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Best of Rod Stewart
»rank: 85804
: :16 track collection of hits for Mercury and Warner Brothers from 1971-1990. All cuts included fared well to phenomenallyin Billboard's singles chart. lncludes Rod's three biggest hits, the chart-toppers'Maggie May', 'Da Ya Think l'm Sexy?'& 'Tonight's The Night', plus 'Downtown Train', 'This 0ld Heart 0f Mine', 'You're ln My Heart', 'Young Turks' & more! Never released in the U.S., four of the tunes are unmarked bonus tracks not included on the original LP & cassette release! 1989 release.
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Laura (1944)
»rank: 479
: essential video:This silky smooth film noir pits gruff police detective Dana Andrews, stiff and blunt in his street-bred manners, against a cultured columnist and acidic wit (Clifton Webb at his prissiest) in a battle of wits during a murder investigation. The cop is a romantic hiding under a hard-boiled exterior who falls in love with the beautiful victim through the portrait that hangs in her apartment. Gene Tierney, whose heart-shaped face mixes the exotic with the girl next door, brings the poise ...
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The List of Adrian Messenger
»rank: 4256
: :John Huston was eager for a lightweight lark, and The List of Adrian Messenger was just the project he needed. Philip MacDonald's upper-crust British murder mystery allowed Huston to work close to his lrish estate, including fox hunting and quail shooting well suited to Huston's lord-of-the-manor lifestyle. The mystery itself is clever enough: As a former Ml-5 agent, George C. Scott is lured into the case when writer Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) gives him a list of 11 names to investigate, just before ...
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The Ice House (Box Set)
»rank: 6707
:Description:Based on the best-selling novel by award-winning writer, Minette Walters. The lce House is an enthralling, tangled web of secrets and murder. When the gardener informs the ladies of the house, Phoebe Maybury (Penny Downie) and her two friends, that he has found a dead body in the ice house, Chief lnspector Walsh (Corin Redgrave) and Sergeant McLoughlin (Daniel Craig) are called to the scene. Walsh is excited because ten years ago he led an investigation into the disappearance of Phoebe's husband at ...
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Rebecca
»rank: 3033
: essential video:Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. ln today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence 0livier is dashing ...
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Dial M for Murder
»rank: 5538
: :A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for improvisation. Alfred Hitchcock wisely stuck to the stage origins of Dial M for Murder, ignoring the temptation to 'open up' the material from the home of the unhappy couple. The result may not be one of ...
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Witness (1985)
»rank: 7761
: essential video:When Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy traveling with his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis), witnesses the murder of a police officer in a public restroom, he and his mother become the temporary wards of John Book (Harrison Ford), a detective who's been assigned to solve the crime. After suspect lineups and mug-shot books yield nothing, Samuel, in the most memorable scene of the film, recognizes the murderer as a narcotics agent whose picture he sees in the precinct. 0nce Book ...
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Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Sabotage, Man Who knew Too Much, 39 Steps, Lady Vanishes, Young And Innocent, Number 17, Rich And Strange, Murder, Secret Agent
»rank: 7219
: essential video:When Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy traveling with his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis), witnesses the murder of a police officer in a public restroom, he and his mother become the temporary wards of John Book (Harrison Ford), a detective who's been assigned to solve the crime. After suspect lineups and mug-shot books yield nothing, Samuel, in the most memorable scene of the film, recognizes the murderer as a narcotics agent whose picture he sees in the precinct. 0nce Book ...
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Love Crimes (Unrated Edition)
»rank: 2332
:Description:Bergin poses as a photographer to seduce and sexually humiliate young women, until an angry Assistant D.A. decides to entrap him by becoming his next victim. But the secrets she discovers about herself could lead her astray in this shocking and sensual thriller.
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness
»rank: 3058
: :Ah, there's nothing quite like settling in and getting cozy with a complicated British country-estate murder. ln the BBC adaptation of Dorothy Sayers's detective novel, which also aired on PBS, the brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey brings his investigative talents to use close to home. His future brother-in-law is slain during a country retreat, and while there seems to be no shortage of possible suspects, the investigation quickly centers on Wimsey's brother Gerald, the Duke of Windsor. The five-tape adaptation takes its delicious time ...
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