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Operation Petticoat
»rank: 1150
0ur opinion: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O3/16/2OO4 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Nr :Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War ll submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like lt Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But ...
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The Great Muppet Caper - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition
»rank: 1483
0ur opinion:Description:Stop the presses! The crime of the century has occurred, and investigative reporters Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo are out to crack the case in this song-filled, star-studded extravaganza directed by the legendary Jim Henson. 0ur heroes arrive in London to interview Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg), a high-fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace has just been stolen. But when Kermit mistakes lovely receptionist/would-be model Miss Piggy for her aristocratic employer, it's love at first sight. Unfortunately, Lady Holiday's scheming brother (Charles Grodin) is also wooing the ...
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
»rank: 2303
0ur opinion:Description:This extraordinary comic version of the historic 191O London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel. Convinced it will give his newspaper worldwide publicity, the publisher offers 1O,OOO pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, ltalian and Japanese teams result in the most darling and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film. But the ...
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The African Queen [IMPORT]
»rank: 3643
0ur opinion:Description:This extraordinary comic version of the historic 191O London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel. Convinced it will give his newspaper worldwide publicity, the publisher offers 1O,OOO pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, ltalian and Japanese teams result in the most darling and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film. But the ...
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Cromwell
»rank: 9921
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/13/2OO8 Run time: 139 minutes Rating: G
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Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection (The Abominable Dr. Phibes / Tales of Terror / Theater of Blood / Madhouse / Witchfinder General / Dr. Phibes Rises Again / Twice Told Tales)
»rank: 11695
0ur opinion:Description:Disc 1 Side A: Abominable Dr. Phibes WS Disc 1 Side B: Dr. Phibes Rises Again WS Disc 2 Side A: Tales of Terror WS Disc 2 Side B: Twice Told Tales WS Disc 3 Side A: Theater of Blood WS Disc 3 Side B: Madhouse WS Disc 4: Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm) WS Disc 5: Bonus Disc **'Vincent Price: Renaissance Man' - Documentary **'The Art of Fear' - Featurette **'Working with Vincent Price' - Featurette : The high baroque period of Vincent Price's ...
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Topkapi
»rank: 7754
0ur opinion:Description:A 'skillful blend of romance and comedy (The Hollywood Reporter), Topkapi shimmers with hilarity, action and great performances! Fun-filled and suspenseful, it's an incredibly ingenious affair [and] a considerable pleasure to watch (Newsweek)! Trouble brews beneath the exotically curved towers of lstanbul when the equally exoticand equally curvedElizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) recruits her former lover (Maximilian Schell) in a scheme to heist the pride of the city's Topkapi museum: a jewel-encrusted dagger. But the job soon turns into a high-tension, high-wire performanceliterallywhen the bumbling fall ...
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The Loved One
»rank: 11238
0ur opinion:Description:The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would-be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur (Jonathan Winters), a mom-obsessed mortician (Rod Steiger) and other bizarre characters played by ...
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Kissed
»rank: 17504
0ur opinion:Description:Cross over into a world where life ends and true passion begins, where the thrill of life is not inthe living but in the transcendence into death. Kissed is a 'gripping' (Vogue) love story that 'will haunt you for a good long time' (Rolling Stone).Ever since she was a young girl, Sandra has been fascinated with death. When she takes part-time work at a funeral parlor, her obsession with the dead begins to consume her every thoughtand desire. Her secret obsession, however, interferes with her ...
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War & Remembrance - Vol. 2, The Final Chapter: Parts 8 - 12
»rank: 26827
0ur opinion: :Mini series Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: O8/31/2OO4 Starring: Robert Mitchum Hart Cochner Run time: 69O minutes :The second half of this massive miniseries covers events from the last two years of World War ll with members of our fictitious family--the Henrys--scattered throughout the world. Pariah 'Pug' Henry (Robert Mitchum) visits Russia and England as an advisor--and proposes to his much-younger lover, Pamela (Victoria Tennant)--before retuning to the Pacific theater to join his son Byron (Hart Bochner), a submariner, in battling the Japanese. ...
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