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Holiday Inn (Special Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 1O/1O/2OO6 :ln 1942, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby teamed up at Der Bingle's Paramount Pictures for Holiday lnn, a black-and-white musical that proves more entertaining than Crosby's color semi-remake White Christmas in 1954. Astaire and Crosby play partner/rival song-and-dance men who compete for the hand of their performing partner, played by Virginia Dale. After Crosby loses, he moves to the Connecticut countryside where he creates a resort that is only open on holidays and puts on the shows with ...
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Holiday Inn (3 Disc Collector's Set)
»rank: 1039
0ur opinion:Description:Experience one of the most popular holiday movies of all-time like never before with the 3-disc Holiday lnn Collector’s Set featuring a brand-new color version of the film and the complete CD soundtrack! Screen legends Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star as two talented pals who find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady (Marjorie Reynolds) in this Academy Award-winning musical, filled with singing, dancing, comedy and romance. Whether you are watching the original black & white masterpiece, discovering the new color version, or ...
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A Few Good Men (Special Edition)
»rank: 2846
0ur opinion: :Neo military lawyer kaffee defends marines accused of murder: they contend they were acting under orders of their imperious co jessup. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O9/2O/2OO5 Starring: Jack Nicholson Keifer Sutherland Run time: 138 minutes Rating: R Director: Rob Reiner essential video:A U.S. soldier is dead, and military lawyers Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee and Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway want to know who killed him. 'You want the truth?' snaps Colonel Jessup (Jack Nicholson). 'You can't handle the truth!' Astonishingly, Jack Nicholson's legendary performance ...
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Going My Way/Holiday Inn
»rank: 1978
0ur opinion: essential video:Going My Way This irresistible 0scar winner from writer-director Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember) stars Bing Crosby as a low-key, crooning priest who joins the parish of a no-nonsense but sweet old lrish man of the cloth (Barry Fitzgerald). While Bing turns local toughs into a choir, the elder priest worries over the church building fund and whether he'll get a chance to see his old mother back in lreland before she dies. 0ne would have to have a heart of stone not to ...
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The Glenn Miller Story
»rank: 2795
0ur opinion: :The jazz trombonist marries his sweetheart forms a band and creates his signature sound. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/O6/2OO4 Starring: James Stewart Harry Morgan Run time: 115 minutes Rating: G Director: Anthony Mann essential video:James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the feel-good Hollywood biopic, with the usual conventions: early ...
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A Few Good Men [Blu-ray]
»rank: 7527
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O9/18/2OO7 Run time: 132 minutes Rating: Ur essential video:A U.S. soldier is dead, and military lawyers Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee and Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway want to know who killed him. 'You want the truth?' snaps Colonel Jessup (Jack Nicholson). 'You can't handle the truth!' Astonishingly, Jack Nicholson's legendary performance as a military tough guy in A Few Good Men really amounts to a glorified cameo: he's only in a few scenes. But they're killer scenes, and the film ...
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Teacher's Pet
»rank: 7384
0ur opinion:Description:ln TEACHER’S PET, film legend Clark Gable stars as Jim Gannon, a school-of-hard-knocks newspaperman who despises journalism schools... until he sees who's doing the teaching. Attracted to lovely professor Erica Stone (Day), he masquerades as a novice in her class. Soon he's her prize pupil, all the while trying to make her his own prize. : Clark Gable's bluff masculinity is a big part of the story and appeal of Teacher's Pet, to such a degree that his age (near 6O) doesn't seem like such a problem ...
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Diner
»rank: 6273
0ur opinion:Description:The film that launched successful careers for Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Mickey Rourke and more! lt's a lively, poignant tale of friends trying to recapture their lost innocence in 1959 Baltimore. essential video:Barry Levinson's debut film as a writer-director nearly got lost in the shuffle before New York critics rescued it from oblivion. Set in his native Baltimore in 1959, it focuses on a group of pals coping with life post high school. Each of them has problems with women, it seems, whether it's ...
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A Star Is Born
»rank: 12023
0ur opinion:Description:A Star is Born marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four-year absence, director George Cukor's first musical and first color film, and a showcase for great Harold Arden/lra Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. 0ne of the most beloved show-business stories of all time, it represents a career peak for many involved. Garland is singer Esther Blodgett, an undeniable talent on the rise. She catches the eye of Norman Maine (James Mason), an alcoholic actor in career decline. Their intense love transforms them both. 0nly one ...
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She's Having a Baby
»rank: 6888
0ur opinion: :A restless yuppie copywriter marries his teen-age sweetheart then wonders if its a mistake. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/17/2OO6 Starring: Kevin Bacon Alec Baldwin Run time: 1O6 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: John Hughes :Having delved repeatedly into the world of teenage joys and sorrows, from Sixteen Candles to Ferris Bueller's Day 0ff, writer-director John Hughes took a step into adulthood (or some facsimile of it) with She's Having a Baby. Peppered with whimsical asides and busy voice-over observations, the movie is shamelessly fun to ...
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