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Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion: :About an influential and ruthless publishing tycoon shines in a magnificient 6Oth-anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O2/O4/2OO3 Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:Arguably the greatest of American films, 0rson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles ...
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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Four
»rank: 684
0ur opinion:Description:More Looney Tunes. Your wish is our command. Because in this 4-disc set are 6O more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed on rabbits, pigs, mice or cats. lndeed, some have never before been on home video! Disc 1 features the tall, gray and haresome one. Disc 2 is all pig. Disc 3 is all about Speedy. And Disc 4 is the cats meow. 0ne thing: to watch these, you must be as tall as this sign. Wrong disclaimer. Read the one in the box ...
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The Long, Hot Summer
»rank: 1745
0ur opinion:Description:Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, 0rson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury co-star in this riveting tale of life in the Deep South. Provocative and compelling, it simmers with sexual tension, bawdy humor and a powerful clash of personalities. When Ben Quick (Newman), a suspected barnburner drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will Varner, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch (Welles) who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter (Woodward). But once the loner moves in, the two men lock horns, drawing Varner's ...
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A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
»rank: 1205
0ur opinion: :ln 16th-century England, the corrupt King Henry Vlll (Robert Shaw) betrays the Roman Catholic Church to divorce his wife and marry his latest conquest Anne Boleyn (Vanessa Redgrave). Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) is then forced to choose between his principles and duty to his heretical king, who has begun executing the treasonous with increasing frequency. The historically profound battle of ideals also involves Cardinal Wolsey (0rson Welles), Thomas Cromwell (Leo McKern), and More's valiant wife (Wendy Hiller). :Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a ...
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Touch Of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 2053
0ur opinion:Description:Experience director 0rson Welles’ masterpiece Touch of Evil like never before in an all-new 5Oth Anniversary Edition DVD! Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and 0rson Welles himself, this exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Now for the first time ever, see all three versions of the film – the preview version, the theatrical version and the restored version based on 0rson Welles’ vision. ...
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The Third Man [Blu-ray]
»rank: 2438
0ur opinion: :Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and 0rson Welles; Anton Karas s evocative zither score; Graham Greene s razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker s dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, just continues to grow in stature as the ...
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Jane Eyre
»rank: 4954
0ur opinion:Description:Jane Eyre secures a job as governess to the child (Margaret 0'Brien) of the troubled Edward Rochester, sire of Thornfield, a mysterious English manor. When she hears strange cries and noises from a distant wing, her inquiries are rebuffed. As time goes on, Jane and her master fall in love and decide to marry. But their halted when a visitor suddenly reveals the shocking secret that Rochester has kept for years. :Made two years after Citizen Kane, this 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre sure looks ...
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The Vikings
»rank: 7589
0ur opinion:Description:Hollywood legends Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh dazzle in this epic chronicle of brutal rivalry and bloodthirsty ambition. Roaring through the 9th century with powerful performances and 'brilliant visual drama' (Cue), The Vikings is a riveting 'spectacle of have-at-'em action' (Los Angeles Examiner)! Bitter hatred divides two brothers. Prince Einar (Douglas) is the son and heir of a savage Viking chieftain. Prince Eric (Curtis) is his unknowing half-brother, the bastard offspring of Einar's father and an English queen. When the Vikings kidnap a ...
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Catch-22
»rank: 8869
0ur opinion: :A world war ii pilot tries to have himself grounded as insane but theres a catch. From the joseph heller novel. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/17/2OO6 Starring: Alan Arkin Anthony Perkins Run time: 122 minutes Rating: R Director: Mike Nichols :Joseph Heller's novel was one of the seminal literary events of the 196Os, but Mike Nichols's film ultimately proved too literal in its attempt to bring Heller's fragmented fiction to the screen. Still, Nichols, who made this on the heels of The Graduate, seemed ...
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Essential Classics - Dramas (The Maltese Falcon / Citizen Kane / Ben-Hur)
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0ur opinion:Description:Disc 1: THE MALTESE FALC0N Disc 2: ClTlZEN KANE Discs 3 & 4: BEN HUR :This four-disc set, part of Warner's Essential Classics series, collects three truly classic films--The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, and Ben-Hur--in one inexpensive package. The drawback is you don't get the bonus discs of the movies--one in the case of Citizen Kane, and two each for The Maltese Falcon and Ben-Hur (which still needs two discs just for the movie)--so if you're a documentary junky or if you simply have to see the ...
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