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From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift
Sony Pictures, 2001
From Here to a Classic
+ Fine Film about Military Life on the Cusp of WWII
+ The best movie I ever saw
From Here to Eternity is more than the classic scene of Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster rolling around on a beach, covered in ocean waves. It's a story about America during World War II. It's about human beings trying to live normal lives during an abnormal time. Taking place just before the ...
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The Informer - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers with Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston ...
Warner Brothers
Landmark of Cinema
+ A Great Classic (But With a Caveat)
+ The Informer
+ Victor McLaglen, as you've never seen him . . .
+ the first of john ford's great irish movies
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Around the World in 80 Days (Two-Disc Special Edition)
David Niven, Cantinflas
Warner Home Video, 2004
NO WONDER THIS PICTURE WON BEST PICTURE!!!
+ "A Real Trip"
+ Excellent condition
+ An outstanding masterpiece
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The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
Dorothy Abbott, Edie Adams
MGM (Video & DVD), 2008
Liberal 1950s New York Mores + Suicide
+ Love's for Rent, Desire's for Hire, in Wilder Satire
+ WHAT COULD BE WILDER?
+ Ah, insurance companies....
+ One of my top ten films of all time...
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Tom Jones
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Lopert Pictures Corporation, 2001
WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT !!!
+ It's a delightfully good time...
+ Tom Jones
+ "Out and About in the 1700s"
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In Which We Serve
Daniel Massey, Richard Attenborough
Westlake Ent. Group, 1942
In Which We Serve
+ Island Race
+ Stiff Upper Lip British War Film
With Britain in the pit of the Second War, playwright Coward was desperate to do a morale-boosting film, and "Serve" was the inspired result. The normally effete Coward is appropriately "stiff upper lip" as Kinross, and a young Mills stands out in a first rate ensemble cast which also includes ...
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Marty (1954)
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
enjoy the sunnyside of life
+ 10 Stars
+ I Love MARTY
+ Heartwarming and hopeful
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The Grapes of Wrath
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell
20th Century Fox, 2004
Great film, great story, great package
+ "Grapes of Wrath" classic
+ JOHN FORD'S CLASSIC B/W VERSION
With endless comprehensive reviews of "The Grapes of Wrath" available on Amazon and no reason to speculate about whether the film or the book is superior (different mediums, different strengths), it is worth noting the following about this DVD:
- the print of the film has been restored from the ...
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High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Gary Cooper
Lionsgate, 2008
High Noon high on my list.
+ Amazon DVD High Noon
+ Very Satisfied
+ The quintessential western with deeper meaning
+ The Gunman is Coming
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Darling
Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde
MGM (Video & DVD), 2003
everybody's darling, at any age
+ "It should be so easy to be happy,shouldn't it?"
+ Running on Empty in the Swingin' Sixties
it is always a pleasure to watch and to re-watch julie christie in any movie she chooses to do. watching this early film in juxtaposition with AWAY FROM HER reminds us that Cleopatra was not the only woman whose beauty can not be withered by age. when the beauty evolves from intelligence, it is ...
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Going My Way (Universal Cinema Classics)
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Universal Studios, 2007
excellent classic movie
+ Sing a Song
+ Perfect for Christmas
+ Going My Way - a review
+ Classic Musical
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
Warner Home Video, 2003
Life altering film
+ Movie review
+ Classic portrait of the worst and best of human nature
+ John Huston's classic Western of greed
+ Well-made movie, badly-made discs.
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My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Warner Home Video, 2004
It's LOVERLY"
+ Can't go wrong with the classics.
+ My Fair Lady
+ Absolutely marvelous!
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All the King's Men
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
Sony Pictures, 2006
Willie Stark is more gutsy than Bush or Clinton
+ More things change
+ LOUISIANA LONGS FOR LONG
+ Powerful movie
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The Defiant Ones
Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
CLASSIC FILM STILL HOLDS UP WELL! 4 1/2 STARS!
+ Golden classic
+ Great classic!
+ The Defiant Ones--no wonder it was nominated for all those Oscars.
+ The Defiant Ones
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