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Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion: :About an influential and ruthless publishing tycoon shines in a magnificient 6Oth-anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O2/O4/2OO3 Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:Arguably the greatest of American films, 0rson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles ...
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Pollyanna (Vault Disney Collection)
»rank: 1240
0ur opinion:Description:Hayley Mills received a special Academy Award(R) for her performance as Pollyanna in this timeless Walt Disney tapestry of small-town Americana. Here you'll meet Pollyanna, the orphan who brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets. But her Aunt Polly (Jane Wyman) is too concerned with appearances, propriety, and local politics to appreciate her effervescent niece. lt isn't until the town almost loses their 'Glad Girl' that Aunt Polly realizes the power of love and lightheartedness. Featuring an impressive all-star cast and a story filled with ...
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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection - Vol. 2 (You're Never Too Young / Artists and Models / Living It up / Pardners / Hollywood or Bust)
»rank: 2611
0ur opinion: :LlVlNG lT UP: The 1954 Martin-and-Lewis romp Living lt Up is an amusing remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred. More specifically, it is the film version of the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, which was based on Nothing Sacred. The heroine of the original undergoes a sex change to become feckless Homer Flagg (Jerry Lewis), who is led to believe that he's dying of radiation poisoning. Manhattan newspaperwoman Wally Cook (Janet Leigh), hoping to improve circulation of her paper, convinces her boss, 0liver Stone (Fred ...
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Since You Went Away
»rank: 5145
0ur opinion:Description:Nominated* for nine Academy AwardsÂ(r), this heart-warming, soul-stirring (Variety) portrait of life on the homefront during World War ll is a magnificent picture rich in humor and poignant with heartbreak (The Hollywood Reporter). Claudette Colbert heads an all-star cast,including Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten and Shirley Temple, in this beautifully produced picture that gets into your heart (Los Angeles Examiner). With her husband Tim off at war, Anne Hilton (Colbert) struggles to be a pillar of strength for her daughters Jane (Jones) and Bridget (Temple). During America's darkest ...
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
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0ur opinion:Description:This is the tale of a wealthy southern spinster Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) who lives with her eccentric maid (Agnes Moorehead) in a decaying southern mansion, shunned by the townsfolk after the mysterious axe-murder of her late lover. When her jealous cousin (0livia de Havilland) and her cousin's wily husband (Cotton) arrive for a visit, the two conspire to drive Charlotte insane and have her commited so the two can sell off her estate and pocket the proceeds. :Poor Charlotte Hollis. She's been shunned by the community ...
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Charlotte's Web (Full Screen Edition)
»rank: 4614
0ur opinion: :This animated feature based on the popular E.B. White book for children--about the special relationships between Wilbur the pig, Charlotte the spider, and Templeton the rat--is a straight adaptation from the page, with songs added. Endearing, heartbreaking, and ultimately wise, it may not please all of those with a strong attachment to the book, but it works all the same. --Tom Keogh
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Bewitched - The Complete Sixth Season
»rank: 4723
0ur opinion: :The magic on Morning Glory Circle continues as Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery), Darrin (Dick Sargent), and Endora (Agnes Moorehead) return in Bewitched - The Complete Sixth Season. Notable for being Dick Sargent's first season as Darrin. Samantha, a powerful member of the society of witches that has lived apart from (and disdained) humanity for many centuries, falls in love with a mortal, Darrin Stephens. Much to the disgust of most of her family, she vows to give up witchcraft and become an ordinary suburban housewife, raising a ...
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Show Boat
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0ur opinion: :The cotton blossom owned by the hawk family is the show boat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south. Julie laverne and her husband are the stars of the show. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O3/15/2OO5 Starring: Ava Gardner Howard Keel Run time: 1O7 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Sidney :The show that first defined the Broadway musical has never come to the screen intact, despite three tries. But take this splashy 1951 MGM extravaganza on its own terms, and it boggles the ...
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Charlotte's Web (Widescreen Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Barnyard spider charlotte saves little pig wilburs life in e.B. Whites tale.Animated. Voices: debbie reynolds paul lynde. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/25/2OO5 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: G Director: Charles A. Nichols :This animated feature based on the popular E.B. White book for children--about the special relationships between Wilbur the pig, Charlotte the spider, and Templeton the rat--is a straight adaptation from the page, with songs added. Endearing, heartbreaking, and ultimately wise, it may not please all of those with a strong attachment to ...
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Bewitched: The Complete First Season
»rank: 5575
0ur opinion:Description:Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens, a pretty, typical American housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. lncluded in this magical DVD collection is the Emmy (r) Award-winning series’ entire first season- 36 episodes that introduce one of the funniest ensemble casts in TV history. Dick York as Samantha’s mortal husband Darrin, Agnes Moorehead as his witch-of- a-mother-in-law Endora. Alice Pearce as nosey neighbor Gladys Kravitz, George Tobias as her oblivious husband Abner and Marion Lorne as dotty Aunt Clara. Join ...
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