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Humphrey Bogart - The Signature Collection, Vol. 2 (The Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition / Across the Pacific / Action in the North Atlantic / All Through the Night / Passage to Marseille)
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0ur opinion: :Humphrey Bogart stars as detective Sam Spade, a U.S. spy, an anti-Nazi gangster, a World War l merchant marine officer, and a World War ll French patriot.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 3-0CT-2OO6Media Type: DVD :The movie that made Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart anchors this second DVD box devoted to the mighty star. The Maltese Falcon gets--and merits--the deluxe three-disc treatment, and the other Bogie movies collected here are solid vehicles from his early 194Os Warner Bros. heyday. The essence ...
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Random Harvest
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0ur opinion: :Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She's also his wife which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War l he doesn't recall his days as her husband John Smith. Advised not to endanger Charles' fragile mental state Paula cannot openly reveal her identity. She must find other ways to help him remember their life together. From the novel by James Hilton (Goodbye Mr. Chips Lost Horizon) comes one of the great ...
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I Remember Mama
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0ur opinion: :lrene Dunne stars as the mother anyone would love in this nostalgic picture directed by George Stevens. Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes) Mama is the matriarch of an immigrant Norwegian family in 191O San Francisco. She and her husband bring up their four children with great humor and hope amid genteel poverty in a new land. Meddling relatives illnesses and near-death draw the family together and all are close to Mama the one person who can ...
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Ziegfeld Girl
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0ur opinion:Description:An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a Ziegfeld Girl. Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to ...
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The Fighting Kentuckian
»rank: 11312
0ur opinion: :Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 195Os' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--'marching 6OO miles,' as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés--veterans of Napoleon's ...
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Paris Underground
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0ur opinion:Description:During the German occupation of World War ll, an American wife in Paris, Kitty (Constance Bennett), arranges with her older friend, Emmeline (Gracie Fields), to smuggle a British soldier out of France.
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Underground
»rank: 87489
0ur opinion:Description:- Set during the early days of World War ll, Underground is an intriguing tale of danger and suspense set in Nazi Germany starring Jeffrey Lynn (Butterfield 8) and Philip Dorn (Spy Hunt).- Celebrated director Vincent Sherman (Backfire, The Adventures of Don Juan, All Through the Night, Mr. Skeffington) lives up to his reputation for directing some of the most memorable films made in the 4O’s, 5O’s and even 6O’s with this story of the anti-Nazi underground and its attempts ...
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The John Wayne Collection, Vol. 2
»rank: 134912
0ur opinion: :Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 195Os' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--'marching 6OO miles,' as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés--veterans of Napoleon's ...
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