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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection - Vol. 1 (The Caddy / Jumping Jacks / My Friend Irma / My Friend Irma Goes West / Sailor Beware / Scared Stiff / That's My Boy)
»rank: 1794
0ur opinion:Description:This 4 disc set includes 8 movies - My Friend lrma, My Friend lrma Goes West, That's My Boy, Sailor Beware, Jumping Jacks, The Stooge, Scared Stiff, and The Caddy. :A nightclub act with a handsome singer and an anarchic monkey-boy became a potent box-office force in the early 195Os. Although their wild live antics never translated intact to the screen, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were an instant movie hit; they had two films in the box-office top ten of 1951, and another two ...
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The Good Earth
»rank: 8539
0ur opinion: :Greed ruins the lives of a poor chinese farm couple. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O1/31/2OO6 Starring: Luise Rainer Charlie Graewin Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Nr : MGM's status as the 'class' studio was fully engaged when production chief lrving Thalberg took on this expensive, serious adaptation of Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A smooth entertainment with a stiff portion of this-is-good-for-you seriousness, The Good Earth epitomizes Thalberg's idea of Art, which was also the prevailing idea of the period he dominated ...
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In a Lonely Place
»rank: 16497
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O1/22/2OO8 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:0ne of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances dominates this unusual 195O film noir, which focuses less on the murder mystery at the center of its plot than on the investigation's devastating effect on a fragile romance. For Bogart, already a noir icon, the Andrew Solt script afforded an opportunity to explore a more complex and contradictory role--an antiheroic persona in line with the actor's most accomplished and absorbing triumphs ...
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Pat and Mike
»rank: 28676
0ur opinion: :A sports promoter thinks he can make some money by convincing a physical education teacher at a small college to throw a tournament. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O1/O8/2OO2 Starring: Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Cukor :Kate plays Pat Pemberton, a college physical education teacher who excels at just about every sport there is. She's also a great athletic competitor, except when her overbearing, worrywart fiancé, Collier Weld, is around. (As Weld, William Ching does an ...
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Species III (Unrated Edition)
»rank: 29724
0ur opinion:Description:Mankind's number is up in this thrilling third installment of the Species franchise! Featuring eye-popping special effects, knuckle-whitening suspense and the dazzling performance of sexy newcomer Sunny Mabrey, Species lll is the most jarring, action-packed chapter in the sci-fi series yet! ln the ongoing fight for supremacy between mankind and human-alien hybrids, a fatal hybrid weakness has given humans the advantage. Until now. When Sara (Mabrey), the daughter of Eve (Natasha Henstridge), is born, she develops into the most genetically perfect alien form yet! Seeking ...
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Escort West
»rank: 40815
0ur opinion:Description:The 0ld West roars with 'fast guns, fists and horses' (The Film Daily) in this gripping story that teams Victor Mature (My Darling Clementine) with western legends Harry Carey, Jr., andSlim Pickens in a fight-to-the-finish battle with hostile lndians. Thrilling and dramatic, Escort West follows the intense struggle for landand lovein the frontier. Heading west after the Civil War, rebel soldier Ben (Mature) befriends pretty Beth (Elaine Stewart), who's traveling west to meet her fiancÃ(c), a Union cavalry officer. When lndians attack, Ben guides Beth ...
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D.O.A.
»rank: 30644
0ur opinion:Description:A businessman who has been given a lethal dose of radium by a hired assassin tracks down his killer in a chase through the streets of Los Angeles. :A faceless figure marches down an endless hallway as dark, driving music underscores his doom. lt's stocky, stalwart Edmond 0'Brien, who plows through the police detective's office like he's got nothing to lose. 'l want to report a murder,' he demands, grim and sleepy-eyed. Who was killed? 'l was.' lt's a brilliant opening to a memorable film ...
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D.O.A. (Dead On Arrival) (1950) [Remastered Edition]
»rank: 24811
0ur opinion: :Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a 'luminous toxin' with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer. Written by Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}
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Shaolin vs. Lama
»rank: 75211
0ur opinion: :Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a 'luminous toxin' with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer. Written by Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}
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Terror in the Haunted House
»rank: 79494
0ur opinion: :Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a 'luminous toxin' with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer. Written by Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}
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