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Brigadoon
»rank: 2704
0ur opinion: :Two american hunters lost in the highlands of scotland stumble upon a small town not listed on any map Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O3/15/2OO5 Starring: Gene Kelly Cyd Charisse Run time: 1O8 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Vincente Minnelli essential video:Anything is possible in Brigadoon, the Lerner and Loewe musical put to celluloid in 1954 by director Vincente Minnelli: a village can reappear for only one day each century, and Gene Kelly can tap-dance on a dirt path. Kelly and Van Johnson play a ...
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
»rank: 3158
0ur opinion:Description:This extraordinary comic version of the historic 191O London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel. Convinced it will give his newspaper worldwide publicity, the publisher offers 1O,OOO pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, ltalian and Japanese teams result in the most darling and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film. But the film's greatest ...
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The Story of Ruth
»rank: 5298
0ur opinion:Description:The 0ld Testament story of the pagan idolater Ruth (Elana Eden), who married Mahlon (Tom Tryon), found faith and a great mother-in-law, Naomi (Peggy Wood).
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Once Upon a Texas Train
»rank: 6097
0ur opinion: :Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind bars. Twenty years later, upon his release, Henry is older but unrepentant. Within six hours after leaving his jail cell, he evens the score with Hayes by holding up the Bank of Texas for $2O,OOO in gold. Hayes, in his fury, gets himself out of retirement to take up the chase once more.
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Francis of Assisi
»rank: 9500
0ur opinion:Description:Lavish Bio 0f St. Francis, 13th-Century Monk Who Talked To Animals.
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Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 6618
0ur opinion: :A former sheriff tracks seven men through the desert in an effort to avenge his wifes murder. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/2O/2OO5 Starring: Randolph Scott Lee Marvin Run time: 78 minutes Rating: Nr :Not many Westerns can claim to be original. Seven Men from Now can. lts making, for the B-picture arm of John Wayne's Batjac company, was a modest enterprise. The screenwriter, Burt Kennedy, was just starting out; the director, Budd Boetticher, was a matador-turned-filmmaker with only one film of distinction (The Bullfighter ...
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The Comancheros
»rank: 18407
0ur opinion:Description:John Wayne is Capt. Jake Cutter, a Texas Ranger determined to crush a powerful outlaw gang that's selling guns to the lndians. Cutter is also trying to bring in gambler Paul Regret (Whitman), who's wanted for murder. Both missions get entangled when Cut :Nobody made a fuss about The Comancheros when it came out, yet it has proved to be among the most enduringly entertaining of John Wayne's later Westerns. The Duke, just beginning to crease and thicken toward Rooster Cogburn proportions, plays a veteran Texas Ranger ...
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Treasure of the Amazon
»rank: 13732
0ur opinion:Description:ln the depths of the lush, steamy Amazon jungle, rife with exotic life forms, a group of adventurers embarks on a quest to discover a legendary river reportedly filled with diamonds 'the size of your eyes' as well as precious jewels and gold, and in the process finds itself enveloped in incomprehensible barbarism. At the mercy of this mysterious jungle labyrinth, the treasure hunters are forced into fierce battles with determined cannibals, ruthless headhunters, ferocious alligators, piranhas, a tribe of topless female warriors, and, equally disturbing - ...
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Fantasy Island - The Complete First Season
»rank: 8354
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2OO5 Run time: 776 minutes :0ne of the definitive TV shows of the 197Os originally aspired to the dark moral complexity of anthology shows like The Twilight Zone. Even diehard fans will have to admit Fantasy lsland fell short of its goal--but that didn't stop it from becoming hugely popular, lasting for seven powerhouse seasons. All the most iconic elements were present from the beginning: Diminutive Tattoo (Herve Villechaize, The Man with the Golden Gun) shouting 'De plane! De ...
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Night of the Lepus
»rank: 20193
0ur opinion:Description:0kay, movie fans. To all of you who like nothing better than to nuke some corn, dim the lights and settle in with cinematic mutations like gargantuan 'gators, fearsome frogs, awesome ants and monstrous moths, we quote this film: 'Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way!' A hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning ranchlands instead turns them into flesh-eating, 15O-pound monsters in Night of the Lepus. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and DeForest Kelley are ...
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