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1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE
101 DALMATIANS
39 STEPS
40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN 2005
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1960
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Set in 1960, the film begins with a series of unsolved murders in a Berlin hotel.
The modus operandi of the murderer is the same as that of long-dead
megalomaniac Dr. Mabuse. Police detective Gert Frobe and amateur sleuths
Peter Van Eyck and Dawn Addams suspect that the killer is a man who
believes that he is the reincarnation of Mabuse. Could the culprit be secretive
insurance salesman Werner Peters, or blind seer Wolfgang Preiss? The title
refers to the hotel's sophisticated TV surveillance system--dozens of roving
cameras and TV monitors, inspired (claimed Lang) by a sophisticated bugging
method used by the Nazis during World War II.
A lovable litter of puppies, a chanting London setting and animation's most
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flamboyant villainess all add upt to one of Disney's all-time greatest classics!
This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international HITCHCOCK, ALFRED
successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements
that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a
Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall performance by
"Mr. Memory" (Wylie Watson); in the midst of the show, shots ring out and
Richard flees the theater. Moments later, a terrified woman (Lucie Mannheim)
begs Richard to help her; back at his room, she tells him that she's a British spy
whose life has been threatened by international agents waiting outside. Richard
is certain that she's mad until she reappears at his door in the morning, near
death with a knife in her back, a map in her hand, and muttering something
about "39 Steps." Discovering that a group of thugs are indeed waiting outside,
Richard slips away and takes the first train to the Scottish town on the dead
woman's map. Richard learns that he's now wanted by the police for murder,
and he must find a way to clear his name. He begins trying to do so with the
help of a woman he meets en route, Pamela (Madeleine Carroll), who serves
as his unwitting assistant, even after she tries to turn him in.
Andy Stitzer (Carell) is a cheerfully geeky guy who is settling into middle age
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with his large collection of comic books, action figures, and collectable models.
Andy works in an electronics store, and seems reasonably happy with his life.
However, one day his friends and co-workers David (Paul Rudd), Jay (Romany
Malco), and Cal (Seth Rogen) discover that Andy has a secret -- due to his
rather severe jitters around women, Andy is still a virgin. Andy's pals are
appalled at this state of affairs, and set out to find a woman who'd be willing to
get horizontal with him. After a number of disastrous dates, everyone thinks
Andy has finally struck gold when he meets Trish (Catherine Keener), an
attractive single mother who takes an immediate liking to him. What the other
guys don't know is that Trish has just gotten out of a bad relationship, and has
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informed Andy she isn't ready to be intimate with him just yet.
Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the
turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of the big cattle drives out of
Texas. The town is growing faster than a lot of citizens are prepared to deal
with it, especially as homesteaders start moving in, fighting for space with the
cattlemen. Dan has kept the peace, such as it is, by keeping the saloons,
gambling, and guns on one side of Main Street and the shop-owners, farmers,
women, and children on the other. He's also been walking a tightrope in his
own life, conducting a sometimes turbulent romance with Rita (Ann Dvorak), a
saloon singer and co-owner, while also not discouraging the attentions of
Sherry Balder (Rhonda Fleming), the "nice girl" daughter of one of the town's
leading businessmen, who would love to marry Dan if only he would settle
down. A new wave of homesteaders is arriving, and the cattlemen, cowboys,
and saloon owners want them driven out and the town kept wide open, fearing
the homesteaders' religious beliefs and the arrival of families, which means
schools, building, and encroaching "respectability." Trouble breaks out and
people are killed, with Dan caught in the middle. Using his guile and a good
deal of bravery, and the unwitting help from the cowardly county sheriff (Edgar
Buchanan), Dan manages to get the shop owners onto the side of the
homesteaders, and plays a dangerous game of divide-and-conquer with the
saloon-keepers and cowboys. A lot of destruction ensues and a seeming
bloodbath is in the offing until Dan's plan takes hold, and the cowboys and
saloon-keepers wipe each other out in a night of burning and killing. In the
course of his trying to stay alive, Dan is able to finally decide whether he
belongs more with Fleming or Dvorak, and, astonishingly for a Western of this
era, chooses the latter.
In Absolution, that establishment is the Catholic Boys School where Richard
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Burton teaches and dotes on one student (Dominic Guard) to an uncomfortable
degree. That pagan force shows up as a bearded, Scottish drifter and theif
(comedian Billy Connolly) who camps out in the countryside outside the school
and ends up befriending Guard and leading the youth away from Burton and
religion in general. Eventually, under Connolly's suggestion, Guard starts to tell
Burton elaborate stories of sin during confession -- tormenting the priest with
information that, as a priest, Burton is not allowed to share with anyone else.
Eventually, what started as a joke spirals out of control into a vortex of murder,
madness, and a surprise ending that comes out of nowhere but remains a lot of
fun nonetheless.
Inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles Addams
New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family proved to be one of the more
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ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK
HOLMES 1939
ADVENTURES OF WINNIE POOH
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AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT PROBLEM AT SEA
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ALGIERS 1938
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successful of the TV shows-cum-movies of the 1990s. In their usual againstthe-grain fashion, the Addams Family seems to delight in the possibility that
they're being hoodwinked-indeed, not even kidnapping or death threats
dampen the Addams clan's joy of living (or should we say dying?). Rated PG
Moriarty plots to steal the Crown Jewels, and also to confound Holmes by
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obliging the Great Detective to be in two places at once. Ida Lupino costars as
an imperiled young woman who is seemingly plagued by an ancient family
curse--a plot development that has been carefully stage-managed by the
malevolent Moriarty.
JOURNEY THROUGH THE 100 ACRE WOOD WITH THAT HUGGABLE
BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN FOR A WONDERFUL TIME-FILLED WITH
ADVENTURES, THOUGHTFUL SPOTS AND HONEY POTS!
THE AFFAIR is a lovely made-for-television movie that pairs real-life couple
Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. Wood gives a very authentic performance
as Courtney Patterson, a singer-songwriter afflicted with polio, who falls in love
with a handsome young lawyer (Wagner).
Robin Williams's dizzying and hilarious voicing of the Genie is the main
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attraction of Aladdin. Aladdin begins his quest to defeat Jafar and win the hand
of the princess, with the Genie's help. Monsters, Disney's trademark talking
animals, and a flying carpet all figure into the ensuing adventures, but Williams'
Genie, who can change into anything or anybody, steals the show as he
launches into one crazed monologue after another, impersonating figures from
Ed Sullivan to Elvis Presley.
star Charles Boyer never says "Come wizz me to zee Casbah"; as master
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criminal Pepe le Moko, he's already in the Casbah, a crook-controlled safe
harbor which protects Pepe from the French authorities. Pepe's friendly enemy,
police inspector Joseph Calleia, treats his pursuit of Pepe like a chess game,
patiently waiting for his opponent to make that one wrong move. The evercareful Pepe has the misfortune to fall hopelessly in love with tourist Hedy
Lamarr (in her first American film). A combination of events, including the
betrayal of Pepe by his castaway lover Sigrid Gurie and Hedy's tearful return to
her ship when she is misinformed that Pepe is killed, lures the hero/villain into
the open. Arrested by Calleia, Pepe begs for one last glance at his departing
sweetheart. Algiers contrives to have Pepe shot while trying to escape.
A blend of fantasy, animation and music based on Lewis Carroll's immortal
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story.
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ALIEN
AMAZING ADVENTURE
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"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind
becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley
Scott's sci-fi/horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company,
the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother
computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas (Tom
Skerritt)'s rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even
stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to
Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science
officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus
detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from
Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting
Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has
a protector in the nefarious Company. RATED R.
The "Amazing Adventure" is an okay film, but unless you are a HUGE fan of
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Cary Grant, you can be satisfied by a better, more famous film of his.In this
picture, however, Cary Grant plays a rich man who makes a bet that he can live
without money for an unusual amount of time and make a living completely on
his own, which previous to this time, he had never done. Once again, only if
you love Cary Grant films should you pick this one up.
Part of the In Search Of series, this documentary explores the life and
mysterious death of female aviator Amelia Earhart. In the first part of the 20th
century, Earhart discovered a love of flying. In 1922, she bought her first plane,
and in 1928, made her first historic flight as a passenger across the Atlantic,
becoming the first woman to do so. In 1932, she made her second solo historic
flight, by crossing the Atlantic once again. In 1935, she flew from Hawaii to
California alone and by 1937 wanted to attempt a worldwide excursion. Along
with a navigator, Earhart set out on her world trek and after two-thirds of the
trip, the plane vanished mysteriously. This video, narrated by series host
Leonard Nimoy, uses newsreel footage of Earhart's flights and interviews,
along with coverage of the U.S. Navy's search for the plane and the pilots.
Provides a detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a
generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and
foreign policy issues
Set during the Reconstruction period, the film stars Richard Dix and Preston S.
Foster as Dan Taylor and Paxton Bryce, two longtime friends seeking their
fortune in postwar Texas. With the considerable assistance of Dan's sister and
Paxton's wife Abby (Frances Gifford), the two comrades establish a thriving
cattle business. Alas, Paxton is seized with the ambition to become a emperor
in his own domain, thereby alienating himself from Dan and Abby. Only through
a profound personal tragedy does Paxton come back to his senses.
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Based on Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel American Psycho, this film tells BALE, CHRISTIAN
the story of an 80's yuppie named Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale)
who works on Wall Street by day and kills people by night. Like the often
misunderstood novel, the film is more of a dark social comedy than a real
horror story. Bateman dresses and talks like all the other wealthy, young Wall
Street crowd, and thus mistaken identity plays a big part in his getting away
with gruesome murders again and again. Bateman's own grip on reality begins
to blur over time and at various times throughout the movie it's quite obvious
that Patrick's view of reality is a sick, homicidal dream of endless torture and
killing. Even when Bateman confesses at one point, no one listens or seems to
care. Everyone has their own agenda and the main concern of Bateman's
friends is which extravagant restaurant to dine at next, or getting the latest and
greatest business card to impress one another.
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1945
Detailed visual and oral account of the ar that changed a generation and
continues to color American thinking on many military and foreign policy issues.
Ten strangers gather for a mysterious gathering on a secluded island. It turns
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out to be a farewell party, for they all have been sentenced to die for crimes in
their past by a self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner who may be one of
them. One by one, the guests are systematically dispatched in the manner
described in the lyrics of the children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians," while the
survivors nervously eye one another, splintering into tenuous alliances until the
next murder throws suspicion on someone new. The terrific cast of character
actors has a ball with Dudley Nichols's witty script. The flamboyant sparring of
Barry Fitzgerald (whose paternal Irish lilt takes a sinister dimension) and Walter
Huston is almost upstaged by Roland Young's deadpan drollery. Romantic
leads Louis Hayward and June Duprez come off as arch and stiff in august
company that includes a sinisterly detached Judith Anderson, a dotty and
distracted C. Aubrey Smith, and a hilariously flippant Mischa Auer.
Based on the classic novel by mystery author Agatha Christie that was later
adapted as the Broadway hit Ten Little Indians , And Then There Were None
begins with ten characters, each with a skeleton in his or her closet, on a
remote island off the English coast. They soon realize that they have been
brought there by an insane judge, who has tried each of them for criminal
behavior in the past, and who now feels it is his duty to render proper justice for
each. The struggle to stay alive begins as each "guest" is stalked and murdered
in a fashion suitable to the crime he or she committed in the past. Barry
Fitzgerald is the judge, while Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, and C. Aubrey
Smith are among those marked for death. The film's ending differs from that of
the novel.
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ANDY GRIFFITH "OPIE'S CHARITY"
ANDY GRIFFITH "RUN AWAY KID"
ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW "THE
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ANDY GRIFFITH-GUITAR PLAYER
ANDY GRIFFITH-THE NEW
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ANGEL AND THE BADMAN
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Wounded desperado Quirt Evans (John Wayne) is taken in by a Quaker family.
Their comely daughter (Gail Russell) soon falls in love with him and she begs
him to retire from gun fighting and marry her. But can he escape his past?
Paul Muni managed to look anguished even when playing comedy, and Angel
on My Shoulder is no exception. Muni has every right to be uncomfortable; a
recently murdered gangster, he finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe
that he's in for All Eternity and keeps trying to "bust out," which brings him to
the attention of the Head Man (Claude Rains), who calls himself Nick. Nick
strikes a bargain with Muni: There's a troublesome honest judge on Earth who's
been shipping too many souls to Hell; if Muni will take over the judge's body
and begin performing bad deeds, Nick will set him free. Muni readily agrees,
eager to settle the score with the ex-partner (Hardie Albright) who bumped him
off. Once he "becomes" the judge, however, Muni discovers that he is utterly
incapable of performing any misdeeds--and when he falls in love with the
judge's fiancee (Anne Baxter), Muni becomes determined to wriggle out of his
agreement. Angel on My Shoulder is a dexterously clever comedy/fantasy,
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The British animation firm of John Halas and Joy Batchelor perform yeoman
service in adapting George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm to the
screen. As any high-school English student can tell you,the original 1945 novel
was Orwell's spin on the rise and fall of the Communist myth. A group of
intelligent animals overthrow their corrupt human owner and set up their own
self-sustained farm, predicated on an idealistic credo: "All Animals are Created
Equal", "No Animal Shall Ever Drink Liquor", "Four Legs Good: Two Legs Bad"
etc. But when Snowball the Pig (read: Trotsky) is overthrown by the despotic
Napoleon (read: Stalin), all idealism goes out the window, and soon the pigs
are ruling dictatorially over the other animals. Before long, Animal Farm
operates on but one principle: "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are
More Equal Than Others." Orwell's ironic ending, in which it becomes
impossible to tell the difference between the Pigs and the Humans, is blunted in
favor of a grafted-on happy ending, perhaps to mollify the kiddie trade.
This 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was produced in England LEIGH, VIVIEN
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ANNE OF AVONLEA
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
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by Alexander Korda, and released in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Vivien Leigh
plays the title role, a 19th-century Russian gentlewoman married to Czarist
official Ralph Richardson. Though her marriage is not intolerable, Anna is
swept off her feet by dashing young military officer Vronsky, played by Kieron
Moore. The ensuing scandal ruins Anna's status in society.
As an independent young woman with high hopes and dreams, Anne gains
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new insights about love, friendship and ways of the world.
The provocative life drama of Annie Shirley, an endearing orphan, from her
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struggles as a adolescent to her triumphs as a young woman.
Antz begins with worker ant Z discussing his feelings of insignificance with a
shrink (voice of Paul Mazursky) before heading off to his tunnel-digging job,
work supervised by General Mandible (Gene Hackman) and Colonel Cutter
(Christopher Walken). Mandible has big dreams of conquest, and he convinces
the Queen (Anne Bancroft) an attack is necessary to prevent a termite invasion.
Her daughter is Princess Bala (Sharon Stone), who's not overly enchanted by
her engagement to Mandible. The Princess goes slumming, visiting the bar
where Z hangs out with his friend Weaver (Sylvester Stallone). To the tune of
"Guantanamera," Bala dances with Z -- in a scene with allusions to the dance in
Pulp Fiction (1994). Entranced by the encounter, Z convinces Weaver to swap
places, so a military parade will allow him to see Bala in the reviewing stand.
Befriended by soldier ant Barbatus (Danny Glover) during the parade, Z
nervously realizes he's actually marching into battle. Attacked by termites, the
troops experience horrors highly reminiscent of the Starship Troopers (1997)
bug battles. The dying Barbatus tells Z, "Don't follow orders all your life." As the
only survivor of the slaughter, Z returns home a war hero. Threatened by
Mandible, Bala and Z are thrown together in a journey into the outside world,
and they travel toward the legendary Insectopia.
"Houston, we've got a problem." Those words were immortalized during the
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tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis, and the suspense, fear, and
excitement of those days are captured in Ron Howard's epic recreation of the
1970 crisis. Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) leads command module pilot
Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and lunar module driver Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) on
NASA's fifth lunar landing mission after the original commander, Ken Mattingly
(Gary Sinise), bows out due to possible exposure to measles. All goes
smoothly until the craft is halfway through its mission, when an exploding
oxygen tank threatens the crew's oxygen and power supplies. As the
courageous astronauts face the dilemma of either suffocating or freezing to
death, Mattingly and Mission Control leader Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) struggle to
find a way to bring the crew back home, all the while knowing that the
spacemen face probable death once the battered ship re-enters the Earth's
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atmosphere. Even though the outcome, in which all three astronauts
miraculously survived, is historical fact, the film derives suspense from the
situation itself and from the actions of the heroic astronauts and the men on the
ground. Howard's taut direction, a solid ensemble of players, and eye-opening
special effects all add to the overall impact of the film, which has been hailed as
one of Hollywood's best historical dramas.
APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY
Duddy Kravitz (played by Richard Dreyfuss) fits the bill as a typical
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entrepreneur. Set in Montreal in 1948, Duddy Kravitz knows that he is going to
be successful, just not at what. However, a chance opportunity during a picnic
with his girlfriend Yvette (played by the beautiful Micheline Lanctot) gave him is
dream and set in motion a series of events and necessities that allowed him to
achieve his dream, but with some costs
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In this thriller, Elizabeth (Joanna Pacula) is married to Cole (Michael Moriarty),
a wealthy man who allows her to live a life of luxury. However, Elizabeth isn't
happy with Cole, and she falls into an affair with the young and handsome Tony
(Boyd Kestner). Elizabeth's double life is threatened when a blackmailer named
Willie (Peter Onorati) approaches her with photographic evidence of her
infidelity, and soon Elizabeth finds herself up to her ears in danger and
deception as she tries to satisfy Willie's demands while keeping her dalliances
a secret from her husband.
ART OF WAR
A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn't exist now must prove
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that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the
assassination of Wu (James Hong), China's ambassador to the United Nations,
in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley
Snipes) is assigned to ferret out the killer by his superior, Eleanor Hooks (Anne
Archer). But Shaw soon discovers that he's now considered a key suspect in
the murder, and is the subject of a manhunt. Shaw's ability to cover his tracks,
and his network of similarly "invisible" agents, makes him a hard man to track
down. But when Shaw learns that the real killers not only plan to strike again
but intend to take out most of the U.N. in the process, he swings into action to
prevent the attack and clear his name; Shaw is thrown into a partnership with
Julia (Marie Matiko), a U.N. interpreter who witnessed Wu's murder and may be
able to trace a recording of the crime.
ARTHUR MAKES THE TEAM/MEEK It's baseball season, and Arthur and the gang all sign up to play. Coach
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Frensky's challenge is to work with a team where everyone wants to pitch--and
no one knows the meaning of the word "teamwork."/Muffy bets Francine that
she can't be nice to everyone for a whole week. Francine has to keep the bet a
secret. The trouble is, the gang begins to worry that Francine isn't herself.
ARTHUR WRITES A STORY/LOCK IN Struggling with a school writing assegnment, Arthur decides that all he needs is
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a little imagination to make his life sound more interesting than it really is. But
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he crosses the line when the story of how he got his puppy starts to involve
invisible elephants and trips to outer space./If only Arthur hadn't called Francine
a marshmallow! Now they're locked inside the Elmwood City Library together,
and they either have to make up or face the long, scary night alone.
Arthur is not so sure he's ready for a new baby in the house. As the months
flyby, Arthur imagines how his life is about to change--and it isn't a pretty
picture. When the baby finally does arrive, it seems as if she doesn't like Arthur
very much either--or does she. Living with a baby is no picnic. No one ever told
D.W. that babies cry all the time, throw up on your clothes, and get all the
attention. Just how long will Baby Kate hang around, anyway?
The circus is in town and the whole family is excited. Dad gets the tickets,
Mom gets film forthe camera, and Arthur gets chicken pox! D.W. is jealous of
all the attention he is getting. But will Arthur recover in time for the
circus?/Despite their differences, Muffy and Francine are absolute best friends.
It seems nothing can come between them--until Muffy cheats on a math test
and lets Francine take the blame.
For some reason, Arthur isn't doing very well in school anymore. Maybe he just
needs glasses. Problem is, he doesn't want to be seen wearing them. Don't
look now, but it appears as if Arthur's started a trend!/It's school picture day,
and Muffy has been working some magic on her best friend. Is that really
francine in a dress? Or is it some curly-harired look-alike?
When D.W. finds out she's not part of the sleepover, she gets angry and
decides to have some fun of her own--with the help of somefriendly aliens. But
who will have the last laugh--Arthur and his friends, D.W., or the
"aliens?"/Arthur is the only one who believes in the superior intelligence of his
dog, Pal. But even Arthur doesn't understand when Pal runs away. Is Pal
unhappy at home--or does his disappearance have something to do with Baby
Kate's hysterics?
Arthur was the first to take out the new Scar-Your-Pants-Off book rom the
library. A week later, he can't seem to figure out where he put it. Something's
weird. It couldn't have just walked off! Or could it?Someone only D.W. can has
moved in with the Reads. Her name is Nadine, and she follows D.W.
everywhere. But when D.W. insists on bringing Nadine tot he amusement park,
Arthur flips out. Must he be embarrassed by D.W. in front of all of his friends?
Arthur's new puppy, Pal, is exactly what he wanted. He's cute and he follow
Arthur everywhere. But training Pal is a lot harder than Arthur thought. Can he
teach Pal to behave--or will he have to say good-bye to him forever? Buster
and Arthur are excitedabout the class fossil-hunting field trip. On his own,
Buster discovers a very interesting bone. Is it the remains of a dinosaur--or
someone's leftover dinner?
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ARTHUR'S PET BUSINESS
Arthur wants a puppy, but his parents think that he's not responsible enough
yet. So Arthur comes up with a plan -- he's going to run a pet sitting business -to prove that he's ready to take care of a pet of his own. Of course, things get
out of hand, but with a little help from D.W., Arthur is able to get things back
under control. If you ever wondered how Arthur's puppy Pal joined the aardvark
family, don't miss this video. Bonus episode: D.W. the Copycat.
ARTHUR'S TEACHER
It's the first day of third grade, and Arthur's biggest fear has come true. His new
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teacher is the dreaded Mr. Ratburn--a man who is rumored to eat nails for
breakfast, to turn into a vampire at night, and to give homework every day. It's
that time again--the annual all-school Spell-a-thon. Arthur, prunella, and the
Brain have been choosen to compete. If that doesn't spell trouble, what does?
ARTHUR'S TOOTH/SICK AS A DOG Everyone in the class has lost a toth except Arthur. When he finally has a
loose tooth, he tries everything to get it out, but it won't budge. And to make
things worse, Francine just won't quit teasing him about it! Will Arthur have to
go through life with a mouthful of baby teeth?/Arthur's dog, Pal, is sick and has
to spend the night at the vet's. Arthur is sure it's D.W.'s fault. Or could it be the
hot dogs and Halloween candy Arthur's been feeding him?
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This film version of the famed Shakespearean comedy features Laurence
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as a boy to more easily remain in Orlando's vicinity. Eventually Orlando grows
to like his new friend and Rosalind is stuck playing a boy with a boy with whom
she'd rather be a girl.
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis share their first star billing in this song- and gag- LEWIS, JERRY
filled farce. At the Stateside military base where Dean's a staff sergeant and
Jerry's a mess cook, the two pals find themselves constantly in trouble with a
loudmouth drill inspector, a conniving supply sergeant and a hen-pecked
captain.
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Nova Video Library: B-29 Frozen in Time follows Darryl Greenamyer and his
crew as they try to retrieve an almost intact B-29 from the Arctic Circle. The
airplane crash-landed nearly 50 years earlier during a secret mission for the
United States. The pilots survived the crash and were rescued, but the B-29
was left in the harsh and unforgiving climate 250 miles north of Thule,
Greenland. Greenamyer, a former test pilot who set a low-altitude speed record
in a jet he built from spare parts, believes that he can actually fly the plane after
performing some maintenance and building a short runway. He flies in parts for
the B-29 and a massive bulldozer to clear the runway, but every takeoff is
dangerous in these conditions, and he and his crew have a short window for
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success due to the brief summer. Greenamyer also faces a limited budget and
other difficult hurdles as they try to resurrect a piece of history and fly it home.
A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected
international success due to superior special effects and an intelligent script.
The title refers to the name bestowed on a piglet soon after his separation from
his family, when he finds himself on a strange farm. Confused and sad, Babe is
adopted by a friendly dog and slowly adjusts to his new home. Discovering that
the fate of most pigs is the dinner table, Babe devotes himself to becoming a
useful member of the farm by trying to learn how to herd sheep, despite the
skepticism of the other animals and the kindly but conventional Farmer Hoggett
(James Cromwell). Because technically impeccable animatronics and computer
graphics allow the farm animals to converse easily among themselves, firsttime director Chris Noonan can treat the film's menagerie as actual characters,
playing scene not for cuteness but for real emotions. The result is often
surprisingly touching, with Noonan and George Miller's script, based on Dick
King-Smith's children's book and, indirectly, a true story, seamlessly combining
gentle whimsy and sincere feeling. These same qualities are embodied by in
Cromwell's beautifully understated performance as Farmer Hoggett, which
anchors the film.
A Mexican revolutionary offers four marauding outlaws a million bucks to
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destroy an arsenal owned by the Mexican army. The arsenal gets blasted, but
the million bucks doesn't get delivered in this "outsmart the outsmarters" and
"double-cross the double-crossers" western saga.
This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office
despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking
opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star
bound with a white Hermes scarf by an unidentified blond woman. This
seeming paradox is at the heart of the film's appeal, as it mixes perverse
sexuality and erotic bloodshed in a manner common to European thrillers.The
plot concerns Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a successful bisexual mystery
writer who may also be a ruthless murderer. Everyone close to Catherine dies,
and troubled policeman Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) must find out why. In
the process, Nick becomes sexually involved with both Catherine and police
psychiatrist Beth Gardner (Jeanne Tripplehorn), while the bodies begin piling
up and Catherine turns the cat-and-mouse game around on Nick.
The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of
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wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment to
improving the lives of the citizens of crime-ridden Gotham City. After his mother
and father are murdered by a mugger, however, Wayne grows into an impudent
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young man (Christian Bale), full of rage and bent on retribution until
encouraged by his childhood sweetheart, Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes), to
search for answers beyond his own personal vendettas. Wayne eventually finds
discipline in the Far East under the tutelage of Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson), a
member of the mysterious League of Shadows who guides him in the study of
martial arts -- and the ways in which an ordinary man can hone his senses to
an almost superhuman acuity. After seven years away from Gotham, Wayne
returns, determined to bring peace and safety back to the city. With the help of
his faithful manservant, Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine), and Lucius Fox
(Morgan Freeman), a scientist at his late father's corporation, Wayne develops
a secret identity as Batman, a masked fighter for justice. But when a shady
psychiatrist (Cillian Murphy) joins forces with the criminal underworld,
Battle force: Henry Fonda and Stacey Keach lead an all star cast in this WWII FONDA, HENRY
action adventure filmed in 1976. American forces clash with the Nazis in North
Africa as the fate of the world hangs in the balance!
In December 1944, when Allied forces seemed to have decisively turned the
tide in World War II, the German Army mounted one last major attack, which
became one of the bloodiest battles of the war -- 80,000 American soldiers
died, and German casualties were estimated at twice that figure. American
Experience: The Battle of the Bulge offers a documentary look at this brutal
event, recreating the story with newsreel footage and interviews with survivors
of the battle. David McCullough narrates
Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey share a friendship that survives good times MIDLER, BETTE
and bad, preparing them to face their greatest challenge.
Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying BOGART, HUMPHREY
to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud
Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose
wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming
involved in Bogart's machinations are a prim British married couple (Edward
Underdown and blonde-wigged Jennifer Jones). As a climax to their many
misadventures and double-crosses, the uranium seekers end up facing
extermination by an Arab firing squad. The satirical nature of Beat the Devil
eluded many moviegoers in 1953, and the film was a failure.
The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject
of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as
the brilliant but arrogant professor Nash, who seems guaranteed a rosy future
in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and
makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," taking
him to the brink of international acclaim. When he is recruited by a CIA agent
(Ed Harris) to provide assistance to the military with top-secret code-breaking
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duties, however, the stress of Nash's demanding new covert activities leads to
the shattering of his fragile grip on reality, and he becomes a paranoid
schizophrenic. Battling decades of illness with the loyal Alicia by his side, Nash
is ultimately able to recover his mental health and eventually goes on to
triumphantly win the Nobel Prize. Based loosely on the book of the same name
by Sylvia Nasar,
Beauty and the Beast is widely considered the best animated Disney feature of WALT DISNEY
the studio's 1980s/1990s renewal of the form.The songs are first-class, the tale
is told with sincerity but not sentimentality, and the characters of Belle and the
Beast, complex individuals who defy stereotyping and change over the course
of the story, are more three-dimensional than in most live-action movies. The
eye-popping animation is beautifully rendered, and Beauty And The Beast
certainly deserves its place amongst Disney's animated classics.
Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor
process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort in its own right. Adapted from
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the film stars Miriam Hopkins as
Becky Sharp, a resourceful, totally self-involved young lady who manages to
survive any number of setbacks and deprivations in the years following
Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. In her efforts to advance herself, she manages
to link up with a number of not altogether attractive gentlemen, including the
Marquis of Steyne (Cedric Hardwicke), Joseph Sedley (Nigel Bruce), Rawdon
Crawley (Alan Mowbray), and George Osborne (G. P. Huntley Jr.) She rises to
the pinnacle of British society, only to tumble and fall into the humiliation of
singing for her supper in a cheap back-alley beer hall, but, like her spiritual
sister Scarlet O'Hara, Becky never stays down for long. The film ends on an
ambiguous note, never hinting that Becky will eventually drop her current beau
and settle down to a life of smug piety, as she does in the novel. Begun in 1934
with Lowell Sherman in the director's chair, Becky Sharp was forced to shut
down production when Sherman died; he was replaced by Rouben Mamoulien,
whose unerring eye for cinematic splendor exploited the new color process to
the utmost, especially during the opening Brussels Ball sequence. Until its
recent archival restoration, Becky Sharp was available only in a shortened, twocolor version, which had the negative effect of diminishing the film's strong
points and overemphasizing its weaknesses
Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles WALT DISNEY
Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the
less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely
destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of hidden baggage in
the form of evil veterinarian Dean Jones
A bandit gets more than he bargained for when he wins a night with the
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beautiful Belle Starr (Elsa Martinelli) in a high-stakes poker game.
The Bells of San Angelo was the second Republic Roy Rogers western to be
filmed in the "new" Trucolor process (actually the old Magnacolor process). Set
in the modern west, the story involves a silver-smuggling racket headed by
rotten Rex Gridley (John McGuire). In a novel scripting touch, Roy Rogers
doesn't outwit the villains-and in fact is soundly beaten by the bad guys halfway
through the film.
In this follow-up to director Leo McCarey's Going My Way (1944), Bing Crosby
repeats his Oscar-winning characterization of happy-go-lucky priest Father
O'Malley. The good father is sent to help out financially strapped St. Mary's
Academy, a parochial school presided over by lovely nun Sister Benedict
(Ingrid Bergman). The film is constructed in anecdotal fashion: Nun and priest
gently quarrel over teaching methods; they help patch up the tottering marriage
of William Gargan and Martha Sleeper; Sister Benedict plays baseball and
teaches a student how to box; Father O'Malley softens the heart of the man
who holds the mortgage (Henry Travers) by convincing the poor fellow that he's
only got a few months to live; and the kids of St. Mary's put on a much-revised
stage version of the Nativity, complete with a chorus of "Happy Birthday" on the
occasion of the Immaculate Conception. In the climax, Sister Benedict must go
west to be cured of tuberculosis, but she willingly leaves St. Mary's in the
capable hands of her new friend, Father O'Malley. A huge hit at the box office,
Bells of St. Mary's seemed so fresh and spontaneous back in 1945; nowadays
it looks a little too studied and contrived. But
He plays Tony Petrakis, the cocky but good-hearted son of Greek sponge
fisherman Mike Petrakis (Gilbert Roland), who fishes the area off the Florida
coast. The fiercest rivals of Petrakis and his fellow Greek fishermen are the
English-descended hook-boat fishermen -- led by Thomas Rhys (Richard
Boone) -- who are prepared to kill anyone who intrudes on their established
territory. Tony meets Gwyneth Rhys (Terry Moore), Thomas' daughter. She's
fascinated by this handsome young Greek who doesn't seem afraid to fight
back against men bigger, older, and tougher than he is. The two end up falling
in love, Tony and Gwyneth end up running off together in her hook-boat, with
Arnold and her father in hot pursuit, ready to kill him. Only Thomas Rhys' basic
decency and Tony's bravery manages to get the conflict settled, in a surprising
(and convincing) resolution.
Eddie Murpht portrays a street smart Detroit detective on the trail of a friend's
murder in posh Beverly Hills. Rated R.
More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow)
wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier
fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that
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he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom
Hanks). Still a 13-year-old mentally and emotionally, Josh decides to hide out in
New York City until he can figure out what to do next. He lucks into a job with a
major toy company run by kid-at-heart McMillan (Robert Loggia). By cannily
bringing a child's eye view to McMillan's business, Josh rises to the top-and in
process, he falls in love with fellow employee Susan (Elizabeth Perkins). But
he's still a kid, and he'd like to go back to his own world and own body.
This classic black and white film is an intriguingly original and often humorous
love story about an American pilot who falls in love with an eloquent German
woman during the Berlin airlift. The pilot's cynical buddy, who suffered greatly
at the hands of the Nazis in WWII, tries to dissuade his friend from falling for
this "Kraut" but to no avail. The film contains many insightful and thought
provoking comments on the nature of WWII, the USA, democracy, the
Germans, and love itself.
Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the
most accessible and oft-televised of Kirk Douglas' pictures. Douglas plays an
unscrupulous lumberjack who covets the land owned by a religious sect. All
that's saving him from being the film's main villain is the fact that there's an
even nastier contingent out to claim the sect's territory. His greed tempered by
the love of pious Eve Miller, Douglas turns out to be a good guy after all in the
film's climax.
Edmund O'Brien, the soft, sweaty Everyman of so much early-'50s film noir, is
cast as a sympathetic bigamist in Ida Lupino's 1953 film; a traveling salesman
married to a frigid Joan Fontaine in San Francisco, he lets his loneliness lead
him into a Los Angeles relationship with a hard-boiled waitress (Lupino,
directing herself to one of her definitive damaged-goods performances).
Hollywood's only significant woman filmmaker of the '50s, Lupino scrutinized
and often criticized the sexual stereotypes of her time, and O'Brien is no
moustache-twirling predator but a fundamentally decent man trapped by his
own sense of responsibility. The on-the-fly, location shooting offers a
hyperrealistic, street-level depiction of the seamy side of Los Angeles,
epitomized by the hideous Chinese restaurant in which Lupino works, while
Fontaine is positioned in an artificial soundstage world of penthouses and
boardrooms. Defiantly violating any number of social taboos, The Bigamist is
sensitive, meticulous filmmaking from a neglected master.
With The Mod Squad sweeping the Tuesday night TV ratings in 1968,
producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas hoped to get another multiracial
adventure series on the air A.S.A.P. Carter's Army was the 72-minute pilot for
this project. Set during World War II, the film stars Stephen Boyd as an Army
captain who doesn't exactly dislike African Americans-it's just that he holds no
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special fondness for them. Naturally, Boyd is assigned an all-black company,
and is forced to share his command with lieutenant Robert Hooks. Despite
seething racial tensions, everyone pulls together to destroy an enemy dam.
Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title
character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought that Newton's "Arr, matey"s
got out of hand in Treasure Island, wait til you see this one. The plot concerns
the efforts of the British admirality to bring Blackbeard to justice. To that end,
officer Keith Andes allows himself to be abducted by the pirate's minions. Also
captured by Blackbeard is luscious Linda Darnell, the adopted daughter of
Andes' superior Torin Thatcher. When it turns out that everyone is being
double-crossed by the insidious Thatcher, all Technicolor hell breaks loose.
Set in 1913 Mexico, just before the assasination of President Francisco Madero WELLES, ORSON
(whose attempts at land reform figure prominently in the plot), "Tepepa" (its
Italian name, and much more sensible than the ridiculous "Blood and Guns")
has three major selling points: a wonderfully unctuous performance by Orson
Welles as Colonel Cascorro (Welles riffs on his own "Touch of Evil" character
from a decade earlier); Tomas Milian's surprisingly complex title character (a
Zapata-like bandit leader); and the rather baroque but wholly engaging
screenplay. In fact, the Kane-like mystery of the plot (just who is this "Tepepa,"
really?) may well have been part of the allure for Welles (who probably also
needed the money). The action scenes are rather perfunctory, but look for a
truly rousing speech (a la Che Guevera) from Milian (who was never better,
although he went on to make over a dozen more spaghetti westerns) halfway
through the film and its ironic counterpart at the conclusion, when Milian
announces that Welles is "about to make a speech" (he never does, of course).
The flashback where Milian gives up his guns to Madero is priceless: there's
probably no better indictment of the inanity of war and the continual oppression
of the landless classes. (As Welles says at one point to the peasants: "You
don't like it that the landowner has returned? Too bad.") But most impressive is
the conclusion, in which an English doctor (who wants to kill "Tepepa"-whomever that really is) has to decide whether to save Milian, and whether he
can live with an ideology that chooses a revolution over a woman's life.
In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American CAGNEY, JIMMY
editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two of his best friends are
horribly murdered, Condon suspects that the "peaceful" Japanese military
government is up to no good. He dedicates himself to getting his hands on the
"Tanka Plan," a Japanese blueprint for conquering the world, and bringing this
document to the attention of the Free World. As a result, he is targeted for
persecution by the corrupt Tokyo police and betrayed by a traitorous fellow
journalist. On a pleasanter note, Condon makes the acquaintance of half-
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Chinese Iris Hilliard (Sylvia Sidney), who agrees to help him foil the Japanese
High Command.
BLUE HAWAII WITH ELVIS PRESLEY One of Elvis Presley's best and most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue
Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune. His snooty mother
Angela Lansbury (all of eleven years older than the star!) wants Presley to take
over the management of the family business, but he'd rather make his own way
in the world. He lands a job at a tourist agency, and incidentally finds time to
dally with such lovelies as Joan Blackman and Nancy Walters. Steve Brodie, as
ever, is on hand to inveigle Elvis into an outsized brawl. The plot can be
dispensed with in favor of Elvis' songs, including the title number (originally
written in 1937 for Bing Crosby) and "Can't Help Falling in Love".
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John Wayne once again goes undercover to catch a wanted outlaw in this
average entry in his 1934-1935 Western series for Monogram Pictures. Wayne
plays John Carruthers, a U.S. marshal, and his quarry is the Polka Dot Bandit,
aka Danti (Yakima Canutt), who has taken off with a 4,000-dollar pay roll. As
John soon learns, Danti is in the employ of Malgrove (Edward Peil Sr.), a
supposedly upstanding citizen who is secretly trying to starve the good people
of Yucca City. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk, a valuable ore runs right through
the area and Malgrove is plotting to buy the land on the cheap.
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Wayne, playing John Mason, chases after the killer, an outlaw whose face is
hidden behind a polka dot neckerchief. Mason is injured during the chase and
brought to the home of Alice Gordon (Marion Burns) by newfound friend Ben
McClure (Reed Howes). Nursed back to health by Alice, with whom he is falling
in love, Mason sets a trap for the killer and his gang by announcing that he is
guarding a valuable gold shipment. The killer is revealed to be Rudd, Alice's
brother (Dennis Moore, here billed "Denny Meadow"), whom John challenges
to a duel. Feeling betrayed by Mason's love for Alice, Ben secretly substitutes
the bullets in his former friend's gun with blanks. Persuaded by Alice that John
has done nothing untoward, a repentant Ben arrives just in time to save his
friend from certain death but is himself felled by a bullet fired by villainous
barkeep Yakima Canutt in a final, well-staged, shootout.
BONANZA (VOL. 1)
Two classic episodes starring Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts
and Dan Blocker. "Escape to Ponderosa" and "The Bloodline"
BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Sherlock Holmes Mystery--Holmes sets out to prove the innocence of a man
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accused of murdering his father after a violent argument.
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fact-based teleplay casts Travolta as Tod Lubitsch, a teenager who was born TRAVOLTA, JOHN
without disease immunities. Tod is forced to live out his life in incubator
conditions; whenever he vetnures into the outdoors, he must be encased in a
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huge plastic bubble. When he falls in love with Gina Biggs (Glynnis O'Connor),
Tod must decide between following his heart or facing near-certain death.
In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey
Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a
nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even
give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a
relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of
designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on
expensive dates and at high-class parties. She escorts various wealthy men,
yet fails to return their affections after they have given her gifts and money.
Holly's carefree independence is changed when she meets her neighbor,
aspiring writer Paul (George Peppard), who is suffering from writer's block while
being kept by a wealthy woman (Patricia Neal). Just when Holly and Paul are
developing their sweet romance, Doc (Buddy Ebsen) appears on the scene and
complicates matters, revealing the truth about Holly's past. Breakfast at
Tiffany's was nominated for several Academy awards, winning Best Score for
Henry Mancini and Best Song for Johnny Mercer's classic tune "Moon River".
HOW TEENS CAN DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS AND LIVE INDEPENDENTLY
Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows
Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who
has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her
weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal with her job in
publishing, she visits her parents for a Christmas party. They try to set her up
with Mark (Colin Firth), the visiting son of one of their neighbors. Snubbed by
Mark, she instead falls for her boss Daniel $Hugh Grant), a dashing lothario
who begins to send her suggestive e-mails that soon lead to a dinner date
proposition. Daniel reveals that he and Mark attended college together, during
which time Mark had an affair with his fiancée. When Bridget finds Daniel
cavorting with an American colleague, she decides to change her life with a
new job as a TV presenter. At a dinner party, she bumps into Mark again, who
expresses his affection for her; when Daniel claims he wants Bridget back, the
two fight over who deserves her affections the most.
HOW PARENTS CAN HELP VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN TO FULL LIFE
HOW VISUALLY IMPAIRED SENIORS CAN ENJOY GREATER
INDEPENDENCE
Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this cleareyed look at the television news business and the dysfunctional types who work
in it. Brooks' intelligent script introduces us to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter), an
ambitious producer at the network news division's Washington D.C. branch,
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who is calm under fire yet has a good cry at her desk every morning over her
empty personal life. Jane works well with Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), an
excellent reporter who lacks the visual charisma to make him a star. Into their
lives comes Tom Grunick (William Hurt), a regional newscaster who admits he
can't write news and doesn't understand many of the events he's covering, but
has the presence and physical appeal that the increasingly entertainmentoriented network wants for its news programs. Jane is also physically attracted
to him, which drives her crazy, because Grunick stands for everything she's
fighting against in the news business, while Altman is devastated by her
attraction because he secretly yearns for Jane. As Grunick becomes a rising
star at the network, and layoffs of the old guard loom, the three leads deal with
their feelings for each other, their careers, and their values. Hunter, Hurt, and
Brooks are all superb, as is the excellent supporting cast (including an unbilled
turn by Jack Nicholson as the network's smarmy national anchor). Brooks'
script is funny, poignant, gritty, and brutally honest in its examinations of the
television industry and the ways in which professionals interact on and off the
job.. RATED R
Lee uses the tableau of the American West in the early '60s to show how two GYLLENHAAL, JAKE
lovers are bound by their expected roles, how they rebel against them, and the
repercussions for each of doing so--but the romance here is between two men.
Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are two
itinerant ranchers looking for work in Wyoming when they meet and embark on
a summer sheepherding job in the shadow of titular Brokeback Mountain. The
taciturn Ennis, uncommunicative in the extreme, finds himself opening up
around the gregarious Jack, and the two form a bond that surprisingly catches
fire one cold night out in the wilderness. Separating at the end of the summer,
each goes on to marry and have children, but a reunion years later proves that,
if anything, their passion for each other has grown significantly. And while Jack
harbors dreams of a life together, the tight-lipped Ennis is unable to bring
himself to even consider something so revolutionary.
After a bad day at work, a man suddenly gets a new job -- as the world's new
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Heavenly Father -- in this comedy. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a television
reporter working in Buffalo, NY, who has been growing increasingly dissatisfied
with his existence, and after an especially bad day, he flies into a rage and
curses God for making his life miserable. To Bruce's great surprise, the
Supreme Being Himself (Morgan Freeman) appears, and tries to convince
Bruce of the enormity of his task. Bruce, however, isn't buying it, so God gives
him a chance to find out what he's up against; God bestows all of his powers on
Bruce for a week, to see how he'd handle things. At first, Bruce has a great
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time bending the world around him to his will, much to the puzzlement of his
girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston), but after six days God stops by to remind
Bruce he hasn't done much to make the Earth a better place. Disappointed,
God presents Bruce with an ultimatum -- he has one day to improve the world
in a concrete way, or God will toss the planet back into the void
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War CAINE, MICHAEL
is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St.
Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened
because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen
from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry
off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose
side everyone's really on.
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Tragedy engulfs a small town in Tennessee dealing with underground mine
fires which threaten the population's livelihood.
The fire is also of great concern to the Federal Government, who has secrets it
chooses to keep out of the public sector, and to William Larson, a wealthy
businessman whose greed will make him do anything to gain control of the
depressed town.
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Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang,
George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of
the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance
(Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with
their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's
schoolmarm girlfriend Etta (Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but
this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the
crime. After being tailed over rocks and a river gorge by guys that they can
barely identify save for a white hat, Butch and Sundance decide that maybe it's
time to try their luck in Bolivia. Taking Etta with them, they live high on ill-gotten
Bolivian gains, but Etta leaves after their white-hatted nemesis portentously
arrives. Their luck running out, Butch and Sundance are soon holed up in a
barn surrounded by scores of Bolivian soldiers who are waiting for the pair to
make one last run for it.
The wealthy designer of the world's first fully computer-automated jetliner
summarily fires one of his engineers, a disgruntled computer hacker. In
retaliation, the engineer "kidnaps" the high tech jetliner from a hidden location
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on the ground, and threatens to destroy the plane during its maiden flight. The
lives of the passengers, which include a prominent politician and his daughter,
rests in the hands of a troubled ex-war hero.
CAIN'S CUTTHROATS
FORMER CONFEDERATE MARAUDER REFUSES TO JOIN HIS FORMER
ARMY COMRADES IN ATTACKS ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS, THEY LEAVE
HIM FOR DEAD AFTER KILLING HIS FAMILY. HE SEEKS REVENGE.
CALL IT MURDER
The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the
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independently-produced crime melodrama Midnight. O.P. Heggie plays jury
foreman Edward Weldon, who has no qualms about sentencing a woman to
death for a crime of passion. His unpopular decision makes Weldon persona
non grata even in his own home, but he sticks to his firm belief that all
murderers must pay the supreme penalty, no matter what the provocation. He
soon has cause to regret his intractability when his own daughter Stella (Sidney
Fox) kills a former lover who betrayed her. In addition to Humphrey Bogart, who
plays the small but memorable role of one of the murder victims, this New Yorkfilmed oddity also features such Broadway-bred talent as Margaret Wycherly,
Henry Hull, Granville Bates, Helen Flint, and, in their film debuts, Lynne
Overman and Richard Whorf. Midnight was later reissued by Astor Films as
Call it Murder to cash in on Bogart's latter-day popularity (Bogie was also
"promoted" to top billing in the refilmed opening credits).
CALL OF THE WILD
Director Ken Annakin and an international cast including Charlton Heston and
George Eastman try to breath life into Jack London's often-filmed wilderness
adventure. The story follows the adventures of John Thornton (Heston) and
Pete (Raimund Harmstorf) as they brawl their way through the Alaskan
wilderness mushing around in dog sleds and hunting for gold. rated r
CAMBODIA AND LAOS/PEACE IS AT Provides a detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a
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generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and
foreign policy issues
CANTERVILLE GHOST
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the STEWART, PATRICK
ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost
and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go
back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to
send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir
Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and
she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.
CAPTAIN KIDD
This is a wonderfully-acted movie. The characters are very convincing,
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especially Laughton as the evil Captain Kidd. His portrayal is chillingly realistic.
The story outlines the search by Adam Blayne for the answer to his missing
father's fate. He eventually sails with Kidd and in the process has to rescue a
beautiful young woman from the pirate. This is a good example of a thrilling
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CAPTIVE HEART
The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael
Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed the identity of a deceased
British officer to avoid being executed by the Nazis. When captured and placed
in the camp, the British prisoners suspect the still-incognito Redgrave of being
a spy. Only his conspicuous courage during an escape sequence vindicates the
secretive Redgrave. The film's tinderbox tension is relieved with a joyous finale,
which utilizes a fireworks display as adroitly as Hitchcock did in To Catch a
Thief.
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Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but
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enthusiastic following since its lapse into public domain. American oil man Lew
Ayres kills a coworker whom he suspects of robbery. Thinking it over, Ayres
wonders whether or not the man was innocent. He seeks out his victim's
widow, played by Teresa Wright. They fall in love and marry, which does
nothing to soothe Ayres' guilty conscience. When he discovers who was
actually behind the robbery, Ayres goes after the real culprit, who is
accidentally killed before justice can be done. Falsely accused of murder, Ayres
now fully understands the untenable position of the man he'd killed so long
before. The Capture was produced by Niven Busch, the then-husband of
Teresa Wright.
One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of
romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard
categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a
world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during the
early part of WWII. Despite pressure from the local authorities, notably the
crafty Capt. Renault (Claude Rains), Rick's café has become a haven for
refugees looking to purchase illicit letters of transit which will allow them to
escape to America. One day, to Rick's great surprise, he is approached by the
famed rebel Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman),
Rick's true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris. She still
wants Victor to escape to America, but now that she's renewed her love for
Rick, she wants to stay behind in Casablanca. "You must do the thinking for
both of us", she says to Rick. He does, and his plan brings the story to its
satisfyingly logical, if not entirely happy, conclusion.
This actioner involves Nazi soldiers hijacking a train carrying England's prime
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minister.
Based on the popular cartoon character, this family-oriented "ghost story" is
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about a not-so-scary spirit who bonds with a little girl (Christina Ricci). The
eternally irritable Ms. Carrigan (Cathy Moriarty) discovers that the only thing
she's been left in her recently departed father's will is a rickety old house in
New England. Naturally, the woman is furious about this, until her "close
personal friend" and assistant, Dibbs (Eric Idle of Monty Python fame),
discovers a secret message that a treasure may be concealed somewhere in
the house. The two take off for Maine, only to learn that the house is haunted
by Casper "the friendly ghost" and his three ghostly uncles Stinky, Stretch, and
Fatso. After futilely recruiting an exorcist (Don Novello, more or less reviving his
Father Guido Sarducci character from Saturday Night Live) and a "professional
ghost exterminator" (Dan Aykroyd), she brings in a "ghost psychiatrist" (Bill
Pullman) and his daughter Kat (Ricci). Innocently attracted to the young girl,
Casper befriends Kat as they try to save the ghosts' home from the evil
Carrigan. Eye-popping special effects highlight this magical story that touches
(albeit lightly) on the theme of what lies at the heart of human desires. Casper
has enough appeal to intrigue older audiences as well as younger ones
Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy
murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his first wife (Mona Washbourne),
hoping to claim her inheritance. Surprise! The inheritance is a myth. Thus
Bogarde sets his sights on barkeeper Margaret Lockwood, whom he knows to
be heavily insured. But Lockwood is possessed of a naturally suspicious
nature, making Bogarde's second murder plot a bit more delicate than his first.
this is a family film, after all. Dr. Seuss' wonderful, whimsical, mischievous book SEUSS, DR.
is as buried as Myers under all that fur. But critics don't know what the little kids
understand: The bright colors, the slapstick and mayhem, the mild profanities,
and below-the-belt gags are perfectly pitched to the target adolescent
audience.
U. S. TROOPS IN POST-SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR PHILLIPINES FIND
THEMSELVES BATTLING A REBEL FILIPINO ARMY CAPTAIN AND A BAND
OF MARAUDERS.
Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and
dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert
Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and
Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill
mother. With the use of flashback, an elderly Chaplin discusses his
autobiography with his editor (Hopkins), who urges him to be more vulnerable
and emotionally honest with his memoirs while journeying through his povertystricken childhood, closest friendships, many marriages, merciless pursuit by J.
Edgar Hoover (Kevin Dunn), and ingenious invention of "The Little Tramp."
Highlighted works such as The Gold Rush (1925) and The Great Dictator
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(1940) illustrate significant turning points in Chaplin's prolific filmography.
Director Richard Attenborough's film also explores the circumstances
surrounding Chaplin's exile from America and his eventual return to receive an
honorary Academy Award. RATED R
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy/thriller directed by GRANT, CARY
Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who
meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she
discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, Reggie is
summoned to the embassy and warned by agent/friend Bartholemew (Walter
Matthau) that her late husband helped steal $250,000 during the war and the
rest of the gang is after the money as well. When three of the men who
attended her husband's funeral begin to harass her, Reggie goes to Joshua for
help, at which time Joshua confesses that his name is actually Alexander Dyle,
the brother of a fourth accomplice in the gold theft. The three men from the
funeral are revealed to be the three other accomplices in the crime, and though
she knows next to nothing of the heist, Reggie is caught in a ring of suspense
as she is followed by the shadowy trio, all after the money. Apparently, the only
person she can trust is Joshua/Dyle -- until Bartholomew tells Reggie that the
fourth accomplice had no brother, and Joshua/Dyle reveals that he is, in fact, a
crook named Adam Canfield.
Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the secretive and wildly imaginative man behind DEPP, JOHNNY
the world's most celebrated candy company, and while the Wonka factory is
famously closed to visitors, the reclusive candy man decides to give five lucky
children a chance to see the inside of his operation by placing "golden tickets"
in five randomly selected chocolate bars. Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore),
whose poor but loving family lives literally in the shadow of the Wonka factory,
is lucky enough to obtain one of the tickets, and Charlie, escorted by his
Grandpa Joe (David Kelly), is in for the ride of a lifetime as he tours the strange
and remarkable world of Wonka with fellow winners, media-obsessed Mike
Teavee (Jordan Fry), harsh and greedy Veruca Salt (Julia Winter), gluttonous
Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), and ultra-competitive Violet Beauregarde
(AnnaSophia Robb). Over the course of the day, some of the children will learn
difficult lessons about themselves, and one will go on to become Wonka's new
right hand.
The story proposes that Charlie Brown is convinced that the true meaning of
Christmas has been forgotten by his "Peanuts" friends, not to mention the rest
of the world. "Psychiatrist" Lucy advises Charlie Brown to get into the holiday
spirit by directing the kids' upcoming Christmas play. Despite his utter lack of
control over his cast, Charlie Brown takes his job seriously, even setting out to
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find a genuine Christmas tree to decorate the set instead of the usual aluminum
job. But Charlie Brown's tree is a scrawny, pathetic thing, and all seems--lost
until the rest of the Peanuts gang decide to pitch in and decorate the
woebegone tree.
Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) have made many sacrifices MARTIN, STEVE
in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is
offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to
a suburb of Chicago. This move shakes up the whole family, especially when
Kate's memoirs get published and she takes off on a book tour. The lack of
parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids, particularly
handsome jock Charlie (Tom Welling), fashion plate Lorraine (Hilary Duff), and
grown child Nora (Piper Perabo). Ashton Kucher stars in a cameo role as
Nora's actor boyfriend, Hank.
The jumbo-sized Baker family are back in this sequel to the 2003 box-office hit MARTIN, STEVE
Cheaper by the Dozen. College football coach Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and
his wife, author Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt), have decided its time they took their
sizable brood of 12 children on a summer vacation, and so they pack up the
cars and take the kids to Lake Winnetka for some camping. Not all the kids are
happy about this, but the one who is really annoyed turns out to be Tom, who
discovers his old rival Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) is also staying near the
lake. Jimmy and his trophy wife, Sarina (Carmen Electra), also have a large
family of eight children, and Jimmy and Tom seem intent upon one-upping each
other at every opportunity. As the tensions mount, the Baker family and the
Murtaugh clan face off in a not-so-good-natured series of family games to
determine which of the parents have the greater bragging rights. In addition to
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, the actors playing the 12 Baker children from
the 2003 film return for Cheaper by the Dozen 2, including Hilary Duff, Piper
Perabo, Tom Welling, and Kevin Schmidt
In the mid-'20s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus dancer
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married to a well-meaning dunderhead named Amos (John C. Reilly). Roxie is
having an affair on the side with Fred Casley (Dominic West), a smooth talker
who insists he can make her a star. However, Fred strings Roxie along a bit too
far for his own good, and when she realizes that his promises are empty, she
becomes enraged and murders Fred in cold blood. Roxie soon finds herself
behind bars alongside Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sexy vaudeville
star who used to perform with her sister until Velma discovered that her sister
had been sleeping with her husband. Velma shot them both dead, and, after
scheming prison matron "Mama" Morton hooks Velma up with hotshot lawyer
Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), Velma becomes the new Queen of the scandal
sheets. Roxie is just shrewd enough to realize that her poor fortune could also
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bring her fame, so she convinces Amos to also hire Flynn. Soon Flynn is
splashing Roxie's story -- or, more accurately, a highly melodramatic revision of
Roxy's story -- all over the gutter press, and Roxy and Velma are soon battling
neck-to-neck over who can win greater fame through the headlines.
The US title of this Italian-Spanish-French coproduction is Chino, in deference BRONSON, CHARLES
to the character played by star Charles Bronson. Having long suffered the
stigma of being part-Indian, New Mexico horse breeder Chino Valdez (Bronson)
wants nothing more than to be left alone with his beloved horses. Even so,
Chino opens his heart and his home to teenaged runaway Jamie Wagner
(Vincent Van Patten), who becomes his protégé. But things take an unpleasant
turn when the formerly taciturn Chino falls in love with Louise.
Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale of one man learning the true meaning of
Christmas is brought to the screen once again in this made-for-TV movie.
Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) is a cynical old man whose greatest
concern is money, and who regards compassion as a luxury he can't afford. On
Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley (Frank Finlay),
his former business partner, who arranges for Scrooge to be visited by three
spirits in an attempt to show him the error of his ways -- the Ghosts of
Christmas Past (Angela Pleasence), Christmas Present (Edward Woodward),
and Christmas Yet to Come (Michael Carter). The spirits force Scrooge to
examine the failings of his own life, as well as the bravery and optimism of his
loyal but ill-treated employee Bob Crachit (David Warner). A Christmas Carol
also features Susannah York as Mrs. Crachit, Anthony Walters as Tiny Tim,
and Joanne Whalley as Fan.
Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower decides to hire
himself a spouse to spend the vacation with him in his lovely mountain retreat
and finds true romance in this heartwarming made-for-cable television drama
that is based on a story by Helen Norris
Cinderella was Walt Disney's return to feature-length "story" cartoons after
eight years of turning out episodic pastiches like Make Mine Music and Three
Caballeros. A few understandable liberties are taken with the original Charles
Perrault fairy tale (the wicked stepsisters, for example, do not have their eyes
pecked out by crows!) Otherwise, the story remains the same: Cinderella,
treated as a slavey by her selfish stepfamily, dreams of going to the Prince's
ball. She gets her wish courtesy of her Fairy Godmother, who does the
pumpkin-into-coach bit, then delivers the requisite "be home by midnight"
warning. Thoroughly enchanting the prince at the ball, our heroine hightails it at
midnight, leaving a glass slipper behind. The Disney people do a terrific job
building up suspense before the inevitable final romantic clinch.
Cinderella is a nonetheless delightful feature, enhanced immeasurably by the
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introduction of several "funny animal" characters , and a host of sprightly
songs, including "Cinderelly", "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes", and-best of all--"Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo."
The true story of an athlete who achieved his greatest success against the
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most daunting odds of his life is brought to the screen in this historical drama.
In the 1920s, James Braddock (Russell Crowe) from Bergen, NJ, was a
promising contender in professional boxing; he had strength, spirit, and
tenacity, but the combination of a serious hand injury and a 1929 defeat in a
bout with light heavyweight champ Tommy Loughran sent his career into a
serious tailspin. As Braddock's career in the ring dried up, the Great
Depression put a stake through the heart of America's economy, and Braddock
found himself working at the New York docks for pitiful wages as he tried to
support his wife, Mae (Renée Zellweger), and three children. Desperate for
money, Braddock turned to his former trainer and manager Joe Gould (Paul
Giamatti), who was unexpectedly able to scare up a bout for him, battling John
Griffin at Madison Square Garden. While conventional wisdom had it that
Braddock was too old, out of shape, and out of practice to have any chance of
winning, he defeated Griffin, and continued beating his opponents with a
powerful left hook that had been intensified by years of punishing dock work. In
a nation desperate for good news, Braddock's surprising comeback became a
tonic to struggling workers and unemployed people, and all eyes were on
Braddock when in 1935 he took on powerful heavyweight champion Max Baer
(Craig Bierko) in what was both literally and figuratively the fight of his life.
In 1862, Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee came to
prominence. As the war continued, abolitionists and African-American leaders
like Frederick Douglass pressured the president to recognize abolishing slavery
as the central issue. Lincoln had insisted that the conflict was about preserving
the Union, not about slavery, but five days after the battle of Antietam, he
issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation also
shifted the moral cause of the war, making it less likely that England or France
would aid the South.
By the summer of 1864, the Union faced its darkest hour. Although its troops
and resources far outnumbered those of the South, campaigns against
Petersburg and Atlanta were bogged down. The stalemate of the war ended on
August 31 when Sherman successfully hurled his army against John Bell
Hood's forces: on September 1, Union troops marched into Atlanta. This victory
helped to assure Lincoln's re-election against McClellan in the fall.
Although the Civil War basically came to a close following Lee's surrender to
Grant in the spring of 1865, sporadic fighting continued. Jefferson Davis
remained defiant to the very end, dreaming of escaping to Texas and somehow
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revitalizing the Confederate cause. By the time of his capture, however, even
Southerners reviled and blamed their president for the loss of the war. The
aftermath of the war proved awesome for both sides. Over 600,000 had died
during the four years of fighting. In the South, one out of every four men of
fighting age had been lost. African-Americans, free for the first time, wandered
the roads searching for work and food. Also sobering was the unexpected
assassination of President Lincoln a few days after the surrender at
Appomattox. As the funeral train carried the President back to Springfield, IL,
citizens met the train at each stop, overwhelmed with grief. The legacy of the
Civil War, establishing the predominance of the federal government and
dismantling the institution of slavery, forever stands as a dividing point in
American history
The Cause -- 1861 opens Ken Burns' epic series on the Civil War, detailing the
multiple factors that led the North and South to war in 1861.
Two pivotal events would change the course of the Civil War in 1863.The threeday Battle of Gettysburg culminated in a disastrous Confederate charge under
the command of General George E. Pickett, resulting in a stunning defeat for
Lee. Grant, meanwhile, continued his siege of Vicksburg until the 31,000
Southern troops ran low on food and surrendered. This gave the Union control
of the entire Mississippi river, cutting off supplies to Confederate troops. While
these events offered encouragement to the North, the draft, the Emancipation
Proclamation, and the enlisting of black soldiers led to a backlash.
In May of 1864, the two foremost generals of the North and South finally met in
battle.In Virginia, the Union army began its relentless pursuit of the smaller
Confederate force, fighting fierce battles at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor. In
Petersburg, the two armies stalled.Meanwhile, Grant's friend, General
Sherman, began to move south from Chattanooga, TN, pushing General
Johnston's troops back until both armies halted before Atlanta. Lincoln was
pleased with both generals, but the extended war had undermined his
popularity. He badly needed a victory to support his dwindling chances for reelection in the fall.
Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly
corny thanks to the performances of its mostly senior cast. Wilford Brimley, Don
Ameche, and Hume Cronyn are three old-timers who sneak out of their
retirement home a few days a week to swim in the large pool on an abandoned
estate next door. When the threesome begins to feel curiously younger, they
discover strange pods on the floor of the pool. These pods are alien cocoons,
which are being pulled from the ocean by a team of extra-terrestrials in human
form led by Walter (Brian Dennehy), who has hired a local charter operator
(Steve Guttenberg) to assist him. Walter explains to the seniors that energy
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from the cocoons is restoring youth and vigor to the older men every time they
go for a dip. The aliens agree to let the men continue to swim in secret, but of
course they can't keep their discovery to themselves. Soon the pool is
swarming with retirees, with the notable exception of Bennie (Jack Gilford), who
has no interest in prolonging life any longer than necessary. The aliens
ultimately prepare to return home and offer the retirees eternal life if they leave
Earth behind as well. Director Ron Howard treats his old-timers with care and
dignity, and they respond with deeply sympathetic performances (Ameche won
the Best Supporting Actor Oscar); the film's science-fiction trappings ably
sustain the story's all-too-human ruminations on youth, aging, life, and death.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a
Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal
husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost
thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been
hiding the letters Nettie writes back, allowing Celie to assume that Nettie is
dead. Finally, Celie finds a champion in the don't-take-no-guff Sofia (Oprah
Winfrey), the wife of Glover's son from a previous marriage. Alas, Sofia is
"humbled" when she is beaten into submission by angry whites. Later, Celie is
able to forge a strong friendship with Albert's mistress Shug (Margaret Avery).
Emboldened by this, Celie begins rifling through her husband's belongings and
finds Nettie's letters. Able at last to stand up to her husband, Celie leaves him
to search for a new life on her own.
This is a great hilarous movie about 2 con artists how escape from jail. they
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both try to out smart one another but later on they join together to fool others.
Anthony Quinn is the wiser con artist Adriano Celentano is like the student who
learns fast. This is a very funny movie how the student out smarts the teacher.
The first few minutes of the original film were essential in setting the context for
the conflict portrayed between the traditionalist Irish monks led by their Father
Abbot (Trevor Howard), and the modernist representative (Martin Sheen) of
their order's Vatican Father General. During these missing first few minutes, we
would have seen Sheen meeting with the Father General (Raf Vallone) in
Rome, and discussing the "problem" of the return of Latin Mass celebration by
the monks of Howard's abbey and the growing world-wide popularity of that
celebration. The first scene made it clear that the time period portrayed is
hypothetical and futuristic. In this fabulous Roman Catholic Church, additional
modifications and liberalization of doctrine are supposed to have taken place
beyond those that have been in effect since Vatican II. Within the film, there are
mentions of a "Vatican IV" and other hypothetical conventions. Missing the
original initial scene, many may believe that the film has grossly erred in, or
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deliberately distorted, current Roman Catholic beliefs. This was not the motive
of the movie as originally filmed, and it is a tremendous loss to the integrity of
the original story that the vital first scene of the movie has been edited away
The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) - a guy whose bad luck is
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contagious - is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high
rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love with a cocktail waitress (Maria Bello)
and gets "lady luck," which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty
when the casino director (Alec Baldwin) tries to break up the romance.
Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a
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17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis
is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful
Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to
his cathedral of a nose. Roxanne is also loved by the handsome Christian
(William Prince), who unfortunately can't put two consecutive words together
when it comes to pitching woo. Cyrano agrees to help Christian win Roxanne
by feeding him the right words for his midnight courtships and love letters; in
this way, Cyrano can vicariously express his own ardor for the fair lady. Years
later, Cyrano's deception is revealed, and he dies happily in the arms of his
beloved Roxanne, who realizes that she has really loved Cyrano all along--by
way of Christian. Cyrano de Bergerac wasn't seen by many paying moviegoers
upon its original showing, but its relative box-office failure resulted in an early
release to television, where it has remained a perennial attraction for the past
forty years.
"I want to report a murder...mine." So begins one of the definitive "film noirs,"
D.O.A. Told in flashback, the story tells of how vacationing CPA Frank Bigelow
(Edmond O'Brien) becomes the recipient of a deadly poison known as iridium.
Told by a doctor that he only has a few hours to live, Bigelow desperately
retraces his movements of the previous 24 hours, trying to locate his murderer.
Through the aid of his secretary Paula Gibson (Pamela Britton) (who doesn't
know of her boss' imminent demise), Bigelow traces a shipment of iridium to a
gang of criminals who've used the poison in the commission of a crime.
Bigelow had been targeted because he'd notarized the shipment, which came
from the chemical firm where he works. Though we know from the outset that
Bigelow isn't long for this world, the film builds up an incredible amount of
suspense towards the end, when master crook Holiday (William Ching) orders
his crazed henchman (Neville Brand) to take Bigelow for "a ride."
D.W. wants to ride the bike-a-thon more than anything. But first she must get
rid of those training wheels. With Arthur's help, D.W. embarks on a crash
course to l earn the rules of the road./Arthur's parents are hosting the annual
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family reunion. Dad plans hours of fun, while Arthur tries very hard to avoid his
pain-in-the-neck counsin Mo. When a major thunderstorm arrives, the dreaded
get-together is transformed into a reunion to remember.
It's wrongto call D.W. a picky eater. Just plain wrong. The only thins she won't
eat are vegetables, fish, fruit, and meat. So it's not her fault when she has a
tantrum in restaurant--someone tried to slip her some spinach! Is this the end
of D.W.'s nights on the town? Will she miss Grandma Thora's birthday
bash?/Arthur and Buster meet two really cool kids and, naturally, are dazzled
by them. Toby and Slink agree to teach Buster some skateboard tricks, but
there's one small catch--he has to do whatever they dare him to. How far will
Buster go to be cool?
D.W.'s security blanket is missing, so Arthur and D.W. look all ove town for it. If
they can't find it, D.W. will have to do the impossible--spend the night without
her blankie!/Having a friend like Brain spend the weekend sounded like a great
idea! But Arthur finds it hard being around someone who's almost perfect--or at
least seems to be.
The personal lives of five exotic dancers go under the microscope in this
drama, the first American feature from director Michael Radford. Eddie (Robert
Wisdom) is the manager of a strip club in suburban California known as the
Blue Iguana, where he keeps an eye on the women who make their living
dancing for his customers. Stormy (Sheila Kelley) is an attractive, thick-skinned
woman who is getting old enough to realize her days as a dancer may be
numbered. Jo (Jennifer Tilly) likes to think of herself as the Blue Iguana's star
attraction, though her career may hit a detour now that she's learned she's
pregnant. Angel (Daryl Hannah) is a sweet, but immature woman, who tries to
deal with her fear of being unloved by adopting a child. Jasmine (Sandra Oh),
an aspiring poet, tries not to get settled into a career as a stripper, while being
encouraged in her writing by coffeehouse owner Dennis (Chris Hogan), who
features spoken word performers. And Jesse (Charlotte Ayanna), the youngest
of the performers, expresses her desperate need for approval in her desire to
please the customers.
In 1775, Daniel Boone leads thirty settler families to Kentucky where they face
two threats: Indian raiders led by renegade white Simon Girty, who opposes
settlement; and the schemes of effete Stephen Marlowe to seize title to the new
lands. Perils, battles, escapes, and a love interest round out the story.
Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is a volcano expert whose interest became more
than academic after he lost the woman he loved in a volcanic emergency.
When he is sent to investigate unusual seismic activity in the quiet Pacific
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Northwest community of Dante's Peak, he discovers people boiled to death in
the local hot spring and plant and animal life dying or displaying unusual
illnesses near the city's supposedly dormant volcano. Harry becomes
convinced that a major volcanic catastrophe is in the cards. Rachel Wando
(Linda Hamilton), the town's mayor, is a single mother who also runs the local
cafe, and now that Dante's Peak has been named one of the most desirable
small towns in America, tourists have been flocking to the diner and other local
businesses. While concerned with the safety of her community, Rachel takes a
cynical view of Harry's warnings about the volcano; she has no desire to alarm
either the town's residents or the wealthy visitors lining the city's pockets.
Nevertheless, Harry tries to convince Rachel of the potential danger, as they
begin to develop feelings for each other that are not strictly professional. PG 13
Matthew Murdock (Ben Affleck) is a lawyer whose father, a prizefighter, was
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killed by gangsters when Murdock was just a boy. Since then, Murdock has
devoted his life to bringing wrongdoers to justice and is willing to help others by
taking on cases no other attorney will touch. Murdock is also blind, after being
struck down by a truck while trying to save a man from being hit. What no one
knows is that Murdock was also doused with an unusual radioactive isotope
which had a strange effect on him -- while Murdock's sight may be gone, his
other senses have been raised to such a keen pitch that they act like radar,
allowing him to tell where he's going and what happens around him, both near
and far away. Murdock puts his gifts to use at night as the costumed crimefighter Daredevil, whose pursuit of justice has earned him the wrath of
underworld leader Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan). Kingpin wants Daredevil
out of his way once and for all, and hires Bullseye (Colin Farrell), a superassassin with an uncanny ability to throw blades, to do the job. Daredevil also
makes the acquaintance of Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a woman with
super-heroic talents who is also on Kingpin's bad side, though it remains to be
seen if she has aligned herself with the forces of good as Daredevil has done.
The glorious Hollywood institution of the romantic comedy gets raked over the
coals in this broad parody of any number of boy-meets-girl flicks. Julia Jones
(Alyson Hannigan) is a young woman who wants nothing more than to find the
man of her dreams and settle down. However, Julia has a rather serious weight
problem that prevents her from making a positive impression on people.
Determined to find love at all costs, Julia somehow drops the weight and meets
Grant Fonckyerdoder (Adam Campbell), a handsome and charming
Englishman who falls head over heels for her. Julia and Grant waste no time in
setting the date, but until they make their way to the altar they have to deal with
meddling parents, flaky wedding planners, fights over the right wedding dress,
vertically challenged romantic advisors, and Andy (Sophie Monk), a longtime
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friend of Grant, who isn't so happy to hear he's getting hitched.
this intelligent British monster movie begins with a meteor shower so intensely
bright that it blinds the majority of the world's population, rendering them
vulnerable to attack from hordes of carnivorous plants known as "Triffidus
Celestus" grown from meteor-borne spores. As the plant-monsters continue to
multiply and seek human prey, the remaining sighted people join forces to
combat the veggie invaders. One such survivor, an American seaman (Howard
Keel) whose eyes were bandaged during the meteorite impact, battles his way
through the Triffid ranks. Meanwhile, a couple (Kieron Moore and Janette Scott)
are trapped in a lighthouse.
Robin Williams portrays passionate English professor, who inspires his
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students to live life to the fullest.
Yellowleg (Brian Keith), a former sergeant in the Union army, is obsessed with
tracking down Turk (Chill Wills), a Rebel army deserter who, during the War
Between the States, tried to scalp him as he lay wounded on a battlefield.
Yellowleg finds Turk and his sidekick Billy (Steve Cochran) in a cantina and
convinces them to help him rob a bank. They journey to Gila City, where the
bank is located, and find that another group of bank robbers are also in Gila
City to rob the same bank. During a shoot-out with the other bank robbers,
Yellowleg accidentally kills the 9-year-old son of dance-hall hostess Kit Tilden
(Maureen O'Hara). Remorseful at having caused the death of Kit's son,
Yellowleg forces Turk and Billy to accompany him as they travel through
Apache territory to bury Kit's son at the gravesite of her husband in the ghost
town of Siringo. When Billy attacks Kit, Yellowleg throws him out of their camp.
Then Turk deserts. As Kit and Yellowleg finally reach Siringo, Yellowleg
realizes that he is in love with Kit. But then Billy and Turk re-appear, having
robbed the bank in Gila City, leading to a final confrontation between Yellowleg
and Turk.
In 14th Century Italy, a handsome young philanderer is granted refuge at a
country villa for as long as he can entertain his lovely hostess and her guests
with amorous tales. Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan play several parts in this
delightful, tongue-in-cheek histoire d'amour.
hitchhiker Al Roberts (Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler Charles
Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald). When Haskell suffers a fatal heart attack,
Roberts, afraid that he'll be accused of murder, disposes of the body, takes the
man's clothes and wallet, and begins driving the car himself. He picks up
beautiful but sullen Vera (Ann Savage), who suddenly breaks the silence by
asking, "What did you do with the body?" It turns out that Vera had earlier
accepted a ride from Haskell and has immediately spotted Roberts as a ringer.
Holding the threat of summoning the police over his head, Vera forces Roberts
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to continue his pose so that he can collect a legacy from Haskell's millionaire
father, who hasn't seen his son in years
Sherlock Holmes Mystery-A young woman is found dead with no trace of injury,
sickness or violence. Can Sherlock Holmes crack the case?
Based on the comic strip this box office sensation stars Warren Beatty,
Madonna and a cast of superstar villains.
Filmed in Paris and along the French Riviera, Dinner at the Ritz afforded David
Niven the chance to play his first starring role. As Paul de Brack, he is a
government agent and playboy and is quite at home among the elite set,
whether in England or France. This comes in handy when he falls in with Ranie
Racine (Annabella), a gay Paris socialite and the daughter of a recently
murdered financier. The father's death has been ruled a suicide, but Ranie
refuses to accept this. As the man assigned to investigate the banker's death,
Paul accompanies Ranie on a series of undercover investigations that take
them to Monte Carlo and London. Along the way, they discover the truth about
a serious banking scandal, as well as evidence that the man responsible for
acine's death may be someone close to Ranie.
In 1963, Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the
summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in
the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a
carefree adolescent. However, Baby doesn't get along with her older sister Lisa
(Jane Brucker), and she's bored to tears by most of the older guests at the
resort. However, one night Baby hears what sounds like a party going on in the
employee's dormitory, and she pokes her head in to discover most of the hotel
staff enjoying the sort of close dancing that would get you kicked out of the
Senior Prom in no time flat. Baby is particularly struck by handsome Johnny
Castle (Patrick Swayze), a dancer in the resort's floor show, and falls head over
heels in love, wanting to be near him. When Johnny's dance partner finds
herself pregnant after a fling with one of the waiters, Baby volunteers to learn
her steps and take her place; however, Baby's father Dr. Jake Houseman
(Jerry Orbach) will have none of it, convinced that Johnny is a low life and that
his daughter is too young to understand her own feelings. Dirty Dancing was a
surprise box office hit, and the soundtrack album was an even bigger success,
spawning several hit singles and inspiring a top-drawing concert tour features
several of its artists.
Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a
can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen Burstyn),
when she discusses her painful childhood and particularly Vivi's less-thanenviable mothering skills in a Time magazine article.
Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills,
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using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn,
NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a
smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters that matter; a
convenience store owned by a Korean couple; and Sal's Famous Pizzeria, the
only white-operated business in the neighborhood. Sal (Danny Aiello) serves up
slices with his two sons, genial Vito (Richard Edson) and angry, racist Pino
(John Turturro). Sal has one black employee, Mookie (Spike Lee), who wants
to "get paid" but lacks ambition. His sister Jade (Joie Lee, Spike's sister), who
has a greater sense of purpose and a "real" job, wants Mookie to start dealing
with his responsibilities, most notably his son with girlfriend Tina (Rosie Perez).
Two of Mookie's best friends are Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), a monolith of a
man who rarely speaks, preferring to blast Public Enemy's rap song Fight The
Power on his massive boom box; and Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito),
nicknamed for his coke-bottle glasses and habit of losing his cool. When
Buggin' Out notes that Sal's "Wall of Fame," a photo gallery of famous ItalianAmericans, includes no people of color, he eventually demands a neighborhood
boycott, on a day when tensions are already running high, that incurs tragic
consequences. RATED R.
I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his
presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Director Tod
Browning invests most of his mood and atmosphere in the first two reels, which
were based on the original Stoker novel; the rest of the film is a more
stagebound translation of the popular stage play by John Balderston and
Hamilton Deane. Even so, the electric tension between the elegant Dracula and
the vampire hunter Professor Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) works as well
on the screen as it did on the stage. And it's hard to forget such moments as
the lustful gleam in the eyes of Mina Harker (Helen Chandler) as she succumbs
to the will of Dracula, or the omnipresent insane giggle of the fly-eating Renfield
(Dwight Frye). Despite the static nature of the final scenes, Dracula is a classic
among horror films, with Bela Lugosi giving the performance of a lifetime as the
erudite Count
Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on
the job again. This time the inmate of a British prison has incorporated stolen
Bank of England engraving plates into a series of music boxes he has made
and multiple criminals are out to find them.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
affectionately covers the twenty-five year relationship between a wealthy,
strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable
black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman). Both employer and employee are
outsiders: Hoke because of the color of his skin, Miss Daisy because she is
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Jewish in a WASP-dominated society. At the same time, Hoke cannot fathom
Miss Daisy's cloistered inability to grasp the social changes which sweep the
South in the 1960s; nor can Miss Daisy understand why Hoke's "people" are so
indignant. It is only when Hoke is retired and Miss Daisy is confined to a home
for the elderly that the two fully realize that they've been friends and kindred
spirits all along. The supporting cast includes Esther Rolle as Miss Daisy's
housekeeper and Dan Aykroyd as Miss Daisy's son Boolie (reportedly,
playwright Uhry based the character upon himself). Driving Miss Daisy won
Academy Awards for best picture, best actress (Jessica Tandy), best
screenplay (Uhry) and best makeup (Manlio Rachetti)
Directed by former set designer William Cameron Menzies, this minor Civil War
effort from low-budget producers King Brothers stars James Craig and Guy
Madison as former West Point roommates now on opposing sides in the war
between the states. Assigned to delay General Sherman's march toward
Atlanta, Major Clay Clayborn (Craig) and 20 rebel volunteers take position on
top of Devil Mountain where they proceed to bombard Union supply trains, at
first almost unimpeded. Unaware that his best friend is leading the rebels,
Union major Will Denning (Madison) prepares to blow up the entire mountain
but Clay's former fiancé, Kathy Summers (Barbara Payton), manages to
persuade him to cease fire while she negotiates a deal. Filmed in inexpensive
Super Cine Color, Drums in the Deep South was produced independently and
awarded an RKO release.
THE POIGNANT ANIMATED CLASSIC ABOUT THE BABY ELEPHANT BORN WALT DISNEY
WITH OVERSIZED EARS.
Henry Thomas plays Elliott, a young boy living with his single mother (Dee
Wallace), his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his younger
sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore). Elliott often seems lonely and out of sorts, lost
in his own world. One day, while looking for something in the back yard, he
senses something mysterious in the woods watching him. And he's right: an
alien spacecraft on a scientific mission mistakenly left behind an aging botanist
who isn't sure how to get home. Eventually Elliott puts his fears aside and
makes contact with the "little squashy guy," perhaps the least threatening alien
invader ever to hit a movie screen. As Elliott tries to keep the alien under wraps
and help him figure out a way to get home, he discovers that the creature can
communicate with him telepathically. Soon they begin to learn from each other,
and Elliott becomes braver and less threatened by life. E.T. rigs up a
communication device from junk he finds around the house, but no one knows
if he'll be rescued before a group of government scientists gets hold of him.
The classic black-and-white newsreel clips and old photographs that dominated BURNS, KEN
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now give way to color clips as baseball enters the '60s in Ken Burns' Baseball:
Inning 8 -- A Whole New Ballgame. In this decade, Mickey Mantle and Roger
Maris tried to overtake Babe Ruth's home run record, Sandy Koufax made a
name for himself, and Bob Gibson and Denny McLain had MVP pitching
seasons. In other highlights, fans said goodbye to Ted Williams, welcomed the
New York Mets, and Curt Flood challenged the reserve clause as institutional
slavery when he refused to be traded from the Cardinals to the Phillies
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pal, sheriff Robert Mitchum.Several plot twists and power shifts ensue, leading
to the slam-bang climax, with the partially paralyzed Wayne, the newly crippled
Mitchum (on crutches), and the concussion-suffering Caan battling together to
stave off Asner's minions.
Award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and
tragic romance set against the backdrop of World War II. In a field hospital in
Italy, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a nurse from Canada, is caring for a pilot who
was horribly burned in a plane wreck; he has no identification and cannot
remember his name, so he's known simply as "the English Patient," thanks to
his accent. When the hospital is forced to evacuate, Hana determines en route
that the patient shouldn't be moved far due to his fragile condition, so the two
are left in a monastery to be picked up later. In time, Hana begins to piece
together the patient's story from the shards of his memories; he's actually
Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), of Hungarian nobility and an explorer
working with a group mapping uncharted territory in North Africa. An
Englishman, Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth), soon joins Almasy's team; travelling
with him is his lovely and spirited wife, Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Katherine and Laszlo soon fall in love, which leads Laszlo to betray his friend,
his country and all that is dear to him. Meanwhile, Hana and the Patient are
joined by Kip (Naveen Andrews), a Sikh with a gift for defusing mines, and
Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), an intelligence agent who knows some of Laszlo's
most shameful secrets. The English Patient won nine Academy Awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Juliette
Binoche)
Broke and desperate, the twice-divorced single mom Erin bosses her way into
a clerical job with attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finney), who's indebted to Erin
after failing to win her traffic-injury case. Erin is soon focused on suspicious
connections between a mighty power company, its abuse of toxic chromium,
and the poisoned water supply of Hinkley, California, where locals have
suffered a legacy of death and disease. Matching the dramatic potency of
Norma Rae and Silkwood, Erin Brockovich filters cold facts through warm
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humanity, especially in Erin's rapport with dying victims and her relationship
with George (superbly played by Aaron Eckhart), a Harley-riding neighbor who
offers more devotion than Erin's ever known. Surely some of these details have
been embellished for dramatic effect, but the factual basis of Erin Brockovich
adds a boost of satisfaction, proving that greed, neglect, and corporate
arrogance are no match against a passionate crusader. (Trivia note: The real
Erin Brockovich appears briefly as a diner waitress
Taking place in the fifth Century BC "Esther and the King", relates the story of
the all conquering King Ahasuerus of Persia who is better known in history as
Xerxes, a very famous name in Persian history. A search is begun for suitable
candidates for the role of Queen. Despite palace intrigue Esther manages to
win the King's heart and save her people.
The plot is set in motion by Norma Lawry (Ann Harding), whose stepdaughter
Barbara (Donna Reed) has been keeping company with washed-up actor Paul
Gerente (John Emery). Norma feels that Gerente, an ex-lover of hers, is a bad
influence for Barbara, but the girl merely assumes that Norma wants Gerente
all to herself. When the ageing actor is murdered, Barbara assumes that Norma
committed the crime. Detecting the odor of violets in the room, McLain uses this
tiny clue to build a case against a gang of Nazi spies.the villains hold the
detective and Lawry prisoner until they are able to get their hands on a secret
formula developed by Barbara's father (Reginald Denny). In true movie-serial
fashion, it is McLain's faithful seeing-eye dog Friday (played by "himself") who
saves the day.
Part of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, which chronicles the
American civil rights struggle, Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
profiles three major movements. First, the program takes viewers to Albany,
GA, where a violent police chief tested Martin Luther King's peaceful strategy.
