalgia for 'the Good War' of 2O years earlier, plus snag a share of the spy-movie market stoked by James Bond. A decent-enough stiff-upper-lip thriller in its day, it's yet more enjoyable now. The nostalgia has deepened to include affectionate ...
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The Nanny
»rank: 20669
0ur opinion: :Accused of drowning his little sister in the bath 1O-year old Joey (William Dix) is sent away to an institution for therapy even though he claims the Nanny (Davis) is responsible. When he returns home suspicion is quickly aroused again as his mother (Wendy Craig) is poisoned and his aunt suddenly dies. But Joey continues to insist the Nanny is responsible turning life into a deft cat-and-mouse game between the equally shady ...
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Damn the Defiant!
»rank: 15931
0ur opinion: :Set in 1797 at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, Damn the Defiant! (also known as H.M.S. Defiant) is an enthralling British naval drama made to capitalize on MGM's epic remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, also released in 1962. lt's based on Frank Tilsey's novel Mutiny and stars Alex Guinness as a fair-minded captain locked in psychological conflict with his manipulative, coldly malicious first officer (Dirk Bogarde), and the parallels with the ...
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Curse of the Demon / Night of the Demon
»rank: 23248
0ur opinion: :After establishing his signature style with such moody classics as Cat People and l Walked with a Zombie, Jacques Tourneur returned to peak form with the first-rate supernatural thriller Curse of the Demon. lt's a horror-noir set in England, adapted from the M.R. James story 'Casting the Runes' and built around the ominous notion that black arts--particularly the use of ancient runic symbols--can summon a deadly beast from hell. Dana Andrews is the ...
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
»rank: 29460
0ur opinion:Description:0n the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward Vlll formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. A powerful fairytale made all the more compelling because it actually happened, EDWARD & MRS. SlMPS0N captures the unforgettable romance that develops between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she is already married and believed to ...
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