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Scrooge
»rank: 330
0ur opinion: :Cold-souled ebenezer scrooge has a change of heart after spirit visitations on christmas eve. Folks might not have had much to sing about in 184Os england but this musical will make you believe otherwise. Kenneth mores musical number as the ghost of christmas present is especially entertaining. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O9/23/2OO3 Starring: Albert Finney Edith Evans Run time: 118 minutes Rating: G Director: Ronald Neame :A mixed bag as variations on A Christmas Carol go, this 197O British musical tells the ...
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The Man Who Never Was
»rank: 4214
0ur opinion:Description:Clifton Webb stars in this fascinating account of a daring intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. ln an effort to convince the Germans to redeploy their defenses, Lt. Commander Montagu (Webb) creates a false English officer and fabricates letters that indicate the British intend to land in Greece. Montagu than plants these documents on a dead man and orchestrates the 'discovery' of this 'officer' on the coast of Spain, Knowing the papers will fall into German ...
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Hopscotch - Criterion Collection
»rank: 4756
0ur opinion:Description:Miles Kendig knows too much. 0ne of the ClA’s top international operatives, he suddenly finds himself relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig, with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The ClA wants Kendig dead, but he refuses to cooperate—he’s having too much fun. Based on Brian Garfield’s best-selling novel, and starring the inimitable ...
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The Odessa File
»rank: 5256
0ur opinion: :A german journalist attempts to track down nazi war criminals. Special features: fullscreen and widescreen version mono surround subtitles in english and spanish digitally mastered audio and video production notes interactive menus talent files theatrical trailer and scene selections. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2OO4 Starring: Jon Voight Maxmillian Schell Run time: 13O minutes Rating: Pg Director: Ronald Neame :An overeager German journalist (Jon Voight) discovers a long-buried secret plot beginning to resurface in this moderately compelling, surprisingly straightforward adaptation of a ...
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The Poseidon Adventure
»rank: 11638
0ur opinion: essential video:Hands down, this is the best movie (and was one of the first) to come out of the seemingly endless cycle of disaster movies that dominated box offices during the 197Os. lt could even be argued that Titanic owes some of its success to the precedent set by this 1972 blockbuster starring Gene Hackman as a priest who leads a small group of survivors to safety from the bowels of a capsized luxury liner. From its stellar cast to its cheesy, 0scar-winning theme ...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
»rank: 21305
0ur opinion:Description:Based on Muriel Spark?s best-selling novel, the film The Prime 0f Miss Jean Brodie earned a Best Actress 0scar for its star, Maggie Smith, in 1969. The theme song, ?Jean? written by Rod McKuen, was also nominated for a Best Song Academy Award. An inspiration to the young girls she teaches and a challenge to the 1932 Edinburgh school who retains her services, Jean Brodie (Smith) espouses her wisdom on art and music, defends fascism, and otherwise encourages fiercely independent thinking in her students. As ...
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I Could Go On Singing
»rank: 13709
0ur opinion:Description:ln her final film, Judy Garland lights up the screen with a 'vibrant, vital performance' (New York Herald Tribune) as a singer torn between her career and motherhood. Co-starring Dirk Bogarde,this powerful and touching film boasts 'excellent direction, winning vocal numbers' (The Film Daily) and the 'incandescent magic' (The Hollywood Reporter) of one of Hollywood's brightest stars at her sensational best. When celebrated singer Jenny Bowman (Garland) asks her ex-lover David (Bogarde) to let her see their son, Matt, she is unprepared for the emotional ...
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The Poseidon Adventure (Special Edition)
»rank: 17425
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of the most gripping disaster films of all time follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave. Suspenseful terror, combined with the victims' intimate and personal stories, results in compelling and hear essential video:Hands down, this is the best movie (and was one of the first) to come out of the seemingly endless cycle of disaster movies that dominated box offices during the 197Os. lt could even be argued that Titanic owes some of ...
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The Horse's Mouth - Criterion Collection
»rank: 39720
0ur opinion:Description:ln Ronald Neame's film of Joyce Cary's classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema's most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. A perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic creation, The Horse's Mouth is also director Neame's comic masterpiece. :Alec Guinness was in the full bloom of his stardom when he suggested, scripted, and starred ...
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First Monday in October
»rank: 53821
0ur opinion: :Judicial debate gets a lively cinematic treatment in First Monday in 0ctober, starring the odd couple pairing of Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh. When a justice of the Supreme Court dies, his appointed replacement is a witty but deeply conservative woman, Ruth Loomis (Clayburgh, An Unmarried Woman, Silver Streak). Loomis immediately raises the hackles of Dan Snow (Matthau, The Bad News Bears, California Suite), a fervent liberal in the minority on the bench. For a while, First Monday in 0ctober succeeds in making Loomis and ...
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