Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 96 min.
Price: $34.95
Review Pygmalion (Audio Described) / New Media Resources Video:
Actors & Directors
- Priscilla Lane
- Gale Page
- Lola Lane
- Claude Rains
- Rosemary Lane
- Michael Curtiz
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Four Daughters / MGM (Warner):
Actors & Directors
- Jack Curtis
- James F. Fulton
- Dale Fuller
- Sylvia Ashton
- Chester Conklin
Run time: 239 min.
List Price: $29.98
Price: $49.99
Review Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration) / MGM (Video & DVD):Originally running an astonishing 10 hours when it was produced in 1925, Greed suffered one of Hollywood's unkindest cuts. Much to the devastation of its Austrian creator, Eric von Stroheim, MGM slaughtered his ambitious silent epic based on Frank Norris' solemn novel, McTeague, reducing it from 42 reels to 10 with a running time of just over two hours (von Stroheim broke down upon watching the finished piece). Yet, it's a testament to the director's vision and talent that the surviving version of Greed remains one of cinema's timeless masterpieces. Sure, its plot-examining the destructive effects that a large lottery payoff has on three close friends feels stilted and awkward at times. But there's enough brilliance to shield any minor quibbles. The restrained, subtle acting, the cynical attitude toward wealth and excess, and especially the bitter, claustrophobic portrayal of a selfish marriage between the Gibson Gowland and ZaSu Pitts characters all retain freshness and seem remarkably contemporary even now. Von Stroheim digs at his characters' weaknesses with ferocious irony, exposing recurring hypocrisy and ugliness whenever money enters the picture. Visually, the director understood the thematic importance of setting his characters against contrasting landscapes, and Greed was among the first films shot almost entirely on location. As it moves from the buzzing, crowded streets of San Francisco to the haunting last images in the desolate wasteland of Death Valley-a place where money has no value-von Stroheim's ruthless satire demolishes everything American in its path. -Dave McCoy.
Actors & Directors
- You'll laugh though every scene!
- Simply hillarious
- Great for kids and adults!
- A rollicking good time!
Creator: Lou Costello
Review Abbott & Costello Multi 5-Pack: In the Navy, Buck Privates, Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Jack and the Beanstalk / MCA Platinum:5 of the best Abbott & Costello films! In the Navy includes Dick Powell and the Andrew Sisters. In Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde they take on Boris Karloff in a hilarious spoof. In Jack and the Beanstalk Lou falls asleep and dreams himself into the fairy tale world of Jack and his amazing beanstalk. Also are Buck Privates and Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy.
Actors & Directors
- Raimondi
- Binder
- Araiza
- Gounod
- Benackova
Run time: 180 min.
List Price: $20.98
Price: $44.95
Review Faust / Bel Canto Society:
Actors & Directors
- Brett Halsey
- John Bentley
- Paul Maxwell
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Henry McCann
- Steve Mitchell
Run time: 83 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Submarine Seahawk / Sony Pictures Home E:
Actors & Directors
- Gordon Douglas
- Edie Adams
- Anita Ekberg
- Arnold Palmer
- Bob Hope
- Lionel Jeffries
Run time: 103 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $57.00
Review Call Me Bwana / MGM (Video & DVD):
Actors & Directors
- Cliff Robertson
- Ty Hardin
- Robert Culp
- James Gregory
- Leslie H. Martinson
- Grant Williams
Run time: 141 min.
Price: $14.98
Review PT 109 (Widescreen Edition) / Warner Home Video:John F. Kennedy lived long enough to see this Hollywood account of his Navy career and his heroism following a ruthless attack by a Japanese ship on his small patrol craft. Cliff Robertson is an amiable choice to play Kennedy, though one won't find a lot of the late president's mannerisms in his performance. The key battle sequence, which finds Kennedy and his crew bloodied and battered while trying to stay alive in shark-infested waters, makes a big impression on young viewers. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Henry Daniell
- Paul Cavanagh
- Basil Rathbone
- Roy William Neill
- Nigel Bruce
- Hillary Brooke
Run time: 200 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Legendary Sherlock Holmes Movies / Bfs Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Jean Yarbrough
- June Vincent
- Janis Wilson
- Onslow Stevens
- Eduardo Ciannelli
- Ralph Morgan
Run time: 64 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Creeper / United Home:
Actors & Directors
- Friedrich Benfer
- Max Ophüls
- Franco Coop
- Memo Benassi
- Isa Miranda
- Tatyana Pavlova
Run time: 89 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $44.95
Review La Signora Di Tutti / Connoisseur:
Actors & Directors
- Arthur Clark
- John Cassevetes
- Delores Delmar
- John Armstrong
- Bill Britten
- Peter Falk
Run time: 140 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $79.95
Review Husbands / Sony Pictures:Three real-life buddies (John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara) team up to play three pals whose lives suffer a shock wave when a fourth friend drops dead. After the funeral, the three friends, feeling death's hot breath on their own necks, take off on a weekend-long debauch, with way too much drinking and loose women. But, in the process, they have lengthy heart-to-hearts about the nature of friendship, manhood, and marriage, among other things. As strong an example of Cassavetes's improvisational art as any of his films, this film may test your patience with his indulgent treatment of actors, allowing them to explore their characters on film. Sometimes they come up empty, but more often, they find precious moments and revelations. And these three guys play off each other like long-time partners in a high-wire game of chicken in which they all emerge as winners. -Marshall Fine.
