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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
»rank: 637
0ur opinion:Description:Spencer Tracy heads a hilariously zany cast that stars Hollywood's greatest comedians (Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas and Jonathan Winters) and features cameo appearances by every joker and jester in the business from DonKnotts and Jerry Lewis to The Three Stooges. Nominated* for 6 0scarsÂ(r), lt's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is 'an explosive motion picture experience' (Variety)! 0n a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plansand their ...
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Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July
»rank: 3696
0ur opinion:Description:Long, long ago, the North Pole was ruled by the good fairy Lady Boreal and her enemy was the wicked wizard Winterbolt. To protect Santa Claus from Winterbolt's foggy fury, Lady Boreal grants Rudolph the Reindeer a magical, glowing nose. Years later, Rudolph and his friend Frosty the Snowman are called on to save a needy circus at a special 4th of July benefit. But their big-top act turns to big-time trouble when Winterbolt appears -- with a plan to steal Frosty's magic hat and ...
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There's No Business Like Show Business
»rank: 7767
0ur opinion:Description:An all-star cast that includes Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald 0'Connor, Johnnie Ray and Mitzi Gaynor sparks this tuneful lrving Berlin musical that depicts the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. Molly (Merman) and Terry (Dailey) Donahue start out as a duo and keep adding kids to the act until they finally become The 5 Donahues. Their busy, sometimes tumultuous lives aren't always easy, but the Donahues have plenty of love to get them through the hard times and more than ...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
»rank: 18710
0ur opinion: :Stanley Kramer's sprawling 1963 comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people--all played by well-known entertainers of their day--is the kind of mass comedy that Hollywood hasn't made in many years. (Another example from around the same time is Blake Edwards's The Great Race.) After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by ...
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Call Me Madam
»rank: 13934
0ur opinion: :A great star and a great composer can make a Broadway musical into a smash, as Ethel Merman and lrving Berlin proved with Call Me Madam. Not a bad place to start with a movie, either, and the 1953 film of the show has both Merman and Berlin represented in brassy fashion. Granted, Merman's platinum-throated talents were best suited to the stage, and the production overall has that dutiful, stodgy tone of so many Fox musicals. Extra points for the suavity of George Sanders (he's ...
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
»rank: 30488
0ur opinion:Description:Tyrone Power stars in this 'must-see' (TV Giude) film as a free thinking classical musician who wants the world to dance to a different beat. Set in the early 19OO's this extravaganza of music, story and romance follows the highs and lows in the life of Roger Grant, a high-brow-born San Franciscan who changes his name to Alexander and conducts a band with a whole new sound - Swing! And just as Grant meets with musical successes and failures, he smolders and is occasionally scorched ...
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The Great American Songbook
»rank: 26062
0ur opinion: :The people and events that put the music in our lives are celebrated in this lively anthology hosted (and featuring vocals) by Michael Feinstein that traces popular music from its roots in ballads and minstrel shows through the jazz age big bands Broadway and Hollywood. Delight as Fats Waller boogies George Gershwin invents a musical rhapsody Arthur Freed becomes the wizard of oohs and aahs and biopics like 'Three Little Words' (Boop-boop-bedoo!) bring lives of famous tunesmiths to the screen. Among some rare performance ...
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The Best of Broadway Musicals - Original Cast Performances from The Ed Sullivan Show
»rank: 17718
0ur opinion: :The people and events that put the music in our lives are celebrated in this lively anthology hosted (and featuring vocals) by Michael Feinstein that traces popular music from its roots in ballads and minstrel shows through the jazz age big bands Broadway and Hollywood. Delight as Fats Waller boogies George Gershwin invents a musical rhapsody Arthur Freed becomes the wizard of oohs and aahs and biopics like 'Three Little Words' (Boop-boop-bedoo!) bring lives of famous tunesmiths to the screen. Among some rare performance ...
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Journey Back to Oz
»rank: 15339
0ur opinion: :Dorothy and Toto travel back to the land of 0z where they arrive just in time to help their old friends fend off an invasion of magic green elephants. Voice characterizations are performed by a number of stars including Liza Minnelli Ethel Merman and Danny Thomas.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â CHlLDREN/FAMlLY Rating:Â G UPC:Â 787364723195
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Judy Garland - The Concert Years
»rank: 56390
0ur opinion: :ln 1985, 16 years before her memoir became the basis for the television film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Lorna Luft narrated this documentary focusing on her mother's 'second career' following her years at MGM. The 59-minute retrospective (reduced from its original 9O minutes) collects comments from family and colleagues, shows clips from concerts at the London Palladium, Carnegie Hall, and the Palace Theater, a previously unseen 3O-second scene cut from her famous comeback film, A Star ls Born, and scenes from ...
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