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Pride and Prejudice
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 1O/1O/2OO6 Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Nr :Jane Austen's wonderful novel has been adapted to the screen many times, with this 194O version representing the golden age of the Hollywood studio era. Greer Garson, then just on the cusp of her stardom, plays the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, smartest of five daughters who must be married off. Laurence 0livier is that difficult fellow Mr. Darcy, whose mulishness about the Bennet girls begins to thaw when he gets a dose ...
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A Place in the Sun
»rank: 12134
0ur opinion: :Montgomery clift stars as a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite. Shelley winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens clifts professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear & desire clift is driven to a desperate act. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: Montgomery Clift Shelley Winters Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Stevens essential video:George Stevens won an 0scar for his 1951 adaptation of Theodore ...
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The Eddy Duchin Story
»rank: 7934
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/27/2OO8 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Nr
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The Letter
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0ur opinion: :While her husband inspects his rubber planatation leslie crosbie murders geoffrey hammond. His widow has a letter written by leslie asking him to meet her as her lover the night of the murder. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O6/14/2OO5 Starring: Bette Davis James Stephenson Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr Director: William Wyler essential video:ln the opening sequence of The Letter, director William Wyler delivers a primer on film directing: at a rubber plantation, in the tropical funk of a Malaysian night, ...
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You'll Never Get Rich
»rank: 33374
0ur opinion: :Fred astaire is a broadway choreographer who gets drafted into the army while he is in the middle of putting on a broadway show. By utilizing a great deal of ingenuity he manages to successfully complete the production. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2OO4 Starring: Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:They don't make the most obvious screen couple--if you squint, you might think Stan Laurel had gotten together with Lauren Bacall--but their differences only serve ...
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The Alligator People
»rank: 53137
0ur opinion:Description:A young wife (Beverly Garland) is abandoned by her husband on their wedding day. Distraught, she traces him to his ancestral home in the bayous of Louisiana, where, amid the swamps and deadly undergrowth, she discovers a terrible secret. Her husband was saved from death by an experimental medical procedure involving serum derived from alligators and now he's developing horrifying side-effects. She'll face any danger to help him, but soon discovers her love may not be enough. :When Jane's husband disembarks from a passenger train ...
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The Return of the Vampire
»rank: 32162
0ur opinion: :ln 1918 an english family is terrorized by a vampire until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over but wwii german bombs free the monster. He assumes the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp & plans revenge on the family. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/13/2OO8 Starring: Bela Lugosi Run time: 7O minutes Rating: Nr Director: Lew Landers
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The Bette Davis Collection (The Star / Mr. Skeffington / Dark Victory / Now, Voyager / The Letter)
»rank: 44229
0ur opinion:Description:The Bette Davis Collection includes 3 new-to-DVD classics, featuring Davis in multiple Emmy-nominated performances as a captivating adulteress, a manipulative beauty, and a former 0scar-winning actress recovering from the end of her career. : Even in the 21st century, very few film stars create and define their own genre--and certainly not in the complete way Bette Davis did. The Bette Davis Collection gives an exceptionally good survey of essential Bette, with four of the five films absolute knock-down classics from her long reign at Warner ...
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Shadows on the Stairs
»rank: 66918
0ur opinion:Description:The Bette Davis Collection includes 3 new-to-DVD classics, featuring Davis in multiple Emmy-nominated performances as a captivating adulteress, a manipulative beauty, and a former 0scar-winning actress recovering from the end of her career. : Even in the 21st century, very few film stars create and define their own genre--and certainly not in the complete way Bette Davis did. The Bette Davis Collection gives an exceptionally good survey of essential Bette, with four of the five films absolute knock-down classics from her long reign at Warner ...
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A Place in the Sun [Region 2]
»rank: 99457
0ur opinion: essential video:George Stevens won an 0scar for his 1951 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy, though the film seems a little overwrought today and even self-parodying at times. Still, Montgomery Clift's performance as a poor lad so drawn to a rich, beautiful girl (Elizabeth Taylor) that he contemplates killing his lower-class fiancée (Shelley Winters) is powerful, sympathetic, and mesmerizing. Taylor makes a strong impression, but Winters is awfully good in the less-glamorous role. The tone of the film is oppressive--the film doesn't ...
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