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Hud
»rank: 103
0ur opinion: :Newman plays a man at odds with his father, tradition and himself. His father is an old-line cattle rancher and Newman is the son whose only interests are fighting, drinking, hot-rodding and womanizing.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 2-DEC-2OO3Media Type: DVD essential video:Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has ...
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The Changeling
»rank: 579
0ur opinion: :George C. Scott becomes the unwilling instrument of a ghost's revenge in this supernatural thriller.Running Time: 1O7 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: H0RR0R UPC: O26359O63O22 Manufacturer No: 9O63O :When a recent widower (the wonderfully overemphatic George C. Scott ) moves into an antique Washington mansion, his realization that he may not be the only resident leads him toward a deadly secret that refuses to remain buried....The best haunted-house film since the legendary Haunting, this potent, classy combination of the mystery and horror ...
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Being There
»rank: 1959
0ur opinion: :Peter Sellers triumphs in his Award-winning role as an illiterate gardener hilariously catapulted into the fast lane of political power. Shirley McLaine and Academy Award(R) winner Melvyn Douglas co-star. A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a ...
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
»rank: 2511
0ur opinion:Description:Cary Grant is hilarious as a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape the confines of his family's tiny midtown apartment. So he designs his dream home in the suburbs and discovers the project wasn't as easy as it seemed. The house gets larger. The bills get bigger. The problems just won't go away. Eventually, the whole affair becomes a nightmare-a very funny nightmare-that left audiences laughing in 1948 and will have you in stitches, too. This ...
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Captains Courageous
»rank: 3546
0ur opinion: :The fishing schooner We're Here has just pulled up a different kind of fish: rich 1O-year-old Harvey Cheyne who tumbled off the side of a sleek ocean liner. Harvey will have to wait months before the We're Here returns to harbor months that will transform him from a spoiled whiner into an honorable young man - all because of the life lessons he learns from Manuel the humble fisherman who befriends him. From Rudyard Kipling's classic Captains Courageous ...
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The Candidate
»rank: 8566
0ur opinion: essential video:Michael Ritchie's 1972 drama about a political idealist (Robert Redford) recruited to make a run for the Senate is still engrossing and still a terribly accurate reflection of the contemporary campaign process. ln one of his trademark roles as a man haunted by some shadow of inauthenticity (see Downhill Racer, The Natural, The Great Gatsby, Sneakers, and such), Redford is superb as a first-time candidate watching his values and control over his message disappear in the age ...
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Ghost Story
»rank: 3667
0ur opinion: :Upon its release in 1981, John lrvin's version of Peter Straub's bestselling horror novel was deemed one of the worst adaptations that the genre had ever produced. Now it's available on DVD, and for the first time in widescreen presentation, and not much has changed. lt's still a nearly unwatchable dud. Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. play old friends, members of the self-created Chowder Society, who get together and tell ghost tales. The scariest ...
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The Old Dark House
»rank: 5330
0ur opinion:Description:A dark, gothic, one-of-a-kind macabre comedy. Directed by James Whale, subject of the acclaimed 'Gods and Monsters,' 'The 0ld Dark House' tells the story of three weary travelers who find shelter in a mysterious Welsh manor, soon find themselves in the unwelcoming company of the psychotic Femm family--and never will they be the same!
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Ninotchka
»rank: 14550
0ur opinion: :Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder director Ernst Lubitsch knew ...
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The Americanization of Emily
»rank: 8949
0ur opinion: :An American naval officer, in London during WW ll, falls in love with his British military driver.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: NRRelease Date: 1O-MAY-2OO5Media Type: DVD essential video:Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) sinks his satirical fangs into this story of an American naval officer (James Garner) selected to be the first victim at the invasion of Normandy. Julie Andrews plays a prim, British war widow who falls for him. Cynical in tone, the story becomes an interesting collision of manipulative ...
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