Next, in 1963 Birmingham, AL, young children volunteered to aid the dangerous
cause. Finally, the program covers the 1963 March on Washington, a time of
great optimism and support. Sadly, two weeks later, racial violence once again
reared its ugly head
Part of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, which chronicles the
American civil rights struggle, Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom 1965
describes the vanguard civil rights actions of Selma, AL, residents beginning in
the 1950s. During the '50s, Selma residents fought for voting rights, but officials
approved only a handful of black voters out of hundreds of applicants. In 1961,
the situation grew worse. After a young black activist was shot and killed,
25,000 people marched through Montgomery, AL, to remember him and to
state their case. Finally in 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights
Act, and one more hurdle was overcome
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Part of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, which chronicles the
American civil rights struggle,Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings (1954-1956)
describes the turbulent period of 1954-1956 and the growing strength of the
civil rights movement. Thanks to the formation of certain organizations and the
activism of local leaders and ordinary Americans alike, the cause was gaining
incredible steam, preparing to motor itself into the fiery 1960s. Viewers learn
about the historic Emmett Till murder trial, a significant moment in the civil
rights chronicle, and the role of the media in the overall movement.
Part of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, which chronicles the
American civil rights struggle, Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails
(1960-1961) focuses on the importance of the student movement in the civil
rights years. The first part of the program remembers the black college students
who staged sit-ins in 1960 Nashville, refusing to vacate lunch counters until
they were served. After those students were arrested, other black residents
began boycotting buses to protest. The second part of the program looks at the
controversial freedom riders, who fought to integrate the bus system
Part of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, which chronicles the
American civil rights struggle, Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi, Is This America?
(1962-1964) investigates the harsh, racially segregated Mississippi of the past.
Describing events from the late 1800s to the early '60s, the program paints a
vivid picture of Mississippi's hostile, racist environment and its transition into a
more civilized territory. In 1963, the "Freedom Vote" workshop prepared
residents of the state, both black and white, who had never voted. It seems a
hopeful occasion after all the divided heartache
Eyes on the Prize 2: The Promised Land (1967-68) profiles the important last
year of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. The documentary shows King protesting the
war in Vietnam and starting his Poor People's Campaign. Finally, the film
discusses King's tragic 1968 assassination and the events surrounding his
death
Eyes on the Prize 2: The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-80) looks at the durability
of anti-discrimination laws in the 1970s. The program describes the turbulent
desegregation of public schools in Brooklyn. Viewers also witness the racial
hotbed of late '70s Atlanta, GA, where the Bakke Supreme Court case
threatened to cripple affirmative action's bold strides.
Eyes on the Prize 2: Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72) profiles boxer
Muhammed Ali. The program holds up Ali as a symbol of the new sense of
pride and self-esteem in the 1960s African-American community. Viewers can
learn about Ali's prize-fighting history and experience the pivotal moment at
which he proclaims to a predominately white America, "I will not play your
game. I will not kill on your behalf."
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EYES ON THE PRIZE II
FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
FALLEN IDOL
Eyes on the Prize 2: The Time Has Come (1964-66) discusses emerging black
voices of strident aggression. In the late '60s, black activists like Malcolm X and
the SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), gain great steam
and apply a fearless new philosophy. Across the country, these activists echo a
relentless demand for equality, freedom, and power.
The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome GUINNESS, ALEC
spectacle of the decadence, corruption, and intrigue that tears apart the
greatest empire the world has seen. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over
a number of characters and stories. At the center are handsome but stiff
Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the aging
emperor (Alec Guinness), and Christopher Plummer as Commodus, the corrupt
heir to the throne--boyhood friends turned enemies when the latter accedes to
the throne and sells out the values of his father for greed and hedonistic
pleasures. The three-hour running time is filled out with the tales of Sophia
Loren (as the beautiful Lucilla in love with Livius but coveted by greedy
Commodus) and a gallery of heroes and villains that includes James Mason,
Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif, and Eric Porter. The
film is highlighted with spectacular scenes (a grandiose funeral fit for an
emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire,
and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome), which Mann weaves into
the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power. Like his previous epic El Cid, The
Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well
written (and largely historically accurate) with strong performances and a
consistently elegant style, but it lacks a central core and the magnetic hero of
its superior predecessor.
Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol
Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from a child's eye view-but it
isn't a children's story. Young Bobby Henrey idolizes household butler Ralph
Richardson. Therefore, when it seems as though Richardson might be
implicated in a murder, Bobby does his best to throw the police off the track.
The boy succeeds only in casting even more suspicion upon Richardson. As
the story progresses, Henrey's hero worship is eroded by Richardson's shifty
behavior, and even more so when the boy discovers that the butler's boasts of
previous heroism are just so much hot air. The ending of the film differs
radically from Greene's story. While it would seem that director Reed was
merely paying homage to the "happy ending" philosophy (hardly likely, given
the doleful climaxes of such films as Odd Man Out and The Third Man), the
director had very solid reasons for altering the story: he was more fascinated by
the concept of the boy's imagination nearly sending his idol to the gallows,
rather than having the butler entrapped by facts. And though the ending is
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happy for the boy, the butler's fate is much more nebulous.
A handful of heroes become superheroes under unlikely circumstances in this ALBA, JESSICA
action drama adapted from the long-running Marvel comic book series. Four
astronauts are on a mission aboard a new experimental spacecraft when they
are unexpectedly exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays. The accident
causes strange and unexpected transformations in all four.
This first (and by far the best) film version of Ernest Hemingway's novel A
Farewell to Arms stars Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Cooper plays Lt.
Frederick Henry, a World War I officer who falls in love with English Red Cross
nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes)-after first mistaking her for a woman of ill
repute. Henry's friend, Major Rinaldi, is envious of the romance, and pulls
strings to have Catherine transferred to Milan. When Henry is wounded in
battle, he ends up in the very hospital where Catherine works. They resume the
affair, which reaches an ecstatic peak just before Henry is returned to the front.
The now-pregnant Catherine remains in Switzerland, sending letters by the
bushelfull to Henry. But the jealous Rinaldi sees to it that Henry never receives
those letters, leading Catherine to conclude sorrowfully that Henry has
forgotten her. As the Armistice approaches, Henry makes his way to
Switzerland, hoping to find Catherine. He reaches the hospital where she has
delivered a stillborn child. Catherine, too, is near death, but lingers long enough
for a tender reunion with Henry.
A CRACKLING, TENSION PACKED THRILLER HINGED ON THE TRIANGLE DOUGLAS, MICHAEL
OF A MAN, A WIFE AND A VENGEFUL OTHER WOMAN. RATE R
Steve Martin stars in this remake of the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic as shoe
executive George Banks, whose happily married existence hits a bump when
he greets his daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams), home from a semester
studying in Europe. She tells her father that she is engaged to be married.
When the shocked George asks to whom, she says his name is Bryan (George
Newbern) and that he is an "independent communications consultant." George
is even more shocked when he finds out what the wedding will cost (when
George goes through the card file for invited wedding guests and is told
someone is deceased, George chirps, "He died? That's great!"). As George is
ignored during the mad preparations for the wedding, he wistfully looks back to
all the good times he has had with Annie and sadly looks forward to the time
when he loses his little girl
STEVE MARTIN STARS IN THIS HILARIOUSAND HEART-WARMING
REMAKE AS THE BEFUDDLED FATHER WHOSE HYSTERICAL TRIALS
AND TRIBULATIONS LEADING UP TO HIS DAUGHTER'S WEDDING WILL
HAVE YOU IN STITCHES.
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FEAR IN THE NIGHT 1947
This sequel to the 1950 comedy hit Father of the Bride finds Spencer Tracy and TRACY, SPENCER
Joan Bennett returning as Stanley and Ellie Banks, the parents of newlywed
Kay Dunstan (Elizabeth Taylor). In the first film, Stanley Banks was forced to
endure the chaotic events leading up to the wedding. This time, he must comes
to grips with the prospect of becoming a grandfather. Once he's reconciled
himself to this jolt of mortality, Stanley must contend with the little bundle of joy,
who screams his head off every time Grandpa comes near him.
This four-part series chronicles the life and political career of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. This first episode looks at the early life of FDR. Born into a wealthy
family, there was little about his youth that would suggest the giant of history
that he would become. His entry into state politics and a significant meeting
with a woman named Eleanor would change his life and the course of a nation
This four-part series chronicles the life and political career of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. In this second episode, the subject is FDR's courageous fight with
polio. With his wife Eleanor Roosevelt at his side, FDR, wins the Democratic
nomination for president. He takes office at the beginning of the Great
Depression. Exhorting the nation to keep the faith, FDR utters his famous
words: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
This four-part series chronicles the life and political career of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. This first episode looks at the early life of FDR. Born into a wealthy
family, there was little about his youth that would suggest the giant of history
that he would become. His entry into state politics and a significant meeting
with a woman named Eleanor would change his life and the course of a nation
This four-part series chronicles the life and political career of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. In this last episode, the story turns to the war years. The days
leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War
II were turbulent ones in America. FDR's strong leadership charted America's
course, as the newly emerging world power took on the responsibilities of the
war in Europe. Meanwhile, back in America, the New Deal was still a work in
progress. Archival news clips and photographs show the events of the day,
including FDR's death in 1945.
In his first starring role, DeForest Kelley plays a young man who has a terrible
nightmare, wherein he sees himself killing someone. When he awakens, Kelley
finds a couple of pieces of evidence indicating that his dream was no dream.
Detective Paul Kelly doesn't believe that Kelley has killed anyone, but agrees to
investigate. While taking shelter from a storm in a remote mansion, the
detective and the young man stumble upon a mirrored room--just like the one in
Kelley's dream. The frenzied Kelley is nearly driven to suicide, but detective
Kelly deduces that his friend's nightmare was the handiwork of Robert Emmett
Keane, the mansion's owner, who is a dabbler in hypnosis.
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FIELD OF DREAMS
FIFTH INNING - SHADOW BALL
FIGHTING SULLIVANS
FINDING NEMO
Ben (Jimmy Fallon) is a high-school teacher who meets Lindsay (Drew
BARRYMORE, DREW
Barrymore), who has a successful career in business. Ben and Lindsay don't
appear to have much in common on the surface, but they hit it off and are soon
involved in a serious romance. But when spring rolls around, Lindsay becomes
aware of the true love of Ben's life -- the Boston Red Sox. Despite the team's
lamentable record, Ben has been a fiercely loyal Red Sox fan since childhood,
and Lindsay finds it hard to compete with his passion for baseball, while Ben is
forced to choose between the obsessions of his youth and the enthusiasms of a
responsible adult.
IOWA FARMER BEGINS THE QUESTION OF TURNING HIS ORDINARY
CORNFIELD INTO A PLACE WHERE DREAMS CAN COME TRUE.
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inning five of Ken Burns' classic baseball documentary. The stories of great
Negro League players such as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell,
Judy Johnson, and Buck Leonard help set the stage for the history-making
moment in 1942 when Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbet's Field for the first
time. Back in the Major Leagues, the program focuses on Lou Gehrig and Joe
DiMaggio, the Yankees' challenge to Dizzy Dean and the Gas House Gang St.
Louis Cardinals, and the impact of the Great Depression as inspiration for the
first All-Star game. ~ Katie Tamms, All Movie Guide
The film traces the boys from childhood, maintaining a relatively lighthearted
tone until the Sullivans sign up en masse for the navy at the outbreak of the
war. Refusing to be separated, the boys are all assigned to the cruiser Juneau-and all are killed when the vessel goes down at Guadalcanal. This appalling
incident (which made something of a celebrity of the brothers' grieving father
when he went on a nationwide patriotic lecture tour) resulted in the Navy's
decision to never again allowed all the enlisted members of one family to serve
on the same ship. Even from the vantage point of fifty years, the scene in which
the family receives the wire from the war department is impossible to watch
with a dry eye.
Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who
is extremely devoted to his young son, Nemo (voice of Alexander Gould), the
only survivor after a hungry shark swallowed up Nemo's mother and her other
offspring. It's not Marlin's nature to explore unfamiliar waters, but when he and
Nemo are accidentally separated near the Great Barrier Reef en route to
Nemo's first day of fish school, Marlin gathers his courage and sets out to find
his son. What Marlin doesn't know, however, is that while Nemo was looking at
a boat passing on the surface, he was caught in a net and given a new home in
a dentist's aquarium. As Marlin searches for his son, he makes friends with a
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friendly but absent-minded Regal Blue Tang named Dory (voice of Ellen
DeGeneres), a Great White Shark named Bruce (voice of Barry Humphries)
who is trying to cut fish out of his diet, a beach-rat Sea Tortoise named Crush
(voice of Andrew Stanton), and Nigel (voice of Geoffrey Rush), a Pelican who
can take Marlin's search from the ocean to dry land.
biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the
children's classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century
writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and have his play
produced while he cares for his down-on-their-luck neighbors who inspired the
story in the first place.Adult Situations, Adult Language
The War between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as
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backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over England. Laurence Olivier
plays a British naval officer who offers his services to Queen Elizabeth (Flora
Robson) after his father is executed by the Spaniards. The Queen dispatches
Olivier to the court of Spain, there to determine which of her courtiers are
actually spies for King Philip (Raymond Massey). Working under cover, Olivier
learns that the Spaniards intend to send an Armada to decimate the British
navy. Barely escaping with his life, Olivier relays this information to his Queen,
and also dispatches the traitors in her midst.
The first episode in Ken Burns' spectacular documentary of America's favorite BURNS, KEN
pastime takes us from baseball's origins in the 1840s to the dawning of a new
century, when glorious moments were captured in still photos rather than
newsreel footage. Learn about the valuable contributions of Albert Goodwill
Spaulding and Harry Wright, and recall some of the century's great players
such as King Kelly, Cap Anson, and Cy Young. Burns highlights great teams
like the Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Baltimore Orioles, and provides the
background of those less glorious moments, when Moses Fleetwood Walker
and all other Negroes were expelled from the major leagues. Also told is the
story of John Montgomery Ward's efforts to establish a players' union. Ken
Burns' Baseball: Inning 1 -- Our Game is a powerful and informative first inning
for this classic baseball series.
In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and LAUREL AND HARDY
Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour
of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with
innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker). At Stan's prodding, Ollie pops
the question to Georgette, who gently refuses because there is Someone Else.
Disconsolately, Ollie decides to commit suicide by jumping into the Seine,
insisting that Stan join him in his plunge to oblivion. The boys are halted from
this drastic action by the timely arrival of Francois (Reginald Gardiner), an
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officer in the French Foreign Legion. Francois convinces Stan and Ollie that
they'll forget all about Ollie's lost love if they join the Legion, and within a few
days our heroes are in uniform at an outpost in French Morocco, where they
are promptly assigned to laundry detail. Alas, try as he might, Ollie can't forget
his beloved Georgette-until Stan suggests that he pretend to forget so that they
can get back in their own clothes and head home. This Ollie does, but not
before accidentally setting fire to a mountain of laundry. After leaving behind a
rather nasty letter of resignation for their scowling commandant (Charles
Middleton), Stan and Ollie pack their bags and head for the airport-where Ollie
is reunited with Georgette, who turns out to be the wife of their commanding
officer Francois! Sentenced to death for desertion, the boys tunnel their way out
of their jail cell and hide out in an airplane, which Stan accidentally sends into
flight. After a wild and noisy ride, the plane crashes, leading to the flm's
hilarious-and somehow touching--"freak" ending. Officially a remake of Les
Aviateurs, a French vehicle for Fernandel and Toto, The Flying Deuces also
owes a lot to the earlier Laurel & Hardy Foreign Legion farce Beau Hunks.
Highlights include Stan and Ollie's impromptu soft-shoe rendition of "Shine on
Harvest Moon", and Stan's lunatic excursion into Harpo Marx territory as he
plays a bed-spring "harp". Produced by Boris Morros and released by RKO
Radio, Flying Deuces is unquestionably the best of Laurel & Hardy's non-Hal
Roach vehicles.
"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an
HANKS, TOM
Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence
with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads
a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable
events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest
teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F.
Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an
anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats
the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the
break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an
original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across
the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life
goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as
a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and
1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured
alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrest's mother; Gary Sinise as his
commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy
who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp; and the special effects
artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical
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events and people. RATED R.
In a decade dominated by the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth became the
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nation's "heirloom." Inning four of Ken Burns' sweeping nine-part documentary
series focuses on the years 1920-1930, when baseball's black mark left by the
Black Sox scandal of 1919 was erased by the legend of Babe Ruth. His impact
on the game far overshadowed the previous achievements of the beloved Ty
Cobb. This episode also highlights other great players of the decade such as
Rogers Hornsby and Walter Johnson, the organization by Rube Foster of the
Negro Leagues, and the barnstorming of the country by the House of David.
A sexy black woman, Foxy Brown, seeks revenge when her government agent GRIER, PAM
boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters led by the kinky couple of Steve
Elias and Miss Katherine.
This first of four film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charlrd MacArthur Broadway hit
stars Adolphe Menjou as explosive Chicago newspaper-editor Walter Burns
and Pat O'Brien as his star reporter Hildy Johnson. Hildy is on the verge of
getting married and retiring from Burns' dirty little tabloid, but he agrees to
cover one last story: the politically motivated execution of convicted cop killer
Earl Williams (George E. Stone). Thanks to the stupidity of the police, Williams
manages to escape, and Johnson hides the wounded fugitive in a rolltop desk
in the prison pressroom. Burns enters the scene, senses a swell story (and also
a means of keeping Johnson on his payroll), and conspires with Johnson to
keep Williams out of sight until they can secure an exclusive interview. Burns
will do anything to keep Johnson on the scene, including having the reporter's
future mother-in-law kidnapped. Complicating matters are Johnson's fiancée
Peggy (Mary Brian), Williams' girlfriend Molly Malloy (Mae Clarke), and the
corrupt mayor (James Gordon) and sheriff (Clarence C. Wilson), who have
railroaded Williams to the death house in order to win votes and are now trying
to suppress the news that the governor has commuted Williams' sentence.
THIS ADORABLE, ANIMATED SPECIAL NARRATED BY JIMMY DURANTE
HAS ALREADY BECOME AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. WHEN FROSTY THE
SNOWMAN IS ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT TO LIFE, HE MUST WEATHER A
STORM OF ADVENTURES AND THE DASTARDLY PLANS OF AN EVIL
MAGICIAN BEFORE HE CAN FIND SAFETY AND HAPPINESS AT THE
NORTH POLE.
This 1993 box-office smash partly adheres to the 1960s TV series on which it is FORD, HARRISON
based and partly goes off on several tangents of its own. Harrison Ford stars as
Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to
prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a spectacular bus-train collision (one of the
best of its kind ever filmed). Surviving the disaster, Kimble escapes, vowing to
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track down the elusive professional criminal whom he holds responsible for the
murder. Dogging the fugitive every foot of the way is U.S. marshal Sam Gerard
(an Oscar-winning turn by Tommy Lee Jones), who announces his intention to
search "every whorehouse, doghouse, and outhouse" to bring Kimble to justice.
Unlike his dour TV-series counterpart Barry Morse, Jones plays the role with a
sardonic sense of humor: when a cornered Kimble screams, "I didn't kill my
wife," Gerard shrugs and famously replies, "I don't care." Once the premise has
been established, scripters Jeb Stuart and David Twohy and director Andrew
Davis pull off several audacious plot twists, ranging from Kimble's rendezvous
with a sympathetic lab technician to a jaw-dropping dive into a huge waterfall.
The second half of the film offers one surprise after another (including the true
identity of the murderer), brilliantly avoiding the letdown that plagues many
movie adaptations of old TV series
Six guys with nothing left to lose try losing their clothing for fun and profit in this
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international hit comedy. Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and Dave (Mark Addy) are two
former steelworkers in the British industrial town of Sheffield who have been
devastated by the economic downturn in their community. Gaz is threatened
with losing visitation rights with his son if he can't pay his child support, while
Dave feels emasculated by his inability to support his wife. One day, Gaz stops
by a local pub for a drink and is told it's women only tonight -- the Chippendales
male exotic dancing troupe is playing, and they are demanding a hefty cover
charge. Gaz decides there's nothing a bunch of pantywaists from America can
do that he and his pals can't do better, and decides to form his own crew of
male strippers, called "Hard Steel." However, the local talent pool leaves a bit
to be desired. Gaz isn't bad looking, but Dave is a bit heavy and very self
conscious about it. Horse (Paul Barber) was probably hot stuff at Soul Night in
the mid-70's, but his joints don't move like they used to. Guy (Hugo Speer) can't
dance to save his life, but makes the troupe because ... well, let's say he and
Dirk Diggler would have a lot to say to each other. Lomper (Steve Huison) is
sometimes too busy attempting suicide to practice. And Gerald (Tom
Wilkinson), their choreographer, isn't much on male exotic dancing -- ballroom
dancing is more his speed. While "Hard Steel"'s performances are more
amusing then enticing, for the first time since they lost their jobs the men have
a reason to get up in the morning; joining the group has given them a circle of
friendship, and a renewed sense of purpose. Combining broad comedy with
believable and well-drawn characters, The Full Monty was a major box-office hit
both in England and the United States and was nominated for Academy
Awards as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Rated: R
In 1846, as waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood DICAPRIO, LEONARDO VID
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born in the United States began making an open display of their resentment
toward the new arrivals. William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), better known as
"Bill the Butcher" for his deadly skill with a knife, bands his fellow "Native
Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish immigrants; the immigrants in turn
form a gang of their own, "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon (Liam
Neeson). After an especially bloody clash between the Natives and the Rabbits
leaves Vallon dead, his son goes missing; the boy ends up in a brutal reform
school before returning to the Five Points in 1862 as Amsterdam (Leonardo
DiCaprio). Now a strapping adult who has learned how to fight, Amsterdam has
come to seek vengeance against Bill the Butcher, whose underworld control of
the Five Points through violence and intimidation dovetails with the open
corruption of New York politician "Boss" Tweed (Jim Broadbent). Amsterdam
gradually penetrates Bill the Butcher's inner circle, and he soon becomes his
trusted assistant. Amsterdam also finds himself falling for Jenny Everdeane
(Cameron Diaz), a beautiful but street-smart thief who was once involved with
Bill. Amsterdam is learning a great deal from Bill, but before he can turn the
tables on the man who killed his father, Amsterdam's true identity is exposed,
even though he has conceiled it from nearly everyone, including Jenny.
Direct descendants of the legendary Native American leader Geronimo aid in
telling the story of the Apache medicine man, who, along with his followers,
resisted white settlement. When the United States government attempted to
move the Chiricahua Apache people to San Carlos Reservation from their
traditional home, Geronimo orchestrated massive resistance. For ten years,
Geronimo led a crusade to keep his ancestral land, defying and eluding the
federal authorities. This documentary, American Experience: Geronimo and the
Apache Resistance, describes the events that finally led Geronimo and his
followers to surrender in 1886. This is the story of a tragic collision of two
civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another, a little-known
chapter in American history with a big impact
Sophie Ware is a musician who returns to run the family farm after her father's
death. She struggles with the operation and is surprised by an offer of
assistance from Alex, the farm's handyman: a marriage of convenience
between the two to keep the farm afloat.
PATRICK SWAYZE PLAYS A GHOST WHO TEAMS WITH A PSYCHIC
(WHOOPI gOLDBERY) TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND HIS MURDER
AND TO RESCUE HIS SWEETHEART (DEMI MOORE). RATED R.
In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine
Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to
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introversion, menstruation anxiety, and terminal misanthropy. Three years late
for their first period, they spend their time staging gruesome death scenes for
their own amusement, amidst the willful ignorance of their relentlessly perky
mother (Mimi Rogers). On the night Ginger finally gets her period, the sisters
are attacked in the woods by a ferocious creature that may have some
connection to "The Beast of Bailey Downs," a predator currently disemboweling
its way through the local dog population. The girls survive the attack, and
Ginger's wounds heal quickly, but her attitude grows even more bizarre, as hair
sprouts from her scars and a tail grows from her spine. Adding to the terror, she
starts dating boys. A panicked Brigitte forces herself to befriend Sam (Kris
Lemche), the high school pot supplier, whose brand of ganja may be the only
cure for Ginger's troubling ailment.
THIS HEART-WARMING TALE OF A YOUNG GIRL'S COMING-OF-AGE IS A
BEAUTIFUL EVOCATION OF LIFE IN THE RURAL MIDWEST DURING THE
EARLY 1900S.
A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain
the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director Ridley
Scott. In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris)
throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus (Russell Crowe) is one of the
Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the
emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) ascends to
the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by
slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus
must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying
audiences. His battle skills serve him well, and he becomes one of the most
famous and admired men to fight in the Colosseum. Determined to avenge
himself against the man who took away his freedom and laid waste to his
family, Maximus believes that he can use his fame and skill in the ring to
avenge the loss of his family and former glory. As the gladiator begins to
challenge his rule, Commodus decides to put his own fighting mettle to the test
by squaring off with Maximus in a battle to the death.. Rated R
Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald
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Seymour from his own novel. A visiting Israeli scientist was targeted for
assassination by two different terrorist organizations: one Irish, one Arab. After
working at cross-purposes for an extended length of time, the hired killers from
both factions decided to join forces to carry out their murderous assignment.
American actors Rod Steiger and Anthony Perkins head the cast of The Glory
Boys.
World War II drama from MGM that commemorates the 442nd Regimental
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Combat Team, a combat unit composed of Japanese-Americans who fought
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valiantly during World War II, with many of the actual veterans of the combat
unit appearing as actors in the film. Van Johnson plays Lt. Michael Grayson, a
bigoted Texan assigned to shape these men into a fighting unit and who learns
to respect their valor and bravery.
COPPOLA (MARLON BRANDO) PAINTS A CHILLING PORTRAIT OF A
BRANDO, MARLON
SICILIAN FAMILY'S RISE AND NEAR FALL FROM POWER IN AMERICA
AND THE PASSAGE OF ROLES FROM FATHER TO SON. RATED R
the central relationship between the director and his gardener is about the
development of a genuine friendship between two outwardly dissimilar but
inwardly kindred spirits. By the time naïve gardener learns of the director's
homosexuality from the housekeeper, he has been drawn too deeply under the
man's spell to stay away from their meetings for long. While the tension
between the men never departs, a genuine relationship of caring develops
between them. Meanwhile, Whale has been clearly observing the progressive
deterioration of his mental faculties, and is increasingly being overwhelmed by
vivid memories and visions.
One of two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif
Garrett (Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance was the other), this spaghetti
western stars Van Cleef in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers,
Father John, is gunned down by the ruthless Sam Clayton (Jack Palance),
allowing Sam's gang to take over Juno City. Young Johnny (Garrett) crosses
into Mexico to convince the priest's twin, a retired bounty-hunter named Louis,
to strap on his guns one more time and save the town. Van Cleef is compelling,
even in his somewhat laughable wig, and the familiar cast also includes
Richard Boone and Sybil Danning.
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GONE WITH THE WIND
GWTW opens in April of 1861, at the palatial southern estate of Tara, where
Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie
Howard) plans to marry "mealy-mouthed" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de
Havilland). Despite warnings from her father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful
servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at
an upcoming barbecue at Twelve Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit
of histrionics, all of which is witnessed by rogueish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable),
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the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by
the feisty, thoroughly self-centered Scarlett: "we're bad lots, both of us." The
movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the
destruction of a huge wall left over from King Kong) through the now-classic
closing line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Holding its own against
stiff competition (many consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical
Hollywood studios), Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and
Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an
Oscar).
The film begins in 1965, when disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is
assigned to take over the AFR's Saigon radio broadcasts. In contrast to the
dull, by-rote announcers that have preceded him, Cronauer is a bundle of
dynamite, heralding each broadcast with a loud "Goooooood morning,
Vietnaaaaam," playing whatever records tickle his fancy (even those not
officially sanctioned by his hidebound superiors), and indulging in wild flights of
improvisational fancy. Cronauer's immediate superior Lt. Hauk (Bruno Kirby),
whose own notions of humor are puerile and pathetic, jealously attempts to
dethrone Vietnam's favorite rock jock. Fortunately, Cronauer's popularity is
such that he enjoys the full protection of the higher-ups. But when Cronauer,
after experiencing the horrors of war first-hand, insists upon telling his listeners
the truth instead of the official government line, he is instantly replaced by the
unfunny Hauk. Cronauer is able to briefly return to the microphone before a
trumped-up charge of "consorting with the enemy" ends his AFR career for
good. But Cronauer's loyal assistant (Forrest Whitaker) takes up the cudgel,
doing his best to deliver entertainment-and truth-to the beleaguered troops.
Good Morning, Vietnam is pure gold whenever concentrating on Robin
Williams' outrageous behind-the-mike antics; whenever it veers into the "real"
Vietnam, however, the film becomes patchy and awkward. Rated: R
This second film version of Broadway musical Good News may not be the best ALLYSON, JUNE
of the Arthur Freed-produced MGM musicals, but it's certainly one of the
peppiest. The film is set at Tait college during the Roaring 20s. The wisp of a
plot involves Tait football-star Peter Lawford, who will be ineligible to play in the
Big Game if his grades don't improve. June Allyson is the demure Tait coed
who takes on the task of tutoring Lawford, while campus vamp Patricia Marshall
takes action when she believes (rightly so) that she is losing Lawford to Allyson.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston
and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon),
gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar
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buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British girlfriend
Skylar (Minnie Driver). After MIT professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard)
stumps students with a challenging math formula on a hallway blackboard, Will
anonymously leaves the correct solution, prompting Lambeau to track the
elusive young genius. As Will's problems with the police escalate, Lambeau
offers an out, but with two conditions -- visits to a therapist and weekly math
sessions. Will agrees to the latter but refuses to cooperate with a succession of
therapists. Lambeau then contacts his former classmate, therapist Sean
McGuire (Robin Williams), an instructor at Bunker Hill Community College. Both
are equally stubborn, but Will is finally forced to deal with both his past and his
future. RATED R
TWO ORPHANS TRAVEL A DANGEROUS ROAD TO CLAIM THEIR
INHERITANCE, A NEWSPAPER IN A GOLD MINING TOWN. THEY DECIDE
TO USE THE NEWSPAPER TO RID THE TOWN OF ITS EVIL BOSS.
After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an
appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
However, when he discovers that his organization is full of corruption and lies,
he sets out to uncover the scam, much to the dismay of his girlfriend, Janet
(Mae Clarke), and his underhanded coworkers.
Durante plays the patriarch of a faded vaudeville team who suddenly finds a
great deal of money hidden in his house. The authorities suspect Durante of
being a thief, but in fact the culprit is a beneficent squirrel named Rupert. Once
everything is straightened out, Durante makes a triumphant return to the stage,
with Rupert as his "teammate." The stop-motion animation is the handiwork of
George Pal, and it's quite convincing; otherwise, The Great Rupert is as thin as
gossamer.
When German sympathizer Count Paul Rona (George MacReady) pilfers a
valuable jeweled glove from a French church during World War II, it is up to
American Michael Blake (Glenn Ford) to outwit his enemies and recover the
artifact.
Though Green Grow the Rushes has the look and feel of an Ealing comedy, the
film was actually produced through the auspices of British Lion. The story takes
place on the southern coast of England, where through a bureaucratic oversight
a small patch of land in Kent is protected from outside legal intervention by an
ancient charter. It is here that a group of liquor smugglers, headed by Captain
Biddie (Roger Livesey), carries on its activities with impunity and with full
cooperation of the regional politicians. The fun begins when a cargo of precious
potables ends up in a duck pond owned by a local farmer, sparking an
onslaught of governmental foolishness. Two future stars carry the slim romantic
subplot in Green Grow the Rushes: Honor Blackman plays a well-meaning
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newspaper columnist, while Richard Burton shows up as a slovenly smuggler
(this was Burton's final British film before his move to Hollywood).
Grey Owl is based on Belaney's true story, starring Pierce Brosnan in the title BROSNAN, PIERCE
role. In 1934, Archie was living a largely solitary life when he met a young
woman named Anahareo (Annie Galipeau), an Ojibway Indian nicknamed
Pony. Pony is fascinated by Archie, largely because she wants to know about
her people's heritage. Her father, Jim (Graham Greene), is a businessman who
wears a suit to work and has little concern for his history; in Archie, Pony sees
a link to her past that she can't find in her family. Archie has little use for Pony
at first, but in time the two begin to bond, and it's Pony who convinces Archie to
give up trapping and work to protect animals. She also encourages Archie to
write a book about wilderness life in Canada. The book becomes a huge
success and makes Archie something of a celebrity, but with recognition come
nagging questions about Archie's true heritage.Archibald Belaney was a British
man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture -- so much so that in
the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom for Canada, where he reinvented
himself as Archie Grey Owl (In reality, Archie Grey Owl's true idenity did not
become public knowledge until after his death.)
He's mean, he's green, and he's doesn't like the Yuletide season one bit -- Jim
Carrey stars in this live-action adaptation of the classic children's story by Dr.
Seuss (aka Theodore Geisel). High atop Mt. Crumpet, the Grinch (Carrey)
observes the residents of Whoville joyously preparing to celebrate Christmas.
The Grinch was born in Whoville years ago, but was shunned due to his scary
appearance, and his unrequited love for Martha May Whovier has turned him
bitter; the good cheer of the Whos has been a thorn in his side ever since.
Finally the Grinch decides he's had enough of all this happiness, and with the
wary aid of his dog Max, the Grinch conspires to steal Christmas from Whoville,
making off with their presents, holiday decorations, Christmas trees, and
everything else used to enjoy the holiday. Molly Shannon, Christine Baranski,
Jeffrey Tambor, and Clint Howard play several of the citizens of Whoville, while
Anthony Hopkins narrates Rated PG
In this family-oriented outdoor adventure story, Bryan Brown plays Tyrone, a
hunter who captures a handful of grizzly bear cubs. However, Tyrone didn't
count on the tenacity of the cubs' mother, who retaliates by kidnapping Tyrone's
son. When Tyrone sets out to find his son, fearing the worst, the bear proves a
kind and capable companion, guiding the boy through the wilderness and
showing him the ways of survival in the wild. Shot amidst the rugged
surroundings of Vancouver, British Columbia.
A Talent For Loving" is a little-seen comedy/western from 1969. A late-19th
Century American gambler (Richard Widmark) passing through Mexico
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suddenly finds himself married into a Mexican family that's been touched by an
old Aztec curse: "a talent for loving"....The bawdy jokes, for the most part, work
quite well, and the cast, with some surprising big names, throw themselves into
the fun with great abandon.
Randolph Scott plays Thorwald, a marine colonel assigned to assemble a crack
squadron of fearless jungle fighters for the all-important raid on Japanese-held
Makim Island. Gung Ho is a fairly exciting WW2 melodrama, with a particularly
thrilling climax.
1926. The Chineese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to
witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her
death by taking on a deadly mission to buy guns abroad and smuggle them
back. Arriving in his hometown, Ted is shocked to find his elderly mother and
younger brother George are penniless. But time is running out, and before he
can help them, he's got to get the guns. In setting up the deal, Ted meets and
falls for the seductive nightclub owner Maud Ryan (Sarah Botsford) who
introduces him to the treacherous gangsters who will sell him the artillery. For a
gun-runner, falling in love is like pointing a pistol at your heart - and pulling the
trigger!
LINC MURDOCH GETS A CHANCE FOR REVENGE WHEN HE FINDS THE
WOMAN HE LOVED AND LOST THREATENED BY A MAN HE HATES
WIDOW TAKES ON HUSBAND'S JOB AS SHERIFF AS GUNSLINGER
COMES TO TOWN
The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh,
Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered throngs are aghast when
unknown dancer Janet Jones (Vera-Ellen) steps daintily from a limousine
owned by a Scottish millionaire. A few miles earlier, the girl had thumbed a ride
from the limo driver, but the public doesn't know this, and soon rumors are
flying. Before she knows what has happened, Jones has become the festival's
main attraction. She is also romanced by B.G. Bruno (David Niven), whom she
assumes to be a reporter but who, of course, is the millionaire in disguise.
HAPPY GO LOVELY is a charming musical, filmed in England and set against
the backdrop of the Edinburgh Festival. Vera-Ellen, considered the greatest
female dancer of her generation (and the best dancer to have been employed
at MGM) plays Janet Jones, a young corps dancer in a new musical called
"Frolics to You". Thanks to a case of jumping to the wrong conclusion, director
Frost (Cesar Romero) believes Janet is the girlfriend of millionaire B.G. Bruno
(David Niven). Frost decides to get B.G. to bankroll the musical and put Janet
in the starring role. Comedic situations ensue before Janet and B.G. really find
love in the final reel.
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HARRY POTTER AND THE
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET
OF FIRE 2005
Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah, a photo editor for Newsweek and the happily
married wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David
Strathairn). Harrison has been reconsidering his career of covering the world's
war zone "hot spots" in order to spend more time with his family, and is
accused by his colleague, Kyle (Adrien Brody), of playing it too safe in his risky
profession. Harrison elects to accept one more combat assignment to cover the
simmering tensions in Croatia, a conflict that quickly erupts into a full-scale,
genocidal Civil War. Informed that Harrison is believed to have been killed in
the fighting, Sarah refuses to accept her husband's death and becomes
convinced that she's seen him, alive, in a news broadcast. She travels to
Croatia on a quest to find him, and is eventually aided by Kyle, as well as two of
Harrison's other colleagues, Yeager (Elias Koteas) and Stevenson (Brendan
Gleeson). The group, armed with cameras instead of weapons, witnesses the
horrors and atrocities unfolding in the region, while tracing the elusive path of
Harrison, who may well be dead already.
Prisoner of Azkaban marks the introduction of Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), who ROWLING, J. K.
has escaped from the title prison after 12 years of incarceration. Believed to
have been the right-hand-man of the dark wizard Voldemort, whom Harry
(Daniel Radcliffe) mysteriously rendered powerless during his infancy, some of
those closest to Harry suspect Black has returned to exact revenge on the boy
who defeated his master. Upon his return to school, however, Harry is relatively
unconcerned with Black. Run by Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) -- who
is widely regarded as the most powerful wizard of the age -- Hogwarts is
renowned for its safety. Harry's nonchalance eventually turns to blind rage after
accidentally learning the first of Black's many secrets during a field trip to a
neighboring village. Of course, a loose serial killer is only one of the problems
plaguing the bespectacled wizard's third year back at school -- the soul-sucking
guards of Azkaban prison have been employed at Hogwarts to protect the
students, but their mere presence sends Harry into crippling fainting spells.
With the help of his friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson),
and Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Remus Lupin (David Thewlis),
Harry struggles to thwart the Dementors, find Sirius Black, and uncover the
mysteries of the night that left him orphaned
Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment to the Harry Potter series finds RADCLIFFE, DANIEL
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) wondering why his legendary scar -- the famous result
of a death curse gone wrong -- is aching in pain, and perhaps even causing
mysterious visions. Before he can think too much about it, however, Harry
boards the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he will
attend his fourth year of magical education. Shortly after his reunion with his
best friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), Harry is
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introduced to yet another Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher: the grizzled
Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson), a former dark wizard catcher who agreed
to take on the infamous "DADA" professorship as a personal favor to
Headmaster Dumbledore (Michael Gambon). Of course, Harry's wishes for an
uneventful school year are almost immediately shattered when he is
unexpectedly chosen, along with fellow student Cedric Diggory (Robert
Pattinson), as Hogwarts' representative in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which
awards whoever completes three magical tasks the most skillfully with a
thousand-galleon purse and the admiration of the international wizard
community. As difficult as it is to deal with his schoolwork, friendships, and the
tournament at the same time (not to mention his feelings toward the ever
unfathomable Professor Snape (Alan Rickman), Harry doesn't realize that the
most feared wizard in the world, Lord Voldemort, is anticipating the tournament,
as well
This dark and dangerous mystery drives the action while Harry (the fastgrowing Daniel Radcliffe) and his third-year Hogwarts classmates discover the
flying hippogriff Buckbeak (a marvelous CGI creature), the benevolent but
enigmatic Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), horrifying black-robed Dementors,
sneaky Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall), and the wonderful advantage of having
a Time-Turner just when you need one.
The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy .
Upon his 11th birthday, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), who lives in misery with
an aunt and uncle that don't want him, learns from a giant named Hagrid
(Robbie Coltrane) that he is the orphaned son of powerful wizards. Harry is
offered a place at prestigious Hogwarts, a boarding school for wizards that
exists in a realm of magic and fantasy outside the dreary existence of normal
humans or "Muggles." At Hogwarts, Harry quickly makes new friends and
begins piecing together the mystery of his parents' deaths, which appear not to
have been accidental after all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
was released under the original title of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone in the U.K. The film even features alternate-version scenes for every
mention of the titular rock. Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, John
Cleese, and Fiona Shaw co-star.
HELLBENDERS 1993
An ex-Confederate and his sons plan to use stolen money as a way to revive
the Confederacy.
HELLO DOLLY!
Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for
middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her right
through the role and dominates the lackluster movie around her. The plot,
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drawn from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (itself based on a 19th-century
British farce), is set in motion when Yonkers feed store clerk Cornelius Hackl
(Michael Crawford) celebrates his promotion by taking his pal Barnaby Tucker
(Danny Lockin) to New York City for a "corking good time." But Cornelius and
Barnaby can't avoid crossing paths with their boss Horace Vandergelder
(Walter Matthau), who'd give them Holy Ned if he saw them in a fancy
restaurant with two fancy girls instead of tending the store. Mr. Vandergelder
himself is the object of Dolly's affections, though she pretends to have only a
professional interest in the widowed merchant, going through the motions of
finding him a new wife when in fact she'd like to be the lucky bride herself. The
film's musical set pieces include a show-stopping rendition of the title number,
with Louis Armstrong more or less playing himself. The biggest number is
"Before the Parade Passes By," in which thousands of costumed marchers and
atmosphere extras cavort before a huge replica of a New York City
thoroughfare in the 1890s (actually the main entrance of the 20th Century-Fox
studio, with period facades adorning the office buildings). Rated G.
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front
Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson
from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the
sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage
to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns,
Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending
marriage as a ploy to win her back. The ace up Walter's sleeve is a latebreaking news story concerning the impending execution of anarchist Earl
Williams (John Qualen), a blatant example of political chicanery that Hildy can't
pass up. The story gets hotter when Williams escapes and is hidden from the
cops by Hildy and Walter--right in the prison pressroom. His Girl Friday may
well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action,
instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely,
you'll hear a couple of "in" jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name
(Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented "poor sap"
screen image.
Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he
intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Plot Synopsis: Two carefree young travellers make the mistake of their lives
when they pick up a mysterious, and slightly psychotic, hitch-hiker who never
closes his right eye -- even when he sleeps
J.R.R. Tolkien's classic book about the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his
unexpected adventures came to life in this animated, televised adaptation by
Rankin-Bass Productions. Enthusiasts of Tolkien's lengthy and more
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demanding Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as adult readers of The Hobbit,
may be disappointed by this somewhat simplified adaptation of the book,
though children and first-time readers of Tolkien will appreciate its whimsical
introduction to the fictional world of Middle Earth. As the story goes, "In a hole
in the ground, there lived a Hobbit...." Bilbo Baggins would much rather relax in
his comfy hobbit-hole or take long walks in the Shire than have adventures.