Actors & Directors
- Alice Brady
- Erik Rhodes
- Edward Everett Horton
- Thornton Freeland
- Fred Astaire
- Ginger Rogers
- Mark Sandrich
List Price: $69.98
Price: $44.89
Review Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet) / Warner Home Video:Fans of classic movie musicals will be in heaven with two five-video sets of the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the quintessential dancing duo. Fred and Ginger weren't always stars-the former Broadway hoofer and studio chorus girl were cast as the second-tier "comic" couple in three of their early films (Flying Down to Rio, Roberta, Follow the Fleet), and the pace drags whenever they're not on the screen. The high points of the first set are The Gay Divorcee, which proved that the pair could carry a film, and Top Hat, generally considered their definitive movie. All the films mix light romantic comedy (usually centered around mistaken identities and ending, inevitably, in blissful wedding promises) with elegant dinner wear and surreal sets intended to transport '30s audiences away from the Depression to such locales as Rio, Paris, and Venice. But of course the real reason to watch these films is the sensational dancing set to great songs by the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern, numbers that are not merely entertaining but also innovative for their time in that they reveal character and advance the plot. The quintessential romantic duet "Night and Day," the grand ensemble number "The Continental," the definitive tuxedo setting "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails," the famously feathery "Cheek to Cheek," and the epic show-within-a-show "Let's Face the Music and Dance" are some of the best musical moments ever set to celluloid. -David Horiuchi This five-tape set includes Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, and Follow the Fleet.
Actors & Directors
- Jean Seberg
- Honor Blackman
- Arthur Hill
- Sean Garrison
- Grégoire Aslan
- Mervyn LeRoy
Run time: 114 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $189.99
Review Moment to Moment / Universal Studios:
Actors & Directors
- Nicole Courcel
- Anne-Marie Coffinet
- Florence Blot
- France Anglade
- René Clermont
Run time: 110 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Sundays and Cybele / Connoisseur Video:This beloved 1962 film from the golden age of international cinema can't help but look terribly self-conscious now, full of ambivalent nods to the contemporaneous vitality of the French New Wave (an obligatory iris shot of star Hardy Kruger, for instance, as seen through something like a tiny knothole). There is also a fair amount of dragging and wasted motion in the overlong story, but even that is forgivable given this film's extraordinary, soulful portrait of a beautiful if impossible relationship. Kruger plays Pierre, a former military pilot whose plane crashed after a bombing raid in Indochina. Killing a little girl in the process, Pierre suffers a psychological trauma that is lessened by the company of a 12-year-old orphan named Cybele (Patricia Gozzi), herself an abandoned, luckless child in need of companionship. Meeting every Sunday, the two become immersed in a deeply affectionate world of their own, where nothing unsavory actually occurs yet a full range of emotional colors seems possible-much like two innocents reborn in each other's eyes. Cowriter and director Serge Bourguignon adopts a fairy-tale tone for both the central bond between Pierre and Cybele as well as the oddly harsh, uncaring social environment that inevitably condemns their union. Bourguignon is lucky to have a couple of important allies: Maurice Jarre for the musical score and legendary cinematographer Henri Decae behind the lens. While these artists can't save Bourguignon from his own trite excesses as a visualist, they enhance his considerable feeling for the redemptive poetry of an unlikely love. -Tom Keogh.
Release date: 1994-12-16
Run time: 55 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $44.50
Review Honeymooners 18: Hypnotist / Glow Worm / Mpi Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Alison Elliott
- Gwen Humble
- Philip Saville
- Mira Sorvino
- Rya Kihlstedt
- Carla Gugino
Run time: 348 min.
List Price: $39.98
Price: $44.99
Review The Buccaneers / BBC Warner:As four young American women find their way through the labyrinthine social world of 1870s England, their fortunes rise-and sometimes, with brutal abruptness, fall. Based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, this lavish BBC production follows Nan and Virginia St. George (Carla Gugino, Spy Kids, and Alison Elliott, The Spitfire Grill), two American sisters who follow their friend Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite), a Brazilian bad girl who marries a dissolute British lord, to England in search of aristocratic husbands-partly due to the influence of their canny governess, Laura Testvalley (Cherie Lunghi, Excalibur). The Buccaneers has a good dose of the delicious satirical wit to be found in many BBC dramas, but tempered by the presence of the naive American girls, who find themselves trapped by the very things they thought they wanted. Though mocked by some critics for its heaving bosoms and towering hairdos, the five-part series stealthily paints a sometimes devastating portrait of women's lives. When Idina Hatton (Jenny Agutter, Logan's Run), the older lover of the aimless Lord Seadown (Mark Tandy, Shackleton), learns that Seadown is going to marry the young and lovely Virginia, it's a heartbreaking moment, yet one that isn't overdone. The Buccaneers is full of such gracefulness-Wharton observes the fickle turns of life in society with a judicious eye, empathizing with the pain but never losing sight of the hard realities of money and marriage. In a strong cast, Gugino particularly shines; with her round, rosy cheeks and expressive eyes, she makes a smart yet vulnerable heroine. -Bret Fetzer Four American young girls journey from New England to England in search of romance and adventure in this exquisite production of Edith Wharton's final book.
Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 113 min.
Price: $34.95
Review Cyrano De Bergerac (Audio Described) / New Media Resources Video:
Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 91 min.
Price: $34.95
Review Last of the Mohicans (Audio Described (Audio Described) / New Media Resources Video:
Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $34.95
Review Our Town (Audio Described) / New Media Resources Video:
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