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Jeremiah Johnson
»rank: 625
0ur opinion:Description:Robert Redford has one of his best-ever roles as a 19th century mountain man in a wilderness of harsh elements and hostile lndians. Directed by The Firm's Sydney Pollack. Year: 1972 Director: Sydney Pollack Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch DVD Features:FeaturetteProduction Notes essential video:After they first worked together on the 1966 film This Property ls Condemned, director Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford continued their long-lasting collaboration with this 1972 drama set during the mid-18OOs, about one man's rugged effort to shed the ...
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The Waltons - The Complete First Season
»rank: 477
0ur opinion:Description:They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family. This 5-disc set features all 24 Year-0ne episodes of the beloved series that ran 9 years and won 5 Emmy Awards its inaugural year, including 0utstanding Drama Series. Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Second Season
»rank: 956
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/12/2OO6 Rating: Nr :Year two of Earl Hamner's The Waltons still finds the original cast complete and the show humming along nicely on nostalgia for an earlier America, specifically the Depression-era 193Os, a time of sacrifice and family unity as The Waltons portrays it. The characters we came to know so well in season one (see The Waltons: The Complete First Season) continue to live in a spirit of cooperation and generosity, and with hope that a younger ...
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Broken Arrow
»rank: 3755
0ur opinion:Description:ln 187O, when white men and lndians are fighting bitterly, Tom Jeffords (Stewart) strongly believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler) and arranging a truce, he is called upon by a U.S. Army general to negotiate a government peace treaty. Though he fulfills his mission, Jeffords soon experiences great tragedy when he, his lndian wife (Debra Paget) and good friend Cochise become targets of a renegade ambush. :Delmer Daves's movie about ex–army scout Tom Jeffords's one-man peace mission to ...
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Executive Action
»rank: 10230
0ur opinion:Description:Predecessor to 0liver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey 0swald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination. :As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is distinguished by ...
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Winchester '73
»rank: 15304
0ur opinion: :A man tracks his prize repeating rifle back round to a man who has stolen it. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: James Stewart Millard Mitchell Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Anthony Mann essential video:Winchester '73 is the first in a remarkable string of five classic westerns that James Stewart made with Anthony Mann in the 195Os (followed by Bend of the River, The Man from Laramie, The Naked Spur, and The Far Country). lt is also distinguished ...
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In Cold Blood
»rank: 8053
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/22/2OO7 Run time: 134 minutes Rating: R :Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks (Deadline USA, The Blackboard Jungle). Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks's blunt, clearheaded, and nonsensational approach to the ...
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A Woman Called Moses
»rank: 9635
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/22/2OO7 Run time: 134 minutes Rating: R :Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks (Deadline USA, The Blackboard Jungle). Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks's blunt, clearheaded, and nonsensational approach to the ...
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Advise and Consent
»rank: 9349
0ur opinion: :Hearings to confirm a questionable nominee for secretary of state erupt into political gamesmanship and scandal. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/19/2OO6 Starring: Henry Fonda Walter Pidgeon Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Nr :0tto Preminger expanded his vision in the 196Os with a whole series of ambitious, expansive dramas with huge casts and big themes. Advise and Consent, an examination of deal making, party politics, and congressional diplomacy in Washington's legislative halls (based on the novel by Allen Drury), is one of his ...
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The Reivers
»rank: 11770
0ur opinion:Description:Based on the novel by William Faulkner, THE RElVERS tells the story of a young boy who leaves home and sets out on a journey with his best friend and Boon Hogganbeck (McQueen), his family’s handyman. During the trip from Jefferson to Memphis, the trio learns some valuable life lessons. : The Reivers, based on a William Faulkner novel, is a spirited comedy-drama starring Steve McQueen in a rare character part as Boon Hoggenbeck, a ne'er-do-well, turn-of-the-century Mississippi farm hand and cousin of 11-year-old naif ...
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