After all, "adventures make one late for dinner." Unfortunately, Gandalf the
Wizard shows up one day with other plans for Bilbo. Gandalf introduces Bilbo to
a rag-tag band of dwarves whose leader, Thorin Oakensheild, asks Bilbo for
help in recovering his family's treasure from the fire-breathing dragon Smaug.
Bilbo meekly accepts the offer, and soon finds himself on a long journey
through Mirkwood forest, to Smaug's dark lair in the Lonely Mountain. Along the
way, the unlikely band is captured and nearly eaten by trolls, shackled and
prodded by goblins, tied-up in webs and hung from trees by giant spiders, and
finally imprisoned by the swarthy, distrustful woodland elves of Mirkwood. With
keen hobbit-wits and a magic ring he finds in the goblin caves, Bilbo manages
to free the band on several occasions and helps them recover their lost
inheritance. Understandably, much detail was omitted from Tolkien's novel to fit
this made-for-TV adaptation -- most notably the story of the group's encounter
with Beorn the shape shifter, and the somewhat complex issue of the
Arkenstone, a legendary gem which Bilbo steals from Smaug's treasure-trove
unbeknownst to the dwarves.
a top-notch spy thriller. A Nazi pact to steal a fortune from the Third Reich to
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aid Holocaust survivors results in a bizarre inheritance 40 years later, with
architect Michael Caine having to come to terms with his father's past and the
terrifying prospects of a Fourth Reich.
Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young
boy named Kevin (Macauley Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his
family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he
realizes they've left him "home alone," he learns to fend for himself and,
eventually has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci,
Daniel Stern) who are planning to rob every house in Kevin's suburban Chicago
neighborhood. Though the film's slapstick ending may be somewhat violent,
Culkin's charming presence helped the film become one of the most successful
ever at the time of its release
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generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and
foreign policy issues.
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Disney's 1993 remake of the 1963 hit The Incredible Journey, follows three
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household pets as they travel across mountains and plains on their way to find
their owners. A misunderstanding leads the animals to mistakenly believe that
they have been abandoned by their loved ones, when in reality they have been
left in the care of a friend while the family has moved from the country to the
city for the father to take a temporary assignment . All three pets--a golden
retriever (Don Ameche), a cat (Sally Field), and a bulldog puppy (Michael J.
Fox)--can talk, and they bicker and crack jokes as they set off on a truly
incredible journey chock full of misadventures as they wend their way back to
their owners.
In the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a bumbling but brilliant scientist (Rick WALT DISNEY
Moranis) accidentally makes his two-year-old son into a giant who becomes
larger every time he comes in contact with electricity. Though he and his wife
try to control their son, the child inevitably escapes and wreaks havoc,
eventually terrorizing the streets of Las Vegas.
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magnetic shrinking machine. The kids, shrunk to 1/4-inch height, are tossed
into the trash bin by the unwitting Moranis. For the rest of the film, our teenytiny protagonists attempt to gain their parents' attention--and to survive the
wilds of the backyard, where all sorts of dangers, from bumblebees to
lawnmowers, threaten their well-being.
cAREER WOMAN TURNS DOWN PROPOSAL FROM SOUTH SEAS
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PLANTATION OWNER ONLY TO CHANGE HER MIND. WHEN SHE COMES
TO TELL HIM SHE FINDS SHE HAS COMPETITION.
Birdee Pruitt (Bullock) has a life most people would envy. But when her
cheating husband reveals infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her
perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter
head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle
to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart
and find hope again.
This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite, takes place in 1907. Professor
Caxton (Christopher Lee), a fossil-hunter has discovered some sort of prehuman creature frozen in ancient Manchurian ice. He is traveling to London
with his find on the Trans-Siberian Railway and is horrified to discover that his
frozen man is missing, and corpses and zombies are appearing all over the
train. It turns out that the frozen specimen is an alien with some unusual
powers. The combined forces of Professor Caxton, his rival Dr. Wells (Peter
Cushing), and a Cossack captain (Telly Savalas) are needed to save the world
from this monstrous being.
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HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
HURRICANE
I DREAM OF JEANIE
ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT
IMMORTAL BATTALION
THE CURSE OF THE BASKERVILLE FAMILY IN A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR
VERSION OF THIS FAMOUS MYSTERY.
A perennial favorite of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill
stars Vincent Price as a sinister gent (you're surprised?) who owns a sinister
mansion on a sinister hill. He offers several of his enemies $10,000 each--if
they agree to spend the night in the crumbling old mansion. Price festively
gives each of his guests a tiny coffin containing a handgun, then proceeds to
set in motion any number of gadgets and devices designed to frighten the
guests into using their weapons. Strange as it seems, old Vinnie isn't the real
villain of the proceedings: that honor goes to his scheming wife Carol Ohmart
and her lover Alan Marshall. Also on hand is eternal doom-sayer Elisha Cook
Jr., who is given the film's famous final line.
The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers,
CONNERY, SEAN
Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and
Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets
the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and
steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect. .
RATED R.
NOVA obtained spectacular footage of the storm's center--a canyon of clear
blue sky surrounded by a wall of clouds 10 miles high. Watch how these
highly-trained scientists routinely--and carefully--fly into the world's most
destructive storms to discover what makes them tick and to measure its
intensity and probable path.
The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved
songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this musical biography.
Foster (Bill Shirley) is a shy bookkeeper who writes songs in his spare time. He
is madly in love with Inez McDowell (Muriel Lawrence), but she isn't interested
in him, and she eventually gives him the brush-off. However, Inez's sister
Jeanie (Eileen Christy) carries a torch for Foster, and in time, he finds
happiness with her. Jeanie's inspiration leads Foster to write some of his best
known songs, which brings him success in the music business and allows him
to leave bookkeeping behind. Along with the title tune, the soundtrack features
such Foster classics as "My Old Kentucky Home", "Swanee River", "Camptown
Races", "Oh! Susannah", "The Old Folks at Home", "A Ribbon in Your Hair",
and "I Still See Her in My Dreams".
SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY-HOLMES INVESTIGATES AUSTRIAN
HOLMES, SHERLOCK
BARON GRUNER, A COLLECTOR OF OBJECTS D'ART AND BEAUTIFUL
WOMEN, FOR AN ANONYMOUS CLIENT.
The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a
training film, The New Lot, which ran 44 minutes. When Winston Churchill
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IN HIS FATHER'S SHOES
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approached David Niven about creating a film that would do for the British Army
what In Which We Serve had done for the Royal Navy, he contacted Carol
Reed and suggested expanding The New Lot. The result, written by Eric
Ambler and Peter Ustinov, was the acclaimed The Way Ahead. For its U.S.
release, Way Ahead was edited to a shorter length and retitled The Immortal
Battalion. In either of its feature length forms, the film is concerned with the
training of a bunch of raw recruits into a capable and efficient fighting regiment.
Niven stars as Jim Perry, a lieutenant and former ordinary guy who finds that
he must learn to take a tough line in order to make his wildly diverse crew come
together and understand the importance both of the war and of their place in it.
Although it takes time and constant effort on the part of Perry and his sergeant,
the eight men eventually overcome their different backgrounds and feelings,
and transform themselves into a unit which performs its tasks with admirable
skill and dexterity, preparing them for their battle against the Desert Fox in
Africa. Told in a semi-documentary style, Battalion also features the screen
debut of Trevor Howard
In San Francisco, the successful self-made businessman Walter Williams has DONLEVY, BRIAN
just bought three factories in Denver with the approval of the board of directors.
His beloved wife Irene tells him that she is not feeling well to travel with him,
and asks Walter to give a lift to her cousin Jim Torrance. On the highway, Jim,
who is actually Irene's lover, tries to kill Walter hitting his head and throwing
him in a cliff, and has a fatal accident while escaping driving Walters's car.
Walter is considered dead and later his wife is sent to jail accused of plotting
his murder. Meanwhile, the wounded Walter sleeps in a moving van and
awakes in Larkspur, a small town in Idaho. He is hired as a mechanic in a gas
station by the owner, Marsha Peters. For three months, Walter reads the news,
expecting revenge with Irene sentenced to death, and he and Marsha fall in
love for each other. When Walter discloses the truth to Marsha, she convinces
him to return to San Francisco and save his unfaithful wife. The situation
changes when Irene accuses him of plotting to kill her lover Jim, and Walter
has to prove his innocence.
Clay Crosby never had the chance to know his late father very well and it
created a void in his life. At 15, he finds a pair of shoes, tries them on, and
suddenly finds himself whisked back to the days when his father was a teen.
When he takes the shoes off, he returns to his own time. Each time he travels
backward, Clay draws more insight into his father's personality and life, things
that help the boy deal more effectively with his own life and family.
Nova: In Search of Human Origins -- The Creative Revolution is the final
episode in a three-part anthropology documentary that provides an historical
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2004
INDEPENDENCE DAY
perspective on the contributions of our earliest ancestors. Narrated by
anthropologist Don Johanson, this tape analyzes the profound behavioral and
cultural changes that occurred amongst African hunters and gatherers 50,000
generations ago. The other tapes in the series are Nova: In Search of Human
Origins -- The Story of Lucy and Nova: In Search of Human Origins -- Surviving
in Africa.
Nova: In Search of Human Origins -- Surviving in Africa is part of the three-tape
series, which tells the story of the evolutionary past of humanity, from the issue
of sexual politics to the birth of technology. This tape takes viewers to Africa for
investigation of human history. The program discusses various theories as to
how early human ancestors survived, shows the value of Louis and Mary
Leakey's discovery at Olduvai Gorge, and questions the importance of hunting
to early hominid development.
Is "Lucy" the missing link that bridges the gap between human and ape? In the
first installment of a three-part television documentary, Nova investigates this
question by following anthropologist Donald Johanson to the actual location in
Ethiopia where he found the fossilized remains of this pre-historic ape.
Fifteen years ago, superheroes walked the streets of Metroville, performing
acts of great heroism and inspiring many to follow their example. But a string of
lawsuits by disgruntled people they'd helped lead to political and public outcry,
and the Supers were forced into retirement and government-funded anonymity.
Bob Parr used to be Mr. Incredible, one of the greatest and strongest Supers;
now, he lives a mundane life as a suburban insurance agent. Although his wife
Helen (formerly Elastigirl) has moved on and is more concerned with raising
their children Dashiell (who is super-fast and super-confident), Violet (who can
turn invisible - and is super-shy) and baby Jack-Jack than battling evil, Bob still
yearns for the good old days - and his chance comes when he is approached
by a shadowy government organization and asked to join their numbers. But all
is not as it seems, and Bob will find himself trapped by Syndrome, an
embittered enemy who in his youth once idolized Mr. Incredible - and only his
family will be able to save him now.
A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious
extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure.The story
begins with the approach of a series of massive spaceships, which many on
Earth greet with open arms, looking forward to the first contact with alien life.
Unfortunately, these extraterrestrials have not come in peace, and they unleash
powerful weapons that destroy most of the world's major cities. Thrown into
chaos, the survivors struggle to band together and put up a last-ditch resistance
in order to save the human race. This effort is led by a group of scrappy
Americans, including a computer genius who had foreseen the alien's evil intent
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INDISCREET
INFINITE WORLD OF H. G. WELLS VOL. 1 2001
INFINITE WORLD OF H. G. WELLS VOL. 2 2001
INFINITE WORLD OF H. G. WELLS VOL. 3 2001
INSIDE LOOK! THE FLU
INSOMNIA
(Jeff Goldblum), a hot-shot jet pilot (Will Smith), and the President of the United
States (Bill Pullman). The combination of grand visual spectacle and crowdpleasing storytelling proved irresistable to audiences, resulting in an
international smash hit.
The third installment in the Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga, Indiana Jones FORD, HARRISON
and the Last Crusade evokes many of the thrills of the first two efforts.What
follows is a roller-coaster of thrills, whisking both the elder and the younger
Joneses to Venice, Berlin, and the most treacherous regions of the Middle
East. Complicating matters is the presence of lovely Alison Doody, whose
attraction to Indy -- and his dad -- does not dissuade her from her loyalty to the
Nazi party.
La Swanson plays Geraldine "Jerry" Trent, a worldly socialite who endeavors to SWANSON, GLORIA
protect her younger sister Joan (Barbara Kent) from the lecherous
machinations of Jim Woodward (Monroe Owsley). But when Joan discovers
that Jerry and Woodward were once lovers themselves, she mistakenly
believes that Jerry's attempts to break up her romance is motivated by
jealousy. All turns out happily when Jerry falls for Tony Blake (Ben Lyon), while
Joan finds a more suitable mate in the form of Buster Collins (Arthur Lake).
Like "Time After Time," this three-part British TV miniseries features a fictional
H. G. Wells embroiled in several fascinating SF adventures. Each segment
runs 90 minutes and contains two stories;
Like "Time After Time," this three-part British TV miniseries features a fictional
H. G. Wells embroiled in several fascinating SF adventures. Each segment
runs 90 minutes and contains two stories;
Like "Time After Time," this three-part British TV miniseries features a fictional
H. G. Wells embroiled in several fascinating SF adventures. Each segment
runs 90 minutes and contains two stories;
Al Pacino stars as Detective Will Dormer, a Los Angeles Police Department
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legend who temporarily escapes an internal affairs investigation that may ruin
his career by traveling to Nightmute, AK, the remote site of a murder that has
the local authorities flummoxed. Along with his partner, Hap Eckhart (Martin
Donovan), and the small town's wide-eyed rookie investigator, Ellie Burr (Hilary
Swank), the exhausted Dormer probes the brutal slaying of a teenage girl who
was rumored to have a secret lover. A clever ruse quickly lures the killer into a
police trap, but the suspect escapes and a tragic accident at the scene leaves
Dormer at the mercy of the murderer, a pulp crime novelist named Walter Finch
(Robin Williams). As Finch plays a dangerous game of extortion with Dormer,
the detective's mental health deteriorates rapidly from guilt over his complicity
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IT'S GOOD TO BE ALIVE 1974
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
in a crime and sleep deprivation compounded by the lack of darkness in the
land of the midnight sun. Meanwhile, the bright and dogged Ellie continues
putting the pieces of a complex puzzle together despite Dormer's skillful
attempts to lead the investigation toward the right suspect, but away from his
own malfeasance.
The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with KAYE, DANNY
in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery in The Inspector General. Kaye
plays the illiterate stooge of two-bit medicine-show- entrepreneur Walter
Slezak. Abandoned by Slezak, the starving Kaye wanders into a corruptionridden Russian village, which is all geared up for a visit from the Inspector
General. Mistaking Kaye for that selfsame royal inspector, the townsfolk fawn
on the confused Kaye, granting him his every whim and plying him with all sorts
of bribes. In the original Gogol play, the boorish phony inspector takes
advantage of the villagers' error by laying waste to the town and seducing a few
local maidens; in the film, Kaye is as pure as the driven borscht, as is his true
love (Barbara Bates), the only honest person in town. The treachery is in the
hands of Slezak, who fakes Kaye's death and tries to blackmail the crooked
local officials. The deus-ex-machina arrival of the real Inspector General foils
the crooks and places the nonplused Kaye in the job of town mayor. Those of
you who read the play in college may remember it ends with everyone frozen in
horror when the genuine inspector shows up, with Gogol's stage directions
insisting that the actors hold their fearful poses for a full sixty seconds.
This is a great movie about baseball great Roy Campanella(Paul Winfield)and
how he persevered after a paralyzing autombile accident.He battles against the
awful depression and with the great and unvaluable help of his therapist he
wins and overcomes .
It's impossible for any viewer not be touched when he tells to 80.000 fans in
The Angeles Coliseum: It's good to be alive!
In 1952, the comedy team of Abbott and Costello entered into a joint agreement
with producer Alex Gottlieb and Warner Brothers, whereby two color musical
comedies would be produced: Bud Abbott would serve as producer--owner of
one of the films, while Lou Costello would do same for the other. Costello's
contribution to this agreement was Jack and the Beanstalk, a kiddie-matinee
adaptation of the famed fairy tale. Constructed along the lines of The Wizard of
Oz, the film begins in black and white. Jack (Costello) is a professional babysitter, while Dink (Abbott) is Jack's "agent." After a run-in with a gargantuan cop
(Buddy Baer) and a statuesque waitress (Dorothy Ford), Jack and Dink show
up at the home of Eloise Larkin (Shaye Cogan), there to look after Eloise's
troublesome nephew Donald (David Stollery) while the girl and her boyfriend
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JAMAICA INN 1939
Arthur Royal (James Alexander) rehearse at their community theatre. While
reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to the bratty Donald, Jack falls
asleep, and begins dreaming himself, and his cohorts, into the story as the
impoverished boy sent out to sell the family cow. While en route to town with
his cow, he encounters a shady butcher (Abbott) who bilks him out of his
broken-down bovine for the price of a few 'magic' beans. In keeping with the
traditional tale, Jack plants the beans and from them a magnificent vine grows
and reaches into the clouds. Along with the butcher, Jack climbs into a fantastic
world inhabited by a terrifying giant (Baer) and other magical creatures,
including a gold egg-laying hen, a singing harp, and a distressed prince and
princess.
The film traces Robinson's career from his college days, when he excelled as a
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track star at Pasadena College and as UCLA's All-Sports record holder. Upon
his graduation, Robinson tries to get a coaching job, but this is the 1940s, and
most doors are closed to black athletes. After serving in the army, Robinson
plays with the Negro Baseball League, where his uncanny skills attract the
attention of Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Anxious
to break down the "color line" that exists in major-league baseball, Rickey is
chosen in 1946 to play for the Brooklyn farm team in Montreal. In a harrowing
sequence, Rickey lets Robinson know what he's in for by bombarding him with
insults and racial slurs. The manager is merely testing Robinsons ability to
withstand the pressure: he wants a black ballplayer "with guts enough not to
fight back." Robinson agrees to ignore all racial epithets for the first two years
of his Brooklyn contract. Despite the unabashed hatred to which he is subjected
during his year with Montreal, Robinson steadfastly continues to turn the other
cheek, and in 1947 he graduates to the Dodgers lineup. After a slow start,
Robinson justifies the faith put in him by Rickey. The Dodgers win the pennant
race, and slowly but surely the ban on black players vanishes in the Big
Leagues. Though a model of restraint by 1990s standards, The Jackie
Robinson Story is surprisingly frank in its detailing of the racial tensions of its
own era.
Set in early 1800's Cornwall. Charles Laughton is delicious in this classic
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Hitchcock thriller as the stuffy, regal Humphrey Pengallan, a psychotic country
squire who decides the best way to meet the high costs of royal life is to indulge
his immodest talents as a criminal mastermind. Unbeknownst to his friends and
peers, Lord Pengallan has assembled a grimy band of cutthroat thieves which
he secretly directs to wreck and loot merchant ships on the rocky Cornwall
coast. He is of course thwarted by plucky newcomer Maureen O'Hara and her
goodlooking beau, an undercover policeman whose cover is blown after one of
their heists seems a bit light.
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JARHEAD 2005
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JINNAH ON CRIME 2003
JINNAH ON CRIME: PIZZA 911
JOE LOUIS STORY
Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, SCOTT, GEORGE C.
this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television
adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position
as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), lord of an
English manor house called Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister
secret. Jane and the moody and the tyrannical Rochester fall in love and agree
to marry. But at their wedding ceremony, Rochester is revealed to have been
already married. Suddenly his dark past comes crashing in on both himself and
the innocent Jane
A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based
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drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal)
decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and
signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War in 1991. After
experiencing the rigors of boot camp, Swofford and his pal Troy (Peter
Sarsgaard) are trained to be snipers, and under the leadership of Sgt. Sykes
(Jamie Foxx) and Lt. Col. Kazinski (Chris Cooper), the two land in the middle of
a desert where they're up against an enemy they can't always see under a
blazing sun with hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Swofford, Troy, and their fellow soldiers rely on the wits, their sense of humor,
and their friendship of their brothers in arms to deal with a situation that doesn't
much resemble what they saw on television at home. Jarhead was based on
the memoirs of the real-life Anthony Swofford, who did serve as a sniper in the
1991 Gulf War; the title comes from military slang for a Marine enlistee
PROSECUTOR FINDS INVESTIGATING MYSTERIOUS SUICIDES GETS
TONE, FRANCHOT
HIM IN TROUBLE WITH RIGHT-WING HATE GROUP
VANCOUVER, CANADA CIME REPORTED FINDS HIMSELF IN DANGER AS
HE INVESTIGATES THE MURDER OF A BUSINESSMAN WHO CHEATED
CLIENTS OUT OF MILLIONS.
INDIAN CRIME REPORTER IN VANCOUVER SEEKS MURDERER OF TEEN
IN PIZZA OVEN AND ENCOUNTERS BIKER GANGS, DRUG SMUGGLING,
RUSSIAN CRIME SYNDICATES AND MURDER.
Told in flashback, the film recounts the pugilistic career of "the Brown Bomber"
from the early 1930s to his misguided comeback attempt opposite Rocky
Marciano in 1951. The film's high point is Louis' defeat of Germany's Max
Schmeling; its low point (dramatically, not quality-wise) is the breakup of Louis's
marriage. Evidently for legal reasons, most of the character names in the film
are fictional. Many of the fight scenes are culled from footage of the real Louis
in action. Though the "race" angle in The Joe Louis Story is downplayed, Louis
is treated on an equal par with the white characters, which resulted in the film
being banned in certain Southern regions back in 1953.
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JOY LUCK CLUB
JULIUS CAESAR
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A boy (Robby Benson) is forced to become a man when he is left orphaned in
the Old West.
The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of
late-middle-aged Chinese women. Ever since arriving in the United States after
World War II, the women have gathered weekly to play mah-jongg and to tell
stories, regaling each other with tales of their children and grandchildren, giving
each other a sense of hope and renewal in the midst of poverty and hardship.
The Joy Luck Club is made up of four women -- Suyuan (Kieu Chinh), Lindo
(Tsai Chin), Ying Ying (France Nuyen), and An Mei (Lisa Lu). But when Suyuan
dies, the three surviving members invite Suyuan's daughter June (Ming-Na
Wen) to take her place. Along with the daughters of the other members -Waverly (Tamlyn Tomita), Lena (Lauren Tom), and Rose (Rosalind Chao) -June is a Chinese-American with only a passing interest in her rich cultural
heritage. But through vignettes that switch back and forth in time, the daughters
begin to appreciate the struggles of their mothers to start their families in the
optimistic promise of the United States. RATED R.
If somehow you missed the play or the history, basically Julius Caesar let his
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status go to his head and is about to take on the role of emperor. It is up to a
handful of Noble Romans to see that this does not happen. The play is about
these individuals, their individual purposes and what happens to them after the
attempt to stop him. The focus is on Caesar's right arm (Mark Antony).
The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a
lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The
story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent.
But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby
in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be
raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli (voice
of Bruce Reitherman). Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the
return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose
hatred of humans is such that Mowgli faces certain death if discovered.
Bagheera agrees to transport Mowgli to the human village, where he will be
safe from Shere Khan. Along the way to the village, night falls and Mowgli and
Bagheera almost succumb to the man-eating snake Kaa (voice of Sterling
Holloway). Escaping Kaa's coils, they run into the lock-step military elephant
band of Colonel Hathi (voice of J. Pat O'Malley). Afterwards, Mowgli, who
doesn't want to be sent to the human village, runs away from Bagheera and
meets up with the fun-loving Baloo the Bear (voice of Phil Harrris). With both
Bagheera and Baloo to protect him, Mowgli is saved from several more lifethreatening situations -- including a barber-shop quartet of vultures, the crazed
King Louie of the Apes (voice of Louis Prima), and Shere Khan himself --
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JUSTICE DENIED 1989
before making it to the village of humans.
The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie
Sattler Laura Dern) -- as they are invited by eccentric millionaire John
Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an
island off Costa Rica. By cloning DNA harvested from pre-historic insects,
Hammond has been able to create living dinosaurs for his new Jurassic Park,
an immense animal preserve housing real brachiosaurs, dilophosaurs,
triceratops, velociraptors, and a Tyrannosaur Rex. Accompanied by cynical
scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who is obsessed with chaos theory, and
Hammond's two grandchildren (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello), they
are sent on a tour through Hammond's new resort in computer controlled
touring cars. But as a tropical storm hits the island, knocking out the power
supply, and an unscrupulous employee (Wayne Knight) sabotages the system
so that he can smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park, the dinosaurs start to
rage out of control. Grant then has to bring Hammond's grandchildren back to
safety as the group is pursued by the gigantic man-eating beasts.
Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced
by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett
and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic
Director Joe Johnston takes over the creative reins from Steven Spielberg for
this third installment in the thriller franchise. Sam Neill returns as Dr. Alan
Grant, a scientist who's tricked by wealthy couple Paul and Amanda Kirby
(William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) into a fly-over of Isla Sorna. The object of their
sightseeing tour is one of the Costa Rican islands populated by ferocious,
genetically bred dinosaurs and the "site B" setting of Jurassic Park 2: The Lost
World (1997). After their plane crash-lands, it's revealed that the Kirbys are
actually seeking their teenage son, lost on the island after a paragliding
accident. Trapped on Isla Sorna, Grant and his companions discover some
painful truths the hard way. Among their discoveries: some of the scaly
monsters possess more advanced communicative abilities than previously
believed, the dreaded Tyrannosaurus Rex has a larger and more lethal
competitor, and flying Pteranodons pose an even graver threat than some of
their land-locked brethren. Jurassic Park III is the first in the series not to be
based upon a novel by original author Michael Crichton.
In the 1970s, Donald Marshall was wrongly convicted of murder. It all started
one night in Sydney, Canada, when Marshall & some friends were walking
through a park on their way home, when they met some kind of gang. An old
man threatened them with a knife and then suddenly stabbed a man named
Sammy Seale. But from eye witnesses, who lied, the police believed that
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KANSAS PACIFIC
KENNEDYS - THE EARLY YEARS
KENNEDYS - THE LATER YEARS
1992
KENTUCKY RIFLE
KILLER QUAKE!
KING AND I
Donald Marshall was the murderer. Even to this day, I still cannot believe that
11 years of his life were taken away JUST BECAUSE the Canadian "justice
system" had failed him miserably. Of course the ONLY reason why he was
never found innocent was because of his Native Mik'maq background.
This no-nonsense "expose" film is enhanced by the tight, unadorned direction
by Phil Karlson. John Payne plays an ex-con who just can't seem to get a
break. Payne is picked up on suspicion of participating in a robbery
masterminded by former Kansas City cop Preston S. Foster. On the run from
the law, Payne assumes the identity of a dead crook. In this guise, he
insinuates himself into Foster's gang, hoping to get the goods on the top guy.
Complications ensue when Payne falls in love with Foster's comparatively
honest daughter Coleen Gray.
Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western. Set
just before the Civil War, the film concerts Kansas Pacific railroad's westward
expansion, a project stymied by the sabotage activities of Southern
sympathizers. Military officer John Nelson (Sterling Hayden) is assigned to
make sure the railroad goes through. The film offers excellent performances
from such usually stereotyped players
THE EARLY YEARS
Follows the Kennedy family from the midpoint of JFK's presidency to Teddy's
run for the presidency in 1980.
When their covered wagon breaks down in Comanche territory, a group of
settlers is confronted with a grim choice: surrender their precious, longbarreled, sharp-shooting rifles to the Indians in exchange for a promise of safe
passage, or forfeit their lives. A dramatic tale of America's pioneering days.
In this video, Nova revisits the terror and destruction of the L.A. earthquake and
offers predictions for future occurrences of earthquakes in California.
Deborah Kerr plays English widow Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam in
the 1860s to tutor the many wives and children of the country's progressive
King (Yul Brynner, recreating his Broadway role-and winning an Oscar in the
process). The culture clash between Anna and the King is but one aspect of
their multilayered relationship. Through Anna, the King learns the refineries and
responsibilities of "modern" western civilization; Anna meanwhile comes to
realize how important it is for an Oriental ruler to maintain his pride and to
uphold the customs of his people. After a successful evening entertaining
foreign dignitaries, Anna and the King celebrate with an energetic dance, but
this is cut short by a bitter quarrel over the cruel punishment of the King's new
Burmese wife Tuptim (Rita Moreno), who has dared to fall in love with someone
else. Despite the many rifts between them, Anna and the monarch come to
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respect and (to a degree) love one another. When the King dies, Anna agrees
to stay on to offer help and advice to the new ruler of Siam, young Prince
Chulalongkhorn (Patrick Adiarte). In general, The King and I tends to be
somewhat stagey, with the notable exception of the matchless "Small House of
Uncle Thomas" ballet, which utilizes the Cinemascope 55 format to best
advantage . Most of the Broadway version's best songs ("Getting to Know You",
"Whistle a Happy Tune", "A Puzzlement", "Shall We Dance" etc.) are retained.
(Kerr's singing, incidentally, is dubbed for the most part by the ubiquitous Marni
Nixon). When all is said and done, the principal attraction of The King and I is
Yul Brynner, in the role that made him a star and with which he will forever be
identified
In the early 1930's, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and
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adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting wildlife in
remote and dangerous jungle lands; despite the objections of his backers,
Denham plans to film his next project aboard an ocean vessel en route to Skull
Island, an uncharted island he discovered on a rare map.
The first of three talkie versions of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel King
Solomon's Mine was produced by British Gaumont. While Cedric Hardwicke
plays the nominal leading role of explorer Alan Quartermaine, top billing goes to
African-American singing-star Paul Robeson, who plays dauntless native- guide
Umbopa. The plot gets under way when Anna Lee organizes an expedition to
locate her father, who has disappeared in the wilds of Africa while searching for
King Solomon's Mines, a legendary diamond repository. Umbopa's motivation
for guiding the expedition is to reclaim the tribal throne wrested from him by
treacherous witch-doctor Gagool (Sidney Fairbrother). At first treated as white
gods by the natives, the explorers soon find their lives imperiled. Thanks to
Umbopa's know-how, the whites are saved from a horrible death and the evil
tribesmen are overthrown. As for King Solomon's Mines, Quartermaine and his
party finally locate the fabled diamond cache--and then fate deals an ironic
hand, as fate has a habit of doing.
Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy, this award-winning crime
drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and
Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early 1950s, when Hollywood
was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour.
Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) is the head of the L.A.P.D. and is loyal to his
officers and eager to turn a blind eye to violence or corruption within his
department, as long as it's the "bad guys" who are getting hurt. Bud White
(Russell Crowe) is a police detective whose violent and cynical nature is often
at war with his basic sense of decency and justice. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) is a
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beat cop-turned-detective whose strict by-the-book philosophy and willingness
to blow the whistle on other officers is balanced by a shrewd and opportunistic
understanding of the internal politics of the department. And Jack Vincennes
(Kevin Spacey) is a flashy "Hollywood" detective who serves as technical
advisor for the TV series Badge of Honor. He is also in cahoots with Sid
Hudgeons (Danny De Vito), publisher of the scandal sheet Hush Hush, who
throws kickbacks to Vincennes in exchange for being brought along when
showbiz figures get busted. White, Exley, and Vincennes find themselves
drawn into a tangled and sticky web of violence and betrayal following a
multiple murder at a coffee shop that is believed to be part of an effort by
Mickey Cohen (Paul Guilfoyle) to consolidate his hold on organized crime in
L.A. This lead appears to be connected to the discovery of a bizarre
pornography and call-girl ring operated by Pierce Patchett (David Strathairn),
whose women are given plastic surgery so that they more closely resemble
well-known movie stars. White's role in the investigation is complicated when
he falls for Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), one of Patchett's prostitutes who is
the spitting image of Veronica Lake. L.A. Confidential was nominated for nine
Academy awards and won two, with Curtis Hanson (who directed) and Brian
Helgeland honored for Best Adapted Screenplay and Kim Basinger taking
home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress. . RATED R.
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LADY AND THE TRAMP
Lady and the Tramp represented two "firsts" for Disney: It was the studio's first WALT DISNEY
Cinemascope animated feature, and it was their first full-length cartoon based
on an original story rather than an established "classic". Lady is the pampered
female dog belonging to Jim Dear and Darling. When her human masters bring
a baby into the house, Lady feels she's being eased out; and when Darling's
insufferable Aunt Sarah introduces her nasty twin Siamese cats into the fold,
Lady is certain that she's no longer welcome. The cats wreak all manner of
havoc, for which Lady is blamed. After the poor dog is fitted with a muzzle,
Lady escapes from the house, only to run across the path of the Tramp, a
raffish male dog from the "wrong" side of town. The Tramp helps Lady remove
her muzzle, then takes her out on a night on the town, culminating in a romantic
spaghetti dinner, courtesy of a pair of dog-loving Italian waiters. After their
idyllic evening together, Lady decides that it's her duty to protect Darling's baby
from those duplicitous Siamese felines. On her way home, Lady is captured
and thrown in the dog pound. Here she learns from a loose-living mutt named
Peg that The Tramp is a canine rake. Disillusioned, Lady is more than happy to
be returned to her humans, even though it means that she'll be chained up at
the insistence of Aunt Sarah. Tramp comes into Lady's yard to apologize, but
she wants no part of him. Suddenly, a huge, vicious rat breaks into the house,
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threatening the baby. Lady breaks loose, and together with Tramp, runs into the
house to protect the infant. When the dust settles, it appears to Aunt Sarah that
Tramp has tried to attack the child. That's when Lady's faithful friends Jock the
bloodhound and Trusty the scottie swing into action, rescuing Tramp from the
dogcatcher. Once Jim Dear and Darling are convinced that Tramp is a hero, he
is invited to stay...and come next Christmas, there's a whole flock of little
Ladies and Tramps gathered around the family. Beyond the usual excellent
animation and visual effects, the principal selling card of Lady and the Tramp is
its music. Many of the songs were performed and co-written by Peggy Lee, who
years after the film's 1955 theatrical issue, successfully sued Disney for her fair
share of residuals from the videocassette release.
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The film concerns the young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), heading
home on a train after spending the holidays in the Balkans. Iris becomes friends
with a kindly old lady, Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty) after Iris gets hit in the
head with a flowerpot meant for Miss Froy. On the train, recovering from the
blow, Iris falls asleep. When she awakens, Miss Froy has vanished, replaced
by someone else in Miss Froy's clothing. Iris talks to the other passengers, a
bizarre collection of eccentrics who think that Iris is crazy for insisting on there
even being a Miss Froy -- everyone denies having ever seen the old woman.
Finally, Iris finds a young musician, Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), who believes
her and the two proceed to search the train for clues to Miss Froy's
disappearance.
JOHN LITTLEFOOT, CERA, SPIKE, DUCKY AND PETRIE ON A MAGICAL
JOURNEY THAT BEGINS LONG AGO WHEN DINOSAURS ROAMED A
LAND THREATENED BY EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANO. SUDDENLY ALL
ALONE IN A TURBULENT WORLD, A YOUNG BRONTOSAURUS NAMED
LITTLEFOOT SETS OFF IN SEARCH OF THE LEGENDARY GREAT
VALLEY, A LAND OF LUSH VEGETATION WHERE DINOSAURS CAN
THRIVE AND LIVE IN PEACE. ALONG THE WAY, HE MEETS FOUR OTHER
YOUNG DINOSAURS, EACH ONE A DIFFERENT SPECIES. DURING THEIR
AMAZING JOURNEY, THEY ENCOUNTER INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES,
OVERWHELMING OBSTACLES AND UNFORGETTABLE LESSON'S ABOUT
LIFE AND STICKING TOGETHER.
Actor George C. Scott delivers an encore performance of his most famous
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character: Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Just as the original "Patton" was based
in part on Ladislas Farago's biography "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph," so too is
the sequel based on Farago's second installment of the same title.
Relieved of command of his beloved Third Army for not being what today would
be termed "politically correct," and instead placed in command of a "paper
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army" whose mission was to write the history of the Second WorldWar.
Disgruntled with the turn his military career had taken, Patton was to return
home, hang up his ivory-handled pistols for good and write a tell all memoir. A
day of pheasant hunting in Germany was all that seperated Patton the soldier
from Patton the civilian. The out-spoken general never made it. He suffered a
broken neck en route in a silly fender-bender with an army 6 x 6 and died of
complications twelve days later.
Randolph Scott has one of his best roles as Hawkeye in this exciting film
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adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's often filmed novel. During the brutal
French and Indian War, Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan
Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon), and the two daughters of Fort William Henry
commander Colonel Munro (Hugh Buckler) -- Alice (Binnie Barnes) and Cora
(Heather Angel) -- to safety through enemy lines. Hawkeye is assisted by his
Indian friend Chingachgook (Robert Barrat), and Uncas (Philip Reed),
Chingachgook's son; the two are the last survivors of the Mohican tribe. During
their travels to the fort, Alice falls in love with Hawkeye, while Cora falls in love
with Uncas. But along the way, the band is continually harassed by the
demonic Huron Indian Magua (Bruce Cabot). Magua causes the deaths of Cora
and Uncas, while the British are attacked by the Hurons and the French and
forced to flee Fort William Henry. Hawkeye is taken prisoner by the brutal
Hurons and Maj. Heyward must organize a band to rescue Hawkeye before he
is tortured to death.
While Japan undergoes tumultuous transition to a more Westernized society in CRUISE, TOM
1876-77, The Last Samurai gives epic sweep to an intimate story of cultures at
a crossroads. In America, tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren
(Tom Cruise) is coerced by a mercenary officer (Tony Goldwyn) to train the
Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this
"progress" is a rebellion of samurai warriors, holding fast to their traditions of
honor despite strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader (Ken
Watanabe), Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching
sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's honor to the ultimate test.
This episode of The American Experience investigates an event that has
become American folklore. By carefully considering the evidence available from
both white and Native American accounts, the video reaches conclusions that
are more complex than those commonly held. Custer emerges not as a fool, or
a hero, but a competent commander who simply got more than he could
handle. The loss of Custer's command was a national embarrassment and led
to obfuscation that over time became accepted as fact. Anyone with an interest
in the history of the American West, especially relations with Native peoples,
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will find this of value. Its sober tone and careful research certainly make it
appropriate for use in the college classroom. Last Stand at Little Big Horn also
won an Emmy award.
MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously
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lensed by director Richard Brooks. In his last film as an MGM contractee, Van
Johnson plays reporter Charles Wills, who while covering the VE Day
celebrations in Paris, meets and falls in love with the gorgeous Helen Ellsworth
(Elizabeth Taylor). Soon afterward, Charles and Helen are married. Charles
supports his wife with a low-paying wire service job, devoting his evenings to
writing a novel. After numerous rejections, Charles is more than willing to give
up writing and live off the revenue of a Texas oil well in which he'd invested. As
he squanders his newfound riches on creature comforts, he loses his literary
ambitions and, slowly but surely, the love and devotion of his wife. His selfdestructive behavior is halted only by a devastating tragedy. Donna Reed
costars as Charles sister-in-law Marion, who carries a torch for him throughout
the picture.
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Provides a detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a
generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and
foreign policy issues.
The principal character is a dog of unswerving loyalty. The dog's master is shot
and killed by an intoxicated hunter. Grimly, the faithful hound tracks down the
miscreant and sees to it that justice is done
In this WW II tragicomedy, famed Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni (The
Monster) portrays Guido, who moves during the '30s from the country to a
Tuscan town, where he is entranced by schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi,
Benigni's real-life wife). Dora likes Guido, but she remains faithful to her
pompous fiancé, so Guido has an uphill struggle. Meanwhile, anti-Semitic
attitudes lead to attacks against Guido's Jewish uncle (Giustino Durano).
Leaping ahead to five years later, during WW II, Guido and Dora are married
and have a son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). After they are imprisoned in a
concentration camp, Guido goes to elaborate lengths to keep his son from
understanding the truth of their situation. He tells the boy that they are
competing with others to win an armored tank -- so everything from food
shortages to tattoos is explained as necessary for participation in the contest.
The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father
was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947. William Powell is a tower of
comic strength as Clarence Day, the benevolent despot of his 1880s New York
City household. Irene Dunne co-stars as Day's wife Vinnie, who outwardly has
no more common sense than a butterfly but who is the real head of the
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household. The anecdotal story, encompassing such details as the eldest Day
son's (James Lydon) romance with pretty out-of-towner Mary (Elizabeth Taylor),
is tied together by Vinnie's tireless efforts to get her headstrong husband
baptized, else he'll never be able to enter the Kingdom of God. Each scene is a
little gem of comedy and pathos, as the formidable Mr. Day tries to bring a stern
businesslike attitude to everyday household activities, including explaining the
facts of life to his impressionable son. Donald Ogden Stewart based his
screenplay upon the play by Howard Lindsey (who played Mr. Day in the
original production) and Russell Crouse; the play in turn was inspired by a
series of articles written by Clarence Day Jr., shortly before his death in 1933.
Behold the amazing power of nature in this Nova program. This video contains
an interesting -- and at some points exhilarating -- study into the source of
lightning. The program ends with an electrifying light show set to music. Quite a
display. Perfect for anyone who can't seem to drag themselves off the front
porch as they see a dangerous yet breathtakingly-beautiful thunderstorm fast
approaching.
A lonely little girl makes a very unusual friend -- a ukulele-playing alien who
likes to toss around small automobiles -- in this antic animated comedy from
Walt Disney Studios. Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) is a young Hawaiian girl
being raised by her teenaged sister Nani (voice of Tia Carrere) after the
unexpected death of their parents in an auto accident. While Nani tries to hold
their household together, Lilo is a child with unusual interests and a distinctive
sense of humor, which makes it hard for her to bond with her peers, as well as
her big sister. Nani decides Lilo might be happier if she had a pet, so the sisters
go to the animal shelter to adopt a dog; however, the critter which catches Lilo's
fancy is a fuzzy blue creature she names Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders). Nani
isn't so sure Stitch is really a dog, and it turns out she's right; Stitch is actually
"Genetic Experiment 626," a mutation created by extraterrestrial mad scientist
Dr. Jumba (voice of David Ogden Stiers) to be used a weapon. Stitch is an
intelligent but gleefully destructive little creature with superhuman strength who
has escaped to Earth and crash-landed in the Hawaiian islands, but Lilo sees
him simply as a fellow misfit and attempts to teach him to behave like her
favorite American icon, Elvis Presley. Meanwhile, Nani struggles to keep Lilo
and Stitch on their best behavior as stern social worker Cobra Bubbles (voice of
Ving Rhames) tries to determine if Nani is fit to raise a child, while Dr. Jumba
and Pleakley (voice of Kevin McDonald) attempt to capture "Experiment 626"
and bring him back home. Chris Sanders, who provides the voice of Stitch, also
co-wrote and co-directed the film, which features numerous Elvis Presley tunes
on the soundtrack, as well as a new recording of "Burning Love" by country star
Wynonna.
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LION KING - SPECIAL EDITION
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One of the most popular Disney animated musicals, The Lion King presents the WALT DISNEY
story of a lion cub's journey to adulthood and acceptance of his royal destiny.
