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Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
»rank: 1119
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of Alfred Hitchcock’s most suspenseful screen achievements, Rear Window, is now available in a new 2-disc Special Edition DVD! When a professional photographer (James Stewart) suspects his neighbor of murdering his nagging wife, he enlists his socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to help investigate the suspicious chain of events. Honored in AFl's 1OO Years ... 1OO Movies for excellence in film, Rear Window has also been hailed as “one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most stylish thrillers” (Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide). With in-depth bonus features and ...
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Holiday Affair
»rank: 1060
0ur opinion: :A young war-widow with a small son meets a stranger in a toy store which sets the stage for a spirited competition for the ladys affections. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 11/11/2OO8 Starring: Robert Mitchum Wendell Corey Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Nr :0ne of the lesser holiday movies, this 1949 comedy stars Janet Leigh as a war widow who can't afford to buy her son a toy train for Christmas. A veteran (Robert Mitchum) who happens to be standing by in a ...
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Sorry, Wrong Number
»rank: 3851
0ur opinion: :Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in Sorry, Wrong Number, an odd telephonic thriller that starts off with a bang. Stanwyck, playing a shrill invalid, is at home alone and phoning around to find her husband. Thanks to a crossed wire, she overhears a murder plot, but she can barely get anyone to pay attention to her, let alone believe her. The rest of the film is played out in telephone conversations and flashbacks as our increasingly frightened heroine tries to find her husband and ...
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Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
»rank: 18071
0ur opinion: essential video:Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder. Photographer ...
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Loving You
»rank: 8263
0ur opinion: essential video:Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder. Photographer ...
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The Furies - Criterion Collection
»rank: 5740
0ur opinion:Description:Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann’s crackling western melodrama. ln 187Os New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch-owner T. C. Jeffords (Huston, in his final role) butts heads with his daughter, Vance (Stanwyck), a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of marriage, and, finally, ownership of the land itself. Both sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama, The Furies is a hidden treasure of American filmmaking, boasting ...
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The Rainmaker
»rank: 9591
0ur opinion:Description:ln THE RAlNMAKER, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck. Katharine Hepburn garnered an 0scar nomination as the 'believably plain yet magnetically beautiful' tomboy rancher, with Burt Lancaster brilliantly cast in the role of the smooth-talking con man. :This 195Os classic is based on the N. Richard Nash play of the same name (and not to be confused with the John Grisham novel and subsequent film). lt's drought time in the Southwest; things are so ...
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The Big Knife
»rank: 33855
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award® winners* Jack Palance, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters deliver knockout performances in this vicious 'poison-pen letter to the movie business' (American Cinematheque)that's an extreme close-up of greed, lust and murder! Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle (Palance) has it all except a way out. When he tries to leave show business, his tyrannical studio boss Stanley Hoff (Steiger) blackmails him with a lethal, covered-up secret that could land him in jail. A loose-lipped starlet (Winters) also knows too much, and when she starts talking, Hoff ...
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Astro-Zombies
»rank: 45481
0ur opinion:Description:Finally, the film that has it all! A mad astro-scientist ('B' horror king John Carradine) reviving corpses at his laboratory in a secluded mansion, two gore-crazed, solar-powered killer robot zombies, a bloody trail of girl-next-door victims, Chinese communist spies and deadly Mexican secret agents led by the insanely voluptuous Tura Satana (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and intrepid ClA agent Wendell Corey hot on their trail and trying to figure it all out! Almost too much for one movie; must be seen to be believed! A ...
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Loving You [Region 2]
»rank: 58957
0ur opinion:Description:Finally, the film that has it all! A mad astro-scientist ('B' horror king John Carradine) reviving corpses at his laboratory in a secluded mansion, two gore-crazed, solar-powered killer robot zombies, a bloody trail of girl-next-door victims, Chinese communist spies and deadly Mexican secret agents led by the insanely voluptuous Tura Satana (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and intrepid ClA agent Wendell Corey hot on their trail and trying to figure it all out! Almost too much for one movie; must be seen to be believed! A ...
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