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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Special Edition)
»rank: 2251
0ur opinion:Description:Climb aboard the Nautilus ... and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award(R)-winning (1955, Best ...
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In Harm's Way
»rank: 1927
0ur opinion: :Epic study on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the effect it had on so many relationships.No Track lnformation AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: WAYNE/D0UGLAS/NEAL/TRY0N/PRENTTitle: lN HARM'S WAYStreet Release Date: O5/22/2OO1DomesticGenre: ACTl0N / ADVENTURE essential video:0tto Preminger's sprawling World War ll drama packs a lot into its 165 minutes, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor (which Preminger re-creates in amazing detail) and ending a couple of years later with America's return ...
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The Man From Snowy River
»rank: 1362
0ur opinion:Description:With its unforgettably heroic story, its stunning cinematography, and acting performances that are uniformly excellent, THE MAN FR0M SN0WY RlVER is one thrilling adventure you won't want to miss. Set during the 188O's, when the Australian frontier was as wild and dangerous as the American West, the film follows the exploits of a handsome youth (Tom Burlinson) who sets out to tame a wild herd of horses. Taking on a challenge many ...
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The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)
»rank: 2286
0ur opinion: :With a tantalizing 'what-if?' scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. lt's really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 198O release, but there's still some life remaining in the movie's basic premise: What if a modern-era Navy aircraft carrier--in this case the real-life nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz--was caught in an anomalous ...
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Spartacus
»rank: 4817
0ur opinion: :Stanley Kubrick was only 31 years old when Kirk Douglas (star of Kubrick's classic Paths of Glory) recruited the young director to pilot this epic saga, in which the rebellious slave Spartacus (played by Douglas) leads a freedom revolt against the decadent Roman Empire. Kubrick would later disown the film because it was not a personal project--he was merely a director-for-hire--but Spartacus remains one of the best of Hollywood's grand historical epics. ...
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The Villain
»rank: 4575
0ur opinion: :This curiosity from the mid-197Os is breathtaking in its dreadfulness. Directed by Hal Needham, this was an attempt at creating a Roadrunner cartoon with live actors--except that instead of a live actor they got Arnold Schwarzenegger, before Hollywood smoothed his rough edges (and his Austrian accent). He plays the invulnerable sheriff who rides blithely through life, unaware that the evil Kirk Douglas wants to kill him and kidnap his squeeze, Ann-Margret. The ...
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Paths of Glory
»rank: 3024
0ur opinion:Description:Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French general staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas): take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men's defense but ...
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Seven Days in May
»rank: 3492
0ur opinion: :John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel 'Jiggs' Casey, whose easygoing manner is jolted ...
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Superman - The Movie [Blu-ray]
»rank: 6345
0ur opinion: :Warner Brothers Superman The Movie (Blu-ray)The story begins with Superman's birth on the doomed planet Krypton and follows him on his arrival to Earth, his childhood in Kansas and his career as reporter for the Daily Planet. essential video:Richard Donner's 1978 epic about the Man of Steel showed how a film about a superhero could be a moving and romantic experience even for people who long ago gave up comic ...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
»rank: 12701
0ur opinion: essential video:Novelist Leon Uris wrote the script for this Western directed by John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) and based on the life and times of Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and his sickly companion, Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas). The action inevitably leads to the legendary battle between the two heroes and the villainous Clanton gang, but the film is also very much about the conflicts each man faces with women, with one ...
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