Simba (voiced first by Jonathan Taylor Thomas, then by Matthew Broderick)
begins life as an honored prince, son of the powerful King Mufasa (voiced by
James Earl Jones). The cub's happy childhood turns tragic when his evil uncle
Scar (voiced by Jeremy Irons) murders Mufasa and drives Simba away from
the kingdom. In exile, the young lion befriends the comically bumbling pair of
Pumbaa the warthog (voiced by Ernie Sabella) and Timon the meerkat (voiced
by Nathan Lane) and lives a carefree jungle life. As he approaches adulthood,
however, he is visited by the spirit of his father, who instructs him to defeat the
nefarious Scar and reclaim his rightful throne
Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from WALT DISNEY
Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it
continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a
lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is sabotaged by a rivalrous
uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends
and eventually comes back to reclaim his proper place. Characters are very
strong, vocal performances by the likes of Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, and
Whoopi Goldberg are terrific, the jokes are aimed as much (if not more) at
adults than kids, the animation is sometimes breathtaking, and the music is
more palatable than in many Disney features. But be cautious: this is too
intense for the Rugrat crowd.
High-class call girl Gabrielle Michelle (Madchen Amick) stages her own arrest O'NEAL. RYAN
in a scheme to blackmail her well-known clients. Her list includes respected
lawyers, honorable judges and even the Governor. When she submits it as
evidence in court, the presiding judge, Richard Miller (Ryan O'Neal), is thrown
into a moral dilemma. He can make the list public, incriminating friends and
colleagues, or he can seal the list and keep its secrets. Whatever he does,
someone's going to lose and there are people willing to do anything to stay
unnamed. A gruesome murder raises the stakes to a new level. Miller is
threatened and Gabrielle attacked. Then, when the detectives on the case are
ordered to stop their investigation, one of them decides to continue on with
Gabrielle's help. But to find a killer, they'll have to make themselves the bait.
LITTLE BEAR "WHERE LUCY WENT"
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Adapted by Hugh Walpole from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little
Lord Fauntleroy is set in the late 19th century. After establishing Freddie
Bartholomew as a likeable Brooklyn boy who can handle himself in a scrap-with the assistance of his roughneck pal Mickey Rooney, of course--the film
introduces us to Bartholomew's mother, played by Dolores Costello-Barrymore
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(though divorced from John Barrymore, Mrs. Costello-Barrymore was still billng
herself by her married name). Costello-Barrymore is the widow of a titled
Englishman, whose father, the aristocratic Sir C. Aubrey Smith, detests all
Americans with equal fervor. Upon discovering that Bartholomew is the rightful
heir to his fortune, Smith demands that Costello-Barrymore deliver the boy to
his sprawling English country estate. Now addressed by one and all as Lord
Fauntleroy, Bartholomew chafes at the restrictions imposed upon him by his
station in life. The boy's good nature and forthrightedness wins his
grandfather's respect-and, eventually, the old man's love. When pasty-faced
Jackie Searl, a false claimant to Bartholomew's title, shows up, Bartholomew's
American pals, led by Rooney, set things right. His hard heart softened at last,
Smith stage-manages a happy reunion between Bartholomew and CostelloBarrymore.
In Little Men, urban urchins Nat (Michael Caloz) and cocky Dan (Ben Cook)
usually find trouble just around the corner. About to be nabbed for theft, Nat
gets lucky after a kindhearted benefactor intervenes. While Dan continues to
survive on the streets, Nat arrives at peaceful Plumfield -- the school managed
by Jo (Mariel Hemingway) and Fritz Bhaer (Chris Sarandon) -- where he
reforms and finds a new way of life. But then Dan arrives at Plumfield, the
Bhaers take him in, and the tranquility is shattered. Dan has an immediate
influence on life at the school after he introduces such activities as drinking,
poker, and fights. Although Fritz objects, Jo decides to give Dan a chance.
When problems persist, Dan is sent away -- and several ethical and moral
lessons are underscored when Dan eventually rejoins the Plumfield
camaraderie.
Shirley Temple's first Technicolor feature, The Little Princess was inspired by
the oft-filmed novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Set in turn-of-the-century
England, the film finds Temple being enrolled in a boarding school by her
wealthy widowed father (Ian Hunter), who must head off to fight in the Boer
War. At first, Temple is treated like royalty; her behavior couldn't be more down
to earth, but this preferential treatment foments resentment. When her father is
reported killed in the war, circumstances are severely altered. The spiteful
headmistress (Mary Nash) relegates Temple to servant status and forces the
girl to sleep in a drafty attic. She keeps her spirits up by hoping against hope
that her father will return, and to that end she haunts the corridors of a nearby
military hospital. Queen Victoria doesn't have to make a guest appearance in
the tearfully joyous closing sequence, but it does serve as icing on the cake to
this, one of Temple's most enjoyable feature films.
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hopes will lead him to fame and fortune. Unfortunately, the mutated plant --
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named Audrey Junior, in honor of Seymour's girlfriend Audrey (Jackie Joseph) - subsists on blood and human flesh. It also talks, or rather, commands: "Feed
Me! FEEEEED ME!" Before long, the luckless Seymour has fed his plant the
bodies of a railroad detective, a sadistic dentist, and a flashy trollop.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mushnik, who has stumbled onto Seymour's secret, has
inadvertently offered up a burglar (played by Charles Griffith, who also wrote
the script and supplied the plant's voice) as a midnight snack for the voracious,
ever-growing Audrey Junior. (When the plant blooms, the faces of its various
victims are reproduced in its flowers.)
Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, DUVALL, ROBERT
aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle
drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of
Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of
Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse
thieves, angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck
(Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge. The excellent cast also includes
Robert Urich as cardsharp and former Ranger Jake Spoon, Anjelica Huston as
McCrae's old flame Clara Allen, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, Diane Lane,
Chris Cooper, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Buscemi, and even a small role for author
Larry McMurtry. Australian director Simon Wincer shows a tremendous
capacity for balancing sweeping drama and intimacy against the gorgeous
landscape of the American Southwest, giving a grandly epic feel to the film
despite its small-screen target and limited budget, and for forging memorable
characters of even the smallest supporting parts. The heart of the drama
belongs to McCrae and Call, memorably etched by Duvall and Jones as the last
of the range romantics. In the age of revisionist Westerns, this excellent cattledrive drama nicely maintains an old-fashioned feeling while still showing the
dark side of the American West.
Rex Harrison's extramarital relationship with Patricia Wayne comes to an end
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when Wayne is murdered. All evidence points to Harrison; we know that he's
innocent, but the detectives don't have this advantage. With his faithful wife Lilli
Palmer at his side, Harrison goes on trial for his life. Anthony Dawson, the
genuine murderer, intends to confess after Harrison is hanged. Thanks to a
governmental quirk, Dawson's letter reaches the authorities just a few steps
ahead of the hangman. Anthony Bushell, co-director of Long Dark Hall, is
featured as Harrison's defense attorney. The film was co-scripted by
Hollywood's Nunnally Johnson and based on a novel by Edgar Lustgarden.
Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this
Australian adventure film--and if anything, Newton is even more out of control
this time around than he'd been in the earlier picture. Paying only lip service to
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the Robert Louis Stevenson original, the film is made up of several marginally
related episodes. In the first, Silver rescues a governor's daughter, managing to
save the day and crooked line his own pockets in the process. In the second,
Long John quells a mutiny and prevents his young friend Jim Hawkins (Kit
Taylor) from having to walk the plank. And in the third, Long John and Jim
arrive at Treasure Island, where they're forced to duke it out with the minions of
Silver's old enemy Mendoza (Lloyd Burrell).
For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to
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familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. In true Art-Imitates-Life fashion,
Rooney plays returning GI Andy Hardy, who arrives in his home town of Carvel
to the open arms of his family: Father Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone), mother Mrs.
Hardy (Fay Holden) and Aunt Milly (Sara Haden). After reels and reels of "Gee,
Mom and Dad, it's great to be home", Andy launches into a new romance with
college coed Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville). His boundless ebullience is
dampened when Kay elects to marry another, setting the stage for a another of
those man-to-man talks between Judge Hardy and Son. Fortunately, Andy
bounces back to his old self when he meets Latin American exchange student
Isobel Gonzales (Lina Romay). Wisely, MGM decided that Mickey Rooney was
too old to continue to play Andy Hardy, and the studio dropped the series with
this entry (there would be a so-so "reunion" picture, Andy Hardy Comes Home,
in 1958). If it seems nowadays as though Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is being
telecast at least seven times per week, it may be because the film lapsed into
public domain in 1974.
James Stewart and Carole Lombard star in this comedy-drama about the
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struggles of a young married couple directed by John Cromwell. Stewart and
Lombard play a recently married couple, Jane and John Mason. John works as
an attorney for the law firm of skinflint Judge Doolittle (Charles Coburn).
Doolittle calls John back to work immediately after the wedding ceremony,
forcing the couple to abandon their honeymoon. But John is ready to do
Doolittle's bidding, since he hopes to become a partner in the firm. Doolittle is
openly disappointed at the marriage, hoping John would have instead married
his daughter Eunice (Ruth Weston). Eunice eventually marries another lawyer
in the firm, Carter (Donald Briggs). John and Jane try to make ends meet and
invite Doolittle, Eunice, and Carter to dinner. The dinner turns into a disaster,
climaxing with Doolittle informing John he has decided to make Carter a partner
in the firm. Crushed, John and Jane work hard but to no avail, sinking deeper
and deeper into debt. Jane has a baby, but when the child becomes seriously
ill, the only way to save the baby is to have a special serum flown in through a
blizzard from Salt Lake City. John needs $5000 to hire a pilot and get the
medicine, and his only hope is to beg Judge Doolittle for the money.
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MAN ON THE EIFFEL TOWER 1949
MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
Richard Cranna plays the title role. Noon is wrounded at the beginning of the
BOYD, STEPHEN
film and loses his memory. He must piece together his life. He also has to find
out who shot him and why.
the film pits Simenon's analytical Inspector Maigret (Charles Laughton) against LAUGHTON, CHARLES
a wily murderer. We know virtually from the outset that the guilty party is
Franchot Tone, a psychotic with delusions of grandeur who has been seduced
into killing the wealthy aunt of slatternly Jean Wallace. Maigret suspects Tone,
but without solid proof he must suffer the taunting and baiting of the beyondthe-law killer. Eventually Maigret wins the psychological battle, forcing Tone to
seek refuge on the titular tower.
The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the
international "breakthrough" film for British director Alfred Hitchcock,
transforming him from merely a talented domestic filmmaker to a worldwide
household name. While vacationing in Switzerland, Britons Leslie Banks and
Edna Best befriend jovial Frenchman Pierre Fresnay. Not long afterward,
Fresnay is murdered. He whispers a secret in Banks' ear before expiring. This
is witnessed by several sinister foreign agents, who kidnap Banks' daughter
Nova Pilbeam to keep him from revealing what he knows: That a diplomat will
be assassinated during a concert at London's Albert Hall. Unable to turn to the
police, Banks desperately attempts to rescue his child himself, still hoping to
prevent the assassination. The film's now-famous setpieces include the "Siege
of Sidney Street" re-creation and the climactic clash of cymbals at Albert Hall,
followed by the crucial scream of Edna Best.
the film stars Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, expert card dealer (hence the SINATRA, FRANK
title). Recently released from prison, Frankie is determined to set his life in
order-and that means divesting himself of his drug habit. He dreams of
becoming a jazz drummer, but his greedy wife Eleanor Parker wants him to
continue his lucrative gambling activities. Since Parker is confined to a
wheelchair as a result of a car accident caused by Frankie, he's in no position
to refuse. Only the audience knows that Parker is not crippled, but is faking her
invalid status to keep Frankie under her thumb. Gambling boss Robert Strauss
wants Frankie to deal at a high-stakes poker game; terrified that he's lost his
touch, Frankie asks dope pusher Darren McGavin to supply him with narcotics.
When McGavin discovers that Parker is not an invalid, she kills him, and
Frankie (who is elsewhere at the time) is accused of the murder. He is willing to
go to the cops, but he doesn't want to show up with drugs in his system. So
with the help of sympathetic B-girl Kim Novak, Sinatra locks himself up and
goes "cold turkey"-a still-harrowing sequence, despite the glut of "doper" films
that followed in the wake of this picture. After Parker herself is killed in a
suicidal fall, the path is cleared for Frankie to pursue a clean new life with
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MARY POPPINS
MATLOCK "THE SEDUCTION"
MATLOCK "THE STRIPPER"
MATRIX
MATRIX RELOADED
MCLINTOCK
Novak.
A young Sidney Portier is magnificent as a newly-elected black politician in the POITIER, SIDNEY
white-run government of his country, struggling with how to fight for rights and
freedom for his black countrymen. Should he join in the violent raids that his
brother helps lead or use nonviolent means propounded by the church he grew
up in (and was kicked out of).
JULIE ANDREWS STARS AS THE IRREPRESSIBLE NANNY WHO SOARS
WALT DISNEY
OUT OF LONDON SKIES AND INTO THE HEARTS OF EVERYONE SHE
ENCOUNTERS.
NARRATED TELEVISION SHOW
GRIFFITH, ANDY
GRIFFITH, ANDY
PG-13What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison
you?The year is actually closer to 2199, and it seems Thomas, like most
people, is a victim of The Matrix, a massive artificial intelligence system that
has tapped into people's minds and created the illusion of a real world, while
using their brains and bodies for energy, tossing them away like spent batteries
when they're through. Morpheus, however, is convinced Neo is "The One" who
can crack open The Matrix and bring his people to both physical and
psychological freedom.
Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) have been summoned by REEVES, KEANU
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) to join him on a voyage to Zion, the last
outpost of free human beings on Earth. Neo and Trinity's work together has
been complicated by the fact the two are involved in a serious romantic
relationship. Upon their arrival in Zion, Morpheus locks horns with rival
Commander Lock (Harry J. Lennix) and encounters his old flame Niobe (Jada
Pinkett Smith). Meanwhile, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) has returned with
some surprises for Neo, most notably the ability to replicate himself as many
times as he pleases. Neo makes his way to The Oracle (Gloria Foster), who
informs him that if he wishes to save humankind, he must unlock "The Source,"
which means having to release The Key Maker (Randall Duk Kim) from the
clutches of Merovingian (Lambert Wilson). While Merovingian refuses to
cooperate, his wife, Persephone (Monica Bellucci), angry at her husband's
dalliances with other women, offers to help, but only in exchange for a taste of
Neo's affections. With The Keymaker in tow, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus are
chased by Merovingian's henchmen: a pair of deadly albino twins (Neil
Rayment and Adrian Rayment).
George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble.
WAYNE, JOHN
The owner of the largest ranch in the territory, which also includes a mine and a
lumber mill, all of which he built up himself, he should be a happy, fulfilled man,
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but he isn't -- his wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara) walked out on him two years
ago without a word of explanation, and has been living back east and running in
very fancy circles; he's getting older, a fact of which he's constantly reminded
as friends around him decline in health; he's being challenged by their sons,
eager to make their mark on the territory, and by the homesteaders who are
pouring in with the support of the government, hoping to farm on land that's just
barely adequate for cattle to graze on; he's got government officials underfoot,
including an inept Indian agent (Strother Martin) and a corrupt land agent
(Gordon Jones); the thick-headed, longwinded territorial governor, the
Honorable Cuthbert H. Humphrey (Robert Lowery), and the government back
east are trying to push the Indians -- whose chiefs are some of McLintock's
oldest enemies and his best and most honored friends -- by shipping them off
to a reservation, where they'll be cared for like old women; and to top it all off,
Katherine is coming back to secure a divorce and take custody of their 17-yearold daughter Rebecca (Stefanie Powers), who's been at school back east and
no longer likes anything to do with the west, any more than her mother does. All
of that -- plus the presence of a young hired hand (Patrick Wayne) who's
interested romantically in McLintock's daughter -- is the set-up for a sprawling
comedy-western with serious overtones, part battle-of-the-sexes and part
political tract. McLintock! was made mostly to keep John Wayne's production
company solvent in the wake of the losses incurred from the production of The
Alamo -- Wayne needed a film that could be made quickly, and that would have
mass-appeal, and he got more than he bargained for in James Edward Grant's
screenplay, which owed a little to both The Taming Of The Shrew and The
Quiet Man
The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with
Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end...of reporter Ann Mitchell
(Barbara Stanwyck)'s job. Fired as part of a "downsizing" move, she ends her
last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe." Angered at the ill
treatment of America's little people, the fabricated Doe announces that he's
going to jump off City Hall on Christmas Eve. When the phony letter goes to
press, it causes a public sensation. Seeking to secure her job, Mitchell talks her
managing editor (James Gleason) into playing up the John Doe letter for all it's
worth; but to ward off accusations from rival papers that the letter was bogus,
they decide to hire someone to pose as John Doe: a ballplayer-turned-hobo
(Gary Cooper), who'll do anything for three squares and a place to sleep. "John
Doe" and his travelling companion The Colonel (Walter Brennan) are
ensconced in a luxury hotel while Mitchell continues churning out chunks of
John Doe philosophy. When newspaper publisher D.B. Norton (Edward
Arnold), a fascistic type with presidential aspirations, decides to use Doe as his
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MEET THE PARENTS
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MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST
1954
MERRY WORLD OF LEOPOLD Z
ticket to the White House, he puts Doe on the radio to deliver inspirational
speeches to the masses -- ghost-written by Mitchell, who, it is implied, has
become the publisher's mistress. The central message of the Doe speeches is
"Love Thy Neighbor;" though conceived in cynicism, the speeches strike so
responsive a chord with the public that John Doe clubs pop up all over the
country. Believing he is working for the good of America, Cooper agrees to front
the National John Doe Movement--until he discovers that Norton plans to
exploit Doe in order to create a third political party and impose a virtual
dictatorship on the country.
After suffering the humiliation of being given the third degree by his girlfriend's
father, one man now faces the even more embarrassing task of introducing his
own mother and father in this star-studded sequel to the box-office smash Meet
the Parents. After getting off on the wrong foot (to put it mildly) with his
prospective in-laws, Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has finally won the grudging
approval of Jack and Dina Byrnes (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) to marry
their daughter Pam (Teri Polo). But after clearing the first hurdle, now Greg has
to face an even bigger challenge -- introducing the straight-laced Byrnes family
to his folks, free-spirited sex therapist Roz (Barbra Streisand) and eccentrically
open-minded Bernie, who blend with Pam's parents not quite as well as oil and
water Adult Humor, Profanity, Drug Content, Sexual Situations
In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a
young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend's
parents. Greg Focker (Stiller) is completely in love with Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo),
and views their upcoming trip to her parents' house on Long Island (where her
sister is to be married during the weekend) as a perfect opportunity to ask her
to marry him. Once Greg is introduced to Pam's parents, however, things
stampede steadily downhill. Pam's father Jack (Robert De Niro) takes an
instant and obvious dislike to his daughter's boyfriend, lambasting him for his
job as a nurse and generally making Greg painfully aware of the differences
between him and Pam's family. Where Greg is grubby, relatively unambitious,
and Jewish, Pam comes from a long line of well-mannered, blue-blooded
WASPs. Things go from bad to worse in less time than it takes to spin a dreidel,
with Greg incurring the wrath of both Pam's father -- who, it turns out, worked
for the CIA for 34 years -- and the rest of her family, and almost singlehandedly destroying their house and the wedding in the process.
MOB ENFORCER RIPS OFF HIS BOSS AND TRIES TO BUILD A NEW LIFE
BUT HIS BOSS WANTS HIS MONEY BACK
ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MEN SEEK TO STOP PRINCE JOHN FROM
MURDERING KING RICHARD AND SEIZING THE THRONE OF ENGLAND.
SNOW PLOW DRIVER COPES WITH A BLIZZARD AND FAMILY NEEDS ON
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MIGHTY DUCKS
MILLION DOLLAR BABY 2004
MILLION POUND NOTE
CHRISTMAS EVE.
Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) wrote, produced, and directed over 40 movies,
yet most white moviegoers have never heard of this man who has been called
the "dean of early black American cinema." This is because in the days of
segregation the black film industry operated as a movie business parallel to
Hollywood, and white Americans rarely saw its product. Written by Clyde Taylor
and directed by Bestor Cram and Pearl Bowser, this documentary originally
aired as an episode of the PBS television series The American Experience.
Narrated by James Avery, the program recounts the history of the black film
industry from 1910 to the 1940s. Highlights include a profile of Oscar Micheaux,
film footage from rare movies, and commentary by various people including
actress Edna Mae Harris, author Toni Cade Bambara, historian Robert Hall,
actor Herb Jeffries, and others.
The basic story -- outcast coach handles a team of outcast kids and turns them
from losers into winners -At first, Gordon treats the coaching job with contempt.
But when his team loses to a team led by his old coach Reilly, the fire under
Gordon is lit. Inspired, he leads his team on a mission to succeed. The team
begins to win games and soon they are ready to face Reilly's team for the big
championship game.
Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his EASTWOOD, CLINT
life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers
his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back
by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high and dry. His best friend
and faithful employee Eddie Dupris is a former fighter who Frankie trained. In
his last fight, Eddie suffered a severe injury, a fact that brings Frankie great
guilt. One day, Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) enters Frankie's life, as well
as his gym, and announces she needs a trainer. Frankie regards her as a
dubious prospect, and isn't afraid to tell her why: he doesn't think much of
women boxing, she's too old at 31, she lacks experience, and has no
technique. However, Maggie sees boxing as the one part of her life that gives
her meaning and won't give up easily. Finally won over by her determination,
Frankie takes on Maggie, and as she slowly grows into a viable fighter, an
emotional bond develops between them. When a tragedy befalls one of the
three characters, each comes to a decision that shows how the relationships in
the film have changed them.
Gregory Peck plays Henry Adams, an impecunious American living by his wits PECK, GREGORY
in London. Henry becomes the object of a wager between millionaire brothers
Oliver and Roderick Montpelier (Ronald Squire and Wilfred Hyde-White), who
want to find out if a man with a million pound note in his bank account could live
comfortably for one month on the strength of that note--without ever spending a
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MIRACLE ON 34TH
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MOHAWK 1956
penny of it. When Henry is given the note and lets it be known that he has it,
every courtesy imaginable is extended to him by hoteliers, restauranteurs, etc.
Trouble brews when Henry uses the note's reputation to speculate on the stock
market. When his creditors demand that he produce the note as an act of faith,
Henry is unable to do so, whereupon pandemonium reigns--and the audience's
laughter cascades.
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller
CRUISE, TOM
reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity
and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C.
detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the
police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the
actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or
"precogs" whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton
discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never
met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to
uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity. When he kidnaps Agatha
(Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about
a possible frame-up from within his own department.
This episode of PBS's award-winning science series Nova focuses on the
remarkable process of human reproduction, from conception to birth. Based on
the ground-breaking work of Swedish photographer and researcher Lennart
Nilsson, The Miracle Of Life uses special microscopic photographic techniques
to offer an unusual glimpse of a largely unseen world as a child grows and
develops within the mother's body, from the point that the ovary releases its
egg to the birth of a baby nine months later. The Miracle Of Life was first aired
December 15, 1983.
CANADIAN TRADER IN 1850'S ABANDONS HIS INDIAN WIFE WHEN HE
FINDS HIS CAREER THREATENED BY THEIR RELATIONSHIP. WHEN HE
RETURNS WITH A PROPER WIFE, HIS INDIAN WIFE FACES SOME
DEVASTATING CHOICES.
A devil-may-care painter has been commissioned by the Massachusetts
BRADY, SCOTT
Society to go into the wilderness and bring back a series of landscape
paintings. He is envied for his ability to turn the head of every maiden he meets,
form Boston society girls, to bar maids, to Oneida, the daughter of the Iroquois
Chieftain. His love of Oneida puts him squarely in the middle of two dangers.
The Iroquois are torn between their belief in peace and the need to fight for the
land that the Army and the settlers are invading. One man, the original white
settler, sees the valley as belonging to neither the settlers nor the Indians and
begins a plan to turn them against each other. His plan succeeds and war
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MR. AND MRS. SMITH 2005
comes to the Iroquois land.
Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself ELLIOTT, SAM
drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handsome young
man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him
escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon
learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation,
however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows
that she's learned how to assert herself.
Billy Bob Thornton stars as Georgia prison guard Hank Grotowski, a harddrinking racist ex-cop whose father, Buck (Peter Boyle), is dying of emphysema
and whose son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), works the execution detail at the
prison's death row. When Sonny commits suicide, Hank is devastated and quits
his job, spiraling into a deep depression until, one night, he comes to the aid of
Leticia (Halle Berry), a beautiful African-American woman whose son, Tyrell
(Coronji Calhoun), has been hit by a car. When Tyrell dies, Leticia and Hank
find themselves to be unexpected soul mates linked together by tragic grief. It's
not long before Hank discovers that Leticia is the widow of Lawrence Musgrove
(Sean Combs), the man whose execution by electric chair he and his late son
helped to orchestrate.Nudity, Profanity, Violence, Adult Situations, Strong
Sexual Content, Not For Children
Bob (Joel McCrea) is a famous hunter en route to a new expedition when he
finds himself shipwrecked. He alone of the crew survives and makes it to the
shore of a nearby island. He counts himself fortunate to discover that the island
is in fact inhabited, especially since Count Zaraff (Leslie Banks) is a seemingly
genteel yet eccentric host. Not accidentally, the reef off of the island's coast has
been the cause of several shipwrecks, and Bob joins two survivors of the most
recent one-Eve (Fay Wray) and her increasingly intoxicated brother Martin; the
more Martin drinks, the funnier he gets. The Count speaks passionately of his
one true love, hunting, and tells his guests that he hunts the most dangerous
game of all on his island. It doesn't take long before Bob finds out what he
means and becomes the designated prey for the evening; taking Eve with him,
they struggle to live through the night and thus "win" the game.
Many married couples have secrets, but one pair of lovebirds discover they've PITT, BRAD
both been living dangerous secret lives in this action thriller laced with comedy.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and play Jane Smith and John Smith, a suburban
couple whose marriage has started to go a bit stale after five or six years. Both
wish for more excitement in their relationship, but as it happens, each of them
is finding plenty of thrills elsewhere. Both Jane and John are world-class
assassins who will take on perilous missions for the right price, but neither is
aware of the other's secret life - Jane thinks her husband runs a successful
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE
construction company, and John believes his wife works on Wall Street.
However, when John and Jane are both assigned to take out the same target,
one Benjamin Danz (Adam Brody), they become aware of each other's secret
lives, and suddenly both their careers and their marriage go through some
dramatic and potentially deadly changes.
A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this
emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love
of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance.
However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own
compositions doesn't pay the pills, so in 1965 he reluctantly accepts a job as a
high school music teacher. Over the next 30 years, Holland is able to teach a
great deal about both music and life to thousands of kids who pass through the
various classes he leads and school bands he directs; however, he finds it
easier to reach his students than his son Cole (played, as he grows older, by
Nicholas John Renner, Joseph Anderson, and Anthony Natale), who is deaf,
which drives a wedge between Glenn and his wife Iris (Glenne Headly).
Richard Dreyfuss earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for Mr.
Holland's Opus; the cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, and
Jay Thomas
Robin Williams learns that keeping in touch with his children can be a drag in
this hit comedy. Daniel Hillard (Williams) is an eccentric actor who specializes
in dubbing voices for cartoon characters. Daniel is a kind man and a loving
father, but he's a poor disciplinarian and a shaky role model. After throwing an
elaborate and disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda (Sally
Field) reaches the end of her patience and files for divorce. Daniel is
heartbroken when Miranda is given custody of the children, and he's only
allowed to visit them once a week. Determined to stay in contact with his kids,
Daniel learns that Miranda is looking for a housekeeper, and with help from his
brother Frank (Harvey Fierstein), a makeup artist, Daniel gets the job disguised
as Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire, a stern but caring Scottish nanny. Daniel pulls off
the ruse so well that neither his ex-wife nor his children recognize him, and in
the process, he learns how to be the good parent he should have been all
along. However, Daniel also has to deal with the little matter of Miranda's new
boyfriend, Stu (Pierce Brosnan).
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MULAN
MURDER BY DECREE 1978
Inspired by a familiar Chinese folk tale, this $90 million animated Disney drama
follows the adventures of a young woman in ancient China. While the
merciless Shan-Yu (Miguel Ferrer) leads invading Huns over the Great Wall,
young Mulan (Ming-Na Wen, with singing by Lea Salonga) sees a matchmaker
about her matrimonial future. Mulan's views on accepted marriage traditions
prompt the ballad, "Reflection," as she hopes for a recognition of her true self.
To repel the Huns, a man from each family is required to join the Imperial Army.
When Mulan's elderly father Fa Zhou (Soon-Tek Oh) volunteers, she objects.
He warns, "I know my place. It is time you learned yours." Mulan, however, cuts
her hair, dresses as a man, and is ready for military camp, prompting the
concern of her First Ancestor (George Takei), who converts an inanimate
incense burner into the 18-inch high comedic dragon Mushu (Eddie Murphy).
With Mushu hidden in her clothing, she joins a group of raw recruits under the
command of Captain Shang (B.D. Wong, singing by Donny Osmond). During
an ambush by the Huns in a mountain pass, Mulan steps in to turn defeat into a
victory..
The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the
PLUMMER,
attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer), but he does not receive
CHRISTOPHER
the expected call from Scotland Yard because he is being purposefully
excluded from the investigation. Instead, Robert Lees (Donald Sutherland), a
psychic who volunteered information to the police about the murders, provides
the Great Detective with the necessary incitement to action. As the murders
proceed, it becomes clear to all concerned that it is more important to stop
them than to announce their solution, and Holmes enters the fray with the help
of his trusty aide, Dr. Watson (James Mason). The former mistress of a
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MY DEAR SECRETARY
MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE
MY MAN GODFREY
1975
"prominent personage," Annie Crook (Genevieve Bujold), provides crucial
information leading to a final confrontation on London's docks. Violence, Not
For Children
Flight 502 leaves New York for London on a routine flight, routine that is until a
letter shows up in the first class lounge. There will be murders on this flight.
But who is the killer? Who will be the victims? And why? Could it be the priest
who wears fingernail polish? The Davy Partridge look-alike kid who likes to play
with smoke bombs? The has been rock star? The bank robber? The mystery
novelist? The doctor? Or could it be the lovely stewardess played by Farrah
Fawcett-Majors?
A charming doctor who kills his female patients is discovered by a private
detective in this made for television movie
When aspiring writer Stephanie Gaylord (Laraine Day) signs on as his
DOUGLAS, KIRK
secretary, Waterbury assumes that he's lined up another sexual conquest. But
Stephanie is not so easily won over, and the rest of the film finds Waterbury
striving to come up to her standards.
Awaiting execution on death row, Hope tells the gathered reporters how he got HOPE, BOB
into his present predicament. It seems that Hope was once a baby
photographer, his office adjacent to the one leased by a private detective
(played in an amusing unbilled cameo by Alan Ladd). While hanging around the
p.i.'s office, Hope is mistaken for the detective by beautiful client Dorothy
Lamour. She hires Hope to search for her missing uncle, and also entrusts him
with a valuable map. Hope's diligent (if inept) sleuthing takes him to a shady
rest sanitarium, where he runs afoul of lamebrained henchman Lon Chaney Jr.
and sinister, knife-throwing Peter Lorre. Both are in the employ of attorney
Charles Dingle, who is responsible for the disappearance of Lamour's uncle.
Escaping the sanitarium with Lamour in tow, Hope follows the trail of evidence
to noted geologist Reginald Denny. The geologist is murdered, and Hope is
accused of the crime. For reasons unknown, Lamour never shows up to testify
on his behalf, and he is sentenced to the chair. Just before he takes the "last
walk", Lamour rushes in, explain what has detained her, and delivers enough
evidence to clear Hope. Hope is free to enjoy the caresses of the luscious
Lamour--much to the dismay of death-row guard Bing Crosby!
One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey
offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young
heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey
(William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump. Godfrey becomes
the family's butler, much to the dismay of Irene's father Alexander (Eugene
Pallette), who thinks his household is crazy enough without another apparent
lunatic under his roof. Halfway through the film, we discover that Godfrey isn't a
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MYSTIC RIVER
NANCY DREW...REPORTER 1939
NAVAJO JOE
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penniless bum at all, but the scion of a wealthy Boston family. Having been
burned by an unhappy romance, Godfrey dropped out of life, taking up
residence in the dump. Here his faith in humanity was restored by his fellow
indigents, who managed to survive and remain optimistic despite the worst
deprivations. Meanwhile, however, he wants to straighten out the Bullock
family, who he feels are a basically decent bunch beneath all their pretensions
and eccentricities -- and along the way, of course, Irene determines that
Godfrey will be her husband. While Godfrey's ultimate "solution" to the
exigencies of the Depression seems more of a placebo, My Man Godfrey is all
in all a totally satisfying jolt of 1930s-style wish fulfillment.
A greenhorn from New York heads into the wild West to see his brother. Along ROONEY, MICKEY
the way, he begins traveling with a ranger who is hot on the trail of a notorious
outlaw who turns out to be the slicker's brother. The tale is based on a novel by
Max Brand.
This gripping, suspenseful drama has some of the trappings of a whodunit, but
Mystic River isn't a murder mystery -- it's a multilayered exploration of the
human psyche that eschews easy explanations and pat answers. It's a story
without readily definable heroes or villains: The principal characters are all
flawed in one way or another, and they are so skillfully represented as to be
recognizable and real. Mystic River isn't an easy film to digest, as it often
evokes tremendous pain and seems at times to wallow in tragedy. It traffics in
unspoken secrets, repressed guilt, and tribal loyalties.
This time, the irrepressible Miss Drew has entered a junior newspaper-reporter
contest and, determined to win, insinuates herself into the ongoing investigation
of the Lambert murder. Despite overwhelming evidence, Nancy refuses to
believe that the murder victim's young ward (Betty Amann) is the culprit and
instead shadows a mysterious man (Jack Perry) sporting a cauliflower ear. The
brutish stranger and his floozy of a girlfriend (Sheila Bromley) lead Nancy and
her faithful sidekick Ted Nickerson (Frankie Thomas, Jr.) on a merry chase
that, naturally, ends with the apprehension of the real murderer
This bloody spaghetti western (filmed entirely in Spain) tells the tale of how an REYNOLDS, BURT
Indian (Burt Reynolds), whose entire tribe was slain by Anglo outlaws, gets
gruesome revenge upon them.
Self-centered Washington socialite Rosalind Russell joins the WACS in order to RUSSELL, ROSALIND
be near her boyfriend William Ching, a GI stationed in Paris. Russell is certain
that her DC connections will enable her to get out of the service as easily as
she got in. Unfortunately for her, Russell's ex-husband Paul Douglas decides to
teach her a lesson by pulling a few strings himself. Several of the army-camp
scenes are stolen by Marie Wilson as an amply proportioned chorus girl, who's
joined the WACS to escape stage-door johnnies. Filmed in part on location at
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NEW ADVENTURES OF HEIDI 1978
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
NICKELODEON'S "FRANKLIN"
NICKELODEON'S "LITTLE BEAR"
NICKELODEON'S "LITTLE BILL"
the Women's Army Corps training center at Fort Lee, Virginia, Never Wave at a
WAC was produced by Rosalind Russell's husband, Frederick Brisson. The film
was released in England as The Private Wore Skirts.
Johanna's Spyri's tale is brought to life and updated in this heartwarming family IVES, BURL
film.Heidi(Katy Kurtzmann) is living with her Grandfather(Burl Ives) in the Swiss
Alps.But her grandfather is slowly losing his eyesight and fears that he will no
longer be able to take care of her.While in town,he secretly calls Heidi's cousins
in Lucerne and asks them to take custody of Heidi.In the meantime,a young girl
named Elizabeth runs away from her school group to follow Heidi back to her
cabin.They become best of friends and Elizabeth begs Heidi and her
grandfather to let her stay with them.However,Heidi and her grandfather know
that Elizabeth's place is with her family,and they return her the next day.While
out on a search party for Heidi's friend Peter,her grandfather disappears into
the woods and is feared dead.Left with no one to care for her,Heidi is taken to
live with Elizabeth's family.With them ,she travels to New York for the
holidays,and has many exciting adventures which make this an excellent family
movie to watch for all ages!!
Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic
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staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this compact adaptation of
Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby is most entertaining on its own terms. Derek Bond
plays the title character, a resourceful young Britisher forced to protect his
family against the demonic machinations of his wicked Uncle Ralph (Cedric
Hardwycke at his most odious). Cast out into the cold cruel world, Nicholas
Nickleby deals adroitly with friend and foe alike, eventually coming full circle to
mete out just desserts to his unspeakable uncle. With only 108 minutes'
running time at his disposal, screenwriter John Dighton (later a mainstay of the
Ealing Comedies) was forced to eliminate several of the novel's 52 highly
distinctive characters and intricate subplots. There is evidence that there was
even more cutting after the film was completed; for example, the tatty touring
theatrical troupe managed by the delightfully pompous Vincent Crummles
(Stanley Holloway) appears only in a series of abrupt vignettes, while
Crummles himself is confined to a mere handful of lines and gestures. Still,
many of Dickens' colorful characters are vividly realized, especially the
unfortunate, mentally challenged Smike (Aubrey Woods). When released in
America, Nicholas Nickleby was pared down to 95 minutes, with surprisingly
little damage to the continuity.
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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH
NINTH INNING - HOME
When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of Average America
has to battle flesh-eating zombies in George A. Romero's landmark cheapie
horror film. Siblings Johnny (Russell Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea)
whine and pout their way through a visit to their father's grave in a small
Pennsylvania town, but it all takes a turn for the worse when a zombie kills
Johnny. Barbara flees to an isolated farmhouse where a family, a teen couple,
and a lone man named Ben (Duane Jones) are already holed up. Bickering and
panic ensue as the group tries to figure out how best to escape, while hoards of
undead converge on the house; news reports reveal that fire wards them off,
while a local sheriff-led posse discovers that if you "kill the brain, you kill the
ghoul." After a night of immolation and parricide, one survivor is left in the
house ... . Romero's grainy black-and-white cinematography and casting of
locals emphasize the terror lurking in ordinary life; as in Alfred Hitchcock's The
Birds (1963), Romero's victims are not attacked because they did anything
wrong, and the randomness makes the attacks all the more horrifying. Nothing
holds the key to salvation, either, whether it's family, love, or Law. Topping off
the existential dread is Romero's then-extreme use of gore, as zombies nibble
on limbs and viscera. Initially distributed by a Manhattan theater chain owner,
Night, made for about $100,000, was dismissed as exploitation, but after a
1969 re-release, it began to attract favorable attention for scarily tapping into
Vietnam-era uncertainty and nihilistic anxiety. By 1979, it had grossed over $12
million, inspired a cycle of apocalyptic splatter films like The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre (1974), and set the standard for finding horror in the mundane.
However cheesy the film may look, few horror movies reach a conclusion as
desolately unsettling.
Rex Harrison astonishes his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British
suspenser Night Train (original title: Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a
British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the
Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the unwitting
pawn of a genuine Nazi (Paul von Hernreid, just before he became Paul
Henreid) during a long train ride from Germany to France and back again.
Ken Burns' celebrated baseball documentary has come full circle, from the
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black-and-white images of the game's beginnings to the full color of the modern
era. Ken Burns' Baseball: Inning 9 -- Home, the final episode, deals with such
threats to our national pastime as drug use by players, the egos of players and
owners such as Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner, sky-rocketing
salaries, and Pete Rose's banishment for gambling. But it also relives such
moments as Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record, Carlton Fisk
keeping the ball fair at Fenway with his body language, and Ken Griffey Sr. and
Ken Griffey Jr. hitting back-to-back home runs in a game. Jackie Robinson's
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funeral is also covered in this episode, as Burns continues to pay tribute to the
man who broke baseball's color barrier.
Narrative Television Network presents
"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and LOMBARD, CAROLE
Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to
earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..." With this jaundiced opening
title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred. Fredric
March plays Wally Cook, a hotshot reporter condemned to writing obituaries
because of his unwitting complicity in a fraud. Anxious to get back in the good
graces of his editor Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly), Cook pounces on the story
of New England girl Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), who is reportedly dying
from radiation poisoning. Actually, Hazel isn't dying at all; she's been
misdiagnosed by Moscow's eternally drunk doctor (Charles Winninger). But
when Cook offers to take her on an all-expenses-paid trip to New York in
exchange for her exclusive story, it's too good an offer to pass up. Once in the
Big Apple, Hazel is feted as a heroine by the novelty-seeking populac; she
enjoys the adulation at first, but soon (and with the help of gallons of alcoholic
beverages) suffers the pangs of conscience. She confesses her deception to
Cook, who by now has fallen in love with her. Cook and Stone conspire to keep
the public from discovering the truth, eventually dreaming up a phony suicide.
Travelling incognito to avoid arrest, Wally and Hazel marry and go on a
honeymoon, secure in the knowledge that New York City has forgotten all
about her and moved on to their next fad.
NOVA - LIGHTNING!
Behold the amazing power of nature in this Nova program. This video contains
an interesting -- and at some points exhilarating -- study into the source of
lightning. The program ends with an electrifying light show set to music. Quite a
display. Perfect for anyone who can't seem to drag themselves off the front
porch as they see a dangerous yet breathtakingly-beautiful thunderstorm fast
approaching.
NOVA-MYSTERY OF THE SENSES - Join famed sensory epicure Diane Ackerman in a look at our most sensual
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sense - touch. Nova Video Library: Mystery of the Sense - Touch explores the
many pleasures and benefits of massage. Massage has been known to restore
breathing in asthmatics and has been a crucial element for the healthy
development of newborn babies confined to incubators due to medical
necessity
NOVA-MYSTERY OF THE SENSES- This video explores the many exotic smells circulating in the world around us.
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Who better to understand about the sense of smell than Sophia Grojsman, a
master perfume designer. Grojsman invites us into her perfume lab and
explains the way a successful scent is born. An effective perfume incorporates
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a delicate blend of top notes, middle notes, and bottom notes. Next, we follow
our noses to sample a rainbow of scent, from frankincense and truffles to
sweaty locker rooms.
Join famed sensory epicure Diane Ackerman in discovering the variety of
cuisine available around the world. Nova Video Library: Mystery of the Sense Taste begins its journey with a delectable feast of lobster in a restaurant in
France. Next up is an elaborate meal served in Mexico called the day of the
dead and finally a quick stop at a street food stand in downtown Manhattan. We
learn about the four main tastes -- sweet, sour, salty and bitter -- and how we
have developed and maintained them as an inherited trait for hundreds
thousands of years.
Through this video we travel around the world to some of the most remote
regions to explore the different ways humans make use of sound. First, Nova
takes us to northern Greenland to witness the amazing ability of native Eskimos
to hunt for seals by listening to their faint sounds through thick layers of ice.
Next, it is on to New Zealand where we meet the Maori. The Maori have
incorporated sound into every single aspect of their every day life. Music to the
Maori is a basic necessity along with food and water. Nova ends this journey
into the mystery of hearing at the Helen Keller National Center where we make
the acquaintance of Michelle Smithdas who is obtaining a cochlear implant to
restore her hearing. ~
Join famed sensory epicure Diane Ackerman in a look at our most revealing
sense -- sight. Nova Video Library: Mystery of the Senses - Vision takes a
unique approach by exploring the connection between art, science, and sight
using examples of early Native American petroglyphs and the more modern
work of Roy Lichtenstein and M.C. Escher
Sherman Klump (Murphy) is a college professor and respected biochemistry
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researcher who is kind, considerate, and a genuinely nice guy. Sherman is also
appallingly overweight; coupled with the fact that he's painfully shy and a bit
clumsy, his romantic prospects are rather bleak. When Sherman finds himself
working with a pretty graduate student, Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett), he falls in
love and is eager to impress her, but at an upscale nightclub, his weight attracts
the attention of an insult comic (Dave Chappelle) and his bumbling spoils the
evening. Sherman's latest project is a genetic weight loss formula, and
despondent over his failure to win Carla's heart, he subjects himself to a
massive dose. Suddenly, Sherman is transformed into the slim, trim, and
handsome Buddy Love; however, the drug also boosts his testosterone level,
turning the likable Sherman into the arrogant, skirt-chasing Buddy. In addition
to playing Sherman and Buddy, Eddie Murphy also plays four other members of
the porcine Klump family, as well as eccentric exercise guru Lance Perkins.
