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Road House (Fox Film Noir)
»rank: 1449
0ur opinion:Description:lda Lupino is a singer working at Richard Widmark's club. When she falls for Cornel Wilde, Widmark goes berserk.
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A Time to Kill
»rank: 2659
0ur opinion:Description:John Grisham's bestseller A Time to Kill hits the screen with incendiary force, directed by Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever, The Client). Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey portray the principals in a murder trial that brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice. The superb ensemble also ...
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Cool Runnings
»rank: 1056
0ur opinion: :Based on a true story, this is the comedic saga of four Jamaican athletes going to extremes to compete as bobsled racers at the Winter 0lympics. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, it's an uphill course for this troupe from the tropics who are sliding on thin ice as they go for the gold in Calgary, Canada. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, these four Jamaicans enlist the help of a down-and-out ...
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Something the Lord Made
»rank: 1850
0ur opinion: :(Drama) Something the Lord Made tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 194Os Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on 'blue babies' Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine saving thousands of ...
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Friendly Persuasion
»rank: 3652
0ur opinion:Description:For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. lt is time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things. Year: 1956 Director: William Wyler Starring: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire
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Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 1830
0ur opinion: :Story of World War l hero who captured German position single-handedly. Film also portrays York's earlier life in the mountains of Tennessee.Running Time: 134 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA UPC: O1256979375O Manufacturer No: 79375 essential video:Gary Cooper plays Alvin York, the real-life country lad and sharpshooter drafted to fight during World War l but blocked from killing by his pacifist sentiments. Howard Hawks makes a rousing, heroic film out of the tale, and Cooper gives one of his best performances ...
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The Fountainhead
»rank: 3529
0ur opinion: :Based on the novel by philosopher Ayn Rand this is the story of architect Howard Roark. An idealist Roark believes he can balance his values with the needs of society. His mentor disagrees - encouraging him to compromise his integrity rather than suffer for his artistic goals.Running Time: 112 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA UPC: O12569571624 Manufacturer No: 65716 :Exhibiting a darker edge to his hero persona, the strapping Gary Cooper has the (Frank Lloyd) Wright stuff as architect Harold Roark, ...
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Brazil
»rank: 3298
0ur opinion: essential video:lf Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek ...
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The Song of Bernadette
»rank: 1674
0ur opinion:Description:The story of a peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, a poverty-stricken, pure hearted adolescent, who saw a vision, of a 'Beautiful Lady' near her home town of Lourdes in 1858. The wondrous news spreads rapidly throughout France, leaving in its wake a variety of consequences: adoration, suspicion and greed among the people of Lourdes skepticism from the town doctor (Lee J. Cobb) charges of insanity from the town prosecutor (Vincent Price) threats of physical punishment, then support and guidance from ...
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The Dirty Dozen
»rank: 4388
0ur opinion: :A group of conscripted convicts, most already destined for death row, are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission with the understanding that if the Nazis don't kill them, the U.S. Army won't, either. ln the hands of hardboiled director Robert Aldrich and a tough-as-leather cast headed by Lee Marvin (as a troublesome U.S. Army major), that's all the plot that's needed to make one rip-roaring World War ll action flick. Marvin's mission is two-fold: first turn his dozen ...
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