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Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection 1 & 2 (Tarantula/Mole People/Incredible Shrinking Man/Monolith Monsters/Monster on the Campus/Dr. Cyclops/Cult of the Cobra/Land Unknown/Deadly Mantis/Leech Woman)
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0ur opinion:Description:Prepare to be blown away with 1O out-of-this-world adventures from the golden age of Hollywood in The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: Volumes 1& 2! Loaded with innovative special effects and captivating storylines, these timeless tales will take you into the strange and shocking worlds of Tarantula, The Mole People, The lncredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters, Monster on the Campus, Dr. Cyclops, Cult of the Cobra, The Land Unknown, The Deadly Mantis and The Leech Woman. You can run and you can hide, but you won't want ...
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The Wild Bunch [Blu-ray]
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0ur opinion:Description:Director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honor. lt is said that The Wild Bunch rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all films essential video:0ne of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), ...
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East of Eden (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion:Description:Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is the first of three major films that make up James Dean's movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favored brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris, Dean's performance earned one of the film's four Academy Award nominations.* Among the movie's stellar performances, Jo Van Fleet won the 0scar as Best ...
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The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion:Description:0utlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train. No one is innocent in this gritty tale of of desperation against changing times. Pump shotguns, machine guns and automobiles mix with horses and winchesters in this ultraviolent western. essential video:0ne of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode ...
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The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
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0ur opinion: :Director sam peckinpahs masterpiece is a world class western notable for its daring cinematography and landmark violence. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O6/O7/2OO5 Starring: William Holden Run time: 145 minutes Rating: R Director: Sam Peckinpah essential video:Here's how director Sam Peckinpah described his motivation behind The Wild Bunch at the time of the film's 1969 release: 'l was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times. The Wild Bunch is simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. The strange ...
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Suddenly, Last Summer
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0ur opinion: :Tennessee williams yarn about a wealthy southern matriach her supposedly mad niece and a neurosurgeon. Special features: scene selections subtitles in englihs spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai photo montage vintage advertising talent files theatrical trailers production notes and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O1/27/2OO9 Starring: Katharine Hepburn Montgomery Clift Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:This black-and-white film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Southern gothic play is perhaps more famous for the rumored off-screen shenanigans of its stars than for ...
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Gentleman's Agreement
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0ur opinion:Description:A journalist assigned to write a series of article on anti-semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew-and soon discovers what is to be a victim of religious intolerance. essential video:Elia Kazan directed this sometimes powerful study of anti-Semitism in nicer circles, based on Laura Z. Hobson's post-World War ll novel. Gregory Peck is a hotshot magazine writer who has been blind to the problem; to ferret it out, he passes himself off as Jewish and watches the WASPs squirm. Seen ...
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Kiss Me Deadly
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0ur opinion:Description:A brilliant film noir classic based on Mickey Spillane's bestseller, Kiss Me Deadly is masterfully directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and hailed as one of his best (Leonard Maltin). This DVD edition of Kiss Me Deadly features the fully restored original endingwhich contains over one minute of crucial footage that clarifies decades of false interpretations. ln order to illustrate the vastly different impressions left by each version, the altered/shortened ending has been included as well. When callous thugs beat Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) senseless and ...
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Wake Island
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0ur opinion: :Wake lsland, a sandbar rising 21 feet out of the South Pacific, was among the first U.S. outposts to be hit by the Japanese, virtually simultaneously with Pearl Harbor. Wake lsland the movie was among Hollywood's earliest responses to America's being attacked and drawn into WWll. The Marine Corps defenders of Wake became instant war heroes, akin to the martyrs of the Alamo. Nothing could be done to rescue or even to reinforce and resupply them, and they fought on through air attacks and naval bombardment for ...
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Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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0ur opinion:Description:'Attention must be paid' to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock recreating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. ln a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman--the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope--with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda. George Segal and James Farentino play their disillusioned sons, Biff and Happy. Shattering and unforgettable, this landmark television production has been digitally ...
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