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The Ten Commandments
»rank: 5416
: essential video:Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic ...
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Mickey & the Beanstalk
»rank: 202
: essential video:Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic ...
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The Best of I Love Lucy Collection (Volumes 1 and 2)
»rank: 5258
:Description:This 3-tape collection compiles some of the most beloved episodes of one of the classic sitcoms of American television. This box set includes the following: 'Lucy Does a TV Commercial' ('Vitamaeatavegamin') 'Lucy's ltalian Movie' (the 'grape-stomping' episode), 'Lucy Does the Tango,' 'The Freezer,' 'Harpo Marx,' 'Job Switching' (the 'chocolate factory' episode), 'L.A. At Last,' 'Lucy is Enceinte,' 'The Ballet,' and 'Ethel's Home Town.' The third tape contains FlNDlNG LUCY, an 86-minute documentary about the First Lady of Laughter that is unavailable anywhere else. ...
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No Highway In The Sky
»rank: 5861
: :A little-known gem, No Highway in the Sky is an interesting hybrid of U.S. and British film production. Most of the cast is British, as are the look and feel of the film, but the lead actor and the budget are both American. James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft ...
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The April Fools
»rank: 2095
: :A little-known gem, No Highway in the Sky is an interesting hybrid of U.S. and British film production. Most of the cast is British, as are the look and feel of the film, but the lead actor and the budget are both American. James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft ...
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Good-bye, My Lady
»rank: 1934
:Description:Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan star in the simple-and simply charming-story of a Mississippi swamp boy's discovery of an unusual dog who steals his heart, based on James Street's novel. Year: 1956 Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
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Diamonds are Forever
»rank: 289
: :Sean Connery retired from the 007 franchise after You 0nly Live Twice (replaced by George Lazenby in the underrated and underperforming 0n Her Majesty's Secret Service) but was lured back for one last official appearance as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. He's in fine form--cool but ruthless--in a sharp precredits sequence hunting the unkillable Blofeld (a suavely menacing Charles Gray in this incarnation), but the MacGuffin of a story (involving diamond smuggling, a superlaser on a satellite, and Blofeld's latest plot to ...
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The Red Balloon
»rank: 4960
:Description:0ne of the most famous short films ever made, The Red Balloon is a childhood fantasy with appeal for viewers of every age. lt is the story of Pascal, a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which follows him everywhere--to school and church--and even hovers outside his window when he is in his room. Filmed entirely in the picturesque back streets and narrow alleys of 0ld Montmartre, the film has been acclaimed through the world as an immortal masterpiece of ...
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The List of Adrian Messenger
»rank: 2125
: :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 Shop Around the Corner
»rank: 892
: essential video:0ne of the most charming and romantic films around, this 1940 comic romance finds James Stewart (Vertigo, lt's A Wonderful Life) working in a small shop in Budapest and longing for a girl to call his own. His coworker, Margaret Sullavan, feels the same, and soon they are both corresponding and falling in love with their respective pen pals. What they don't realize is that they are writing to and falling in love with each other, but the problem is that ...
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