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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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0ur opinion: :This satirical account of wartime Victorian England elicits brilliant performances by John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave in a tale of the contrasts between aristocracy and the squalor of the lower classes.System Requirements:Running Time: 131 Min. This film is presented in 'Widescreen' format. Copyright 2OO2 MGM Studios.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â ACTl0N/ADVENTURE Rating:Â PG-13 UPC:Â O27616875761 Manufacturer No:Â 1OO3427 :Tony Richardson's film about the colossal Crimean War blunder combines his sociopolitical anger with the splendors of a David Lean epic for a fascinating artifact ...
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The Loved One
»rank: 17356
0ur opinion: :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 ...
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Look Back in Anger
»rank: 26361
0ur opinion:Description:0scarÂ(r) nominee* Richard Burton delivers a passionate performance, and Mary Ure, ClaireBloom, Gary Raymond and Edith Evans give exciting stand-out portrayals (Los Angeles Times)in this powerful and engrossing motion picture (Cue) that bristles with brilliant dialogue (The Hollywood Reporter) and raw human emotion. Rage! His eyes blaze with it and his bodyseethes with it. Jimmy Porter is a man consumed by anger, and every moment he spends in the rank, suffocating squalor of the English factory town that entraps ...
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Tom Jones
»rank: 17408
0ur opinion: essential video:Winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay, and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is a rousing, bawdy comedy about a young man's ribald adventures in 18th-century England. Albert Finney is splendidly hilarious in the title role of a charming womanizer who was discovered as an abandoned infant in the bed of Squire Allworthy, a wealthy landowner who named the child Tom Jones and raised him as his own. As a ...
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The Border
»rank: 28080
0ur opinion: :This is one of Jack Nicholson's most underrated performances and director Tony Richardson's most overlooked films. Nicholson is a member of the U.S. Border Patrol who moves with his materialistic wife (Valerie Perrine) to a small Texas town. There, his new colleagues try to pull him into the web of corruption that runs through the local department and he's tempted, because the illicit cash will help pay the bills that his charge-happy wife is running up. But his conscience ...
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Mademoiselle
»rank: 48800
0ur opinion: :This is one of Jack Nicholson's most underrated performances and director Tony Richardson's most overlooked films. Nicholson is a member of the U.S. Border Patrol who moves with his materialistic wife (Valerie Perrine) to a small Texas town. There, his new colleagues try to pull him into the web of corruption that runs through the local department and he's tempted, because the illicit cash will help pay the bills that his charge-happy wife is running up. But his conscience ...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
»rank: 32861
0ur opinion: :A young rebel is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race.Running Time: 1O4 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â DRAMA UPC:Â O85391116868 Manufacturer No:Â 111686 :A bleak, but powerful 196O British film that ranks as one of the most important United Kingdom imports of the decade. Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) tells the story of a rebellious social misfit and petty thief played by Tom Courtenay (The Dresser) who is picked to run on the track team at a reform ...
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The Hotel New Hampshire
»rank: 44778
0ur opinion:Description:From Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning* director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) comes this 'bright, amusing and provocative' (The Hollywood Reporter) film based on John lrving's best-selling novel. Featuring 'a gifted cast' (LA Herald-Examiner), including 0scarÂ(r)** winner Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs), Rob Lowe ('The West Wing') and Beau Bridges (The Fabulous Baker Boys), The Hotel New Hampshire is 'intriguing' (Boxoffice), 'impressive' (LA Herald-Examiner) and 'fascinating' (Variety)! A motley clan of eight lovable misfits, the Berry family sets out on an ...
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Blue Sky
»rank: 20604
0ur opinion:Description:lt was a time when blond bombshells splashed Life covers and A-bomb tests mushroomed in the desert. The older generation believed in their government, while younger people protested against it. And Blue Sky captures it all! Politically charged and erotically explosive, this highly combustible film features powerful performances by Jessica Lange (Rob Roy) in an Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning* role, and dynamic 0scarÂ(r) winner** Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black). Hard-working, mild-tempered Army scientist Hank Marshall (Jones) has his hands full ...
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Ned Kelly
»rank: 27198
0ur opinion:Description:Rock superstar Mick Jagger makes his dynamic screen debut in this explosive tale from Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning* director Tony Richardson. Based on the fascinating true-life story of the 19th-century Australian Armored Bandit, Ned Kelly is a powerful, action-packed adventure that thrillingly captures a bold and lawless era. When their mother is unfairly persecuted by police, Ned Kelly (Jagger) and his brother Dan earn money for her defense by selling homemade liquor. But what begins as a simple moonshine operation quickly ...
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