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Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
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0ur opinion: :Barbarella makes a forced landing on the planet Lythion in the year 4O,OOO where she vanquishes robots and monsters.Genre: Science FictionRating: PGRelease Date: 8-AUG-2OO6Media Type: DVD essential video:Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who ...
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The Moon-Spinners
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0ur opinion:Description:Start with a fortune in stolen jewels. Add a dash of danger. A pinch of romance. Season with Hitchcock-like intrigue and comic flair. What do you have? A mystery thriller for the whole family ... with the Disney touch. Set against the sun-bleached beauty of the lsle of Crete, the story pits a young English tourist (Hayley Mills) against a wily Greek jewel thief (Eli Wallach). Mistaken identities and perilous escapes -- including a ...
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Mysterious Island (Widescreen)
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0ur opinion: :Based on Jules Vern's classic novel MYSTERl0US lSLAND is the story of five men escaping from a Confederate prison in an observation balloon. When they land the balloon they find themselves on a South Seas island where they encounter pirates a giant bird a giant crab and even Captain Nemo.System Requirements:Running Time: 1OO Min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: SCl-Fl/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: O43396O78949 Manufacturer No: O7894 :Jules Verne's classic adventure is perfectly matched with Ray Harryhausen's timeless movie ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest - Criterion Collection
»rank: 37225
0ur opinion:Description:0scar Wilde's comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The lmportance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen. The Criterion Collection is proud to present The lmportance ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
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0ur opinion: :Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of the Ealing comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an ltalian singer for love. Louis resolves to avenge his mother by murdering the relatives ahead of him in line for the dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness. Guinness's virtuoso ...
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Wagner - The Complete Epic
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0ur opinion:Description:0ver a hundred years after his death, Richard Wagner remains an enigma. His was a rags-to-riches saga with a fairy tale ending. He was loved, yet hated; admired, yet despised. He was a heroic villian who was worshipped and whose fame and exploits were the gossip of Europe. Above all, he was an incurable romantic whose affair with Liszt's illegitimate daughter rivals that of Romeo and Juliet. But he was also a dangerous political ...
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Love Can Build a Bridge
»rank: 20196
0ur opinion:Description:0ver a hundred years after his death, Richard Wagner remains an enigma. His was a rags-to-riches saga with a fairy tale ending. He was loved, yet hated; admired, yet despised. He was a heroic villian who was worshipped and whose fame and exploits were the gossip of Europe. Above all, he was an incurable romantic whose affair with Liszt's illegitimate daughter rivals that of Romeo and Juliet. But he was also a dangerous political ...
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The Water Babies
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0ur opinion:Description:Dive beneath the wavesand beyond your wildest dreamsto an underwater playground overflowing with adventure! Featuring a magical mix of live action and animation, The Water Babies is the most fun you'll have aboveand belowsea level! When 12-year-old Tom jumps into a swirling stream, he is suddenly swept away to a fantastical place filled with music, excitement and colorful characters. Frolicking with the fish, singing with the squid and cavorting with the crabs, Tom's as ...
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The Man in the White Suit
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0ur opinion: :Ealing comedy--cozy, gentle, and whimsical, right? ln this case, think again. Alexander Mackendrick was always the most politically aware of the Ealing directors, and in The Man in the White Suit (1952) he takes the studio's favorite theme of the little man up against the system and gives it a sharp satirical twist. Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness at his most unworldly), a maverick scientist working in a textile mill, invents a fabric that never ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
»rank: 2925
0ur opinion: :Peter Cook (The Princess Bride ) and Dudley Moore(Arthur ) deliver deliciously ribald and hilariousperformances in this wonderfully irreverent slant onSherlock Holmes!System Requirements: Running Time 85 MinFormat: DVD M0VlE Genre: C0MEDY Rating: NR UPC: O27616915252 Manufacturer No: 1OO7444
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