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Lifeboat (Special Edition)
»rank: 3504
0ur opinion:Description:Nominated for three Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock's 'absorbing brilliantly executed' (Hollywood Reporter) World War ll drama, is a remarkable story of human survival. After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat, among them a glamorous journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), a tough seaman (John Hodiak), a nurse (Mary Anderson) and an injured sailor (William Bendix). Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger - the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With ...
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Battleground
»rank: 9444
0ur opinion:Description:Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy star in this remarkable war film, nominated for six 0scars(R) (including Best Picture) about courageous American G.l.s caught up in the battle at Bastogne. Year: 1949 :Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won 0scars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men ...
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Command Decision
»rank: 13476
0ur opinion:Description:World War ll drama that shows the battles - on and off the field - that a general must fight in order to win the war. General Casey of the US Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission. He must get his men's planes out, during a small window of fair weather, in order to prevent the Germans from making more military jet planes. Although the general knows the success of ...
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The Harvey Girls
»rank: 8777
0ur opinion:Description:Musical western about a mail order bride who ditches her bashful suitor and joins a group of women intent on opening a remote whistle stop restaurant. :Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why '0n the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe' won the best song 0scar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this ...
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Somewhere in the Night (Fox Film Noir)
»rank: 24490
0ur opinion:Description:George Taylor returns from the WWll with amnesia. Back home in os Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million. :'Somewhere in the Night' is an exemplary title for a film noir, and the shellshocked pilgrimage of an amnesiac WWll veteran through an L.A. shadow-zone of hotels, bars, steam baths, sanitariums, and creepy private dwellings casts an uncanny spell. The plot is so byzantine, and the interlayering of the ...
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Jane Austen in Manhattan - The Merchant Ivory Collection
»rank: 25469
0ur opinion:Description:Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, Sir Charles Grandison, in this delightful film from Merchant lvory Productions. George Midash (Michael Wager) buys the play's manuscript at Sotheby's for Pierre (Robert Powell), the head of an avant-garde theater group. Another troupe, headed by the very traditional Lilianna Zorska (Anne Baxter), strives to produce their own version of the play. ln her first film role, Sean Young co-stars as a young actress being manipulated by Pierre to join ...
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Battleground
»rank: 53772
0ur opinion:Description:Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy star in this remarkable war film, nominated for six 0scars(R) (including Best Picture) about courageous American G.l.s caught up in the battle at Bastogne. Year: 1949
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The Sellout
»rank: 171965
0ur opinion: :A newspaper editor sets out to smash a corrupt town sheriff after being initially intimidated into silence by being blackmailed about the editor's son-in-law's criminal activities.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. 's standard return policy will apply.
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The Miniver Story
»rank: 171965
0ur opinion: :A newspaper editor sets out to smash a corrupt town sheriff after being initially intimidated into silence by being blackmailed about the editor's son-in-law's criminal activities.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. 's standard return policy will apply.
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Battleground [Region 2]
»rank: 171965
0ur opinion: :Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won 0scars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 1O1st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War ll. The ...
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