Release date: 1997-08-12
Run time: 50 min.
Price: $19.95
Review Hr Pufnstuf / Live at Hollywood Bowl (W/Cassette) / Rhino / Wea:
Actors & Directors
- Peter Zander
- Rory Calhoun
- Massimo Giuliani
- Marina Berti
- Niall MacGinnis
- Irvin Kershner
Run time: 82 min.
List Price: $14.99
Price: $85.00
Review Face in the Rain / United Home:
Actors & Directors
- Aram Avakian
- Peter Breck
- Angela Cartwright
- Leslie H. Martinson
- Peggy McCay
- Maurice Dallimore
- Carroll O'Connor
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Albert Payson Terhune
List Price: $14.98
Price: $139.99
Review Lad a Dog / Warner Bros. Pictures:Adaptation of Albert Payson Terhune's novel about a dog that brings renewed life to a child.
Actors & Directors
- Jean Gabin
- Jean Renoir
- Julien Carette
- Pierre Fresnay
- Erich von Stroheim
- Dita Parlo
Run time: 111 min.
Price: $14.99
Review La Grande Illusion / Hollywood Select Video:It's long been one of the revered classics of international cinema, but there is no fine layer of dust over La Grande Illusion. Jean Renoir's film is just as vibrant, exciting, and wise as it has ever been. The story is set during World War I, mostly in a couple of German POW camps, where two very different French prisoners plot to escape: the working-class officer Maréchal (Jean Gabin, the French Spencer Tracy) and the upper-class de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The suspenseful backbone of the story is formed by these escape attempts, but Renoir is primarily concerned with the way people treat each other, and especially with how class and nationality inform human relations. Most compelling of all the film's characters is the aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, unforgettably incarnated by stiff-backed Erich von Stroheim; although he runs a prison camp, von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with de Boieldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility. There is nothing dewy or naive about Renoir's vision (and two years after the release of this antiwar film, Europe was plunged into another world war), yet Grand Illusion is one of those movies that makes you feel good about such long-outmoded ideas as sacrifice and brotherhood. After it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1937, the Nazis declared the film "Cinematographic Enemy Number One. " There can be no higher praise. -Robert Horton.
Actors & Directors
- Alison Skipworth
- Kurt Neumann
- Joe E. Brown
- Alan Baxter
- Jane Wyman
- Lyda Roberti
Run time: 67 min.
Price: $19.95
Review Wide Open Faces / Nostalgia Family Video:
Release date: 2003-07-29
Run time: 81 min.
Price: $9.99
Review One Step Beyond 3 (B&W) / Vci Video:
Actors & Directors
- Stephen McNally
- Don Dubbins
- Irene Papas
- James Cagney
- Robert Wise
- Vic Morrow
Run time: 95 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Tribute to a Bad Man / MGM (Warner):
Actors & Directors
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Noël Burch
- Mary Pickford
List Price: $49.95
Price: $129.99
Review Silent Revolution - What Do Those Old Films Mean? Collection / Facets:
Actors & Directors
- Peter Kastner
- Elizabeth Hartman
- Rip Torn
- Michael Dunn
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Geraldine Page
Run time: 98 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $139.99
Review You're a Big Boy Now / Warner Home Video:Rare is the movie that qualifies as both its director's film-school master's thesis and his first project for a major studio (Warner Bros. ). You're a Big Boy Now is also the lone instance of Francis Ford Coppola's attempting an out-and-out comedy-and forgoing future endeavors in that line was a wise career decision. The picture's a grab-bag of zaniness and manic playfulness in imitation of the freewheeling French New Wave films that were all the rage with cinema buffs at the time. The theme is the moving-away-from-home and sexual coming-of-age of Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner), a boyish, going-on-twenty Long Islander with a hyper-neurotic mom (supporting-actress Oscar nominee Geraldine Page) and a pompous pop (Rip Torn), who as Curator of Incunabula at the New York Public Library is also his boss. Bernard is so smitten with Barbara Darling (Elizabeth Hartman), a man-eating, go-go-dancing sylph who¹s part of an avant-garde theater company, that he almost literally can't see the sweet girl (Karen Black in her first role) who works alongside him, and painfully pines for him, at the library. Yet another female grotesque is Bernard's repressed landlady (Julie Harris), whose honest-to-God name, Miss Thing, may be the film's one enduring legacy to American culture. Coppola's talent is apparent even when he's trivializing it, and there are some nice ideas-e. g. , a small army of library drones lyrically roller-skating through the stacks, and a meet-cute moment involving the library's pneumatic-tube system that may have inspired the New Wave's François Truffaut in turn (v. [+]Stolen Kisses). But there's also no end of scampering along the sidewalks and streets of Manhattan for which, again and again, you'll wish Coppola had been slapped. -Richard T. Jameson.
