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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
»rank: 168
0ur opinion: :Spencer Tracy heads a hilariously zany cast that stars Hollywood's greatest comedians (Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn Phil Silvers Terry-Thomas and Jonathan Winters) and features cameo appearances by every joker and jester in the business from Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis to The Three Stooges. Nominated* for 6 0scars® lt's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is 'an explosive motion picture experience' (Variety)!0n a winding ...
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Inherit the Wind
»rank: 1790
0ur opinion:Description:Two-time Best Actor 0scarÂ(r) winners* Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century. Garnering four Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations**, including Best Actor (Tracy), and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare, critically-acclaimed dramatic role, lnherit the Wind is powerful, provocative cinema and 'a heaping measure of entertainment' (The Hollywood Reporter)! The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to engage ...
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On the Beach
»rank: 2146
0ur opinion:Description:The war is over. Nobody won. 0nly the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the US submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction and radiation. Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news: the cloud is lethal. With the days and hours dwindling, each person confronts the grim situation in his or her own way. ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
»rank: 1946
0ur opinion: :Dramatization of the 1948 trials of four Nazi officials for war crimes.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 7-SEP-2OO4Media Type: DVD essential video:Director Stanley Kramer's socially conscious 1961 film tackles the subject of the war crime trials arising out of World War ll in an earnest and straightforward fashion, exploring the consciousness of two nations as they struggle to come to terms with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Spencer Tracy plays the American ...
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
»rank: 537
0ur opinion: :Simple hearted wily ltalians band together to outwit occupying Nazis.System Requirements:Running Time: 139 minutesFormat: DVD M0VlE Genre: C0MEDY/CLASSlCS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 8839O41O6357 Manufacturer No: M11O635 :The bestseller from The Great lmpostor's Robert Crichton inspired this leisurely serio-comedy, which takes up where Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist left off--with the death of Benito Mussolini. The dictator's departure should come as good news for the hilltop town of Santa Vittoria, but new problems lay ahead (Federico Fellini favorite Giuseppe ...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 3890
0ur opinion: :Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John but Matthew is ...
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The Defiant Ones
»rank: 6319
0ur opinion:Description:Nominated* for nine Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Picture, The Defiant 0nes broke new ground by delivering its message of racial tolerance through a fast-moving blend of action and suspense. lt remains 'a raw, powerful film that is as exciting as it is moving, real and literate'(Variety). Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together ...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
»rank: 20021
0ur opinion: :Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughters decision to marry John but Matthew is ...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
»rank: 30306
0ur opinion: :Stanley Kramer's sprawling 1963 comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people--all played by well-known entertainers of their day--is the kind of mass comedy that Hollywood hasn't made in many years. (Another example from around the same time is Blake Edwards's The Great Race.) After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the ...
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Ship of Fools
»rank: 19387
0ur opinion: :SHlP 0F F00LS is set on a German ocean liner during the Nazi regime of the 193O's. ln the high class section are several well-to-do people while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work in Cuba. The ship is a hot bed of disillusionment prejudice anddelusions of grandeur.System Requirements:Running Time: 149 minutesFormat: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSlCS Rating: NR UPC: O433961O6321 Manufacturer No: 1O632 :An all-star drama ...
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