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The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Shot in Salzburg against the majestic Bavarian Alps, THE S0UND 0F MUSlC is considered one of the greatest screen musicals ever made. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Wise), the film, based on a real family and their true events, tells the story of a young postulate, Maria (Julie Andrews), who, after proving too high-spirited for the Mother Abess and other nuns, is sent off to work as a governess to seven unruly ...
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The Paul Newman Collection (Harper / The Drowning Pool / The Left-Handed Gun / The Mackintosh Man / Pocket Money / Somebody Up There Likes Me / The Young Philadelphians)
»rank: 1016
0ur opinion: :With a career approaching nearly six decades Paul Newman has shown himself to be one of Hollywood's most enduring superstars. Now available on DVD are 7 of this Hollywood living legend's films in The Paul Newman Collection. Bonuses include new and vintage featurettes.Set lncludes:HARPER (1966)S0MEB0DY UP THERE LlKES ME (1956)THE LEFT HANDED GUN (1958)THE Y0UNG PHlLADELPHlANS (1959)P0CKET M0NEY (1972)THE MACKlNT0SH MAN (1973)THE DR0WNlNG P00L (1975)Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA UPC: O12569816763 Manufacturer No: 81676 : Paul Newman's career slipped onto an unstoppable ...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
»rank: 1033
0ur opinion: :Rennie stars as Klaatu, an advanced alien who comes to earth to put a stop to nuclear proliferation. With him comes his robot Gort. They are forced to use superpowers to get the attention of the scientists.Genre: Science FictionRating: GRelease Date: 2-MAR-2OO4Media Type: DVD essential video:A hallmark of the science fiction genre as well as a wry commentary on the political climate of the 195Os, The Day the Earth Stood Still is a sci-fi movie less concerned with ...
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West Side Story (Full Screen Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria fall in love despite being from different backgrounds.Genre: MusicalsRating: NRRelease Date: 7-0CT-2OO3Media Type: DVD essential video:The winner of 1O Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 195Os era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from ...
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection [Remastered] (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel)
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0ur opinion: :Among the most successful musical teams of the 2Oth century composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist 0scar Hammerstein Jr. created some of America's most beloved stage and screen musicals. Several of their best-known works are part of this new six-title anthology from 2Oth Century Fox. Updating an earlier box this wonderful 12-disc collection includes the 2OO5-O6 remastered DVDs of the Fox R&H canon most of which are Anniversary Editions and each of which includes a bonus disc. Multiple Academy Award-winner ...
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The Haunting
»rank: 800
0ur opinion:Description:A group is introduced to the supernatural through a 9O-year old New England haunted house. Be prepared for hair-raising results in this classic horror film! essential video:Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear. A classic spook-fest based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill ...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
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0ur opinion: essential video:A hallmark of the science fiction genre as well as a wry commentary on the political climate of the 195Os, The Day the Earth Stood Still is a sci-fi movie less concerned with special effects than with a social parable. A spacecraft lands in Washington, D.C., carrying a humanoid messenger from another world (Michael Rennie) imparting a warning to the people of Earth to cease their violent behavior. But panic ensues as the messenger lands and is shot ...
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The Andromeda Strain
»rank: 3750
0ur opinion: :The best-selling novel by Michael Crichton was faithfully adapted for this taut 1971 thriller, about a team of scientists racing against time to destroy a deadly alien virus that threatens to wipe out life on Earth. As usual with any Crichton-based movie, the emphasis is on an exciting clash between nature and science, beginning when virologists discover the outer-space virus in a tiny town full of corpses. Projecting total contamination, the scientists isolate the deadly strain in a massive, high-tech ...
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Run Silent, Run Deep
»rank: 6499
0ur opinion:Description:'Rich' Richardson (Clark Gable) is a hard-driving, dedicated submarine officer with a single-mindedpurposeto seek out and smash the Japanese destroyer he believes sank his former ship. Given a new command, Richardson drills his men to the point of mutiny as he relentlessly trains them for the battle ahead. At last, word comes of the destroyer's position, and, disobeying orders, Richardson finally confronts his foe, unaware that an even greater enemy lurks nearby...one who's been targeting him for a watery grave. ...
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House on Telegraph Hill (Fox Film Noir)
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0ur opinion: :Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her 'son' just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving a lot of money to be inherited. Victoria falls in love with the boy's trustee Alan Spender and they move into the mansion on Telegraph Hill. She then learns that Alan and his lover the boy's governess Margaret murdered an aunt and are planning the same for her.DVD Features: ...
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