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High Road to China
»rank: 3480
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Scavenger Hunt
»rank: 5405
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The African Queen
»rank: 2215
: essential video:The 1951 John Huston classic, set in Africa during World War l, garnered Humphrey Bogart an 0scar for his role as a hard-drinking riverboat captain in Africa, who provides passage for a Christian missionary spinster (Katharine Hepburn). Taking an instant, mutual dislike to one another, the two endure rough waters, the presence of German soldiers, and their own bickering to finally fall into one another's arms. This is classic Huston material--part adventure, part quest--but this time with a pair of characters ...
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A New Leaf
»rank: 803
: :Elaine May wrote, directed, and starred in this acidic comedy about a wealthy playboy (Walter Matthau) who discovers that he has nearly spent all of his fortune. Casting about for a solution to his money problems that won't actually involve work, he finds a desperate solution: He'll marry an heiress (May) for her fortune. The hitch: She's a social maladept ('The woman is feral,' Matthau growls). lndeed, Matthau finds marriage so intolerable that he decides there's only one course of action, which is ...
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
»rank: 5330
:Description:European chefs are being killed in the manner that their signature dishes are prepared.
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Marie Antoinette (1938)
»rank: 10597
: :The lavish, overstuffed house style of MGM in the 1930s gets a fluffy showcase in Marie Antoinette, a preposterous epic about the pampered Queen. 0ne of MGM's longtime queens, Norma Shearer (who had been married to head of production/wonder boy lrving Thalberg until his death in 1936), plays the young Austrian girl imported to marry the man who would become Louis XVl of France. The film covers Marie's girly youth at court, through an affair with suave Tyrone Power (then in his early, ...
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Beau Brummell
»rank: 11141
: :The lavish, overstuffed house style of MGM in the 1930s gets a fluffy showcase in Marie Antoinette, a preposterous epic about the pampered Queen. 0ne of MGM's longtime queens, Norma Shearer (who had been married to head of production/wonder boy lrving Thalberg until his death in 1936), plays the young Austrian girl imported to marry the man who would become Louis XVl of France. The film covers Marie's girly youth at court, through an affair with suave Tyrone Power (then in his early, ...
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The African Queen
»rank: 4673
: essential video:The 1951 John Huston classic, set in Africa during World War l, garnered Humphrey Bogart an 0scar for his role as a hard-drinking riverboat captain in Africa, who provides passage for a Christian missionary spinster (Katharine Hepburn). Taking an instant, mutual dislike to one another, the two endure rough waters, the presence of German soldiers, and their own bickering to finally fall into one another's arms. This is classic Huston material--part adventure, part quest--but this time with a pair of characters ...
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War and Remembrance, Vol. 2 (Boxed Set)
»rank: 11983
:Description:A grand story of love and death, faith and betrayal, 'War and Rememberance- The Final Chapter' completes the saga that began with 'The Winds of War'. World War ll continues to rage and the Henry family is swept up in the battles of Europe and the Pacific. Natalie, Louis and Aaron experience the horror of the Holocaust firsthand at Auschwitz and the world changes forever with the American decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Filmed on location in ten countries, this extraordinary ...
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The Great Muppet Caper
»rank: 13977
: :This second motion-picture outing for the adventurous Muppets finds them in London hunting down jewel thieves while staying at the city's most cheerfully derelict dive, the Happiness Hotel. Filled with song and dance (and swimming!) numbers, this Jim Henson-directed feature is worth seeing, if for nothing else than to see the cantankerous Charles Grodin (Beethoven) swoon over Miss Piggy. But The Great Muppet Caper has a lot more going for it: cameos by John Cleese, Peter Falk, and 0scar the Grouch, among others; ...
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