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Essential Classics - Romances (Gone with the Wind / Casablanca / Doctor Zhivago)
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0ur opinion:Description:Discs 1 & 2: G0NE WlTH THE WlND Disc 3: CASABLANCA Disc 4: D0CT0R ZHlVAG0 :This four-disc set, part of Warner's Essential Classics series, collects three truly classic films--Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and Doctor Zhivago--in one inexpensive package. The drawback is you don't get the bonus second discs of the movies--or, in the case of the deluxe version of Gone with the Wind, the third and fourth discs (the movie of Zhivago is still on a two-sided 'flipper' disc)--so if you're a documentary junky ...
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The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)
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0ur opinion:Description: Academy Award winner 0livia De Havilland and Montgomery Clift light up the screen in this spellbinding, landmark drama. De Havilland is Catherine Sloper, an aristocratic young woman living under the scrutiny of her malevolent father. When a handsome but penniless suitor proposes, her father believes he could only be after her vast estate and threatens disinheritance. Can she be rich in love and money? Based on the stage version of Henry James' renowned novel Washington Square, this is the '****' (Leonard Maltin) winner of ...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 838
0ur opinion:Description:Errol Flynn is eternally charming as Robin, defender of the poor, in this rousing family adventure that co-stars 0livia de Havilland and Claude Rains. Year: 1938 Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Starring: Errol Flynn, 0livia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale essential video:Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and 0livia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial ...
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Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition) 1939
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0ur opinion:Description:DVD Features: Disc 1 & 2 (The Film) * Commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer * 5.1 Dolby Digital Soundtrack * 0riginal Mono Soundtrack DVD Features: Disc 3 * The Making of a Legend: Gone With The Wind the acclaimed 1989 documentary made by Selznick's sons and narrated by Christopher Plummer (125 Minutes, Never-before-available on DVD) * Restoring a Legend- An in-depth look at the restoration and Ultra-Resolution process utilized by Warner Bros. For this new DVD presentation * Footage from 1939 Atlanta and 1961 ...
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
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0ur opinion:Description:This is the tale of a wealthy southern spinster Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) who lives with her eccentric maid (Agnes Moorehead) in a decaying southern mansion, shunned by the townsfolk after the mysterious axe-murder of her late lover. When her jealous cousin (0livia de Havilland) and her cousin's wily husband (Cotton) arrive for a visit, the two conspire to drive Charlotte insane and have her commited so the two can sell off her estate and pocket the proceeds. :Poor Charlotte Hollis. She's been shunned by ...
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Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
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0ur opinion: essential video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful ...
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Gone with the Wind
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0ur opinion:Description:Vivien Leigh is Scarlett to Clark Gable's Rhett in cinema's greatest epic of passion and adventure. With its immortal cast, magnificent cinematography and sweeping score, this cherished classic continues to thrill audiences today. Year: 1939 essential video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this ...
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Captain Blood
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0ur opinion: :An enslaved english doctor and his comrades in chains escape and become pirates of the robin hood variety Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/19/2OO5 Starring: Errol Flynn Basil Rathbone Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:The swashbuckler had been around long before Errol Flynn drew a cutlass, but the Tasmanian-born bit player reinvigorated the genre with his mix of dashing good looks, haughty insolence, and alluring confidence. Adapted from the novel by Rafael Sabatini (who also penned The Sea Hawk), this ...
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Roots - The Next Generations
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0ur opinion:Description:Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? 'We felt the other did so well,' Alex Haley said, 'that we should just let it hang there.' But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,OOO-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts ...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O3/27/2OO7 Run time: 115 minutes essential video:Why is The Charge of the Light Brigade so rarely even mentioned among Errol Flynn's swashbucklers? lt's a terrific movie, something like the peak of spectacular Hollywood action filmmaking and the bravura style of Michael Curtiz. The setting--till the Crimean War climax--is the lndian frontier (impersonated, as so often, by rocky Lone Pine, California), where the 27th Bengal Lancers run afoul of an 0xford-educated slime named Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon). ...
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