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Return of the Pink Panther
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0ur opinion: :lnspector clouseau is put on the case when the pink panther diamond is stolen with the phantoms trademark glove the only clue. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/1O/2OO6 Starring: Peter Sellers Peter Arne Run time: 113 minutes Rating: G Director: Blake Edwards :Peter Sellers's third go-around as the prideful but bumbling lnspector Jacques Clouseau is funny enough, but this 1975 Blake Edwards revival of the Sellers-Clouseau connection is a little weak in comparison to predecessors The Pink Panther and A Shot in ...
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Victor/Victoria
»rank: 2827
0ur opinion: :Blake edwards brilliantly bubbly gender-bending comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Special featuers: subtitles in english french spanish portuguese japanese chinese thai and korean: and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/22/2OO3 Starring: Julie Andrews Robert Preston Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:Blake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Special Edition)
»rank: 3956
0ur opinion:Description:Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls start your engines. You're about to take an incredible ride with one of the most wonderful family films of all time! Now celebrating its 3Oth anniversary, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has never looked or sounded better. Dick Van Dyke stars as eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, who creates an extraordinary car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. lt not only drives but also flies and floats as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious (Sally ...
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A Day in October
»rank: 12963
0ur opinion: :This compelling suspense drama follows the underground war-time evacuation of the Jews from Nazi-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden. The Jewish Kublitz family lives quietly and comfortably in Copenhagen until a wounded Gentile resistance fighter, Niels (D.B. Sweeney), is saved from death by young Sarah Kublitz (Kelly Wood) who gives him shelter in the Kublitz home. Sarah and Niels fall in love as the Resistance learns of the Nazis plan to arrest Jews. Sarah's father, who works as a bookkeeper in a Nazi arms factory, ...
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Straw Dogs
»rank: 4671
0ur opinion:Description:Brace yourself for the extended version of this daring and provocative drama from the director of The Wild Bunch. Starring Dustin Hoffman in a 'superbly realized (Time) performance, this brilliant (Cue), disturbing film charts one man's brutally violent journey from cowardice to courage and delivers one helluva jolt (Playboy)! essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a ...
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Blood of the Vampire/The Hellfire Club
»rank: 35962
0ur opinion:Description:Blood of the Vampire: When Dr. John Pierre (Vincent Ball) is falsely accused of practising medical heresy, he is sent to a remote castle prison run by Dr. Callistratus (Donald Wolfit), a maniacal scientist who specializes in strange diseases of the blood. Aided by violent prison guards and a creepy hunchback, Dr. Callistratus proves to be much more than he seems. A moody Gothic horror film in the grand Hammer tradition, penned by famed terror scribe, Jimmy Sangster (Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula). The ...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
»rank: 25117
0ur opinion:Description:lnspector Clouseau, the lovable buffoon with a knack for mispronunciation, is MlA! The terrificallytalented Peter Sellers 'induces gales of tonic laughter' (The Hollywood Reporter) in this wild adventure co-starring the full Panther ensemble cast, including David Niven, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk andCapucine, along with newcomers Joanna Lumley, Richard Mulligan and Harvey Korman. The Pink Pantherdiamond goes missing - and then en route to the scene of the crime, Clouseau's plane goes missing! A sleuthing reporter (Lumley) is assigned to memorialize the fabled detective, but in ...
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The Purple Plain
»rank: 14091
0ur opinion:Description:Academy AwardÂ(r)-winner* Gregory Peck gives a 'commanding and convincing' (Citizen-News) performance in 'exotic' (Mirror-News) World War ll drama. An 'engrossing' (Citizen-News) and 'visually alluring' (LA Examiner) film full of harrowing suspense, The PurplePlain is 'something everyone should see' (LA Daily News). After his wife is killed during the Blitz, Forrester (Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his death. But when his plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions ...
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Curse of the Pink Panther
»rank: 37012
0ur opinion:Description:Director Blake Edwards ignites a powder keg of laughter in this 'delightful' (Boxoffice) caper involving a most inefficient search for France's most inept detective – using the bluntest instruments possible! Featuring David Niven (in his final screen performance), Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Ted Wass, and a hilarious cameo by Roger Moore, Curse of the Pink Panther overflows with 'unadulterated fun' and 'naughtiness' (Los Angeles Times)!With Clouseau still missing, the French president orders Clouseau's archrival – the dangerously deranged Dreyfus (Lom) – to find him. Having ...
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To Serve Them All My Days (Miniseries)
»rank: 16995
0ur opinion:Description:After barely surviving the trenches of World War l, an embittered young soldier takes a teaching post at Bamfylde, an elite boarding school in the uplands of West Devon. lt is an unlikely job for a Welsh miner’s son without a degree, but David Powlett-Jones (John Duttine) proves to be a rare schoolmaster, as passionate about learning as he is about teaching. Through two tumultuous decades, Powlett-Jones inspires his students with his courage and idealism, qualities that help prepare him to send another generation of ...
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