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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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The Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 2 (A Woman's Face / Flamingo Road / Sadie McKee / Strange Cargo / Torch Song)
»rank: 6665
0ur opinion:Description:T0RCH S0NG (1953): Musical comedy legend Jenny Stewart, who has been hardened by the worst life has to offer, finds romance when blinded war- veteran Tye Graham becomes her new piano accompanist. STRANGE CARG0 (194O): When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea penal colony, they are picked up by another escapee named Verne and his girl friend Julie. Among the fugitives is Cambreau, a soft-spoken, messianic character who has a profound effect on his comrades. SADlE MCKEE (1934): As working girl Sadie McKee, Joan Crawford wears ...
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The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
»rank: 10222
0ur opinion:Description:A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance. A young ballerina (Moira Shearer) is torn between two forces: the composer who loves her (Marius Goring), and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer (Anton Walbrook). Criterion is proud to present The Red Shoes in its DVD premiere. :lt's been said that this 1948 classic has been responsible for the ballet lessons of more young girls than any ...
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Foreign Correspondent
»rank: 15353
0ur opinion: :0n the eve of ww2 a young american reporter tries to expose enemy agents in london. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/O7/2OO4 Starring: Joel Mccrea Herbert Marshall Run time: 12O minutes Rating: Nr Director: Alfred Hitchcock essential video:The first of Alfred Hitchcock's World War ll features, Foreign Correspondent was completed in 194O, as the European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. lts titular hero, Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), is an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put ...
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Knute Rockne All American
»rank: 10432
0ur opinion:Description:'l've decided to take up coaching as my life work,' Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 9O percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting lrish as a gridiron powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men. This famed sports biopic combines a passion for the game (and footage of actual Notre Dame contests) with two superb performances: Pat 0'Brien in ...
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Madame Curie
»rank: 17282
0ur opinion: :Perennial co-stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon followed their triumph in the 0scar-winning Mrs. Miniver with this memorable biographical classic. Garson portrays the young Polish physics student Marie who soon falls in love with and marries Dr. Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon) in whose lab she had worked. 0n their honeymoon they decide to investigate a strange effect Professor Becquerel (Reginald 0wen) has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for Marie's dissertation and they determine there must be additional radioactive elements causing it. After years of experimentation in ...
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Shanghai Gesture
»rank: 59241
0ur opinion:Description:A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by 'Mother' Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy is Charteris' daughter, the smarmy Doctor 0mar leads Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin Sling, realizing that Charteris ...
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The Moon and Sixpence
»rank: 27246
0ur opinion:Description:Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to make some ...
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The Moon and Sixpence
»rank: 114336
0ur opinion:Description:Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to make some ...
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Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske [Region 2]
»rank: 114336
0ur opinion:Description:Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to make some ...
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