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE
OLD YELLER
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The first of three film version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
stars Leslie Howard as sensitive, clubfooted artist-cum-med student Philip
Carey. Despite his yearnings for the finer things in life, Carey cannot extricate
himself from a mutually destructive relationship with sluttish waitress Mildred
Rogers (Bette Davis). After an incredible series of emotional disasters, Carey
finally finds happiness in the arms of Sally Altheny (Frances Dee). The industry
buzz in 1934 indicated that Bette Davis was a shoe-in for an Academy Award
for her savage portrayal of Mildred, but her home studio Warner Bros. failed to
mount an adequate publicity campaign on Davis' behalf, allegedly because
she'd made the film on loan-out to RKO and Warners wasn't about to heap
praise upon a rival. It is now generally conceded that Davis' Oscar win for
1935's Dangerous was consolation for her losing the statuette in 1934.
Based on the novel by Fred Gipson, the story is set in Texas in 1869. While his
father is away on a cattle drive, 15-year-old Tommy Kirk takes over
management of the family farm. Adopting a "strictly business" policy, Kirk is
irritated when younger brother Moochie Corcoran adopts a frisky stray dog. But
soon Kirk is as fond of the dog as everyone else in the family; moreover, "Old
Yeller" is an excellent watchdog. But while fighting off a mad wolf, Yeller is
infected with rabies. Though Yeller seems unaffected at first, he eventually
behaves so viciously that the disheartened Kirk has no choice but to shoot the
dog. A heart-to-heart talk between Kirk and his returning father (Fess Parker),
coupled with the adoption of a new pup, paves the way to an emotional but
reasonably happy ending.
There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable FONDA, HENRY
from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and
honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches
and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Thayer, a
cranky 80-year-old retired professor, making his annual pilgrimage with his wife
Katharine Hepburn (in her only teaming with Henry Fonda) to their New
England summer cottage. Their solitude is interrupted when the couple's
daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda) arrives with her fiance Bill (Dabney Coleman)
and his son Doug McKeon in tow. It takes a while, but Jane Fonda and
Coleman, about to go on a vacation of their own, persuade Henry Fonda and
Hepburn to take care of McKeon. Henry Fonda and the kid dislike each other
from Square One, and it looks as though this summer (which may very well be
Henry Fonda's last) will be a depressing experience. Gradually, Henry Fonda
and McKeon grow to love one another; their bond is strengthened during a
near-fatal accident while fishing. It is through the warm relationship between
Henry Fonda and the boy that the old man and his daughter Jane Fonda are at
last able to display affection towards each other--the first time they've done so
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in years. On Golden Pond is a wonderful valedictory for Henry Fonda, who died
not long after the film's completion; Katharine Hepburn has less to do, but few
can do so much with so little. Academy Awards were bestowed upon Henry
Fonda, Hepburn
ON THE RUN
NEPHEW IS PURSUED BY HIS HITMAN UNCLE AFTER WITNESSING A
KILLING.
ONE MAN 1977
TV REPORTER TRIES TO EXPOSE NEGLIGENT CHEMICAL HANDLING OF
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION AND FINDS HIMSELF THE TARGET OF
INTENSE PRESSURE TO STOP.
ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is a British propaganda film from 1941; leaving
aside the propaganda aspects, it is a well-made motion picture that was
nominated for best original screenplay as well as best special effects at the
1942 American Academy Awards (Casablanca took best picture). It also did
quite well at the box office. The British bomber Bertie takes a hit during a
nighttime bombing raid over Stuttgart, Germany, and her six-man RAF crew is
forced to parachute to safety over German-occupied Dutch territory. Five of the
men are discovered by some friendly children and are taken to town where an
English-speaking schoolteacher helps facilitate their escape. The men are
furtively passed along the sixty or so miles to the North Sea through a veritable
underground railroad of Dutch resistance, eventually linking up with the pilot
they feared had been lost. Interestingly, the most heroic assistance comes from
women like the schoolteacher Els Mertens and the truly remarkable Jo de
Vries. De Vries supposedly hates the British for having killed her husband in an
air raid and works closely with the local German forces whom she secretly
despises; this makes her the perfect final contact for the English airmen
seeking to return home by sea. The final stages of the great escape do prove
somewhat harrowing, but the RAF men do honor to the ancient creed of "being
British" throughout the most dangerous moments. De Vries delivers a stirring
ovation for the resistance and war efforts, and any Englishman or American
who didn't already hate the Germans would have been more than willing to take
up arms immediately and rush off to The Netherlands to free this remarkable
woman and her friends in the Dutch resistance from Hitler's nefarious grip. One
of the more interesting aspects of the film has to do with the Dutch resistance in
general; the Dutch have a way of obeying German orders in a way that never
fails to get under the occupying soldiers' skins. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
proves that propaganda can sometimes have a completely positive
connotation, and the story itself is well-presented and quite timeless in its
appeal.
ONE-EYED JACKS
Western bandit Marlon Brando is betrayed by his partner Karl Malden.
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Released from prison, Brando learns that Malden has become a wealthy and
influential lawman. Brando thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the
right moment to strike. In the meantime, Brando spitefully seduces Malden's
adopted daughter Pina Pellicer. After participating in a botched holdup, Brando
is publicly whipped by the powerful Malden. When Brando's old gang
accidentally kills a child during another holdup, Malden has the perfect excuse
to eliminate the troublesome Brando once and for all by hanging him. But that's
not what happens at all. Stripped to its fundamentals, One-Eyed Jacks is a
workable western, worthy of perhaps 90 minutes' running time. But when
Marlon Brando succeeded Stanley Kubrick in the director's chair, he allowed
the film's 60-day shooting schedule to stretch into six months, and delivered a
finished product running in excess of four hours! The current 141-minute
version of One Eyed Jacks isn't as ponderous as some critics have claimed,
but is still too much of a good thing.
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood
treatment in this adaptation directed by Sam Wood featuring an evocative score
by Aaron Copland and outstanding production design by William Cameron
Menzies. Frank Craven is Mr. Morgan, the narrator and our guide through the
small town of Grover's Corners in the more innocent American times of 1901,
1904, and 1913. Mr. Morgan chronicles the lives of a handful of Grover's
Corners citizens, centering upon Emily Webb (Martha Scott), the daughter of
the local newspaper editor (Guy Kibbee), and George Gibbs (William Holden),
the son of the local doctor (Thomas Mitchell). Emily and George fall in love and
the film details their difficult courtship, marriage, and tragic childbirth. The film
was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, losing out to Rebecca
the film boasts a set of finely tuned performances in the retelling of the story of HUSTON, WALTER
Billy the Kid (Jack Beutel), whose burgeoning friendship with Doc Holliday
(Walter Huston) arouses an intense hatred in Sheriff Pat Garrett (Thomas
Mitchell, arguably the greatest character actor who ever lived). As Rio, Doc
Holliday's girl, Jane Russell creates an irrepressible presence that lends an
ample foundation to the story when her affections for Billy cleave his
relationship with Doc.
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again is a TV-movie sequel to 1969's ratingsgrabbing The Over-the-Hill Gang, which told of a group of retired Texas
Rangers rallying to save their small town from criminals. In the sequel, the
"gang"--Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, and Chill Wills --team
up to rehabilitate Fred Astaire, cast against type as The Baltimore Kid, a
onetime ranger who has become a town drunk. Astaire is restored to the job of
marshal of Waco, while the other old-timers end up as his deputies.
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LASSIE HELPS MINERS SAVE THEIR GOLD MINE FROM CLAIM JUMPERS LASSIE
STARRING STEVE MARTIN AND DIRECTOR RON HOWARD TEAM UP
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WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST IN THIS HILARIOUS AND TOUCHING COMEDY
ABOUT FAMILY LIFE.
Mel Gibson's well-publicized production The Passion of the Christ concerns the
last 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The dialogue is spoken in the
ancient Aramaic language, along with Latin and Hebrew. In the Garden of
Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus (James Caviezel) is betrayed by
Judas Iscariot (Luca Lionello). Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and
brought before Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov), the Roman governor of
Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demand his death, so Pilate orders
his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his cross up to
Golgotha, the hill outside Jerusalem, where he is nailed to the cross. Romanian
theatrical actress Maia Morgenstern plays Mary, Mother of God, and Italian
superstar Monica Bellucci plays Mary Magdalene.
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This blissful flim is set im Miramont Place, Pimlico (a district of South London).
When an unexploded bomb left over from WW2 goes off, local shopkeeper
Stanley Holloway discovers an ancient trasure hoard, including a mysterious
document. An eccentric university professor (Margaret Rutherford) translates
the document, and it proves that Miramont Place was the site of a palace given
to the exiled Duke of Burgundy by King Edward IV, making the inhabitants of
Miramont Place natives of Burgundy rather than Britain. The locals go wild,
tearing up their ration books and keeping the local pub open all night, they have
a great time until the government turns nasty and starts cracking down on
them. Enter a dishy Frenchman who turns out to be the present Duke, come to
claim his inheritance and save his subjects from the iron hand of beurocracy.
Under seige, the defiant Burgundians take to stopping subway trains and
making the passengers go through customs, the government retaliates by
turning off their water supply, who will win in the battle of wits? If you are a fan
of eccentric British comedy, this film is a classic in the genre.
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In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan. This time FORD, HARRISON
around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of
maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After several complex plot convolutions
(including a nailbiting sequence involving a satellite reconnaissance
photograph), the villains seem to be neutralized, and Ryan decides to celebrate
the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), whose
own lives have been imperiled throughout the picture Rated R
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PATTERNS
PEARL OF DEATH 1944
PERPETRATORS OF THE CRIME
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PETER PAN
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
2004
Rod Serling's incisive "gray flannel suit" TV drama created such a sensation
when Kraft Television Theatre first aired it live on January 11, 1955 that, in an
unprecedented move, it was repeated four weeks later, on February 9, again
live. Richard Kiley starred as Fred Staples, a bright young man from Cincinnati
brought into the executive pool at a top New York firm by ruthless CEO
Ramsey (Everett Sloane). Staples doesn't know it at first, but he was recruited
as the potential replacement for Andy Sloane (Ed Begley), an ailing exec whom
Ramsey is easing out in a most unsubtle fashion. Staples takes a liking to
Sloane and despises Ramsey's tactics; the question is: does he despise them
enough to throw away the biggest opportunity in his life? Director Fielder Cook,
who helmed both TV versions of Patterns, also did the same for the 1956 film
version. While Everett Sloane and Ed Begley were carried over from TV, the
more "bankable" Van Heflin replaced Kiley as Staples.
On this occasion, Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) are
assigned to guard the priceless Borgia Pearl, a "cursed" gem that has inspired
scores of murders over the years. Their principal antagonist is master criminal
Giles Conover (Miles Mander), who, though he is constantly thwarted in his
efforts to pilfer the pearl, manages to discredit Holmes in the eyes of the public.
Conover's chief assistant is the beautiful Naomi Drake (Evelyn Ankers), who
adopts several clever disguises in the course of the action. Complicating
matters is a series of seemingly unrelated murders, in which the victims are
found with their backs broken, lying amidst piles of shattered China. Holmes
deduces the connection between the murders and the Borgia Pearl, and in so
doing nearly becomes the latest victim of The Creeper (Rondo Hatton), a
horribly disfigured homicidal maniac.
WOULD BE KIDNAPPERS TAKE THE WRONG GIRL AND BEGIN A SERIES
OF MISADVENTURES
The magic, the excitement, the wonder of the true Peter Pan comes to life for
the first time in this spellbinding fantasy that critics proclaim "a fun and fantastic
tale!"
Christine (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful and gifted young woman who longs to
join the company of the Paris Opera House. During rehearsals for one of the
opera's grand productions, a massive chandelier crashes to the floor, nearly
crushing leading lady Carlotta (Minnie Driver). When several members of the
company suggest this could be the work of the "Phantom of the Opera," a
spectral presence said to haunt the building, Carlotta drops out of the show,
and the fates permit Christine to step in as her replacement. Christine's
performance is a triumph, and on opening night she becomes reacquainted
with Raoul (Patrick Wilson), a former childhood friend who is now a wealthy and
well-known nobleman. Christine soon finds herself smitten with the handsome
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Raoul, but the same evening she makes a startling discovery -- the story of the
Phantom is not just a legend. A brilliant but horribly disfigured composer
(Gerard Butler) lives deep in the depths of the opera house, and taken with the
beauty of Christine's voice, he abducts her and brings her to his lair, where he
offers to help her perfect her talents, offering to write an opera especially for
her. As the terrified Christine is comforted by Raoul, the two fall in love, but the
phantom sees her affection for Raoul as a tremendous betrayal, and the
jealous phantom nearly kills Christine as he nearly killed Carlotta. When the
phantom emerges to present the opera's management with the piece he has
written for Christine, the singer is asked to put her life on the line in an effort to
capture the mad genius once and for all.
John Travolta stars as George Malley, a humble mechanic in a rural California
town. On his 37th birthday, George celebrates at a pub with friends Nate
(Forest Whitaker) and Doc (Robert Duvall), the local physician. When he steps
outside, George observes a bright light in the sky that knocks him briefly
unconscious. When he awakens, George has incredible intellectual powers. He
checks books out of the library in armfuls, becomes an inventor, a psychic, has
telekinetic powers, predicts an earthquake, and memorizes Portuguese in
minutes. Using his newfound powers, George becomes a hero, but he can't
totally win over the spooked townsfolk or the standoffish Lace (Kyra Sedgwick),
a single mom burned by love once too often. As George's kindness breaks
down Lace's reserve and a romance begins, his fame spreads, bringing him to
the attention of the FBI and curious university scientists.
Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents
and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently
colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly
Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her strong-willed
young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) find themselves in the New Zealand
wilderness, with Ada the imported bride of dullard land-grabber Stewart (Sam
Neill). Ada immediately takes a dislike to Stewart when he refuses to carry her
beloved piano home with them. But Stewart makes a deal with his overseer
George Baines (Harvey Keitel) to take the piano off his hands. Attracted to Ada,
Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that
become a series of increasingly charged sexual encounters. As pent-up
emotions of rage and desire swirl around all three characters, the savage
wilderness begins to consume the tiny European enclave. Campion imbues her
tale with an over-ripe tactility and a murky, poetic undertow that betray the
characters' confined yet overpowering emotions: Ada's buried sensuality,
Baines' hidden tenderness, and Stewart's suppressed anger and violence. The
story unfolds like a Greek tragedy of the Outback, complete with a Greek
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chorus of Maori tribesmen and a blithely uncaring natural environment that
envelops the characters like an additional player. Campion directs with discreet
detachment, observing one character through the glances and squints of
another as they peer through wooden slats, airy curtains, and the spaces
between a character's fingers. She makes the film immediate and urgent by
implicating the audience in characters' gazes. And she guides Hunter to a
revelatory performance of silent film majesty. Relying on expressive glances
and using body language to convey her soulful depths, Hunter became a
modern Lillian Gish and won an Oscar for her performance, as did Paquin and
Campion for her screenplay. Campion achieved something rare in
contemporary cinema: a poetry of expression told in the form of an off-center
melodrama.
Hurd Hatfield essays the title character, a London aristocrat who would sell his
soul to remain handsome and young--and, in a manner of speaking, he does
just that. Under the influence of his decadent (albeit witty) friend Lord Henry
Wotton (George Sanders), Dorian Gray becomes the embodiment of virtually
every sin known to man. The greatest of his sins is vanity: Gray commissions
artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) to paint his portrait. Admiring his own
painted countenance, Gray silently makes a demonic pact. The years pass:
everyone grows older but Gray, who seemingly gets younger and more goodlooking every day. Hallward eventually stumbles upon the secret of Dorian's
eternal youth: he finds his painting hidden in the attic, the portrait's face grown
grotesquely aged and disfigured. Gray kills Hallward so that his secret will
remain safe. Later on, Gray falls in love with Hallward's niece Gladys (Donna
Reed). Certain that Gray is responsible for Hallward's death, Gladys' exboyfriend David Stone (Peter Lawford) sets out to prove it. He is joined in this
mission by the brother of dance hall performer Sybil Vane (Angela Lansbury),
who killed herself after Gray betrayed her. Essentially a black and white film,
Picture of Dorian Gray bursts into Technicolor whenever the picture is shown in
close-up. ~
The "Scarlet Pimpernel" legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner
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Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also directed) plays bespectacled and
seemingly mild-mannered Professor Smith, who under cover of darkness
transforms into a tireless defender of democracy. With the help of several loyal
companions, Smith makes several forays into Nazi-occupied territories to
rescue the oppressed victims of the Third Reich, using a phony archeological
expedition to throw the villains off the track. The picture really roars into life
during the cat-and-mouse exchanges between the Professor and his Gestapo
antagonist Von Graum, phlegmatically enacted by the corpulent Francis L.
Sullivan. In some markets, Pimpernel Smith was retitled Mister V.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
POCAHONTAS
POT O' GOLD 1941
POWDERKEG 1970
When Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), the daughter of Governor Swann
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(Jonathan Pryce) is kidnapped by a group of pirates led by Captain Barbossa
(Geoffrey Rush) and taken aboard their ship, The Black Pearl, Will Turner
(Orlando Bloom), the young man who loves Elizabeth despite the fact that she
is promised to another, sets out to rescue her. But he can't do it alone, so he
enlists the help of swashbuckling ship captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).
Together the two chase after The Black Pearl, but they soon discover that the
captain and crew aren't your average pirates. Cursed to remain between the
living and the dead, Barbossa and his men look like skeletons when basked in
the moonlight. When it is revealed that the only thing that can break the curse is
Elizabeth's blood, Jack and Will are faced with a race against time and a battle
against the undead to save the Governor's daughter
History gets the Disney kiddie treatment and a politically correct interpretation
in the studio's 33rd feature-length animated movie, the first to be based on
actual events and people. Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) is the daughter of
Algonquin chief Powhatan (Russell Means), who promises her in marriage to
Kocoum, a brave whom she doesn't love. Pocahontas would rather be paddling
in her canoe or wandering in the forest, communing with nature and her animal
pals, Meeko, a raccoon, and the hummingbird Flit. When European settlers
arrive, she becomes enamored of handsome John Smith (Mel Gibson). Their
attraction is encouraged by Grandmother Willow (Linda Hunt), a talking tree.
The situation between their peoples is tense, however, as the settlers, led by
Governor Ratcliffe (David Ogden Stiers) desperately want the gold that they're
sure the natives are concealing. When a dutiful sentry, Thomas (Christian Bale)
follows Smith into the woods on one of his secret meetings with Pocahontas, a
tragic mistake leads both groups to the brink of war. Only the love of
Pocahontas and Smith can prevent bloodshed. Pocahontas (1995) was
awarded two Oscars, for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score and Best
Original Song for "Colors of the Wind."
Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, nephew of breakfast-food mogul C. J. Haskell
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(Charles Winninger). Befriending bandleader Horace Heidt (playing himself)
and his orchestra members, Jimmy and his sweetheart Molly McCorkle
(Paulette Goddard) tries to persuade C. J. to sponsor Heidt's radio program.
The elder Haskell refuses until Jimmy and Molly's landlady mother (Mary
Gordon) come up with a sure-fire "gimmick" for the program: they'll pick names
from the phone book at random, call up those numbers, and give away huge
prizes to whomever answers-provided that the call-ees are tuned into Heidt's
show.
Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole are troubleshooters for hire brought in by a
railroad to rescue a hijcaked train in the southwest of 1914.
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POWER, PASSION AND MURDER
Set during the '30s, this made-for-television sudser tells the melodramatic tale
of a beautiful Hollywood starlet who throws away her promising career for the
love of a married man.
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An angel wonders if love can be Heaven on Earth in this family-themed
romantic fantasy. Rev. Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance) is the pastor of a
struggling Baptist church in a poor section of New York City. Biggs is devoted
to serving his flock and his community, but things are not easy; membership is
down, money is tight, the furnace is broken, and real estate mogul Joe
Hamilton (Gregory Hines) wants to buy the property and put up condominiums.
The strain is taking its toll on Biggs' marriage to his childhood sweetheart Julia
(Whitney Houston), and in a moment of desperation, he prays to the Lord for
help. The prayer is answered in the form of Dudley (Denzel Washington), an
angel sent to earth to assist Biggs. The preacher doesn't believe that Dudley is
a divine being, but he'll take any help he can get, while Julia, who thinks that
Dudley is just another community volunteer, welcomes him into their home.
However, Dudley is sidetracked in his earthly mission when he finds himself
falling in love with Julia. Leading lady Whitney Houston takes the opportunity to
sing several gospel numbers along the way.
RATED R.A disarming modern-day fairy tale, Pretty Woman was the picture
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that made Julia Roberts a superstar.Self-involved corporate raider Edward
Lewis (Richard Gere) has recently split up with his girlfriend. Seeking directions
to the Beverly Hills Hotel, he makes the acquaintance of free-spirited hooker
Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and decides to put her on a $3000 retainer as his
"date." He Cinderellarizes her by bankrolling a full wardrobe and cosmetic
makeover. Of course, the set-up will be strictly platonic.
Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996
bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first
presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton
(John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a
respected civil rights pioneer, to become his deputy campaign manager.
Stanton's smart wife Susan (Emma Thompson) always comes through with
public support for her philandering husband. The film's parallel for James
Carville is Stanton's redneck advisor Richard Jemmons (Billy Bob Thornton),
who knows every strategy and tactic but worries, "The woman thing, that's the
killer." Sure enough, problems during the New Hampshire primary include
charges of adultery. To get a handle on past peccadillos, Stanton's staff brings
in an old family friend, lesbian Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), who knows how to
dig up dirt. Stanton, a strong debater, moves on to Florida and New York.
When one opposing candidate drops dead of a heart attack, he's replaced by
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PRINCE AND THE PAUPER 2000
PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS
PRODUCERS 2005
PROUD REBEL 1958
Florida's Governor Fred Picker (Larry Hagman), but Holden holds the skeleton
key to the skeleton in Picker's closet. Just how the Stantons put this information
to use reveals whether they are ruthless politicians or inspirational leaders with
ideals.
Rate R
MARK TWAIN'S STORY OF HOW A PRINCE AND PAUPER TRADE PLACES
AT THE TIME OF KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND AND THE TROUBLES
THEY BOTH EXPERIENCE FROM HALLMARK
This documentary examines the seed, the earliest form of life for plants, and
the journey a seed takes before settling in soil and growing roots. Sir David
Attenborough narrates this and all installments of the series The Private Life of
Plants, this episode depicting plants as highly savvy when it comes to seed
transport -- utilizing animals, insects, water, and the wind. Learn how plants
spread their population by using diverse methods to propel their seeds. The
topics covered include aeronautical technology, the jet propulsion of the
squirting cucumber, and the violent explosion of the Himalayan balsam.
Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) was once one of Broadway's most successful
producers, but a string of flops has thrown his career into a tailspin, and now he
struggles to raise the cash to stage new shows by playing gigolo to lonely old
ladies. While going over his books, accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick)
notices that Bialystock raised more money than he spent for one show, and
points out that if one raised enough money for a show that closed in one night,
you could make more off a flop than a hit. This strikes Bialystock as a brilliant
scheme, and he decides to give it a try, persuading Bloom to join him in staging
the world's greatest flop. After discovering a truly vile script -- "Springtime for
Hitler," a musical set in the Third Reich written by neo-Nazi pigeon fancier
Franz Liebkind (Will Ferrell) -- and giving a key role to the secretary Ulla (Uma
Thurman), a drop-dead gorgeous blonde with only a tenuous understanding of
the English language, Bialystock and Bloom are certain they have the disaster
they need for their plan to work. But the scheme unexpectedly goes wrong
when "Springtime for Hitler" becomes a "so bad it's good" hit.
gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is
cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while the star's son David (who grew
up to become a powerful Hollywood producer) plays Chandler's emotionally
disturbed son David. Since suffering a traumatic shock during the war, David
has not spoken a single word. With his son in tow, John wanders the frontier in
search of a doctor who might cure David's muteness. Along the way, he runs
afoul of sheep baron Harry Burleigh (Dean Jagger), and for a brief period is
forced into indentured servitude to pay a debt to farm woman Linnet Moore
(Olivia de Havilland). Falling in love with Linnet, John vows to protect her land
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from the covetous machinations of Burleigh and his brood. It is during the
climactic set-to between good guys and bad that David at long last finds his
voice again.
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of
suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he
released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller.
From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt
in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major
studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to
places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly
disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix,
Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store
manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in
cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and
Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a
new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion
have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates
Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony
Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he
regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive
who doesn't know what happens next, but while the shower scene is justifiably
the film's most famous sequence, there are dozens of memorable bits
throughout this film.Rated: R
Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's
classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins
(Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class
guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott
Sunderland) that he can pass her off as a duchess within three months.
Pickering accepts Higgins' bet, with Eliza readily agreeing to the proposal,
since she will get to live in Higgins' fancy home. Once in Higgins' house, Eliza
is subjected to intensely repetitive phonetics lessons in an effort to transform
her Cockney accent into the speech of proper English. Things are a bit rocky at
first, with Eliza blurting out "Not bloody likely" at a tea party. But when Eliza is
presented at the Ambassador's Ball, she is not only accepted as a princess but
is the talk of the ball, everyone in attendance commenting on her charm,
beauty, and poise. Relishing his success, Higgins abruptly dismisses her. But
Eliza has fallen in love with Higgins and is aghast at her cursory treatment by
him. She tells him, "I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady
of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else." When Eliza leaves, Higgins realizes that
he loves her too, but Eliza has announced to Higgins that she plans to marry
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high society playboy Freddie Eynsford-Hill (David Tree).
Irish-American boxer John Wayne, recovering from the trauma of having
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accidentally killed a man in the ring, arrives in the Irish village where he was
born. Hoping to bury his past and settle down to a life of tranquility, Wayne has
purchased the home of his birth from wealthy local widow Mildred Natwick, a
transaction that has incurred the wrath of pugnacious squire Victor McLaglen,
who coveted the property for himself. By and by, Wayne falls in love with
McLaglen's beautiful, high-spirited sister Maureen O'Hara. Her insistence that
Wayne conduct his courtship in a proper Irish manner-with puckish matchmaker
Barry Fitzgerald along for the ride as "chaperone"--is but one obstacle to their
future happiness: the other is McLaglen, who spitefully refuses to give his
consent to his sister's marriage, or to honor the tradition of paying a dowry to
Wayne. Wayne could care less about dowries, but the tradition-bound Maureen
refuses to consummate her marriage until McLaglen pays up. Under any other
circumstances, Wayne would have punched out the bullying McLaglen long
ago, but ever since his tragedy in the ring he has been reluctant to fight. Local
priest Ward Bond conspires with several locals to trick McLaglen into paying his
due. They intimate that widow Natwick, for whom McLaglen carries a torch, will
marry the old brute if he'll give his consent to the marriage and fork over the
dowry. But McLaglen finds he's been tricked and the situation remains at a
standoff, with the frustrated Wayne locked out of his wife's bedroom. When
Maureen accuses him of being a coward and walks out on him, our hero can
stand no more. He marches Maureen to McLaglen's home, indicating that he
plans to whale the tar out of both brother and sister. As a huge and appreciative
crowd gathers the cornered McLaglen truculently tosses the money in Wayne's
direction. Big John hands the bills to Maureen, just as she knew he would, and
she ceremoniously burns the money in a rubbish oven, just as he knew she
would. Having proven their love for each other, there is nothing left for Wayne
and Maureen to do but head home and perform their nuptual duties. But first
there's the matter of giving McLaglen the thrashing he deserves....and it is this
spectacular donnybrook, which covers several acres of land and at least two
"pit stops" so that the combatants can quench their thirst, which convinces
Natwick that the defeated McLaglen is truly worthy of her love (her logic is on a
par with everyone else's in the film!) Though it tends to perpetuate the myth
that all true Irishmen live only to fight, drink and make love.
Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most
readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns. Based on the exploits of the
infamous Reno gang, the film casts Scott as a federal agent assigned to
squelch the Renos once and for all. After staging a few phony train robberies,
Scott is accepted into the gang. While posing as a criminal, he discovers that
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the Renos are able to operate freely because they've paid off several important
local officials. Once he's managed to round up the surviving gang members,
Scott must contend with a self-righteous lynch mob led by Howard Petrie. Mala
Powers is the leading lady in Rage at Dawn, while the dreaded Reno boys are
convincingly enacted by J. Carroll Naish, Forrest Tucker, Myron Healey and
Denver Pyle.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologistWhatever their
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personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed
adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of
Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark.
RAIN
The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this CRAWFORD, JOAN
screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's story Miss Sadie Thompson.
Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is a sassy streetwalker who lands in Pago
Pago in the South Pacific after an epidemic grounds the ship on which she's
booked passage. Sadie's shapely legs, free spirit, and quick wit soon attract the
attention of a group of American soldiers stationed on the island; while most are
motivated by simple lust, the naive Sgt. O'Hara (William Gargan) falls head
over heels for Sadie, thoroughly unaware of her checkered past and shameful
profession. Rev. Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston), a fire-and-brimstone
preacher bent on bringing salvation to the soldiers, is fully aware of Sadie's
occupation and moral code, and is determined to convince her to change her
ways. Sadie slowly but surely is softened by Davidson's conviction, but the
preacher soon finds himself effected by her sensual presence; O'Hara also
learns the truth about Sadie, but hatches his own plan to reform her -marriage. While a box office failure in 1932, Rain has gone on to become a cult
favorite, thanks to Crawford's vivid performance as Sadie and director Lewis
Milestone's adventurous visual style.
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ARIZONA SKIES
A young John Wayne is charged with building a road into the title valley in this
routine Western from Monogram. The building project, however, is constantly
interrupted by LeRoy Mason and his gang who wants the valley in general and
its rich mines in particular free from outside interference. Wayne, who is aided
in his quest by grizzled old mail carrier George Hayes (who had yet to earn his
famous nickname of "Gabby"), manages not only to build the road but also
capture the nasty Mason, a rival for the affections of bleach blonde
postmistress Lucile Browne, and his cohort, paroled convict Buffalo Bill Jr.
'NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES
John Wayne attempts to locate Shirley Jean Rickert's wayward father in this
low-budget Western from his days with Monogram. The little girl, a "half-breed,"
is the heir to a 50,000-dollar Indian oil claim, but she needs the signature of her
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long-lost father in order to collect. Chris Morrell, Nina's foster father, manages
to get the tyke out of town before Sam Black (Yakima Canutt) and his gang can
get their grubby hands on her and her inheritance, but other villains learn of the
girl's potential windfall, including express office robbers Vic Byrd (Jack
Rockwell) and Jim Moore (Jay Wilsey). When Vic finally gets hold of the child,
he is shot and killed by one of his own hands, Tom (Earl Dwire), who is
revealed to be Nina's real father. With Tom's help, Chris manages to trick the
Black gang and is able to storm their hideout. In the ensuing melee, Tom is
fatally shot but Byrd manages to escape with Nina. Chris goes after them and
there is a final confrontation in a raging river.
RAISING HELEN
Raising Helen, a comedy. An adorable hipster whose swift rise up the fashion
industry ladder gets sideswiped when she finds herself responsible for raising
three children, left in her care by the untimely death of one of her sisters. It's a
standard frivolous-girl-grows-up story with an uneven script,
RANSOM 1996
this thriller which stars Mel Gibson as Tom Mullen, a former fighter pilot who
built a ramshackle one-plane airline into a major multinational service fleet.
Mullen has a multi-million dollar fortune, a beautiful wife, Kate (Rene Russo)
and a nine-year-old son, Sean (Brawley Nolte) that he dotes on. However,
Mullen's life comes crashing down around him when Sean is kidnapped. The
FBI are called in, but Mullen is wary -- he was the recent target of an FBI
investigation in which he was found to have bribed union officials while
negotiating a contract. FBI Agent Hawkins (Delroy Lindo) advises Mullen to
make the $2 million dollar drop to pay the kidnappers, which will make it easier
to track the criminals, but when the tradeoff goes wrong, Mullen takes a new
tactic -- he goes on television and offers a $2 million bounty for the heads of the
people who kidnapped his child. Meanwhile, it becomes clear the kidnappers
include Maris Connor (Lili Taylor), who once worked for the Mullens, and Jimmy
Shaker (Gary Sinise), one of the cops who investigated Mullen for bribery.
RAY 2004
this biopic profiles the life of legendary musician Ray Charles. Despite humble
beginnings and the loss of his eyesight due to glaucoma at the age of six,
Charles, depicted by Jamie Foxx, would nonetheless become an icon in both
the music industry and the civil rights era. While the film delves into his
problems with drugs and women, the bulk of the story details his career; among
the highlights of that career are 12 Grammy awards and 11 R&B chart-toppers,
Adult Language, Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Substance Abuse (Alcohol,
Drugs), Sexual Situations
REASON TO LIVE, A RESON TO DIE UNION MAJOR SEEKS REVENGE ON A CONFEDERATE COLONEL WHO
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RED HOUSE
Delmer Daves directs the noirish thriller The Red House, based on the novel by ROBINSON, EDWARD
George Agnew Chamberlain. Edward G. Robinson plays Pete Morgan, a
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farmer who harbors dark secrets and refuses to let anyone near the red house
in the woods behind the house. In order to fend off trespassers, he hires Teller
(Rory Calhoun) to stand guard. He lives with his sister, Ellen (Judith Anderson),
and his adopted daughter Meg (Allene Roberts). When they hire Meg's friend
Nath Storm (Lon McCallister) to help out on the farm, the two kids start to
wonder about the mysterious red house. Features an eerie original score by
Miklós Rózsa.
RESURRECTION OF ZACHARY
WHEELER 1971
A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a
serious car crash. His injuries are completely healed by a secret organization
that has developed advanced medical technology. What does the organization
want in exchange for saving his life? Meanwhile, a reporter who witnessed the
accident decides to investigate the senator's disappearance.
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This is one of two full-length TV spin-offs from the television series, Fantasy
Island. Ricardo Montalban continues as the island host, whose every effort is
dedicated to fulfilling the dreams of his six island guests. ~ , All Movie Guide
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1993
'Captain' Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to VOIGHT, JON
his ranch in Montana. Looking at a herd of wild Mustangs, he decides to drive
them north with the help of Isom and Gideon Walker. Gideon hires Agostina
Vega and Mexican Cowboys to run the Mustangs. Call leaves the drive for
Nebraska and runs into Cherokee Jack and a group of Indians, which almost
costs him his life. In Montana, Newt and Jasper get into a shoot out in the local
bar and wind up in jail. The odds of them surviving the lynch mob are slim until
Dunnegan has them freed. Newt had rescued his wife, Ferris, from a band of
cattle rustlers and Dunnegan was thankful. However, Newt and Jasper will
have to work for Dunnegan to keep their freedom. Newt has mixed emotions
about working for Dunnegan who helps him in any way, because he also has
respect for Call - who may or may not be his true father. Dunnegan has big
plans for his cattle and the future. Those plans do not include those who do not
throw in with him and the Hat Creek Cattle Company is not interested in
Dunnegan.
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RIVER NIGER 1976
River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James
Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancerplagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties
encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto
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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
This sixth entry in the Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" series was the first (and
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last) in Technicolor. This time, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope play George
Cochran and Harold Gridley, American vaudevillians stranded in Australia. To
avoid a dual shotgun wedding, George and Harold sign on as deep-sea divers
for sinister South-Sea-island prince Ken Arok (Murvyn Vye). After a
contretemps with an octopus (courtesy of stock footage from Reap the Wild
Wind), our heroes sail to the prince's Balinese homeland, where they meet and
fall in love with gorgeous Princess Lalah (Dorothy Lamour). Though Lalah
favors George, she feels obligated to Harold, because he resembles her
childhood best friend -- a chimpanzee (this must be seen to be believed). When
Ken Arok attempts to usurp Lalah's throne, she and the boys escape to a
tropical island, where they meet the inevitable slapstick-comedy gorilla. More
adventures await the intrepid trio on another island, this one dominated by an
active volcano. Who gets the girl in this one? A hint: the loser tries to physically
prevent the "The End" title from flashing on the screen during the final fadeout.
ALL OF SAN FRANCISCO IS TAKEN HOSTAGE WHEN A VENGEFUL
GENEAL (ED HARRIS) SEIZES CONTROL OF ALCATRAZ ISLAND,
THREATENING TO LAUNCH MISSILES LOADED WITH DEADLY POISON
GAS! wITH TIME RUNNING OUT, ONLY A YOUNG FBI CHEMICAL
WEAPONS EXPERT AND A NOTORIOUS FEDERAL PRISONER HAVE THE
SKILLS TO PENETRATE THE ISLAND FORTRESS AND DEFUSE THE
LETHAL SITUATION! RATED R.
Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess
Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is
mummified by "affairs of state." On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne escapes
her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She
happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who,
recognizing a hot news story, pretends that he doesn't recognize her and offers
to give her a guided tour of Rome. Naturally, Joe hopes to get an exclusive
interview, while his photographer pal Irving (Eddie Albert) attempts to sneak a
photo. And just as naturally, Joe falls in love with her. Filmed on location in
Rome, Roman Holiday garnered an Academy Award for the 24-year-old
Hepburn; another Oscar went to the screenplay, credited to Ian McLellan
Hunter and John Dighton but actually co-written by the blacklisted Dalton
Trumbo.
Rookie of the Year is a light-hearted comedy about a 12-year-old baseball fan
who, despite his love for the sport, can't play the game at all. During one Little
League contest, he breaks his arm. After it heals, it miraculously becomes a
super-human arm that can out-pitch any player in the major leagues. The boy
joins the Chicago Cubs and helps lead them to the World Series. Though the
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A six-year project from conception to completion, this 13-hour, seven volume
video collection carefullyanalyzes the costs and consequences of this
controversial but intriguing war. It provides a detailed visual and oral account of
war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking on
many military and foreign policy issues.
Fred Astair and Jane Powell star in this lavishly produced musical as a dynamic
brother-and-sister act. They each find a romance of their own when their show
is booked into London during a royal wedding. With Peter Lawford and Keenan
Wynn.
CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN CANCELED! OR AT LEAST, IT WILL BE IF SANTA
CAN'T FIND A WAY TO GUIDE HIS SLEIGH THROUGH A FIERCE
BLIZZARD. RUDLOPH BECOMES A HERO WHEN HE GUIDES SANTA
THROUGH THE STORM AND ENABLES HIM TO DELIVER CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS TO CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 drama, among his darkest, is the one to which he
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regretfully pointed later as the exception that proved his usual rule about good
suspense: you have to let an audience know the precise danger that a
character doesn't know he imminently faces. Then you have to withdraw or
cancel out the danger lest viewers feel betrayed. The "betrayal" in Sabotage
rather famously involves a bomb, a boy, and a bus. But in the context of the
story (based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, inevitably confused with
Hitchcock's quite different film called Secret Agent), the twist has a devastating
significance, ushering in the director's pet themes about the proximity of chaos
to ordinary life and the nature and transference of guilt. Sylvia Sidney stars as
the naive American wife of a German spy, the latter using a movie theater as a
cover for his terrorist activities. When he asks his wife's young brother to make
a delivery--a package containing a ticking bomb, unknown to the child--a bus
delay causes the boy to die in the timed explosion. Sidney's character murders
her spouse in revenge, but as in Hitch's great Blackmail, the deed is obscured
by a sympathetic lawman who ultimately shares her secret. Wrong or right, right
or wrong--the clear distinctions don't often exist in the great director's movies,
and Sabotage is no exception.
Though it cannot help but lapse into dogma and didactics at times, Salt of the
Earth is a powerful, persuasive labor-management drama. With the exception
of five actors (including future Waltons star Will Geer), the cast is comprised of
non-professionals, mostly participants of the real-life strike action upon which
the film is based. Set in a New Mexico mining town, the film concerns the
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measures taken by the largely Hispanic union to improve working and
especially living conditions for the poverty-stricken workers. Remarkably
prescient, given that the film was made long before the women's movement, is
the fact that it is the wives who keep the strike alive while their husbands are
beaten and otherwise oppressed by the owners. Not that the miners
wholeheartedly accept this; one of the script's many on-target observations
shows the macho workers resenting their wives' intervention. The ultimate
victory over the strikebreakers (led by Geer at his most odious) comes about as
much from male-female solidarity as the workers' pre-set determination. Coproduced by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelt Workers, Salt of
the Earth was assembled under conditions of extreme duress by a group of
Hollywood expatriates, all victims of the Blacklist: producer Paul Jarrico,
director Herbert Biberman, screenwriter Michael Wilson and star Will Geer.
"Freed" of the strictures of Hollywood pussyfooting and censorship, the film's
auteurs are able to explore several subjects previously considered taboo. As a
result, Salt of the Earth seems even fresher and more pertinent now than it did
when given its extremely limited first release in 1954.
Television sitcom star Tim Allen made his big screen debut with this light,
family-friendly holiday comedy. Allen stars as Scott Calvin, the divorced dad of
Charlie (Eric Lloyd). Scott is distressed to learn that his ex-wife Laura (Wendy
Crewson) and Charlie's psychiatrist stepfather Neal (Judge Reinhold) have
informed his son that there is no Santa Claus. While a sullen Charlie visits his
dad on Christmas Eve, a noise on the roof brings them outside, where Scott
startles the intruder, who tumbles from the roof. It turns out that there is a Santa
after all, and Scott has just accidentally killed him. Because of a legal
technicality known as "the Santa clause," Scott inherits the jolly old elf's job. As
the next year passes, Scott rapidly gains weight, grows a white beard and
meets the elf Bernard (David Krumholtz) -- who is the one who really runs the
North Pole -- while Charlie regains his Christmas spirit. However, Neal
becomes concerned about Scott's sudden change in appearance and
insistence that he's Santa, and he forces him to undergo a psychiatric
evaluation.
Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the FLYNN, ERROL
titular trail. Instead, the film is a simplistic retelling of the John Brown legend,
with Raymond Massey playing the famed abolitionist. The events leading up to
the bloody confrontation between Brown and the US Army at Harper's Ferry,
Virginia, are treated in a painstakingly even-handed fashion: Brown's desire to
free the slaves is "right" but his methods are "wrong." Whenever the leading
characters are asked about their own feelings towards slavery, the response is
along the noncommittal lines of "A lot of people are asking those questions," "I
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don't have the answer to that," and so forth. Before we get to the meat of the
story, we are treated to a great deal of byplay between West Point graduates
Jeb Stuart (Flynn) and George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan), who carry
on a friendly rivalry over the affections of one Kit Carson Halliday (Olivia
DeHavilland).
