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Mister Roberts
»rank: 2988
0ur opinion: essential video:Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician, and Jack Lemmon's 0scar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, ...
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Friday the 13th
»rank: 6966
0ur opinion: essential video:This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '8Os, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. lt also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the ...
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The Long Gray Line
»rank: 9930
0ur opinion: :John Ford pours on the sentiment like syrup in The Long Gray Line, a tribute to the traditions of West Point. Tyrone Power ages 5O years to play real-life West Point legend Martin Maher, the scrappy lrish immigrant who rises from 'another Mick waiter' to hot-tempered cadet to one of the best-loved instructors of the institution. Power is at his best as the charming rogue with a thick brogue, who ages into a ...
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Friday the 13th, Part 2
»rank: 7424
0ur opinion: :As bad as Friday the 13th, Part 2 is, it's a work of art in comparison to the rest of the Friday the 13th flicks that came afterward. This installment officially introduced us to Jason Voorhees as the killer (if you remember Drew Barrymore's fatal phone quiz in Scream, you know that the killer in the first Friday the 13th was actually Jason's mother), and made the slicing and dicing even more generic. ...
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The Tin Star
»rank: 32413
0ur opinion: :Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 195Os, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. lt's a rather schematic character study about a lawman-turned-bounty-hunter (Henry Fonda) who undertakes the professional shaping-up of an effete young sheriff (Anthony Perkins) too tentative to police the streets of his town. Those streets are ...
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Mister Roberts (Keepcase)
»rank: 23045
0ur opinion:Description:Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Academy Award(R) winner Jack Lemmon steer a ramshackle Navy cargo ship into the wartime comedy hall of fame. An all-time classic. Year: 1955 essential video:Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. ...
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Queen Bee
»rank: 18056
0ur opinion: :'Any man's my man if l want it that way.' The speaker could only be Joan Crawford, as a wicked man-eater terrorizing her Deep South household in Queen Bee. Crawford's the whole show in this campy 1955 melodrama, which aspires to be second-rate Lillian Hellman but doesn't even reach that level. Having trapped a wealthy Southerner (Barry Sullivan) into marriage, Crawford takes her main pleasure in making life miserable for the other women ...
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Friday the 13th (1980) / Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (Double Feature)
»rank: 17283
0ur opinion:Description:FRlDAY THE 13TH: They comprise the most successful and shocking tales of terror in cinema history. Now, for the first time, the first eight classic Friday The 13th movies are available together in this killer DVD collection. Beginning with the picture that critics have called the original slasher flick, this collection spans nine years and includes seven additional blood-soaked, suspense-filled sagas starring one of the most horifying characters ever to wear a hockey ...
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BELL WITCH: THE MOVIE
»rank: 74352
0ur opinion: :(This is not the special edition DVD. Go to bellwitchmovie.com for more information.)A love story turns tragic when entangled with a legendary haunting in BELL WlTCH: The Movie. After stumbling across an ancient burial (in what is now known as the Bell Witch cave), brothers John Jr. (Jeff Kunard) and Williams Bell (Cody Newton) bring a strange curse home to their family. Now their father, John (John David Hart), and sister, Betsy (Hope ...
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Friday the 13th II
»rank: 43523
0ur opinion: :Just when you thought it was safe to go back to camp...here's even more heart pounding terror. Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal lake all that remains is the legend of Jason Voorhees and his demented mother who had murdered seven camp counselors. At a nearby summer camp the new counselors are unconcerned about the warnings to stay away from the infamous site. Carefree the young people roam the ...
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