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10 reviews
Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra

MGM/Ua Studios, 1993

terrific!
I just wish there would be a DVD available for this classic;I can't believe it hasn't happened yet!

Not As a Stranger [VHS]

10 reviews
Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

terrific!
I just wish there would be a DVD available for this classic;I can't believe it hasn't happened yet!

Seven Sinners [VHS]

8 reviews
Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne

Universal Studios, 1998

marvelous marlene!
i really didn't expect much when i first watched this movie. As many Dietrich fans will attest, Miss Dietrich is normally by far the best part of many of her movies. This one, however, is an exception. All parts are played by able actors, and the story itself is quite good. John Wayne is good in his role, even if he really doesn't have to stretch much in the role. Miss Dietrich offers one of her ...

Little Romance (P&S) [VHS]

76 reviews
Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane

Warner Home Video, 1993

A Screen Legend, a Star's Debut, and Europe!
I think every great director makes at least one light-hearted 'fun' film set in a romantic, far-away location; Hitchcock extolled the Riviera's virtues in "To Catch a Thief", Ford created a fantasy isle using Kaua'i in "Donovan's Reef", Hawks, in "Hatari", offered Tanganyika as a safari-lover's dream...and George Roy Hill displays an enchanting vision of 1970's Paris, Verona, and Venice, in "A ...

Beau Geste [VHS]

24 reviews
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland

Universal Studios, 1992

Hollywood's Greatest Year
It is the general consensus that 1939 was "the year" for Tinseltown. It cranked out some of the greatest films, GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, DARK VICTORY to name just a few. Beau Geste is the first talkie version and the ultimate classic, directed by William Wellman and boasts a wonderful cast including Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, and in her first major studio role, ...

Black Cat (1941) [VHS]

9 reviews
Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert

Universal Studios, 1998

Hey! Lighten up, it's a B movie and it's fun to watch.
OK, so it's not perfect, but it is entertaining. And, Hugh Herbert is not "some 5th rate comedian" he's a hoot! The overall appearance, photography, lighting, setting are all worth a look. To me, it's a campy take on the classic Hollywood "who dunit." There's shadows, lightening & thunder, cats, scheming relatives all in glorious black & white. The cast is delightful and includes a very young ...

Born Yesterday [VHS]

41 reviews
Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford

Sony Pictures, 1994

Great movie
A little dated but still an enjoyable movie. William Holden is very handsome and Judy Holiday is superb as the dumb blond. An enjoyable film.

Fastest Gun Alive [VHS]

21 reviews
Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain

MGM (Warner), 1999

One of Ford's Best
This movie surprised me, having not heard very much about it before watching it over the weekend. I really liked the lean, spare directing and acting -- the storyline is so linear, the narrative so driven, that you become immediately drawn into the almost fatalistic way the story unspools. Ford is unusually good; you can see the tensions boiling up inside him as he hears the townspeople ...

The Oscar [VHS]

4 reviews
Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer

Embassy Home Entertainment, 1993

The Last Stand of 'Old Hollywood':
I had wanted to see this movie for years, after only knowing the parody SCTV did in the early 80s ("The Nobel")...It exceeded all my expectations; I would say SCTV's version only exaggerated the film by about 10 percent! The real reason to watch is Tony Bennett as the jewish-Irishman Hymie Kelly (do you think we'd get it, with a name like that?):his performance is the opposite of his singing ...

Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Amazon.com Exclusive) [VHS]

2 reviews
Broderick Crawford, James Wainwright

MGM/UA Video, 2001

The Life Of America's First Top Cop
Casting Broderick Crawford as Hoover was a stroke of genius on the part of the casting director of this film. He's perfect for the part. He brings out the gruffness and arrogance of the character, while simultaneously showing the insecure, low self-esteem inner man that Hoover is portrayed as being. We see him first as a young idealist, working in the Justice Department, wanting to protect the ...

Black Angel [VHS]

24 reviews
Dan Duryea, June Vincent

Universal Studios, 1998

Glossy and Involving Noir
This Universal crime noir benefits greatly from a beautiful score by Frank Skinner and some glossy production values from Roy William Neill, who added some nice directorial touches as well. An excellent cast of noir regulars and lovely June Vincent keep us interested. While the tension of a wronged wife remaining true to a cheating husband, attempting to save him from being executed for the ...

Human Desire (The Human Beast)

1 review
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame

Goodtimes Home Video, 1990

Adultery, Jealousy, Murdur, & the Perils of Train Travel !
ATTENTION film purists: Please don't tell me this is not as good as Jean Renoir's 1938 La Bete Humaine starring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon. Let's agree to accept that as a given. However, looking at Fritz Lang's Human Desire from 1954 on its own merits, I think the film is well directed, perfectly cast, well paced and entertaining. It stands up even in the jaded 21st century. Glenn Ford ...

The Castilian [VHS]

1 review
Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon

Warner Home Video, 1994

EL CID WITH A DIFFERENT EMPHASIS AND NOT AS GOOD
This spanish-made "spectacle" was released a year after "El Cid" and takes a different look at the medieval Spanish wars between the Moors and the Christians. Whereas the Charlton Heston epic carried a message of unity for loyal Spaniards, whether Moorish or Christian, this movie is a flat out jingoistic anti-Moorish propaganda film. Both movies had large casts, huge battle scenes, a struggle ...

Texas Rangers Ride Again [VHS]

1 review
Ellen Drew, John Howard

Universal Studios, 1995

HAS ABOVE NORMAL PRODUCTION VALUES FOR A "B" WESTERN.
To its credit, Paramount Pictures has rarely stinted on funding for its lower tier films as evidenced with this work that is meant to profit from the popularity of the 1936 MacMurray/Oakie picture TEXAS RANGERS, of which this is not a sequel. Far from having a conventional Western setting, the plot here is contemporaneous with the time of the film's release, with cattle rustlers employing motor ...

Real Glory [VHS]

8 reviews
Gary Cooper, David Niven

United Artists, 1994

wow!
I watched this movie for the first time today. And what a treat! The characters are cast extremely well, with Gary Cooper as a down-to-earth Army medic who can track patrols in the jungle, capture assasins, fight a cholera epidemic, and blow a dam, not to mention falling in love in the process. The storyline is as follows: an Army colonel is given the difficult job of training Filipino soldiers ...

Liar's Moon [VHS]

27 reviews
Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher

Rhino / Wea, 2000

Liar's Moon
Liar's MoonI had video taped this movie from TV more than 20 years ago. The tape wore out a long time ago. I was pleased to find it. The quality was excellent and the shipment was exceptionally fast.

Lone Star (1951) [VHS]

2 reviews
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner

MGM (Warner), 1998

How can a movie with Ava Gardner not be a hit.
Gable is hired to bring Texas into the union. Crawford plays villian. Gardner looks great and has to choose between two men. Good 'horray for texas' movie.

Liar's Moon [VHS]

27 reviews
Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher

United American Video, 1998

Liar's Moon
Liar's MoonI had video taped this movie from TV more than 20 years ago. The tape wore out a long time ago. I was pleased to find it. The quality was excellent and the shipment was exceptionally fast.

Il Bidone [VHS]

7 reviews
Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina

Connoisseur, 1998

I liked it
My friends hassled me for starting off my Fellini collection with Il Bidone but I've seen the classics and have pretty easy access to seeing them any time. Something a little bit more obscure like this one is harder to track down, so I figured that I'd buy it based on the reviews here. I wasn't disappointed. people were pretty accurate in their impressions. The story is told well, the acting is ...

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