A bounty hunter holds dear the memory of his son who was killed by outlaws
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several years before. One day he kills a crook and then takes in his son, who
swears vengeance upon his adopted father. This western chronicles their
adventures together. The bounty hunter is happy with his new charge and so
retires to resume his previous profession as a horse breeder. Things go well
until the town sheriff is shot and the breeder's adopted son blames the crime
upon him. But he is innocent and so rides out to prove it.
Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day
invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in
which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a
flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft
making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating
German artillery fire. This mass slaughter of American soldiers is depicted in a
compelling, unforgettable 24-minute sequence. Miller's men slowly move
forward to finally take a concrete pillbox. On the beach littered with bodies is
one with the name "Ryan" stenciled on his backpack. Army Chief of Staff Gen.
George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell), learning that three Ryan brothers from
the same family have all been killed in a single week, requests that the
surviving brother, Pvt. James Ryan (Matt Damon), be located and brought back
to the United States. Capt. Miller gets the assignment, and he chooses a
translator, Cpl. Upham (Jeremy Davis), skilled in language but not in combat, to
join his squad of right-hand man Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore), plus privates
Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), cynical Reiben
(Edward Burns) from Brooklyn, Italian-American Caparzo (Vin Diesel), and
religious Southerner Jackson (Barry Pepper), an ace sharpshooter who calls on
the Lord while taking aim. Having previously experienced action in Italy and
North Africa, the close-knit squad sets out through areas still thick with Nazis.
After they lose one man in a skirmish at a bombed village, some in the group
begin to question the logic of losing more lives to save a single soldier. The
film's historical consultant is Stephen E. Ambrose, and the incident is based on
a true occurance in Ambrose's 1994 bestseller D-Day: June 6, 1944. RATED R
This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of
Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard
stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of
the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel while
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maintaining the identity of a foppish dandy by day. Even his wife, Lady
Marguerite Blakeney (Merle Oberon), is unaware of Percy's heroic alter-ego as
he and his band of likeminded masked men save countless people from the
guillotine. Perhaps the most famous adaptation of the classic book, The Scarlet
Pimpernel would later be lampooned in 1966's Don't Lose Your Head.
Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging ROBINSON, EDWARD
wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan
G.
Bennett) who, believing him to be a famous painter, begins an affair with him.
Encouraged by her lover, con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea) Kitty
persuades Cross to embezzle money from his employer in order to pay for her
lavish apartment. In that apartment, happy for the first time in his life, Cross
paints Kitty's picture. Johnny then pretends that Kitty painted to portrait, which
has won great critical acclaim. Finally realizing he has been manipulated, Cross
kills Kitty, loses his job, and because his name has been stolen by Kitty, is
unable to paint. He suffers a mental breakdown as the film ends, haunted by
guilt. Kitty and Johnny are two of the most amoral and casual villains in the
history of film noir, both like predatory animals completely without conscience.
Driven by an extravagant, tour-de-force performance by Al Pacino, Scent of a
Woman is the story of Frank Slade (Pacino), a blind, retired army colonel who
hires Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a poor college student on the verge of
expulsion, to take care of him over Thanksgiving weekend. At the beginning of
the weekend, Frank takes Charlie to New York, where he reveals to the student
that he intends to visit his family, have a few terrific meals, sleep with a
beautiful woman and, finally, commit suicide. The film follows the mis-matched
pair over the course of the weekend, as they learn about life through their
series of adventures. Though the story is a little contrived and predictable, it
pulls all the right strings, thanks to O'Donnell's sympathetic supporting role and
Pacino's powerful lead performance, for which he won his first Academy Award.
RATED R
Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson
as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity
to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make
cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and
brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the
factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's
ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For
Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other
Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are
assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon
Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots
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prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in
his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to
develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture
ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the
death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi
leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time
Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved
1,100 people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for twelve
Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted
Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest
American movies about the Holocaust.. RATED R
Llive-action, tongue-in-cheek comedy-adventure featuring a computergenerated version of the easily frightened, mush-mouthed Great Dane.
Suspicious as usual of any claims involving the paranormal, the Mystery Inc.
clan is soon probing a scheme involving ancient rites, summoned spirits, and
brainwashed college students, forcing the group members to resolve their
differences and uncover the truth.
John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed
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1911 expedition to be the first to discover the South Pole. The British were up
against the Norwegians in the Arctic quest for fame and honor which was won
by Norway.
Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the
"dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as halfparody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time
lately: she's still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her mother a year
ago, and now one of her friends (Drew Barrymore) has been killed by a lunatic
who harassed her with terrifying phone calls, then stabbed her to death while
wearing a Halloween costume. Soon Sydney is receiving similar phone calls,
quizzing her on the arcane details of such films as Friday the 13th and Prom
Night, and is attacked by the same cloaked maniac. With her father missing,
she has hardly anyone on her side except her best friend Tatum (Rose
McGowan) and Tatum's brother Dewey (David Arquette), a half-bright cop. As
for the murderer, it could be any number of people: Syd's father; her cute but
overly intense boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ullrich); Tatum's goofball boyfriend Stuart
(Matthew Lillard); or Randy (Jamie Kennedy), who works at the local video
store and seems to like horror movies just a little too much. RATED R
Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles
Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British adaptation, starring Alastair Sim
(entitled "Scrooge" in its U.K. release). Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a London
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miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable contributions and
treats his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, as an indentured servant. On Christmas
Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley,
who was as selfish as Scrooge in life and has been condemned to an eternity
of wandering the Earth in shackles. Marley informs Scrooge that he's to receive
a trio of spirits that night who will take him on a journey through Christmases
Past, Present, and Yet to Come. As Scrooge encounters each apparition, he is
taken on a tour of his life and realizes what a wretch he is, transformed by
greed from an idealistic youth into an embittered ogre. Infused with a new,
cheery outlook, Scrooge sets about earning his redemption.
this version attempts to present a factual account of the story, which centers
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around the three men who saw the famed horse to victory. Jeff Bridges stars as
Charles Howard, an entrepreneur who owns the unlikely racehorse. Howard
teams with partially blind boxer-turned-jockey Red Pollard (Maguire in his first
performance since annihilating the 2002 box-office in Spider-Man) and horse
trainer Tom Smith (Chris Cooper fresh off his best-supporting actor Oscar for
Adaptation). Together, the three work to help the famed horse to several
symbolic victories that helped to inspire a downtrodden 1930s America.
When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after DUKE, PATTY
her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them
until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a
series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance a happiness.
When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after DUKE, PATTY
her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them
until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a
series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance a happiness.
SECOND INNING -SOMETHING LIKE At the turn of the 20th century, Ken Burns' documentary homage to baseball
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history enters its "second inning." Baseball's first decade in the new century
began with the creation of a new league, as "Ban" Johnson's unbending will -along with the 500-dollar bonus he offered National League players to switch
allegiances -- forced the American League into being. Detroit's Ty Cobb ruled
the decade on the field while the Pirates' Honus Wagner, another possible
contender for best player, was pushed to the sidelines. Other highlights of
volume two in this nine-part series include the development of independent
professional Negro teams, as well as the story of female semi-pro pitcher Alta
Weiss
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In the vein of Spellbound and Rebecca comes this 1951 film noir from director YOUNG, ROBERT
James V. Kern. Robert Young stars as Jeff Cohalan, a successful architect who
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is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident
on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Colahan
spends his time alone, lamenting in the cliff-top home he'd designed for his
bride-to-be. To make matters worse, ever since the accident, Colahan seems to
be followed by bad luck. His horse and dog turn up dead without explanation,
leading him to wonder if he has been cursed. Enter Ellen Foster (Betsy Drake),
an independent and intelligent insurance investigator who just might be able to
help Colahan figure out who or what's behind all of his misfortune.
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From 1936..."The Secret Agent". You'll find Hitch's unique sense of humor well
intergrated with the suspense in this terrific film about espinoge at the onset of
WWI. A recluctant spy is recruited to kill an enemy spy. He is given a false
name and a fake wife to keep up appearances. He goes after the target, but
does he have the right man? Could there be another who is the real culprit?
And what a cast.. John Gielgud stars with Madeline Carroll,Robert Young and
Peter Lorre as his very strange accomplice.Other notables to look for include
Lilli Palmer and Michael Redgrave.
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A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind
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priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble sleeping at
night, and has some nasty flashbacks of her attempted suicide. She complains
to the real estate agent of the noise caused by her strange neighbors, but finds
out that the house is only occupied by the priest and herself, and ultimately
discovers that she has been put in the house for a reason.
New York held sway in the world of baseball from 1950-1960, and the seventh BURNS, KEN
episode -- or "inning" -- of Ken Burns' documentary series focuses on the
dominating forces of the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants. At least one of these
teams played in every World Series between 1949 and 1958, and six of those
series saw the Yankees pitted against either the Dodgers or the Giants. Yogi
Berra and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, Jackie Robinson and Roy
Campanella of the Dodgers, as well as Willie Mays and Bobby Thompson of
the Giants are just some of the legendary players who lit up the newsreel clips
and increasingly popular TV screens. It was a decade of moving franchises, as
the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, the Giants to San Francisco, and the
Braves to Milwaukee. But in the seventh inning, the game is far from over.
William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he
writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatre
whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, but he's got a nasty
case of writer's block. Shakespeare hasn't written a hit in years. In fact, he
hasn't written much of anything recently. Thus, the Bard finds himself in quite a
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bind when Henslowe, desperate to stave off another round of hot-coals-to-feet
application, stakes The Rose's solvency on Shakespeare's new comedy,
"Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter." The problem is, "Romeo" is safely
"locked away" in Shakespeare's head, which is to say that not a word of it is
written. Meanwhile, the lovely Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) is an ardent
theatre-goer -- scandalous for a woman of her breeding -- who especially
admires Shakespeare's plays and, not incidentally, Bill himself. Alas, she's
about to be sold as property into a loveless marriage by her mercenary father
and shipped off to a Virginia tobacco plantation. But not before dressing up as a
young man and winning the part of Romeo in the embryonic play. Shakespeare
soon discovers the deception and goes along with it, using the blossoming love
affair to ignite his muse. As William and Viola's romance grows in intensity and
spirals towards its inevitable culmination, so, too, does the farcical comedy
about Romeo and pirates transform into the timeless tragedy that is Romeo and
Juliet. Rated R.
The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in
producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the
title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading
community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Joe
Starrett (Van Heflin) is impressed by the way Shane handles himself when
facing down the hostile minions of land baron Emile Meyer, though he has
trouble placing his complete trust in the stranger, as his Marion (Jean Arthur) is
attracted to Shane in spite of herself, and his son Joey (Brandon De Wilde) flatout idolizes Shane. When Meyer is unable to drive off the homesteaders by
sheer brute strength, he engages the services of black-clad, wholly evil hired
gun Jack Wilson (Jack Palance). The moment that Wilson shows he means
business by shooting down hotheaded farmer Frank Torrey (Elisha Cook Jr.) is
the film's most memorable scene: after years of becoming accustomed to
carefully choreographed movie death scenes, the suddenness with which
Torrey's life is snuffed out -- and the force with which he falls to the ground -are startling. Shane knows that a showdown with Wilson is inevitable; he also
knows that, unintentionally, he has become a disruptive element in the Starrett
family. The manner in which he handles both these problems segues into the
now-legendary "Come back, Shane" finale. Cinematographer Loyal Griggs
imbues this no-frills tale with the outer trappings of an epic, forever framing the
action in relation to the unspoiled land surrounding it. A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s
screenplay, adapted from the Jack Schaefer novel, avoids the standard good
guy/bad guy clichés: both homesteaders and cattlemen are shown as threedimensional human beings, flaws and all, and even ostensible villain Emile
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"newcomers" who threaten to divest him of his wide open spaces.
Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this
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computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patriarch
of a family of sharks who lord over a bustling aquatic community based along a
massive underwater reef. Don Lino has two sons, Frankie (voice of Michael
Imperioli) and Lenny (voice of Jack Black); Frankie is a carnivorous tough guy
who takes after his father, but Lenny is, at heart, a kind soul who has earned
the ire of his dad by becoming a vegetarian. One of Don Lino's cronies is Sykes
(voice of Martin Scorsese), who runs a "whale wash" where Oscar (voice of Will
Smith) scrubs aquatic mammals for a living. Oscar is a small but ambitious fish
who dreams of making something of himself, and when a dropped anchor
accidentally kills Frankie, Oscar is suddenly (if mistakenly) celebrated as "the
shark killer." Oscar's overnight fame attracts the attentions of Lola (voice of
Angelina Jolie), a slinky dragon fish who woos Oscar away from his steady
date, Angie (voice of Renée Zellweger); however, Oscar strikes up a friendship
with Lenny and has to decide what to do when Don Lino and Sykes decides it's
time to "take care" of the "different" shark. Also popping up in Shark Tale's allstar voice cast are Peter Falk, Vincent Pastore, Ziggy Marley, and Katie Couric
Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this
computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patriarch
of a family of sharks who lord over a bustling aquatic community based along a
massive underwater reef. Don Lino has two sons, Frankie (voice of Michael
Imperioli) and Lenny (voice of Jack Black); Frankie is a carnivorous tough guy
who takes after his father, but Lenny is, at heart, a kind soul who has earned
the ire of his dad by becoming a vegetarian. One of Don Lino's cronies is Sykes
(voice of Martin Scorsese), who runs a "whale wash" where Oscar (voice of Will
Smith) scrubs aquatic mammals for a living. Oscar is a small but ambitious fish
who dreams of making something of himself, and when a dropped anchor
accidentally kills Frankie, Oscar is suddenly (if mistakenly) celebrated as "the
shark killer." Oscar's overnight fame attracts the attentions of Lola (voice of
Angelina Jolie), a slinky dragon fish who woos Oscar away from his steady
date, Angie (voice of Renée Zellweger); however, Oscar strikes up a friendship
with Lenny and has to decide what to do when Don Lino and Sykes decides it's
time to "take care" of the "different" shark Mild Violence
In 1998, young journalist, Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen, `Attack Of The
Clones`), was at the top of his game writing for the respected political
magazine, The New Republic. Churning out story after story, he was beloved
by his co-workers (including Chloe Sevigny and Melanie Lynskey) for his
charming, self-deprecating demeanor, and by his editors for his ability to write
colorful stories. When Glass's latest article covering a computer hacker
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becomes the focus of a rival's fact-checking eye (Steve Zahn), Glass's inability
to substantiate his sources starts to become worrisome to his editor, Chuck
Lane (Peter Sarsgaard, `Boys Don‘t Cry`). As Lane begins to investigate
Glass's escalating deceptions, the editor soon learns just how fraudulent Glass
has truly been with his stories throughout his time at the magazine.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOUSE
OF FEAR
SHOOTING 1967
A Swiss scientist has invented a new bombsight capable of greatly increasing RATHBONE, BASIL
the accuracy of bombs, and Holmes is sent to Switzerland to safeguard Doctor
Franz Tobel and conduct him and his innovative bombsight to London - before
he and his discovery fall into the hands of the Gestapo. Once safely ensconced
in the British capitol, though, Tobel refuses to part with his secret, insisting that
he alone oversee the production of his nifty bombsight. Naturally, he soon
disappears - courtesy of Professor Moriarty. The only solid clue Holmes has to
work with is a piece of paper bearing the faintest of imprints of a coded
message the scientist left behind.
London is in a panic over a series of apparent "Pajama Suicides." Sherlock
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Holmes, however, is more inclined to believe that they are calculated murders.
It is up to the great detective to discover the motive and the means of these
crimes and to unmask the murderer. Enter Miss Adria Spedding; an intoxicating
woman of character whom Holmes is convinced is behind the killings. A series
of masquerades and deadly game playing ensues as Holmes and Watson enter
a battle of wits with The Spider Woman.
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Most of the action takes place in a remote Scottish mansion, home of "The
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Good Companions," a group of elderly eccentrics. After taking out insurance
policies on one another, the club members begin dropping like flies, each death
preceded by a mailed envelope containing an orange pip. Enter Sherlock
Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), who hope to not only
solve the killings but also find out why the corpses mysteriously disappear after
each death. For once, the usually ineffectual Watson takes an active part in the
deductive process, uncovering the vital evidence that helps Holmes emerge
triumphant once more.
THE SHOOTING (1966): Willet Gashade (Warren Oates) and his dimwitted
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friend Coley (Will Hutchins) are in a state of growing paranoia after their partner
is inexplicably shot to death by an unseen assassin at their small mining camp.
The murder may have been in retaliation for the accidental trampling death of
"a little person" in town, ostensibly by Gashade's brother, who had left camp in
a great hurry immediately prior to the shooting. The next morning, while the two
remain confused and suspicious over this disturbing mystery, a strange young
woman (Millie Perkins) shoots her horse to death outside of the camp and then
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SIGNS
offers Gashade a thousand dollars to lead her to a place called Kingsley. He
accepts even though he makes no attempt to hide his distrust. Intrigued by The
Woman, Coley offers to tag along. On their journey, the trio are tracked at a
distance by a black clad stranger, Billy Spear (Jack Nicholson). Meanwhile, The
Woman laughingly toys with Coley's emotions and refuses to answer any of
Gashade's questions. Spear eventually joins them and proves to be a most
despicable companion. Hostile and abusive in the extreme, Spear is a
gunslinger cohort of The Woman, who is herself quickly revealed to be every bit
as wicked as Gashade had suspected from the beginning. Eventually, the
strange journey ends in bloody disarray at the foot of a rock-strewn mountain,
where Gashade comes face to face with the answer to the mystery, at great
cost.
In this fully computer-animated fantasy from the creators of Antz, we follow the
travails of Shrek (Mike Myers), a green ogre who enjoys a life of solitude. Living
in a far away swamp, he is suddenly invaded by a hoard of fairy tale characters,
such as the Big Bad Wolf, the Three Little Pigs, and Three Blind Mice, all
refugees of their homes who have been shunned by the evil Lord Farquaad
(John Lithgow). They want to save their homes from ruin, and enlist the help of
Shrek, who is in the same situation. Shrek decides to offer Lord Farquaad a
deal; he will rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), who is
intended to be Farquaad's bride. Accompanying Shrek on his adventure is the
faithful but loquacious Donkey (Eddie Murphy), who has a penchant for
crooning pop songs. The two must face various obstacles in order to locate the
Princess, but they find their world challenged when she reveals a dark secret
that will affect the group. Shrek is based on the children's book by William
Steig, and features additional voice-work by Vincent Cassel, Cody Cameron,
and Kathleen Freeman
The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved
friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to
Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's
parents--which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: The
parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy
godmother wants her son Prince Charming to win Fiona, and a feline assassin
is hired to get Shrek out of the way.
SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY-HOLMES AND WATSON PURSUE
HOLMES, SHERLOCK
PRICELESS INDIAN TREASURES AND CONFRONT A MURDERER WHO
LEAVES THE MARK OF "THE SIGN OF FOUR."
Signs explores the eerie implications of a 500-foot crop circle that mysteriously GIBSON, MEL
appears on the Bucks County, PA farm of reverend Graham Hess (Mel
Gibson). As Hess and his family (Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin)
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SILVER BLAZE
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
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SIXTH INNING - THE NATIONAL
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try to take stock of what the sign means, and how its message incorporates into
their faith, they start to get the feeling they are not alone in the fields behind
their house. FONT 36 TIMES NEW ROMAN
DEATH OF TEEN BECOMES SLOWLY OBVIOUS THAT IT WAS NOT AN
ACCIDENT BUT SUICIDE. THE DAWNING REALIZATION IS DEVASTATING
TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY-SILVER BLAZE, A RACEHORSE, IS
HOLMES, SHERLOCK
ABDUCTED ON THE EVE OF A RACE. HOLMES AND WATSON FIND A
SOLUTION, WITH THE AID OF A DOG AND SOME SHEEP.
STARRING GENE KELLY, DONALD O'CONNOR AND DEBBIE
REYNOLDS.On the strength of the plot alone, concocted by the matchless
writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Singin' in the Rain is a
delight. But with the addition of MGM's catalog of Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb
Brown songs -- =You Were Meant for Me=, =You Are My Lucky Star=, =The
Broadway Melody=, and of course the title song -- the film becomes one of the
greatest Hollywood musicals ever made.
Whoopi Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who
accidentally witnesses a brutal murder carried out by her gangster boyfriend
Vince (Harvey Keitel). Under the protection of a detective (Bill Nunn) who's
trying to bring down Vince's criminal operation, Deloris is placed in protective
custody at a San Francisco convent.Deloris shakes up the established order of
the sisters' lives, particularly enlivening their choral efforts.
In the sequel to the hit comedy Sister Act, Whoopie Goldberg reprises her role
of Deloris Van Cartier, a Las Vegas entertainer who hid out with in a convent of
nuns to avoid a nasty bunch of gangsters. In Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,
Deloris is persuaded to return to the convent by the Mother Superior (Maggie
Smith), because her help is needed in teaching their choral students at St.
Francis High in San Francisco. However, St. Francis is in a crisis, since the
administrator running the school (James Coburn) is threatening to shut the
place down. If the gospel choir wins first place in a singing contest in Los
Angeles, St. Francis will be saved from the priest's plans. Though the plot is
rather thin and derivative, Sister Act 2 is lighthearted fun, thanks to good
musical numbers and winning performances from the cast
The previous five "innings" of Ken Burns' sweeping baseball documentary set
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the stage for the triumphant moment in this sixth episode when Jackie
Robinson takes the field in his first Major League game for the Brooklyn
Dodgers in 1942, an event of enormous personal and social significance. Other
personal achievements of the decade included Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting
streak and Ted Williams' .406 batting average in 1941. Burns also highlights
the state of baseball during World War II, rescued, in part, by the All-American
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Girls Professional Baseball League. The decade ended with the death of the
legendary Babe Ruth.
When Dr. malcolm Crowe, (Bruce Willis), a distinguished child psychologist,
meets Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a frightened, confused eight-year-old,
Dr. Crowe is completely unprepared to face the truth of what haunts Cole. With
a riveting intensity you'll find thoroughly chilling, the discovery of Cole's
incredible sixth sense leads them to mysterious places with unforgettable
consequences.
A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features
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Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The woman started out as a night-club
singer, but abandoned her career after marrying a budding radio star. At first
she does everything she can to insure his success, but when he finally hits the
big-time, the woman finds herself deeply depressed and turning toward the
bottle for solace because he is increasingly absent from her life. She becomes
a full-fledged alcoholic and her husband, unable to take it anymore begins
divorce and custody procedures. It takes such extreme measures to wake her
up to her problem. Fortunately, with hard work, and renewed support from her
husband, she overcomes her addiction.
COMPUTER EXPERT MARTIN BISHOP (ROBERT REDFORD) HEADS A
TEAM OF RENEGADE HACKERS--INCLUDING A FORMER CIA EMPLOYEE
(SIDNEY POTIER), A GADGETS AND A BLIND SOUNDMAN (DAVID
STRATHAIRN)--WHO ARE ROUTINELY HIRED TO TEST SECURITY
SYSTEMS. BUT BISHOP'S PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT HIM WHEN
GOVERNMENT AGENTS BLACKMAIL THE "SNEAKERS" INTO CARRYING
OUT A COVERT OPERATION: TRACKING DOWN AN ELUSIVE BLACK
BOX. ALONG WITH HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND (MARY MCDONNEL),
BISHOP'S TEAM RETRIEVES THE BOX AND MAKES A STUNNING
DISCOVERY-THE DEVICE CAN BREAK INTO ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM IN
THE WORLD. WITH FACTIONS FROM ALL SIDES WILLING TO KILL FOR
THE POWERFUL BOX, BISHOP AND HIS TEAM EMBARK ON THEIR
DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT EVER IN THIS EXHILARATING HIGH-TECH
CAPER.
romantic adventure film The Snow Walker concerns a brave risk-taking pilot
(Barry Pepper) and an Inuit woman in frail health who is his passenger. When
the pair experience a plane crash, each is forced to learn from and help the
other in order to survive the variety of obstacles the harsh landscape throws in
their path.
THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH ANIMATED FEATURE EVER MADE RESTORED WALT DISNEY
TO ITS ORIGINAL SPLENDOR WILL CAPTIVATE YOU WITH ITS TIMELESS
TALE OF HEART-WARMING ROMANCE, ROUSING ADVENTURE AND
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SOPHIE'S CHOICE
SOUL FOOD
ENCHANTING CHARACTERS.
Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering fashion, on
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Hemingway crony F. Scott Fitzgerald. While hunting in the African mountains in
the company of his faithful lady friend Susan Hayward, Peck is seriously
wounded; in fact, it doesn't look as though he'll survive the night. In the few
hours he has left, Peck reflects upon what he considers a wasted life. Having
aspired to be the Great American Novelist, Peck has only turned out moneymaking drivel. The only time that he truly felt as though he'd made a
contribution to the world was when he fought on the Loyalist side in Spain (this
element isn't in the short story, but is drawn from Hemingway's own
experiences). As for his lost romance with his late wife Ava Gardner, Peck still
cannot figure out what went wrong. The Hemingway original ended with the
Peck character dying from his wounds; producer Darryl F. Zanuck wouldn't
hear of this, preferring that Peck survive with the resolve to write something of
lasting value.
The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to
New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house,
Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin
Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscarwinner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship;
Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring
a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are
strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a
series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime
concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's
"choice" is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had
not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the
character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling
novel the film was based. The film is rated R,
This hit domestic comedy-drama concerned the fortunes of an extended
African-American family recalled through the eyes of young narrator Ahmad
(Brandon Hammond). Ahmad's world revolves around his grandmother, Big
Mama Joseph (Irma P. Hall) and her three daughters: workaholic attorney Teri
(Vanessa Williams), newlywed salon owner Bird (Nia Long), and Ahmad's
housewife mom, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox). Each sister is in turmoil. Teri has lost
patience for her husband Miles (Michael Beach), who wants to quit the law and
take up music. Bird doesn't realize that her husband Lem (Mekhi Phifer) is
about to be humiliated by her ex-boyfriend (Mel Jackson). And while Maxine's
relationship with her husband Kenny (Jeffrey D. Sams) is going well, her
relationship with her jealous sister Teri needs fixing. These conflicts boil over at
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SOUND OF MUSIC
Big Mama's traditional Sunday dinners, where the matriarch plays peacemaker.
The ritual faces extinction, however, when Big Mama suffers a stroke -- but
Ahmad is waiting in the wings to take her place. Rated R.
An ambitious-but -spoiled rich white kid wins a scholarship to Harvard Law
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School by pretending to be African-American in this broadly-played comedy.
After his father cuts him off financially, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) wins a
full tuition scholarship to Harvard by claiming to be African-American on the
application form. With the help of his best friend Gordon (Arye Gross), Mark
acquires some bronzing pills, a new hairdo, and a lowered voice. Disguised as
a black student, Mark thinks that he's going to breeze through the program. The
reality of being a minority at a mostly white institution quickly catches up to him,
however, when he encounters some tacit racism and falls for Sarah Walker
(Rae Dawn Chong), a fellow student whose affection makes him feel guilty
about his ruse. Then there's the imperious Professor Banks (James Earl
Jones), an African-American instructor who expects him to perform at a higher
level than the other students. Soul Man was written by Carol Black and directed
by Steve Miner, who would collaborate again for the popular television series
The Wonder Years (1988-93).
One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is
based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as
Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning
prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding
that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take
her vows, the Mother Superior (Peggy Wood) sends her off to be governess for
the children of the widowed Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Arriving
at the Trapp home, Maria discovers that her new boss is cold and aloof, and his
seven children virtual automatons-at least, whenever the Captain is around.
Otherwise, the kids are holy terrors, as evidenced by the fact that Maria is the
latest in a long line of governesses. But Maria soon ingratiates herself with the
children, especially oldest daughter Liesl (Charmian Carr), who is in love with
teenaged messenger boy Rolf. As Maria herself begins to fall in love with the
Captain, she rushes back to the Abbey so as not to complicate his impending
marriage to a glamorous baroness (Eleanor Parker). But the children insist that
Maria return, the Baroness steps out of the picture, and Maria and the Captain
confirm their love in the song "Something Good." Unhappily, they return home
from their honeymoon shortly after the Nazis march into Austria. Already,
swastikas have been hung on the Von Trapp ancestral home, and Liesl's
boyfriend Rolf has been indoctrinated in the "glories" of the Third Reich. The
biggest blow occurs when Von Trapp is called back to active duty in the service
of the Fuhrer. The Captain wants nothing to do with Nazism, and he begins
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making plans to take himself and his family out of Austria.
Keanu Reeves stars as an LA Bomb Squad specialist whose principal
antagonist is elusive bomber-extortionist Dennis Hopper. Seeking vengeance
after his latest ransom scheme is thwarted, Hopper presents a personal
challenge to Reeves: A wired-for-destruction city bus, which will detonate if the
speedometer drops below 50 MPH. Playing the reluctant civilian who is pressed
into service as the bus' "substitute driver," leading lady Sandra Bullock became
a major star in her own right. Once Speed gets to the meat of its story, the
excitement never lets up--not even after the boobytrapped bus is out of the
picture. . RATED R.
After incorporating elements of comic book style and design into many of his
films, director Sam Raimi helms this straight-ahead, big-budget comic book
adaptation, which also marks acclaimed young actor Tobey Maguire's first dip
into live-action blockbuster filmmaking. Spider-Man follows the template of the
original Stan Lee/Steve Ditko source material, with hero Peter Parker an
orphaned, intellectual teen loner living in Queens with his aunt (Rosemary
Harris) and uncle (Cliff Robertson), and dreaming of the girl next door, Mary
Jane (Kirsten Dunst). On a field trip to a Columbia University lab, Peter is bitten
by a genetically altered spider and overnight he gains superhuman strength,
agility, and perception. At first, Peter uses his powers for material gain, winning
a wrestling match with a purportedly lucrative prize. But when Peter
apathetically fails to stop a burglar from robbing the wrestling arena, a tragedy
follows that compels him to devote his powers to fighting crime -- as the
superhero Spider-Man. When he's not busy fighting crime in a spider suit, Peter
moves into an apartment with his best friend, Harry (James Franco), and
begins work as a photographer at the Daily Bugle. Meanwhile, his do-gooder
alter ego finds a nemesis in the form of the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), a
super-powered, megalomaniacal villain who happens to be the alter ego of the
Harry's father, weapons-manufacturing mogul Norman Osborn.
Not a remake of the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film of the same name, Spitfire
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was originally released in Great Britain as The First of the Few. Director Leslie
Howard stars in this dramatization of the life and work of R.J. Mitchell, inventor
of the Spitfire fighter plane. The film suggests, accurately as it turns out, that
Mitchell was aware of Hitler's plans to conquer Europe by the air long before
anyone else caught on (we see him watching a suspicious-looking group of
"amateur" German gliding enthusiasts in the mid-1930s). David Niven, then a
major in the British Army, was given leave to appear in this morale-boosting film
as Mitchell's best friend, a dauntless test pilot. Ironically, Spitfire was released
after the death of its star-director Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down
by the Germans somewhere between London and Lisbon.
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SPY KIDS
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
STAGECOACH
In this reteaming of actor Antonio Banderas and director Robert Rodriguez -their first film together since the 1995 feature Desperado -- Banderas plays
Gregorio, who along with devoted partner Ingrid (Carla Gugino), composes the
greatest pair of secret agents working. Both are masters of disguise and have
the ability to prevent wars, but eventually they want to settle down and begin
raising a family. Nine years later, after retiring and giving up the lives of superspies, Gregorio and Ingrid find themselves at the call of duty again when
techno-genius Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming) and his insidious, ruthless sidekick
Minion (Tony Shalhoub) have plans for world destruction. The only hope for
Gregorio and Ingrid are their children, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl
Sabara), who are called upon to save their missing parents, eventually learning
their former identities.
This literally star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild,
with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the
story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away
from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th street
was too busy to lend itself to filming, thus the interiors were recreated in
Hollywood). Within the walls of this non-profit establishment, servicemen are
entertained by top musical, comedy and dramatic acts, and waited on by such
Broadway luminaries as Lunt and Fontanne, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Cowl,
Katherine Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Hayes, Cornelia Otis Skinner,
Sam Jaffe and Paul Muni. Though the plotline-one of the Canteen servers, a
girl named Eileen (Cheryl Walker) falls in love with one of the visiting soldiers
(William Terry), despite the establishment's strict "no dating" rules-is merely an
excuse to link together a series of specialty acts, it is superbly and touchingly
directed by Frank Borzage. Not all of the film has weathered the years too well:
particularly hard to take is Gracie Fields' cheery ditty about "killing Japs!"
Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a
template for all movie Westerns to come. Director John Ford combined action,
drama, humor, and a set of well-drawn characters in the story of a stagecoach
set to leave Tonto, New Mexico for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a
diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (Claire Trevor) is a woman with a
scandalous past who has been driven out of town by the high-minded ladies of
the community. Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt) is the wife of a cavalry officer
stationed in Lordsburg, and she's determined to be with him. Hatfield (John
Carradine) is a smooth-talking cardsharp who claims to be along to "protect"
Lucy, although he seems to have romantic intentions. Dr. Boone (Thomas
Mitchell) is a self-styled philosopher, a drunkard, and a physician who's been
stripped of his license. Mr. Peacock (Donald Meek) is a slightly nervous
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STAR IS BORN
whiskey salesman (and, not surprisingly, Dr. Boone's new best friend).
Gatewood (Berton Churchill) is a crooked banker who needs to get out of town.
Buck (Andy Devine) is the hayseed stage driver, and Sheriff Wilcox (George
Bancroft) is along to offer protection and keep an eye peeled for the Ringo Kid
(John Wayne), a well-known outlaw who has just broken out of jail. While
Wilcox does find Ringo, a principled man who gives himself up without a fight,
the real danger lies farther down the trail, where a band of Apaches, led by
Geronimo, could attack at any time. Stagecoach offers plenty of cowboys,
Indians, shootouts, and chases, aided by Yakima Canutt's remarkable stunt
work and Bert Glennon's majestic photography of Ford's beloved Monument
Valley.
Edward James Olmos portrays the real-life Jaime Escalante, a no-nonsense
mathematic teacher in a tough East LA high school. Handed a classroom full of
"losers" and "unteachables," Escalante is determined to turn his young charges'
lives around. Drawing from his own cultural heritage, Escalante forms a bond
with his largely Hispanic student body, evoking the names of famous Spaniards
and Latin Americans whose great accomplishments were predicated on their
ability to learn. The students gradually come to realize that the only way they'll
escape their own poverty-stricken barrio is to improve themselves intellectually.
As a result, the class' academic achievements soar dramatically -- too
dramatically for the Educational Testing Service, which is convinced that the
class' high test scores are the results of cheating. The triumphant exoneration
of Escalante's students provides Stand and Deliver with its rousingly upbeat
conclusion.
Rated: PG
A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell
a "true behind-the-scenes" story of Hollywood. The truth, of course, was filtered
a bit for box-office purposes, although Selznick and an army of screenwriters
based much of their script on actual people and events. Janet Gaynor stars as
Esther Blodgett, the small-town girl who dreams of Hollywood stardom, a role
later played by both Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand in the 1954 and 1976
remakes. Jeered at by most of her family, Esther finds an ally in her crusty old
grandma (May Robson), who admires the girl's "pioneer spirit" and bankrolls
Esther's trip to Tinseltown. On arrival, Esther heads straight to Central Casting,
where a world-weary receptionist (Peggy Wood), trying to let the girl down
gently, tells her that her chances for stardom are about one in a thousand.
"Maybe I'll be that one!" replies Esther defiantly. Months pass: through the
intervention of her best friend, assistant director Danny McGuire (Andy Devine),
Esther gets a waitressing job at an upscale Hollywood party. Her efforts to
"audition" for the guests are met with quizzical stares, but she manages to
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impress Norman Maine (Fredric March), the alcoholic matinee idol later played
by James Mason and Kris Kristofferson. Esther gets her first big break in
Norman's next picture and a marriage proposal from the smitten Mr. Maine. It's
a hit, but as Esther (now named Vicki)'s star ascends, Norman's popularity
plummets due to a string of lousy pictures and an ongoing alcohol problem. The
film won Academy Awards for director William Wellman and Robert Carson in
the "original story" category and for W. Howard Greene's glistening Technicolor
cinematography.
STAR TREK II
STAR TREK IV
STAR TREK V: FINAL FRONTIER
STAR TREK VI: UNDISCOVERED
COUNTRY
Because it is the simplest of the Star Trek theatrical films, Star Trek 2: The
Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69
TV series that spawned it. William Shatner plays Admiral Kirk (remember his
promotion?) who escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Spock (Leonard
Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) on a space mission.
While boldly going where no man etc. etc., Kirk crosses the path of his old
enemy Khan (Ricardo Montalban), who as any diehard Trekker can tell you was
the chief antagonist in the 1966 Trek TV episode "Space Seed." Leading a
crew of near-savage space prisoners, Khan insinuates himself into the Genesis
Project, which is designed to introduce living organisms on long-dead planets.
Intending to harness this program for his own despotic purposes, Khan
engages in battle with the Enterprise crew. Only through the self-sacrifice of Mr.
Spock is Khan disposed of. The shock of Spock's death is softened by the
hindsight realization that he will be reborn in the subsequent Star Trek 3: The
Search for Spock.
Star Trek IV compels the crew of the Enterprise (destroyed in the previous film)
to journey back from the 23rd century to the 20th. Their mission is to save the
humpbacked whale for future generations and to prepare a defense against
charges made by the Klingons for "crimes" committed in the previous film.
Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded
a "planet of peace," where delegates from hostile races co-exist in a sort of
intergalactic United Nations. Ordered to quell the crisis, the Enterprise crew
discovers that it's a ruse perpetrated by Sybok, who takes over the ship,
piloting it toward the "Great Barrier," an energy field at the galaxy's rim.
The plot involves a peace conference between the Federation of Planets and
the troublesome Klingons. All negotiations abruptly cease when a Klingon
vessel is attacked, and Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Dr. McCoy (DeForest
Kelley) are accused of the crime. As they stand trial for murder, Mr. Spock
(Leonard Nimoy) and Vulcanian trainee Lt. Valeris (Kim Cattrall) try to locate
the real culprits. It turns out that Kirk and McCoy are victims of a conspiracy to
foment further hostilities between the Good Guys and the Klingons
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STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s
were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry,
instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget
theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the starship
Enterprise, James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is an unhappy, desk-bound admiral
at Starfleet headquarters. Kirk goes aboard his old vessel to observe its relaunch under new captain Will Decker (Stephen Collins). Soon, however, an
escalating crisis causes Kirk to take command of his old ship. A mysterious,
planet-sized energy force of enormous power is headed for Earth. Reunited
with Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley),
and the rest of his former colleagues, Kirk takes the Enterprise inside the
massive energy cloud and discovers that it is the long-lost NASA space probe
Voyager. Now a sentient being after accumulating centuries of knowledge in its
deep space travels, the alien, which calls itself V'ger, has come home seeking
its creator.
STAR WARS
The movie is about a farmboy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) who
discovers that the used robot recently purchased by his family plays back a
message from one Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), begging for help from ObiWan Kenobi. Luke asks his father's friend Ben Kenobi (Alec Guinness) about
this, and he discovers that Ben and Obi-Wan are one and the same. Kenobi
tells Luke of the battle of the rebels against the ruling Empire and the spiritual
energy called "The Force." Soon Luke, Kenobi, and a mercenary named Han
Solo (Harrison Ford) join forces to rescue Princess Leia from the Empire's
mammoth warship, the Death Star, controlled by evil genius Darth Vader..
STARS LOOK DOWN
A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film
is set in a northern England mining town (far more realistically depicted than the
back-lot Welsh village in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. The parents
of Michael Redgrave have labored long and hard so that their son can escape
his grimy environs and make something of himself. While away at school,
Redgrave is trapped into marriage by Margaret Lockwood, previously the lady
friend of ill-tempered Emlyn Williams (the actor was himself a product of the
Welsh mining community). When Lockwood and Williams resume their
romance, the disillusioned Redgrave returns home, where he becomes deeply
involved in a labor dispute. He ultimately decides that it is best for all if he
remains in the village of his birth, working tirelessly on behalf of his friends,
relatives and neighbors. Denied the larger budgets indigenous to Hollywood
films, Carol Reed invested a gritty documentary "feel" into The Stars Look
Down; the film brought him international acclaim, serving as a stepping stone
for even greater cinematic accomplishments. Curiously, Reed himself didn't
subscribe to A. J. Cronin's opinions vis-a-vis the nationalization of the coal
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mines; he was simply attracted to the dramatic possibilities of the tale.
STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to DOUGLAS, KIRK
murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is
the prime mover of the small Pennsylvania town of Iverston. Martha lives in a
huge mansion with her DA husband Walter O'Neill (Kirk Douglas), an alcoholic
weakling. No one knows just why Martha and Walter tolerate one another....but
Sam Masterson (Van Heflin), an Iverstown boy who returns to town, may just
have a clue. At least that's what Martha thinks when Sam asks Walter to
intervene in the case of Toni Marachek (Lizabeth Scott), who has been unjustly
imprisoned. It seems that, as a young boy, Sam was in the vicinity when
Martha's rich aunt (Judith Anderson) met with her untimely demise. What does
Sam know? And what dark, horrible secret binds Martha and Walter together?
Directed by Lewis Milestone, and based on John Patrick's Oscar-nominated
original story, Love Lies Bleeding, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers creates in
Martha a unique and interesting, driven, obsessed and spoiled character, but
one not without sympathy. Barbara Stanwyck is outstanding as Martha, with her
predatory smile and sharp, manicured nails. Kirk Douglas is surprisingly
convincing as a lost, sad, weak man, who loves his wife, but is unable to gain
her respect. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers eventually lapsed into public
domain and became a ubiquitous presence on cable television.
SUDDENLY
Suddenly is the name of the small town invaded by professional assassin Frank
Sinatra and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Sinatra sets up a vigil
at the second-story window of the family's home. From here, he intends to kill
the President of the United States when the latter makes a whistle-stop visit to
Suddenly.
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Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High
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Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this
western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr)
is married to Paddy (Robert Mitchum), a sheep drover whose nomadic
existence makes him blissfully content. Neither Ida nor their son Sean share his
love for roaming, in fact, Ida convinces her husband to take on a job as a
sheep-shearer so they can finally have enough to get a mortgage on a farm. At
first Paddy agrees but obviously does not know his own mind because in no
time at all, he rebels -- though that is not the end of it. Peter Ustinov is also
featured as Vanneker, a bachelor who comes to stay with the family, and Glynis
Johns plays a hotelkeeper out to change Vanneker's non-marital status.
TARZAN
Deep within the African jungle, a mama gorilla names an orphaned baby
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boy"Tarzan" and adopts hime as her own, even thought the silverback leader
kerchak shuns the "hairless wonder." Growing up alongside his wisecracking
ape buddy Terk and neurotic elephant pal Tantor, Tarzan develops all the
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instincts and prowess of a jungle animal, "surfing" and swinging through the
trees at lightening speed. But with the sudden appearance of Tarzan's own
kind, including the beautiful Jane, two worlds are about to become one.
Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-themill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to
death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck
murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's willingness to go along
with the Bronson character, Leo Kessler, when he uses illegal means to entrap
criminals. The captured killer, Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) manages to go free
because of red tape and the need to wait for the outcome of his insanity plea.
