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H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon
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0ur opinion:Description:H.G. Wells' fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring unforgettable extra-terrestrial creatures. The film begins with a team of United Nations astronauts planning an upcoming moon mission. The astronauts are both confused and intrigued by a man (Judd) who claims he, his fiancee and a scientist journeyed to the moon 65 years ago and ...
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The Thief of Bagdad - Criterion Collection
»rank: 3385
0ur opinion: :The Thief of Bagdad legendary producer Alexander Korda's Arabian Nights marvel is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made an eye-popping effects pioneer brimming with imagination and technical wizardry. When Prince Ahmad (John Justin) is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu (the incomparable Sabu in his definitive role) to win back his royal position as ...
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The Man Who Never Was
»rank: 6267
0ur opinion:Description:Clifton Webb stars in this fascinating account of a daring intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. ln an effort to convince the Germans to redeploy their defenses, Lt. Commander Montagu (Webb) creates a false English officer and fabricates letters that indicate the British intend to land in Greece. Montagu than plants these documents on a dead man and orchestrates the 'discovery' of this ...
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The Agatha Christie Miss Marple Movie Collection (Murder at the Gallop / Murder Ahoy / Murder Most Foul / Murder She Said)
»rank: 7201
0ur opinion:Description:Murder She Said (1961): Margaret Rutherford's debut as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Murder at the Gallop (1963): Murder and mystery start with a funeral Murder Most Foul (1964): Miss Marple joins a theatrical troupe whose specialty is death scenes. Murder Ahoy (1964): Miss Marple takes the helm in a seagoing whodunit :Never mind purists who bemoan Margaret Rutherford's incarnation of Agatha Christie's celebrated spinster sleuth. These four British films, produced between 1961 ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
»rank: 20454
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. ...
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Horror of Dracula
»rank: 20010
0ur opinion: :Jonathan Harker a student of vampires ventures to Dracula's castle and attacks him. The revengeful vampire leaves his dark abode to prey on the family of his attacker's fiancee. The only man able to protect Harker and his fiancee is Dr. Van Helsing a friend of Harker's. As a fellow-student of vampires he's determined to destroy Dracula.Running Time: 82 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: H0RR0R/VAMPlRES UPC: O85391149927 Manufacturer No: 1OOOOOO224 :After Hammer Studios' tremendous success ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest - Criterion Collection
»rank: 14574
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 ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
»rank: 15253
0ur opinion:Description:'Peter Cushing is a splendid Holmes' (Daily Mirror) and 'Andre Morell is the perfect Dr. Watson' (Daily Herald) in this terror-filled mystery classic co-starring horror legend Christopher Lee. With its 'compelling acting and spooky cinematography' (Video Movie Guide), this 'rattling good movie' (Newsweek) will keep you guessingand gaspinguntil the final frame! A fiendish evil lurks beneath the mist-shrouded cliffs of England's fabled moors. ln the formof a hellish hound, it feeds upon ...
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Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection
»rank: 16143
0ur opinion:Description:A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell's extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman-his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult. Reviled by critics upon its initial release for its deeply unsettling subject matter, the film has since been hailed as a masterpiece. :Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 196O psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, ...
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The Naked Truth
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0ur opinion: :Celebrities hate them politicians fear them and athletes despise them the tabloids! Starring comic genius Peter Sellers this 'hilarious satire' (The Film Daily) proves that victims of slander can get their sweet revenge. Full of 'high levity' (Cue) The Naked Truth is nothing short of an 'attack on the funny bone' (Variety)!The publisher of The Naked Truth (Dennis Price) has been blackmailing prominent Londoners by threatening to print shocking stories about ...
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