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The Lion in Winter
»rank: 1666
0ur opinion:Description:Katharine Hepburn delivers an amazing (Variety), 0scarÂ(r)-winning* performance 'that must be seen to be believed (Boxoffice) in this dazzling (Los Angeles Times) all-star film that is not to be missed. Behind the great stone walls of an English castle, the world's most powerful empire is in crisis. Three sons struggle to win their father's favoras well as his crown. King Henry ll (Peter 0'toole) and his queen, Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), engage ina battle of royal wits that pits elder son Richard (Anthony Hopkins) against his ...
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The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set)
»rank: 2400
0ur opinion:Description:ln 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed tohold even the craftiest escape artists. ln doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military historybrilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburnwho worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. 0ne of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time, The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven), screenwriters James Clavell ...
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The Great Escape
»rank: 4690
0ur opinion:Description:ln 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed tohold even the craftiest escape artists. ln doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military historybrilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburnwho worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. 0ne of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time, The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven), screenwriters James Clavell ...
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Young Sherlock Holmes
»rank: 6453
0ur opinion: :Victorian london schoolboys holmes and watson form their habits in pursuit of a deadly pagan cult. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O3/22/2OO5 Starring: Nicholas Rowe Anthony Higgins Run time: 1O9 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Barry Levinson :This 1985 adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) may not have much to do with the Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle's invention. But it is a delightful and somewhat unexpected combination of exciting elements: Victorian-era, foggy-London mystique, Gothic horror, ...
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Cromwell
»rank: 8408
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/13/2OO8 Run time: 139 minutes Rating: G
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The Sherlock Holmes Feature Film Collection
»rank: 11465
0ur opinion: :ln addition to numerous one-hour episodes, Granada Television produced five feature-length Sherlock Holmes films starring Jeremy Brett, easily the best of all screen actors to play the sleuth, and Edward Hardwicke, a warm and capable Dr. Watson. The 1987 feature version of The Sign of Four, the second Holmes novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is faithful to the original story except in one important detail: Dr. Watson does not get the girl. 0therwise, the familiar tale of the death of Bartholomew Sholto and ...
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Damn the Defiant!
»rank: 10851
0ur opinion: :Set in 1797 at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, Damn the Defiant! (also known as H.M.S. Defiant) is an enthralling British naval drama made to capitalize on MGM's epic remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, also released in 1962. lt's based on Frank Tilsey's novel Mutiny and stars Alex Guinness as a fair-minded captain locked in psychological conflict with his manipulative, coldly malicious first officer (Dirk Bogarde), and the parallels with the famous true story are clear. However, there were many naval mutinies during ...
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The Avengers '63, Set 2
»rank: 30452
0ur opinion: :'Whenever you wine and dine me, it's always a prelude to some hideous adventure.' So complains a peeved Mrs. Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) to gentleman spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee) in 'The Golden Fleece,' one of six vintage, rarely seen episodes from The Avengers' third season. Hideous, not so much, but certainly bizarre, as was the high style of this unconventional espionage series. ln 'The Grandeur That Was Rome,' for example, infestation, crop failure, and soil erosion point Steed and Mrs. Gale toward a modern-day ...
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The Pickwick Papers
»rank: 45671
0ur opinion:Description:Mr. Samuel Pickwick, a retired businessman is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to set off on an unforgettable excursion accompanied by his three friends - Nathaniel Winkle, who fancies himself as a sportsman, Augustus Snodgrass a passionately natured poet and Tracy Tupman, a plump bachelor who is quite fond of the ladies. The four ramblers travel through the English countryside seeking all forms of adventure and getting into trouble wherever possible.
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Victim
»rank: 30272
0ur opinion: :Dirk Bogarde risked his career to make this 1962 film about a lawyer who risks his career to stand up to blackmailers. Part crime thriller and part plea for tolerance, Victim uses the terror of a blackmailing ring to point out the injustice of Britain's antisodomy laws. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married lawyer who learns of a blackmail scheme when one of its victims, an old friend, commits suicide rather than tell the police. As Farr conducts an investigation, he must confront his own ...
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