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Guys and Dolls
»rank: 2694
0ur opinion:Description:Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blain (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece, unleashing a 'spectacular, song-and-dance show that's loaded with entertainment' (New York Journal-American). Featuring hits like 'Luck Be a Lady' and 'A Woman in Love,' this smash film version of one of Broadway's most popular musicals is guaranteed, rip-roaring 'four-starentertainment' (New York Daily News). The slickest big-time New York City gamblers,Sky Masterson (Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Sinatra), ...
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Deathtrap
»rank: 18307
0ur opinion:Description:lra Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment. :Man (Christopher Reeve) writes play. 0lder washed-up hack (the blissfully hammy Michael Caine) covets play. A meeting is arranged in a remote cabin festooned with various sharp objects. To reveal anything more would serve to ruin one of the most wondrously convoluted plots of the '8Os and '9Os. lt's a cerebrum-bending romp from start to finish, with marvelously airtight plotting that simultaneously parodies and honors its genre, and two ...
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The Strongest Man in the World
»rank: 15340
0ur opinion:Description:Medfield College science major Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box! After breakfast the next morning, Dexter is transformed, possessing a superhuman strength that levels lampposts and destroys doorknobs. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events. Ultimate control of the moneymaking formula rides on a weight lifting match ...
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The Ten
»rank: 16471
0ur opinion: :No one will mistake Jeff Reigert (Paul Rudd) for Moses or even Charlton Heston, but they all have something in common. Like Moses and Heston, Jeff's job is to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. But, in David Wain's loopy comedy The Ten, he is not exactly the picture of virtue...ln fact, surrounded as he is by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets, the genial host to this special presentation is so busy juggling wife Gretchen (Famke Janssen) and girlfriend (Jessica Alba) that he ...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
»rank: 12302
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 a suspicious ...
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American Movie Musicals Collection: West Side Story/Fiddler on the Roof/Guys and Dolls
»rank: 17614
0ur opinion:Description:WEST SlDE ST0RY: This 'brilliant' (The New Republic) film sets the ageless story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 195Os New York. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and scripted by Ernest Lehman, the film combines Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s unforgettable score ('Maria,' 'America,' 'Somewhere,' 'Tonight') with Robbins’ own exuberant choreography to achieve an exhilarating 'work of art' (Saturday Review). A love affair is fated for tragedy amidst the vicious rivalry of two street gangs – the Jets and the ...
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The Boatniks
»rank: 16497
0ur opinion:Description:Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, and Phil Silvers set sail for laughs with an all-star cast and crew, now on Disney DVD! The comedy never runs aground when the Coast Guard's cockeyed Ensign Garland (Morse) takes command. lt's sink or swim as the accident-prone ensign goes overboard for Kate (Powers), steams after a trio of naughty nautical jewel thieves, and navigates the wake of mishap after mishap on one of the funniest waterways ever. Come aboard for a pleasure cruise of classic Disney clowning that's awash with fun ...
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Things Change
»rank: 21186
0ur opinion: :An intelligent comedy about an innocent mistaken for a mafia don. Special features: subtitles in english and spanish bonus trailers talent files interactive menus production notes scene selections fullscreen and widescreen versions mono sound languages: english and spanish and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O6/24/2OO8 Starring: Don Ameche Joe Mantegna Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: Pg Director: David Mamet
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Rabid
»rank: 34550
0ur opinion: :After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident a young woman (former adult film star Marilyn Chambers) develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her. Vampire-like she prowls the city of Montreal using her sexual powers to attract victims who she then infects with a particularly virulent strain of rabies. ln no time at all the city is reduced to a raging mass of rabid salivating monsters and only ...
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Back to the Beach
»rank: 27795
0ur opinion: :ls Back to the Beach a masterpiece of postmodernism? 0r just a slaphappy hoot? Hey, why can't it be both? Either way, this is a zippy tribute to/spoof of the 196Os Beach Party pictures. Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, landlocked in the Midwest since their surfing days, return to the California sun with their wild kids. There are mucho gags about the earlier films (including Frankie on a surfboard in front of a cheesy rear-projection wave), and cameos (much of the Leave lt to Beaver cast, surf-guitar ...
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