When he returns to his murderous predilection, Kessler takes action to
permanently stop him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
It's Spielberg in Capra mode, spinning the featherweight tale of Victor Navorski HANKS, TOM
(Hanks, giving a finely tuned performance), an Eastern European who arrives
at New York's Kennedy Airport just as his (fictional) homeland has fallen to a
coup, forcing him, with no valid citizenship, to take indefinite residence in the
airport's expansive International Arrivals Terminal
A sequel to the low-budget science fiction action thriller that made him and star SCHWARZENEGGER,
Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer-director James
ARNOLD
Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping
storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah
Connor, now a single mother to rebellious teen John Connor (Edward Furlong).
Having been informed by a time-traveling soldier in the first film that John will
one day grow up to become humanity's savior from a computer-controlled
Armageddon, Sarah has responded by becoming a muscle-bound she-warrior
bent on educating John in survival tactics and battle strategies. Her ranting
about mankind's future has landed Sarah in an insane asylum and John in the
foster care system. The rebellious John has responded to his situation by
getting into scrapes with the law. When a new and improved Terminator
android called the T-1000 (Robert Patrick) arrives from the future to eliminate
John, an older model T-800 (Schwarzenegger) is sent to protect the boy. The
T-1000, however, has the ability to morph itself into any shape it desires,
allowing it chameleon-like powers and near indestructibility. The T-800 saves
John's life and helps breaks Sarah out of the institution. Staying only one step
ahead of the dogged T-1000, Sarah leads her son and the T-800 to the
headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems, the company that will invent a robotic
intelligence that will eventually take over the world. There, they attempt to
convince inventor Miles Dyson (Joe Morton) to help them stop the future from
ever occurring by destroying his work. Dyson sacrifices himself in an explosion
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to save the world, leading to a final showdown between the two Terminators at
a steel foundry. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which won four Oscars in
technical categories for its groundbreaking effects. RATED R
Covers three decades in the lives of widow Aurora Greenaway (Shirley
MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Fiercely protected by
Aurora throughout childhood, Emma runs into resistance from her mother when
she marries wishy-washy college teacher Flap (Jeff Daniels).After 75 minutes
or so of pursuing an episodic, semi-comic plotline, the film abruptly shifts
moods when Emma discovers that she has terminal cancer
The massive enemy offensive at the lunar new year decimated the Vietcong
and failed to topple the Saigon government but led to the beginning of
Ameriva's military withdrawal from Vietnam
Six year into her marriage to preoccupied insurance salesman Larry Baker
(Melvyn Douglas), Jill Baker (Merle Oberson) develops a case of hiccups.
Phlegmatic Freudian psychologist Vengard (Alan Mowbray) suggests that Jill's
affliction is caused by marital problems, whereupon she decides to enter into a
new relationship with Vengard's star patient, hilariously neurotic concert pianist
Sebastian (Burgess Meredith). Magnanimously agreeing to a divorce, Larry
nonetheless remains in love with Jill, and she with him. They'll get back
together, of course, but not until a multitude of delightful misunderstandings.
Outside of Burgess Meredith's brilliant comic performance (obviously patterned
on Oscar Levant), the film's highlight finds Larry trying to figure out the gentlest
possible way to permit Jill to file for divorce on the grounds of cruelty.
The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor- PRICE, VINCENT
made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a
master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays
Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after losing a
prominent acting award and decides to seek revenge on the critics responsible.
Fittingly, he using the works of the Bard as a guide, basing his killings on
violent scenes from Shakespearean plays. Price takes full advantage of his
meaty role, ominously reciting classic Elizabethan monologues while rigging
particularly nasty torture devices. This hilarious turn is assisted by a colorful
supporting cast, including Robert Morley, Richard Coote, and Michael Hordern
as critics and Diana Rigg as Lionheart's devoted daughter and partner in crime.
The end result is a wonderfully evil lark that, in its own way, proves surprisingly
faithful to the often bloody spirit of Shakespeare; certainly the full implications of
Shylock's demand for a "pound of flesh" have rarely been made quite as
explicit.
The Farrelly Brothers set this romantic comedy in their home state of Rhode
Island. In 1985, when teen-nerd Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) challenges a
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THEY CALL ME TRINITY
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high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren Jenson (W. Earl Brown), his
concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary Jenson
(Cameron Diaz) to choose Ted as her senior prom date, a fact Ted's pals find
hard to believe. However, on prom night, Ted gets his penis caught in his
zipper, so the much-desired date never happens. Living in Providence and
waxing nostalgic 13 years later, Ted hires Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) to locate
Mary, and the creepy private investigator finds her in Miami, where she lives
with her tan-shriveled roommate Magda (Lin Shaye). After Pat develops a
stalker-style fixation on the lovely, unattached Mary, he lies to Ted, telling him
that she's now an overweight mother confined to a wheelchair. Employing
professional eavesdropping equipment, Pat gathers a dossier on Mary's life
and future plans, information that forms the basis for more lies when Pat begins
dating her. Sure enough, Mary falls for Pat, although her friend Tucker (Lee
Evans) is very suspicious of Pat's claim to be a Harvard-educated architect.
Meanwhile, Ted learns the truth but continues to encounter offbeat obstacles as
he accelerates to Miami in hopes of finding happiness with his true love.
They Call It Murder was the pilot for a potential TV series based on the "Doug
Selby" character created by Perry Mason mentor Earl Stanley Gardner.
Inspired by Gardner's 1969 novel The DA Draws a Circle, the film finds district
attorney Selby (Jim Hutton) probing the mystery of a corpse in a swimming
pool. It is obvious from the outset that the dead man did not drown, but was
killed elsewhere and then unceremoniously dumped in the chlorine. Selby
traces the chain of events to a car accident and an insurance scam. Originally
telecast December 17, 1971,
In order to protect a group of Mormons from Mexican bandidos, two brothers
are forced to convert in this comedic spoof of spaghetti westerns. Trinity is Still
My Name is the title of the sequel.
They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the GARFIELD, JOHN
ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a young boxer who seems headed for
a championship. When a reporter finds Bradfield drunk and carousing with
women, and learns that the squeaky-clean image that he has cultivated is a
complete lie, he threatens to blow the lid off the boxer's real life, and is beaten
to death by Bradfield's manager. Bradfield, who was in a drunken stupor during
the fight, is framed for the killing by his manager, who rolls him for his wallet,
watch, and anything else of value, makes a run for it, and is killed in a fiery car
accident. As far as the police are concerned, the case is closed, "Bradfield"
having been identified in the wreck by the watch he was wearing. But Johnny
Bradfield now has to disappear from New York and anyplace else he's ever
been seen, in order to stay "dead." He is sent on his way by his crooked
attorney with just a few dollars in his pocket, thumbing rides and walking west.
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Bradfield collapses one day from exhaustion and near starvation outside of a
ranch in Arizona. The ranch is run by May Robson as part of a relief effort to
help a group of boys from the New York slums -- Tommy (Billy Halop), Spit
(Leo Gorcey), Dippy (Huntz Hall), T.B. (Gabriel Dell), Angel (Bobby Jordan),
and Milty (Bernard Punsly) -- keep out of trouble. Identifying himself as "Jack
Dorney," he first tries to see what he can get in the way of a free ride from the
kids and Tommy's sister, Peggy (Gloria Dickson), who doesn't trust Dorney or
his influence over the kids. Meanwhile, back in New York, one police detective,
Phelan (Claude Rains), is convinced that the body found in the burned wreck of
Johnny Bradfield's car wasn't Bradfield. Phelan is an outcast in his department
for having once presented "conclusive" evidence in court against a man who
was executed for murder, only to discover later that the man was innocent. He
sees this as his chance to redeem himself and his career, and he is such a
pariah that his chief gives him permission to follow up leads anywhere he
needs to. At the ranch, Dorney takes a genuine liking to the kids, and sees
Peggy as a kind of woman he's never known, who has no "angles" in her
approach to life. The ranch may have to be sold, however, as there is no more
money coming from the church in New York to keep it going. In order to save
the ranch and set Peggy and the kids up in a roadside business pumping gas -an idea of Tommy's -- Dorney decides to enter a prize fight for money against a
barnstorming boxer. On the eve of the fight, however, Phelan shows up, drawn
by a newspaper photo of Dorney, his face obscured but using the same
unusual left-handed boxing stance he used as Johnny Bradfield. Dorney goes
into the ring, and finds himself up against a brute who has already flattened two
opponents in less than one round each, trying to hide his identity by fighting
right-handed. He gets savaged, round after round, until Phelan tells him from
ringside that he knows who he is. Free to use his left, Dorney saves himself.
Phelan confronts him in the dressing room, and Johnny tells him he'll give him
no trouble -- they're about to head back east, with Peggy and the kids trying to
thank him, and it dawns on Phelan that possibly this is one case that might
better be left "solved" officially the way it is already, even though it means the
detective going back to his job as a laughing stock.
The third inning of Ken Burns' nine-inning documentary leads us into the
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Roaring '20s, but not before hitting the sport's stumbling block that was the
Black Sox World Series scandal of 1919. Charles Comisky's stingy handling of
the Chicago White Sox, who would eventually throw the series against the
Reds, was tempered by the success of the Athletics under Connie Mack.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis became baseball's first Commissioner, making
headlines both by banning the Black Sox for life, and by approving the sale of
George H. Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees for 125,000 dollars. The dark
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cloud of scandal was about to be cleared away by a new hero.
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna WELLES, ORSON
divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies
has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an exschool friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime
has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends
and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent,
and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime
.Author Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) searches for his friend (Orson Welles) in
post war Vienna. Holly's suspicions of foul play lead him into murkier depths
and more troublethan he ever imagined. Written by Graham Green and
directed by Carol Reed.
Nova follows an Egyptologist as he reveals ancient secrets of the pyramids and
advises a stonemason from This Old House on how to build a new pyramid.
Claudette Colbert gives a very strong performance as real life writer Agnes
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Keith, an American woman living on Borneo with her British husband and son
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during WWII. When the Japanese invade, she and her son are separated from
her husband, Patric Knowles, and all are imprisoned in camps. A Japanese
colonel, very well played by Sessue Hayakawa, takes an interest in Colbert
since he has read her book, and they have a platonic relationship that is one of
the most interesting features of the movie. He has been educated in America,
and he reveals more about himself than a typical Japanese soldier would.
Three Came Home illustrates the poor conditions of prison camps during WWII
and the effect of the war on those who weren't soldiers but had to fight to
survive. It's a dramatic story, well acted, and worth viewing.
Three upwardly mobile New York bachelors Their even-keel lifestyle is thrown
out of whack when a young woman leaves a baby on their doorstep, suspecting
that film director Danson is the fathershare an apartment. The balance of the
film is devoted to milking as much humor as possible out of the situation of
three urbane young men trying to play nursemaid with nary a clue of what
they're doing.
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with
their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide
to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying
home with their wives. When the wives find out that the games stopped some
time ago, they are a quite upset. Just what have they been doing on Thursday
nights.
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Klezmer music is a fusion of Eastern European folk tunes with jazz and other
influences. It was (and is) the preferred celebratory music of Sephardic, or
Eastern European Jewry around the world and is now enjoying a new upswing
in popularity. In fact, it is popular in places and among groups far beyond its
Gypsy/Jewish origins earlier in this century. Not only has it become well enough
known so that riffs from it are heard in a song by folk/country musician
Emmylou Harris, but it is now quite fashionable in Germany, which is where this
documentary was made. The Epstein Brothers form one of the oldest klezmer
bands still playing, and their active retirement is the focus of this documentary.
In some sense, the history of their musical association is the history of klezmer.
They perform in their retirement community in Florida, but they are frequently
invited to perform in New York City and Germany. Of course, the film's best
highlight is its music.
MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life
story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who gave his blessing to the
production shortly before his death in 1946. As played by a gray-templed
Robert Walker, Kern is a likeable but none too exciting sort who expresses his
emotions through his music. Constructed in the form of an extended flashback,
the story proper begins at the turn of the century, as Kern tries to peddle his
ditties to disinterested Broadway producers. His efforts to interest impresario
Charles K. Frohman (Harry Hayden) go nowhere because Frohman is
convinced that the only good music comes from Europe. Obligingly, Kern
moves to London, where he meets and falls in love with his future wife Eva
(Dorothy Patrick). On the verge of securing work with Frohman, Kern's hopes
are dashed when the producer goes down with the Lusitania in 1915.
Fortunately he has developed such powerful US contacts as Victor Herbert
(Paul Maxey) and Oscar Hammerstein (Paul Langton), enabling Kern to find
success as the composer of several "intimate" musicals for New York's
Princess Theater. The film ends where it begins, with Kern's triumph as
composer of the Broadway blockbuster Show Boat. Van Heflin weaves in and
out of the proceedings as the obligatory best friend/severest critic, a musical
arranger named Jim Hessler (purportedly based on longtime Kern associate
Paul Sadler). No one in 1946 really cared about the dramatic passages of Till
the Clouds Roll By; the film's biggest drawing card was its lineup of all-star
MGM talent, performing Kern's most famous numbers. Judy Garland (as
Marilyn Miller) sings "Look for the Silver Lining"; Dinah Shores performs "The
Last Time I Saw Paris" before a back-projected Gay Paree; Kathryn Grayson
does a Rita Hayworth imitation with "Long Ago and Far Away"; Virginia O'Brien
deadpans "A Fine Romance"; Tony Martin warbles "All the Things You Are";
June Allyson and Ray McDonald team up for the title number; and Frank
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Sinatra, incongrously dressed in white tuxedo, runs through "Old Man River";
and other musical contributions are made by Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury,
Cyd Charisse, Gower Champion and Lucille Bremer (cast as Van Heflin's
daughter). The film's high point comes at the very beginning with a "Reader's
Digest" edition of Show Boat, featuring Lena Horne, as Julie (the role she was
born to play, but never did again on screen), delivering a powerhouse rendition
of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". Since lapsing into public domain in 1974, Till
the Clouds Roll By has, along with Royal Wedding, become the most readily
accessible of all MGM musicals.
Based on a novel by Colleen McCullough (The Thorn Birds), the film stars Piper GIBSON, MEL
Laurie as Mary Horton, a lonely middle-aged American career woman who
hires a handsome, mildly retarded young handyman named Tim, superbly
played by 22-year-old Mel Gibson in his third screen role. At first keeping her
distance, Mary is drawn closer to Tim as the days pass. When Tim's mother
dies, Mary becomes his surrogate mother, a relationship that deepens into
romantic love. Tim's older sister Dawn (Deborah Melville) resents Mary's
"intrusion" into their lives, but Tim's dad Ron (Alwin Kurtz) blesses the
relationship, realizing that it is beneficial to both parties. Eventually, Ron also
dies, leaving Tim more reliant upon Mary than ever. At Ron's funeral, Dawn
angrily lashes out at the grieving Mary, but Tim tries to patch things up. While
the ending is ambiguous, we have hopes that Tim's innocent, unconditional
love will help smooth out the rocky relationship between Dawn and Mary.
This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star
Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912.
Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two
major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200
million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the
time of its release, and became the most successful. Writer-director James
Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital special effects for this production,
realized on a monumental scale and spanning eight decades. Inspired by the
1985 discovery of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the contemporary storyline
involves American treasure-seeker Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) retrieving artifacts
from the submerged ship. Lovett looks for diamonds but finds a drawing of a
young woman, nude except for a necklace. When 102-year-old Rose (Gloria
Stuart) reveals she's the person in the portrait, she is summoned to the
wreckage site to tell her story of the 56-carat diamond necklace and her
experiences of 84 years earlier. The scene then shifts to 1912 Southampton
where passengers boarding the Titanic include penniless Jack Dawson
(Leonardo DiCaprio) and society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet),
returning to Philadelphia with her wealthy fiance Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). After
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the April 10th launch, Rose develops a passionate interest in Jack, and Cal's
reaction is vengeful. At midpoint in the film, the Titanic slides against the
iceberg and water rushes into the front compartments. Even engulfed, Cal
continues to pursue Jack and Rose as the massive liner begins its descent
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to
film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer-director team of Robert Mulligan
and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses
on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently
embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees
to represent Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a black man accused of rape. The
trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the the eyes of Finch's 6year-old daughter Scout (Mary Badham). While Robinson's trial gives the film
its momentum, there are plenty of anecdotal occurences before and after the
court date: Scout's ever-strengthening bond with older brother Jem (Philip
Alford), her friendship with precocious young Dill Harris (a character based on
Harper Lee's childhood chum Truman Capote and played by John Megna), her
father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging
mad dog, and especially Scout's reactions to, and relationship with, Boo Radley
(Robert Duvall in his movie debut), the reclusive "village idiot" who turns out to
be her salvation when she is attacked by a venomous bigot. Mockingbird won
Academy Awards for Best Actor (Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay. and Best Art
Direction.
TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS 1940 This work is primarily occupied with major incidents in the life of Thomas
Arnold, headmaster of Rugby, and his overcoming of a good deal of resistance
in lifting that institution from a tepid state to a position of England's finest public
school. Based upon the novel of the same name by Thomas Hughes, and
which employs the student Tom Brown as Arnold's tactical and ethical
surrogate within the scholastic body. Arnold, who must find an answer to the
prevalent bullying of the day, is portrayed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke with a
stunning performance, ably supported by Josephine Hutchinson as Mrs. Arnold.
The film proceeds at a very crisp pace, with the scenario building well as
Brown, played with feeling by Jimmy Lydon, prepares to make a stand against
older and tyrannical students led by Billy Halop as Flashman. The arteries of
the novel are presented with some depth, demonstrating the inculcation into the
students of the importance of physical and mental courage, loyalty, and selfreliance, albeit apparently at the cost of some amount of intellectual
achievement. The love of the students for Rugby and for their headmaster is
presented throughout, the production design, costumes, and editing are all firstrate, and a superb musical score is contributed by Anthony Collins.
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When Lizabeth Scott's Jane Greer husband Arthur Kennedy accidentally gets
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his mitts on $60,000 in stolen money, she insists that he keep the dough rather
than turn it over to the authorities. Two-bit private eye Dan Duryea catches on
to Scott's subterfuge, and demands that she turn the cash over to him. Scott
persuades Duryea to split the money with her--then, determining that Kennedy
might be too honest for everyone's own good, she murders her husband. To
cover her tracks, Scott reports her husband as missing. This brings in yet
another fly in the ointment: Don DeFore, the brother of Scott's first husband,
who died under mysterious circumstances. The already knotted webs of
intrigue become even more tangled before Scott's ironic comeuppance.
Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval CRUISE, TOM
Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer)
for the coveted "Top Gun" award.Worried that he may have lost his nerve,
Mitchell is given a chance to redeem himself during a tense international crisis
involving a crippled US vessel and a flock of predatory enemy planes.
The funloving Kerbys, stockholders in the bank of which henpecked, stuffy
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Cosmo Topper is president, drive recklessly once too often and become
ghosts. In limbo because they've never done either good or bad deeds, they
decide to try a good one now: rehabilitating Topper. Lovely, flirtatious Marion
takes a keen personal interest in the job. Will Topper survive the wrath of
jealous ghost George? Will Mrs. Topper find that a scandalous husband isn't all
bad?
The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the
frothy "screwball" format of the first two in favor of an Old Dark House comedymystery. Roland Young returns as banker Cosmo Topper, who gallantly offers
a lift to pretty hitchhikers Joan Blondell and Carole Landis. This results in a few
baleful glances from Topper's wife Clara (Billie Burke), but the worst is still to
come. It seems that Blondell and Landis are en route to a chilly old mansion,
recently inherited by Landis and populated by all manner of sinister types,
including old reliable menaces George Zucco and Rafaela Ottiano. The only
person whom the girls can trust--or can they?--is Landis' father H.B. Warner.
Unable to sleep in the creepy mansion, Blondell suggests that she and Landis
exchange bedrooms. This proves to be a major mistake when a mysterious,
hooded assailant, intending to murder Landis, kills Blondell instead. Seconds
later, Blondell's ghost arises from her body and heads to the nearby summer
house where Mr. and Mrs. Topper are staying. Having had his fill of ghosts in
the first two Topper films, Topper wants nothing to do with Blondell's spirit, but
she finally convinces him to help her identity her killer, and to rescue Landis
from a similar fate. Some of the film's best moments belong to Eddie
"Rochester" Anderson as Young's eternally frightened chauffeur (at one point,
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Anderson threatens to quit the Toppers and go back to Jack Benny)! More
contrived and slapstick-oriented than the earlier Toppers, Topper Returns still
works as a neat and entertaining comedy, even in its dreadful computercolorized version.
In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold
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Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that ARNOLD
his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his
brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had
become a threat to the government, so those in power planted the chip and
invented a domestic lifestyle for him. Once he has realized his true identity, he
travels to Mars to piece together the rest of his identity, as well as to find the
man responsible for his implanted memory. Verhoeven has created a fast,
furious action film with Total Recall, filled with impressive stunts and (literally)
eye-popping visuals. Though the film bears only a passing resemblance to the
Philip K. Dick short story it was based on ("We Can Remember It For You
Wholesale"), the movie is an entertaining, if very violent, ride. RATED R
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Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this
seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the
film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The
star of the proceedings is Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy belonging to a wideeyed youngster named Andy. Whenever Andy's out of the room, Woody revels
in his status as the boy's Number One toy. His supremacy is challenged by a
high-tech, space-ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear, who, unlike
Woody and his pals, believes that he is real and not merely a plaything. The
rivalry between Woody and Buzz hilariously intensifies during the first half of
the film, but when the well-being of Andy's toys is threatened by a nasty nextdoor neighbor kid named Sid -- whose idea of fun is feeding stuffed dolls to his
snarling dog and reconstructing his own toys into hideous mutants -- Woody
and Buzz join forces to save the day. Superb though the computer animation
may be, what really heightens Toy Story are the voiceover performances by
such celebrities as Tom Hanks (as Woody), Tim Allen (as Buzz), and Don
Rickles (as an appropriately acerbic Mr. Potato Head).
Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy
box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. This
time around, Andy, the young boy who is the proud owner of most of our cast of
characters, is off at summer camp, giving the toys a few weeks off to do as they
please. Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is unaware that in the years since his
model went out of production, he's become a rare and valuable collector's item.
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An avid toy collector (voice of Wayne Knight) decides that he wants Woody for
his collection and swipes him, so Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), Hamm
(voice of John Ratzenberger), Rex (voice of Wallace Shawn), Slinky Dog (voice
of Jim Varney), and Mr. Potato Head (voice of Don Rickles) venture forth to
rescue their kidnapped friend before Andy returns. Along with most of the
original voice cast, composer Randy Newman returns with a new score and
new songs.
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers PLEASANCE, DONALD
a plane wreck from ww-ii. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and
threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars
in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life
thereby
Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests WELLES, ORSON
upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story in clear, precise fashion.
Sometimes, as in such films as Touch of Evil, Welles' spotty storytelling skills
can be forgiven in the light of the excellent visuals. In other cases, as in his
1962 adaptation of Kafka's The Trial, Welles'style comes across as empty
virtuosity, precious and petulant when it should be profound. Anthony Perkins
plays Joseph K, a man condemned for an unnamed crime in an unnamed
country. Seeking justice, Joseph K is sucked into a labyrinth of bureaucracy
(Welles once described the character as being a "little bureaucrat" himself, who
deserves to be punished. This is never clearly expressed in the finished film).
Along the way, he becomes involved with three women -- Jeanne Moreau,
Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli -- who in their own individual ways are
functions of the System that persecutes him. While Welles considered The Trial
one of his finest films, this enthusiasm is not universally shared; even his most
fervent admirers have been known to emerge from a screening of the film with
quizzical, disappointed expressions on their faces. On the plus side, Welles and
his cinematographer Edmond Richard perform miracles in transforming an
abandoned French railway station into the headquarters of a totalitarian, red
tape-ridden society. It's also fun to hear Welles' voice emanating from several
of the supporting characters (his post-dubbing budget was nil). All in all,
however, The Trial never truly works; it is unfair, however, to lay the blame for
this entirely on Welles, inasmuch as the 1948 and 1994 attempts to cinematize
the original Kafka novel likewise came a cropper.
In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn, WAYNE, JOHN
hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey),
who killed her father
Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture,
domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of
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entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry
Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman
neglecting his mousy wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), a legal secretary. Simon
(Bill Paxton) seduces Helen with the lie that he is a secret agent; he's really a
used car salesman. Harry suspects that Helen is cheating on him, and he
sends a few colleagues to kidnap them. Helen then discovers that Harry is a
secret agent by night, working for a shadowy group called the Omega Sector.
Harry and his partner Gib (Tom Arnold) are trying to find four nuclear warheads
that have disappeared from a former Soviet republic. RATED R
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's
rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans
revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and
childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both
Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What
started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for
wealth and power.
Wandering into the small Mexican town where Luis Gallegos (John Alonso) is
about to be hanged, mercenary peddler Sykes (Thomas Gomez) sells the rope
to the hangman, then turns around and sells a handful of "magic dust" to the
condemned man's father (Vladimir Sokoloff). Lying through his teeth, Sykes
insists that the dust will spread goodwill throughout the community -- and, it is
hoped, will spare Gallegos' life. One doesn't have to be a diehard Twilight Zone
fan to guess what will happen next.
The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on.
Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and
gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a
mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film
takes satiric jabs at the notion of "perfect" genetics, and makes several pointed
comments concerning the dangers of youthful pre-conditioning by insensitive
parents.
A woman finds herself attempting to foil one office romance while debating if
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she should take a chance on another in this romantic comedy. Lucy Kelton
(Sandra Bullock) is a top-flight attorney who has risen to the position of Chief
Legal Counsel for one of New York's leading commercial real estate firms, the
Wade Corporation. However, Lucy's job has one significant drawback -George Wade (Hugh Grant), the eccentric and remarkably self-centered head
of the firm. George seems entirely incapable of making a decision without
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Lucy's advice, whether it actually involves a legal matter or not, and while she's
fond of George, being at his beck and call 24 hours a day has brought her to
the end of her rope. In a moment of anger, Lucy gives her two weeks notice,
and George reluctantly accepts, under one condition -- Lucy has to hire her
own replacement. After extensive research, Lucy picks June Carter (Alicia
Witt), a Harvard Law graduate determined to make a career for herself. Lucy
soon begins to suspect, however, that June plans to hasten her rise up the
corporate ladder by winning George's hand, leaving Lucy to wonder if she
should warn George about his beautiful but calculating new attorney -- and
whether she should tell George that she has finally realized she's in love with
him.
George "Ice Man" Chambers (Rhames) is a top ranked heavyweight boxer.
SNIPES, WESLEY
However Chambers has his world turned upside down when he is accused of
rape and sent to prison. Upon his arrival he hears talk about Monroe Hutchen
(Snipes) who is the top ranked prison boxing champ 10 years running.
Immediately there is bad blood with Chambers not wanting to be second to no
one which leads to a lunch room fight between the men. Figuring it will be a
good way to make money fellow convict Emmanuel 'Mendy' Ripstein (Peter
Falk) sets up a prison boxing match between the two men to decide who is the
real UNDISPUTED champ.
Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the
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Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little
Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a
whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances
Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of
the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny
(Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz
Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny
insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children,
and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan
Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (Oscarwinner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty
hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English
Bob (Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W.
Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises
to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and justice. But when
Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a
harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of
ideas like "justice." "I don't deserve this," pleads Little Bill. "Deserve's got
nothin' to do with it," growls Munny, simultaneously summing up the insanity of
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western violence and the legacy of Eastwood's Man With No Name. Rated: R
After the terrible events of the original Universal Soldier testings, the budget
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has been slashed by the government. Under the orders of a CIA director, a
gang of mercenaries take control of the new line of Universal Soldiers and try to
use them into helping to smuggle diamonds to the highest foreign buyer. When
Luc Deveroux, survivor from the first incident, continues to cause problems he
newly found younger brother is taken prisoner along with his news reporter
friend Veronica Reynolds.
In their very last feature film, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy travel to London so
that Stan can claim his uncle's inheritance. All of the cash has been eaten up
by taxes, but at least Stan is able to claim a tax-free island and yacht that his
uncle has left him. Boarding the yacht (actually a run-down tub) in Marseilles,
Stan and Ollie set sail for their island in the company of stateless refugee Max
Elloy, who signs on as cook, and Italian bricklayer Adriano Rimoldi, who stows
away. The little party is nearly torn to bits by a storm at sea, but the yacht runs
safely aground on a newly formed atoll. The tiny atoll's population is increased
to five when nightclub singer Suzy Delair, fleeing her domineering naval-officer
fiance Luigi Tosi, takes refuge with the other castaways. Laurel & Hardy and
their friends live an idyllic, Robinson Crusoe-like existence until Delair's fiance
shows up. He announces he hasn't come to claim her, but to investigate reports
that the atoll is rich with uranium. Indeed it is, and soon every nation in the
world is clamoring to claim the atoll's radioactive deposits. Laurel and Hardy
take quick action, declaring sovereignty over "Crusoeland." They then devise
an anarchic government over which Ollie presides. Stan is relegated to the
postion of "The People." Comical chaos reigns when their "no laws, no taxes"
policies attract the attention of various unsavory types, including rabble-rouser
Alec Dalmatoff.
The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's
Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright, who
has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble (Ray Collins). Stroble's
natural son Lee (Robert Walker) has always been envious of Owen, who in turn
has spent most of his life pulling Lee out of trouble and keeping the boy's
misdeeds a secret from the elder Stroble. When Lee fathers an illegitimate
child, he tries to shift the responsibility on Owen, leading to a life-threatening
confrontation with the vengeance-seeking brothers of the baby's mother (Sally
Forrest). There's plenty more plot twists before virtue finally triumphs. Joanne
Dru co-stars as Lee's long-suffering wife Jen, who harbors a secret yen for
Owen.
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A deadly virus seeps from the wreckage of a downed military plane, killing
everyone around the world except 855 men and eight women scientists
stationed in Antarctica. Memorable performances by Glenn Ford and Robert
Vaughn.
A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by
Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and
their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their
breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed relationship with
a man. Robin (Lela Rochon) is the long-time mistress of Russell (Leon), who
keeps reneging on his promise to leave his wife for her. She dumps him to find
a man she can have to herself, but her dates with a reliable but unattractive
business partner (Wendell Pierce) and a drug addict (Mykelti Williamson) send
her back to Russell. Savannah (Whitney Houston) is a successful television
producer who also believes that her married lover Kenneth (Dennis Haysbert)
will leave his wife. Bernadine (Angela Bassett) is a wealthy woman who
abandoned her own career to raise a family. Her husband is now leaving her to
marry a white woman. Gloria (Loretta Devine) is a beauty salon owner and
single mother raising a teenage son. After years alone, she falls in love with a
new neighbor, Marvin (Gregory Hines). The women share their stories over
lunches and conversations at Gloria's salon.
RATED R
Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been ANDREWS, DANA
effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews stars as
Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader in Italy who ends up assuming command of
his platoon after a series of deaths. As they prepare to attack an isolated Naziheld farmhouse, each of the infantymen reveals his true character as he dwells
upon his background and contemplates the job at hand. The film's
effectiveness lies in the non-cliched characterizations by a carefully chosen allmale cast. Huntz Hall of "East Side Kids" fame is particularly good in a scene
wherein he argues over whether the human body or the leaf is the most
complicated natural structure. Director Lewis Milestone's use of a ballad to link
the action predates High Noon by some seven years.
This musical is set in Old Vienna and follows the romance between an empress
and an officer in her guard. Though she wants to marry him, her ministers
forbid it because the officer is a notorious playboy. Sure enough, the officer
begins making passes at the empress' best friend. To teach him a lesson the
monarch poses as her friend during a masquerade ball. Music, mayhem, and
more romance ensues.
This movie ought to be revered as one of the classics. The cast selection is a
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perfect blend of actor and story. The main parts are all played by well known
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and accomplished actors, yet they manage to become their characters perfectly
rather than to try to force the character to be reshapen into the press image of
the actor. The painstakingly accurate historical drama The War Lord is
predicated on the old practice of le droit du seigneur. Norman knight Charlton
Heston, in charge of an 11th century Druid community, exercises his right to
claim bride Rosemary Forsyth on the night of her wedding to James Farentino.
Forsyth becomes enamored of her abductor, refusing to leave his side. Seeking
vengeance, Farentino, the son of Druidic leader Niall McGinniss, foments an
all-out war between Heston and Heston's covetous brother Guy Stockwell.
Despite the impressive scope of the battle scenes, The War Lord, based on a
stage play by Leslie Stevens, is essentially an intimate human drama
The British Second World War film We Dive at Dawn tells of the encounter
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between a British submarine and a German warship in the Baltic Sea. John
Mills gives a dependable performance as the submarine commander, with Eric
Portman the pick of a strong supporting cast. Director Anthony Asquith finds the
balance between action sequences and "in situ" dialogue, and there's an
evocative score from Louis Levy. An underrated film that deserves reappraisal.
A gal who needs a date for a family function gets the best man money can buy MESSING, DEBRA
in this romantic comedy. Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a woman in her midthirties living in New York City and has had more than her share of romantic
problems -- enough so that she's gotten word that her younger half-sister Amy
(Amy Adams) is getting married, and that her mother Bunny (Holland Taylor)
and father Victor (Peter Egan) want to fix her up with someone so she won't
look alone and miserable for the big day. Adding insult to injury, Kat learns that
the best man at the ceremony will be Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), a former
boyfriend who cruelly dumped her without warning two years before.
Determined not to show up alone, Kat swallows her pride and hires Nick Mercer
(Dermot Mulroney), a professional escort, who will pose as her boyfriend for a
$6,000 fee. Kat and Nick fly to England for the wedding, and her family and
friends are all struck by how charming, handsome, and personable Nick is -and Kat begins wondering if their relationship has to be all business; however,
as it turns out, Nick understands Kat far better than she expects.
This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a lovestarved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter
Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed.
One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the tracks. Lucy
rescues him from death. While he is comatose in the hospital, a comment she
makes at his bedside is misinterpreted, and she then allows his family
members, who haven't seen Peter in awhile, to believe that she is his fiancée.
Peter's parents, Ox (Peter Boyle) and Midge (Micole Mercurio), take a liking to
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Lucy. But Lucy takes a liking to Peter's brother Jack (Bill Pullman), though Jack
is suspicious about her claim to be Peter's intended.
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye play nightclub entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil
Davis, while Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen are cast as singing-sister act
Betty and Judy. The foursome travel to Vermont to visit Bob and Phil's WW2
commanding officer, General Waverly (Dean Jagger, who looks and sounds
like Dwight D. Eisenhower!), who now runs a rustic old inn. Discovering that the
General is in dire financial straits, the four entertainers secretly make plans to
bail the old guy out with a big musical show, enlisting the aid of Bob and Phil's
army buddies.
Seriocomedy. Woody Harrelson plays a white con artist who hustles basketball
games with black players, lulling his victims into the misguided notion that white
men can't match up with black hoopsters. One of his victims, African-American
Wesley Snipes, becomes Harrelson's "agent," arranging his various inner-city
scams. Snipes doesn't feel as though he's selling out his own people; he goes
along with Harrelson to provide a better life for his wife (Tyra Ferrell) and son.
The film breezes through several zany sequences, including one liberal-baiting
satirical moment set at a black/white "solidarity" basketball game arranged by
an ambitious politician. Crooked gamblers intrude upon the last scenes of the
film, but Harrelson is rescued by his girlfriend Rosie Perez, a Jeopardy freak
who realizes a lifelong dream by winning big on the Alex Trebek-hosted game
show. RATED R.
In the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province,
fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the
Canadian prairie. At first he's distant, superior, lonely, and bewildered; his
students are rebellious. Over the course of the year, he is drawn to Alice Field,
the wife of a farmer, in a love that can lead nowhere. But, he and his students
connect, a connection that matters and lasts.
Among the many shocking images burned into America's collective
consciousness after September 11, 2001, was the sight of the World Trade
Center towers buckling and collapsing into dust after they'd been stuck by
jetliners. How could two of the biggest and strongest commercial buildings in
the world be so suddenly and dramatically reduced to rubble? Nova: Why the
Towers Fell is a documentary (produced as part of the acclaimed PBS science
series Nova) which looks at the engineering, design, and construction
innovations that helped to make the construction of the WTC towers possible,
and how these same virtues could have become deadly flaws in the wake of
the attack
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Three rollicking bumblers get into all sorts of slapstick trouble as they attempt
their get-rich schemes at the race track in this comedy
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred
Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up
everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases.
Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window
when he takes up the defense of Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a personable
young man accused of murdering a rich old widow. The case becomes
something of a sticky wicket when Vole's "loving" German wife Christine
(Marlene Dietrich) announces that she's not legally married to Robards' clientand she fully intends to appear as a witness for the prosecution! At the close of
this film, a narrator implores the audience not to divulge the ending; we will
herein honor that request. A delicious Billy Wilder mixture of humor, intrigue
and melodrama, Witness for the Prosecution is distinguished by its hand-picked
supporting cast: John Williams as the police inspector, Henry Daniell as
Robards' law partner, Una O'Connor as the murder victim's stone-deaf maid,
Torin Thatcher as the prosecutor, Ruta Lee as a sobbing courtroom spectator,
and Charles Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester as Robards' ever-chipper nurse
(a role especially written for the film, so that Lanchester could look after
Laughton on the set). And keep an eye out for that uncredited actress playing
the vengeful-and pivotal-cockney.
WIZARD OF OZ
The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's
fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine family classic that made Judy
Garland a star for her heartfelt performance as Dorothy Gale, an orphaned
young girl unhappy with her drab black-and-white existence on her aunt and
uncle's dusty Kansas farm. Dorothy yearns to travel "over the rainbow" to a
different world, and she gets her wish when a tornado whisks her and her little
dog Toto to the Technicolorful land of Oz. Having offended the Wicked Witch of
the West (Margaret Hamilton), Dorothy is protected from the old crone's wrath
by the ruby slippers that she wears. At the suggestion of Glinda, the Good
Witch of the North (Billie Burke), Dorothy heads down the Yellow Brick Road to
the Emerald City, where dwells the all-powerful Wizard of Oz, who might be
able to help the girl return to Kansas. En route, she befriends a Scarecrow (Ray
Bolger), a Tin Man (Jack Haley), and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). The
Scarecrow would like to have some brains, the Tin Man craves a heart, and the
Lion wants to attain courage; hoping that the Wizard will help them too, they
join Dorothy on her odyssey to the Emerald City.
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Based on Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House, this "Sherlock
Holmes" entry finds Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce)
trying to solve the case of the "Finger Murders". Several beautiful women have
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been found slain, all with their right forefingers severed from their hands. The
police are prepared to write off the killings as the work of a madman, but
Holmes deduces that there's a sane motive behind it all. Sure enough, the trail
of evidence leads to Holmes' perennial nemesis Professor Moriarity (Henry
Daniell), who is in league with lissome female criminal Lydia (Hillary Brooke).
Story of a woman (Hunter) who comes to work as a housekeeper for a widower SUTHERLAND, KIEFER
(Moriarty) and his grown son (Sutherland) and of their attachment to her to the
point that she is asked by the father to marry... to the dismay of the son who
also loves her. But the animosity of the two men toward each other is finally
resolved when she becomes intentionally pregnant, possibly by one or the
other as she goes to bed with both men within a matter of days, causing neither
to win her for himself, but both to become bound together because of the child.
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it. Here are the adventures of two prep-school Manhattan girls, memorably
played by Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker, who decide to dedicate a brief but
crucial moment in their lives to the adoration of one Henry Orient (Peter
Sellers). Orient is a concert pianist--with curiously uncertain accent--more
renowned for his mistresses than his playing. (Although Sellers is onscreen for
less than half the picture, he sketches one of his comic gems.) The movie has a
wonderful J.D. Salinger flavor of early-'60s New York privilege, with a keen
sense of the secret lives adolescents can construct for themselves. Director
George Roy Hill brings an occasional burst of New Wave style but otherwise
steers the movie into the tone described by one of the girls: "I feel awfully
happy in a sort of sad way."
This $60 million science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional
$25 million), was adapted from the popular TV series, The X-Files -- arriving in
theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plotthreads familiar to many of the series' 25 million viewers and featuring several
familiar recurring characters introduced during the previous five TV seasons. In
15,000 B.C., a strange creature attacks a caveman. Cut to present-day, when a
boy at the same North Texas spot, falls into a pit and is contaminated by a
black substance. When a bomb threatens the Dallas Federal Building, special
FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson)
locate the device but are unable to prevent the explosion. The agency blames
Mulder and Scully for the disaster, subjecting them to lengthy interrogations
while trying to sever their partnership. In a bar, conspiracy theorist Kurtzweil
(Martin Landau), a friend of Mulder's father, tells Mulder about the group behind
the explosion, the cover-up of the boy's death, the bodies of four infected
rescue workers removed from the Federal Building, the secret government, and
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the forthcoming plague. Mulder and Scully set out to find answers, and their
investigation becomes a foray into the fantastic.
One of the most popular superhero teams in comic book history finally comes
to the screen in this big-budget adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics
series. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled
mutants called X-Men, a peacekeeping force to safeguard the world against a
race of genetically mutated humans known as Homo Sapiens Superior.
However, Magneto (Ian McKellen), a mutant with a powerful magnetic charge,
has also begun to organize a team to strike first against what he believes to be
a threat from humanity. When he kidnaps Rogue (Anna Paquin) from the XMen's compound, Xavier and his forces must rescue her, even as they continue
to vie with Magneto for the fearsomely strong mutant battler Wolverine (Hugh
Jackman). Both Xavier and Magneto also have to contend with Senator Kelly
(Bruce Davison), a heartless political leader who wants a final solution against
mutants on both sides. Fighting for the forces of virtue with the X-Men are
Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Halle Berry as Storm, and James Marsden as
Cyclops; Rebecca Romjin-Stamos as Mystique, Ray Park as the Toad, and
Tyler Mane as Sabretooth are the minions of Magneto
As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to
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repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as they were thoroughly
entertaining-which they were, without fail. Derrick De Marney finds himself in a
39 Steps situation when he is wrongly accused of murder. While a fugitive from
the law, De Marney is helped by heroine Nova Pilbeam, who three years earlier
had played the adolescent kidnap victim in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew
Too Much. The obligatory "fish out of water" scene, in which the principals are
briefly slowed down by a banal everyday event, occurs during a child's birthday
party. The actual villain, whose identity is never in doubt (Hitchcock made
thrillers, not mysteries) is played by George Curzon, who suffers from a
twitching eye. Curzon's revelation during an elaborate nightclub sequence is a
Hitchcockian tour de force, the sort of virtuoso sequence taken for granted in
these days of flexible cameras and computer enhancement, but which in 1937
took a great deal of time, patience and talent to pull off. Released in the US as
The Girl Was Young, Young and Innocent was based on a novel by Josephine
Tey.
Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879
siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have
already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the
much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker) is
determined to stand his ground, despite having only a skeleton garrison at his
command. His steamroller tactics are constantly at odds with those of a by-the-
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book lieutenant (Michael Caine), who feels that a retreat is called for, but it
becomes clear that if the garrison is to survive, they'd better pay heed. Jack
Hawkins and Ulla Jacobsson are also on hand as an idealistic missionary and
his somewhat more pragmatic daughter. Richard Burton provides the narration
for Zulu, closing the film with the observation that 11 of the 1344 Victoria
Crosses awarded since 1856 were bestowed upon the survivors of Rorke's
Drift.