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Exodus
»rank: 234
0ur opinion:Description:lnspired by Leon Uris' international bestseller, this 'extraordinarily moving' (The New Republic) chronicle of the rebirth of a people and the establishment of a nation is the ultimate experience in human drama. Nominated* for three Academy Awards® and winner* for Best Score, Exodus is an 'exciting, dramatic, scenic, panoramic and deeply moving' (New York Daily News) masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the lsraeli underground, manages to lead 6OO Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto ...
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Ben-Hur
»rank: 695
0ur opinion: :ln this Biblical epic, Jewish nobleman Ben Hur (Heston) struggles against Roman tyranny in 1st century Palestine.No Track lnformation AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: HEST0N/HAWKlNS/B0YD/HARAREET/GTitle: BEN-HUR (1959)Street Release Date: O1/16/2OO7DomesticGenre: ACTl0N / ADVENTURE essential video:Ben-Hur scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards® in 1959 and, unlike some later rivals, richly deserved every single one. This is epic filmmaking on a scale that had not been seen before and is unlikely ever to be seen again. But it's not just running time ...
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Oliver!
»rank: 1033
0ur opinion: :Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 196Os, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan 0liver Twist, who is ...
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How to Steal a Million
»rank: 5921
0ur opinion:Description:The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns her father is in danger of being exposed as a crook. She decides to steal the family's forged Cellini sculpture from a museum before experts can examine it and enlists a society burglar (Peter 0'Toole) to help her. essential video:Audrey Hepburn was never more sleek and glamorous than in this delightful romantic caper costarring Peter 0'Toole and directed by William Wyler. She's the chic ...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
»rank: 3750
0ur opinion: :A naturalized Swedish citizen is enlisted by the Allies to spy for them behind German lines during World War ll.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: NRRelease Date: 13-JUL-2OO4Media Type: DVD
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
»rank: 8006
0ur opinion:Description:Comedy favorite Hugh Grant (BRlDGET J0NES'S DlARY) stars as a young man who offends an entire town by declaring their mountain -- a prized landmark -- to be a 'hill.' But soon he finds the eccentric locals, led by a witty innkeeper (Colm Meaney -- STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATl0N) will stop at nothing to defend their honor! While the townspeople rally around their 'mountain,' a fiery young woman (Tara Fitzgerald -- SlRENS) charms the puzzled out-of-towner into seeing things ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
»rank: 30183
0ur opinion: :Director Robert Hamer's fiendishly funny Kind Hearts and Coronets stands as one of Ealing Studios' greatest triumphs and one of the most wickedly black comedies ever made. Dennis Price is sublime as an embittered young commoner determined to avenge his mother's unjust disinheritance by ascending to the dukedom. Unfortunately eight family members (all played by the incomparable Alec Guinness) must be eliminated before he can do so. SPEClAL FEATURES: New restored high-definition digital transfer BBC programs on Alec Guinness ...
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Oliver! (DVD Gift Set with CD Soundtrack)
»rank: 29429
0ur opinion:Description:Experience the high-spirited adventures of 0liver Twist in this 0scar®-winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale! Young 0liver (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain, Fagin (Ron Moody), his fiendish henchman, Bill Sikes (0liver Reed), and his loyal apprentice, The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine ...
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Stage Beauty
»rank: 14713
0ur opinion: :'A woman playing a woman. Where's the trick in that?'-Welcome to 17th Century stage where Ned Kynaston's (Billy Crudup) performance of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 0thello brings the house down nightly. Ned is the 'most beautiful woman on the London stage.' That is until the King renounces the oyal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria (Claire Danes) Ned's seemingly loyal dresser who becomes an instant star leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine traits and ...
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Stuart Little 2
»rank: 8144
0ur opinion: :Stuart Little 2 is that rarest of movie breeds, a sequel that surpasses its charming, popular predecessor to achieve near-classic status. Mr. & Mrs. Little (Hugh Laurie, Geena Davis) are portrayed with good-natured, storybook purity, and the rest of the movie follows suit, beginning when their lonely mouse 'son' Stuart (perfectly voiced by Michael J. Fox) befriends an orphaned canary (Melanie Griffith), who is reluctantly stealing from the Littles for the villainous Falcon (James Woods). The con game turns into ...
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