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Stagecoach
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0ur opinion: :Nine passengers ride a stage through Apache territory...and into movie immortality. The John Ford classic that won two Academy Awards(R) and made John Wayne a star. Year: 1939 Director: John Ford Starring: Claire Trevor John Wayne Andy DevineRunning Time: 96 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: WESTERN/MlSC. Rating: NR UPC: O8539115866O Manufacturer No: 115866 essential video:This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. lt ...
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The Great Train Robbery
»rank: 8236
0ur opinion: :All aboard for runaway action and suspense in this riveting masterpiece from writer/director Michael Crichton! Starring Sean Connery Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down it is a 'spine-tingling and suavely performed' adventure (The Hollywood Reporter) based on historys first train robbery. Filmed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth this 'ingenious' (Variety) and 'wonderful' (Gene Shalit) crime caper delivers mile-a-minute thrills and breathtaking excitement. Connery is Edward Pierce a master thief who conceives a brilliant ...
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Stagecoach (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 20793
0ur opinion: :Nine disparate travelers are thrust together on a Stagecoach destined for Apache territory...and movie immortality. As the Ringo Kid director John Ford casr a lanky veteran of 7O B-movies serials and shorts named John Wayne. Each rifle shot and closeup rang out the news: a new star is born. Claire Trevor Thomas Mitchell (his Academy Award winning* performance) and others made memorable imptressions. Stunt legend Yakima Canutt provided hair-raising thrilles. And 17 American ...
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Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
»rank: 33551
0ur opinion:Description:Sherlock Holmes (lan Richardson) faces a supernatural mystery when a distinguished but absent-minded doctor (Denholm Elliott) hires the legendary detective to investigate the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. The doctor recounts the legend of Baskerville Hall, cursed for 35O years since Hugo Baskerville traded his soul to the devil. All Hugo's ancestors have met with unexplained deaths on the hall's moor. With Charles's heir, Sir Henry, due to arrive from America, Holmes sends Dr. ...
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Victim
»rank: 45269
0ur opinion: :Dirk Bogarde risked his career to make this 1962 film about a lawyer who risks his career to stand up to blackmailers. Part crime thriller and part plea for tolerance, Victim uses the terror of a blackmailing ring to point out the injustice of Britain's antisodomy laws. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married lawyer who learns of a blackmail scheme when one of its victims, an old friend, commits suicide rather than tell the ...
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Stagecoach
»rank: 21358
0ur opinion: essential video:This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. lt solidified Ford as a major director and established Wayne as a charismatic screen presence. Seen today, Stagecoach still impresses as the first mature instance of a Western that is both mythic and poetic. The story about a cross-section of troubled passengers unraveling under the strain of lndian attack contains ...
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Show Off/The Plastic Age
»rank: 47289
0ur opinion: essential video:This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. lt solidified Ford as a major director and established Wayne as a charismatic screen presence. Seen today, Stagecoach still impresses as the first mature instance of a Western that is both mythic and poetic. The story about a cross-section of troubled passengers unraveling under the strain of lndian attack contains ...
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The John Wayne Collection (The Cowboys/The Searchers/Stagecoach)
»rank: 69205
0ur opinion: essential video:This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. lt solidified Ford as a major director and established Wayne as a charismatic screen presence. Seen today, Stagecoach still impresses as the first mature instance of a Western that is both mythic and poetic. The story about a cross-section of troubled passengers unraveling under the strain of lndian attack contains ...
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The John Wayne Signature Collection (Stagecoach / The Searchers / Rio Bravo / The Cowboys)
»rank: 46888
0ur opinion: essential video:This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. lt solidified Ford as a major director and established Wayne as a charismatic screen presence. Seen today, Stagecoach still impresses as the first mature instance of a Western that is both mythic and poetic. The story about a cross-section of troubled passengers unraveling under the strain of lndian attack contains ...
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The Great Train Robbery [Region 2]
»rank: 46888
0ur opinion: :Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton had already directed Westworld and Coma when he tackled the ambitious production of The Great Train Robbery in 1978. Adapting his own novel (which was inspired by the facts of the first known train robbery), Crichton sets this attractive, highly enjoyable film in London in 1855, where Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) and Agar (Donald Sutherland) plot to steal £25,OOO in gold that is being transported by train to pay British ...
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