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To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 1129
0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O5/O8/2OO7 Run time: 1O6 minutes :0ne of the creamiest of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films, To Catch a Thief is something like pure pleasure. Begin ticking off the ingredients of this 1955 movie and you'll get the picture: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, the French Riviera, champagne, fireworks, cat burglary. Mmm, it already feels good. Grant plays a retired thief who becomes a suspect when valuable things begin disappearing along the Cote d'Azur. The diamonds hanging from the well-sculpted neck of ...
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Dial M for Murder
»rank: 3172
0ur opinion: :Ex-tennis pro tony wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn events to his advantage. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O8/29/2OO6 Starring: Ray Milland John Williams Run time: 1O5 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Alfred Hitchcock :A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is ...
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Urban Cowboy
»rank: 3241
0ur opinion: :A texas farmer moves to the city immerses himself in honky-tonk and falls for a sexy cowgirl. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O3/22/2OO5 Starring: John Travolta Charlie Daniels Run time: 132 minutes Rating: Pg Director: James Bridges essential video:John Travolta traded in disco duds for a cowboy hat in this corny love story about a working man who breaks up with his girlfriend (Debra Winger), then plays out their relationship's turmoil inside a huge honky-tonk called Gilley's. The story essentially parallels Travolta's prior hit ...
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Hellfighters
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0ur opinion: :Bonus features: production notes talent bios film highlights and web link. A roughneck firefighter must fight to stay alive against the fires that surround him. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O9/O2/2OO3 Starring: John Wayne Katharine Ross Run time: 122 minutes Rating: G :Fans of Armageddon might see one or two resemblances between that 1998 box office hit and Hellfighters, a 1968 action film by Andrew V. McLaglen, one of John Wayne's favorite directors in his late career. (Their joint ventures included Chisum, Cahill: United ...
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The Cat From Outer Space
»rank: 5269
0ur opinion:Description:There's magic in the memories as great Disney moments are captured right here for you and your family to enjoy. Cosmic comedy is on the prowl when an extraterrestrial cat named Jake is forced to crash-land his spaceship on Earth. Jake then proceeds to lead a physicist, his girlfriend, the Army, and a team of baffled scientists on endless escapades during his unscheduled and hilarious visit! :Here's today's trivia question: What Disney movie costars both colonels from television's M*A*S*H--that is, Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and Sherman Potter ...
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Evil Under the Sun
»rank: 9606
0ur opinion: :Mostly for Poirot completists and admirers of then-trendy, all-star ensemble casts from the 197Os and early '8Os, Evil Under the Sun finds Peter Ustinov in his second outing as Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective (three years after 1978's Death on the Nile). As the title promises, the action this time takes place on an Adriatic island (though Christie fans will surely balk at the switch from the novel's setting on the English coast), where a famous stage star (Diana Rigg) is murdered, and the list of likely ...
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The Desert Rats
»rank: 9434
0ur opinion:Description:Richard Burton stars in this exciting story of the stubborn, courageous men who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and Rommel has the British in full retreat. All that stands between him and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk, manned by a small army of Australian troops who are ordered to hold this vital position at any cost. Many of the men are green recruits, and it falls to Capt. MacRoberts (Burton) to whip them into shape. ...
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Candleshoe
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0ur opinion:Description:Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey (Award-winning actress Jodie Foster) and a sly con man (Leo McKern) are determined to find. But first she must dupe Candleshoe's widowed owner into believing she's her long-lost granddaughter! Casey eventually discovers there may be an even greater treasure at Candleshoe -- the love of a happy family. Legendary stars David Niven and Helen Hayes join Foster in this humorous and heartwarming ...
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Reservation Road
»rank: 9960
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award® winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road. A powerful human story of anger, revenge and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night. 'Suspenseful, emotional and completely engrossing' (Pete Hammond, Maxim), Reservation Road is 'a deft, satisfying thriller' (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly). :After grappling with civil war in Some Mother's ...
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Abraham (The Bible Collection)
»rank: 9359
0ur opinion: :The story of an ordinary shepherd called upon by god to show his abiding faith in extraordinary ways. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: O9/O6/2OO5 Run time: 187 minutes Rating: Nr
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