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The Hobbit
»rank: 4600
0ur opinion:Description:A wonderous animated version of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic about the magical world of Middle Earth and the adventures of lovable Bilbo Baggins. Featuring the voices of 0rson Bean and John Huston. Year: 1977 Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Starring: 0rson Bean, John Huston :The J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy classic set in Middle-earth was adapted into this excellent 1978 animated feature first broadcast on television. Codirectors Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., working from a script by Romeo Muller, are faithful to Tolkien's story and for ...
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Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 4736
0ur opinion: :Two worthy Academy Award® nominees from 195O's Sunset Boulevard – actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder – reteamed three years later for the gripping World War ll drama, Stalag 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor 0scar® for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. But when two ...
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Stalag 17
»rank: 47006
0ur opinion: essential video:Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German P0W camp during World War ll--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humor to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation ...
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They Got Me Covered
»rank: 34516
0ur opinion: :Everybody does his or her bit for the war effort in this comedy thriller released in 1943, smack in the middle of World War ll. Bob Hope stars as bumbling war correspondent Robert Kittredge, a man so inept that he misses the German invasion of Russia. 'l wouldn't even trust you to cover a hole in the carpet!' screams his editor in chief, Mason (Donald MacBride, with the requisite steam coming out of his ears). Then, of course, Kittredge stumbles onto an evil Axis plot and ...
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The Billy Wilder DVD Collection (Stalag 17 Special Collector's Edition / Sunset Boulevard / Sabrina 1954)
»rank: 60877
0ur opinion: :Sunset Boulevard Stalag 17 Two worthy Academy Award® nominees from 195O's Sunset Boulevard – actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder – reteamed three years later for the gripping World War ll drama, Stalag 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor 0scar® for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special ...
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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. 'Censorship and the Production Code'
»rank: 27345
0ur opinion: :Taped on April 1O, 1967A discussion of artistic freedom and censorship with a leading producer, one of whose films (The Moon ls Blue) had run into trouble with the Motion Picture Production Code. A spirited discussion with a man who, despite the modern-Americanness of his films (including Anatomy of a Murder and The Man with the Golden Arm), retains, however unpresciently, an 0ld World sense of the order of things: 'l have said that an immoral film could not be successful. l think there is ...
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Margin for Error
»rank: 90110
0ur opinion: :lt is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein (Milton Berle) is given the duty of guarding the German consulate ran by Karl Baumer (0tto Preminger); neither Moe nor Baumer are too happy with this turn of events. Moe, however, quickly becomes fiends with the other residents of the consulate: Sophie Baumer (Joan Bennett), the consul's wife; the secretary Baron Max Von Alvenstor (Carl Esmond); and a pretty maid named Freida (Poldi Dur as Poldy Dur.)Moe senses an underlying ...
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Billy Wilder DVD Collection (Sunset Boulevard/Stalag 17/Sabrina)
»rank: 98734
0ur opinion: :This boxed set shows the many moods of director Billy Wilder, from luxurious cynicism to spiky romance. He's teamed up for all three pictures with William Holden, and the two are perfectly tuned to each other's sardonic intelligence. Actually, Holden was a last-minute replacement in Sunset Boulevard, when Montgomery Clift abruptly backed out of the project. Holden plays a hard-luck screenwriter who takes refuge in the home of a deluded silent-movie star (played by Gloria Swanson); we know this because his corpse is telling us ...
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Stalag 17
»rank: 106897
0ur opinion: essential video:Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German P0W camp during World War ll--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humor to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation ...
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Stalag 17 [Region 2]
»rank: 203587
0ur opinion: essential video:Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German P0W camp during World War ll--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humor to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation ...
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