Actors & Directors
- Nat Hiken
- Howard Morris
- Max Liebman
- Carl Reiner
- Sid Caesar
- Beatrice Arthur
- Clark Jones
- Nanette Fabray
Run time: 232 min.
List Price: $49.95
Price: $39.75
Review The Sid Caesar Collection - The Buried Treasures / New Video Group:The DVD releases of SCTV, Kids in the Hall, and In Living Color, made 2004 a banner year for sketch-comedy aficionados. But this three-disc collection of vintage sketches from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour is essential for those with an appreciation for the grand masters. We come to praise Caesar, not to bury him. This was the golden age of live television, and these were the shows to which comedy writers aspired. Caesar's dream team included (though not at the same time) Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, and Neil and Danny Simon. The Sid Caesar Collection is a treasure trove of sketches, representative of the "knowledge, technique, and taste" of the show's creators: domestic sketches ("Nan Hires a Maid," "The White Rug"), spoofs ("Bullet Over Broadway," "German U Boat 749"), and pantomime ("Grieg Piano Concerto," "Pantomime Cocktail Party"). One reason why these sketches, some more than 50 years old, hold up so well, is Caesar's credo that "People are more interesting than things. " The best sketches are universal, human comedy. In "Nan Hires a Maid," the writers meticulously establish wife Nanette Fabray's frustration with husband Sid's sloppiness, so when Sid comes home from work, we anxiously await to see him carelessly discard his clothes around the room, and for dutiful Nanette to explode, which she does "just so. " Anything could happen on live television. [+]Check out the "Bus Station" sketch, in which commuter Sid can be glimpsed wearing sandals he did not have time to change from a previous gladiator sketch. Other memorable sketches include "Toy Band" (which echoes the intricate teamwork of the Your Show of Shows classic, "The Clock") and "Bullets Over Broadway," which may have inspired the Boss Hijack sketches in the Caesar homage, My Favorite Year. In between the sketches, cast members and writers affectionately recall working with each other, and creating this classic comedy. Each DVD includes bonus sketches. Caesar also provides illuminating commentary on selected sketches. -Donald Liebenson.
Actors & Directors
- Madlyn Rhue
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Ray Danton
- Rosalind Russell
- Mae Questel
- Alec Guinness
Run time: 149 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Majority of One / Warner Home Video:A Jewish matron falls in love with a Japanese widower.
Actors & Directors
- Ruth Robert
- Nicholas Joy
- Richard Wright (IV)
- Gloria Madison
- Pierre Chenal
- Willa Pearl Curtis
Run time: 91 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Native Son / Xenon:
Release date: 2001-03-06
Creator: Alfred Hitchcock
Price: $39.98
Review Essential Hitchcock (Rear Window, The Birds, Psycho) / Universal Studios:
Actors & Directors
- Ginger Rogers
- Lewis Milestone
- Ronald Colman
- Cecilia Loftus
- Spring Byington
- Jack Carson
Price: $19.98
Review Lucky Partners / Turner Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Moira Orfei
- Massimo Serato
- Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
- René Dary
- Jayne Mansfield
- Mickey Hargitay
Run time: 93 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Hercules vs. the Hydra / Vidmark / Trimark:
Actors & Directors
- Clayton Moore
- Roy Glenn
- Johnny Sands
- Fred C. Brannon
- John L. Cason
- Phyllis Coates
Run time: 167 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $38.95
Review Jungle Drums Of Africa / Republic Pictures:
Actors & Directors
- Henry Levin
- Joanne Dru
- Errol Flynn
- Peter Finch
- Yvonne Furneaux
- Patrick Holt
Run time: 85 min.
Price: $19.95
Review The Warriors / Allied Artists Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- William Dieterle
- Edmond O'Brien
- Alan Marshal
- Maureen O'Hara
- Charles Laughton
- Cedric Hardwicke
Run time: 118 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Hunchback of Notre Dame Colorized Edition / Turner Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Stan Laurel
- Fred Guiol
- Herbert Rawlinson
- Oliver Hardy
- Albert Conti
- Priscilla Dean
Run time: 18 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Laurel & Hardy: Slipping Wives / Image Entertainment:Priscilla Dean is feeling unwanted by her husband and hires Stan Laurel as her paramour to make her husband jealous. Unfortunately for Stan, the couple's butler, Oliver Hardy, takes an immediate dislike to the dimwitted rival, making his life miserable.
Actors & Directors
- Vera Jovanovic
- Dusan Makavejev
- Ivan Zivkovic
- Pera Milosavljevic
- Bratoljub Gligorijevic
- Ana Milosavljevic
Run time: 78 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Innocence Unprotected / Facets:
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