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| Average Rating:  ![VHS : Advise And Consent [1962]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RZKAXAPPL._SL160_.jpg) |
Advise And Consent [1962]starring: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton directed by: Otto Preminger July 21, 1997 |
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If you're interested in how American politics works or doesn't, see this movie now. What a knock-out depressing, inspiring, convoluted, messed up, brilliant piece of work this Otto Preminger film is. Charles Laughton steals the show (his last performance?) as a sleazy southern senator. You won't believe the machinations these people perform in Washington. And while this movie was made decades ago, it's still has so much truth in it today--people set up to be scapegoats, corruption, politics like you've never see it before.
True, this is sometimes touted as a "gay" film because of the one senator who is blackmailed, though is at least bisexual, but the film is more about how the American system is put together. A frightening, ... Read More: >>More Details |
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| Average Rating: ![VHS : Deanna Durbin: The Collection - Because Of Him/Christmas Holiday/Mad About Music/One Hundred Men And A Girl/Three Smart Girls [1936]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NJWEEKFTL._SL160_.jpg) |
Deanna Durbin: The Collection - Because Of Him/Christmas Holiday/Mad About Music/One Hundred Men And A Girl/Three Smart Girls [1936]starring: Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Barbara Read, Franchot Tone, Charles Laughton directed by: Richard Wallace, Robert Siodmak, Norman Taurog, Henry Koster November 03, 2003 |
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Deanna Durbin's characterisations are as sweet and innocent as the childhood memories I have of Saturday TV matinee screenings of her movies. The Deanna Durbin Collection of five Black and White movies provide a good mix of Durbin playing the role of young teenager ('Mad About Music', '100 Men and A Girl', 'Three Smart Girls') through to Durbin's flirtation with Film Noir ('Christmas Holiday'). I feel Durbin is at her best playing younger roles as her age-defying looks and her quintessential wholesomeness fit perfectly within the 1930's American musical film genre. Her films were produced as 'feel good' escapism and they work wonderfully on that level. Sit down with milk and cookies and invite any member of your family, from toddler to granny to ... Read More: >>More Details |
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| Average Rating: ![VHS : The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer [1934]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4157NVMDYTL._SL160_.jpg) |
The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer [1934]starring: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith directed by: Henry Hathaway February 07, 2000 |
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Deanna Durbin's characterisations are as sweet and innocent as the childhood memories I have of Saturday TV matinee screenings of her movies. The Deanna Durbin Collection of five Black and White movies provide a good mix of Durbin playing the role of young teenager ('Mad About Music', '100 Men and A Girl', 'Three Smart Girls') through to Durbin's flirtation with Film Noir ('Christmas Holiday'). I feel Durbin is at her best playing younger roles as her age-defying looks and her quintessential wholesomeness fit perfectly within the 1930's American musical film genre. Her films were produced as 'feel good' escapism and they work wonderfully on that level. Sit down with milk and cookies and invite any member of your family, from toddler to granny to ... Read More: >>More Details |
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| Average Rating:  ![VHS : Because Of Him [1946]](http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/video/icons/video-no-image.gif){kind=icon} |
Because Of Him [1946]starring: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick, Stanley Ridges directed by: Richard Wallace October 06, 2003 |
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The always wonderful Deanna Durbin turns this mix of comedy and music into delightful and charming fun. It was the second time she and Charles Laughton would work together, leaving us a memory of what makes the movies great. Durbin once more exudes that something special that made her the great star she was. Kim Walker (Deanna Durbin) is a waitress trying to get her big break on stage and with a letter of introduction from the great John Sheridan (Charles Laughton) she might just have found it. The letter, of course, was simply an autograph Kim managed to get before Sheridan goes fishing in Maine. The author of the play (Franchot Tone) doesn't want her in it, even though she sets his heart in motion. When Sheridan returns earlier than expected and gets ... Read More: >>More Details |
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| Average Rating:  ![VHS : In Harm's Way [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J6KS93RGL._SL160_.jpg) |
In Harm's Way [1965]starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss directed by: Otto Preminger January 01, 1996 |
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In Harm's Way is something of an oddity. Boasting a top director and an impressive all-star cast yet nearly completely forgotten, this 1965 roadshow would-be epic plays in many ways like a misfired follow-up to From Here To Eternity, following several navy men and their ladies from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the first American victories against the Japanese. But it's more soap opera than action movie, with John Wayne's legendary officer `The Rock' trying to work his way through the social circuit to get a new command after his ship takes a torpedo while pal Kirk Douglas goes off the rails after his unfaithful wife is killed, raping a nurse and eventually doing the decent thing. Throw in father-son reunions, hesitant affairs and the odd bit of infighting in the ... Read More:
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| Average Rating: ![VHS : Every Girl Should Be Married [1948]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P9HAQD24L._SL160_.jpg) |
Every Girl Should Be Married [1948]starring: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Diana Lynn, Franchot Tone, Alan Mowbray directed by: Don Hartman January 12, 1998 |
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In Harm's Way is something of an oddity. Boasting a top director and an impressive all-star cast yet nearly completely forgotten, this 1965 roadshow would-be epic plays in many ways like a misfired follow-up to From Here To Eternity, following several navy men and their ladies from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the first American victories against the Japanese. But it's more soap opera than action movie, with John Wayne's legendary officer `The Rock' trying to work his way through the social circuit to get a new command after his ship takes a torpedo while pal Kirk Douglas goes off the rails after his unfaithful wife is killed, raping a nurse and eventually doing the decent thing. Throw in father-son reunions, hesitant affairs and the odd bit of infighting in the ... Read More:
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| Average Rating:  ![VHS : Old Maid/Dangerous [1936/1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HAVMD6ENL._SL160_.jpg) |
Old Maid/Dangerous [1936/1939]starring: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldridge directed by: Edmund Goulding, Alfred E. Green July 04, 1994 |
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THE OLD MAID: THE CLASH OF THE TITANS... This classic film is a superlative soaper in which two cousins, Charlotte (Bette Davis) and Delia (Miriam Hopkins) have the misfortune to love the same man, Clem (George Brent), with lifetime repercussions for both. The film begins around the time of the Civil War. Clem returns home, only to find that the woman he loves, Delia, is getting married that same day. She is marrying a rich banker and, though she loves Clem, a ne'er do well, she wants security, so she goes through with the marriage. Seeing and seizing an opportunity, Charlotte declares herself to Clem, telling him how she has always loved him, as he goes off to fight in the war. Duting the war, Charlotte manages to hook up with Clem long ... Read More: >>More Details |
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| Average Rating: ![VHS : Mutiny On The Bounty [1935]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412K9TQ1FSL._SL160_.jpg) |
Mutiny On The Bounty [1935]starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan directed by: Frank Lloyd March 12, 2001 |
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The Gable-Laughton version of Mutiny on the Bounty bears about as much relation to history as Michelle Pfeiffer does to Idi Amin and in some ways it's a rather under-ambitious and repetitive bit of work for all the splendor of its staging. Much of the first half is just a catalog of brutalities completely at odds with the facts (the unlucky Bligh was a much more lenient captain than was good for him and the loss of the Bounty was cited by many contemporaries as proof that then-recent reforms of conditions were a disastrous mistake) and more in keeping with Victorian melodrama. Laughton's performance certainly takes the hint and delivers an unsubtle but entertaining essay in bluster and volume, although his unfortunate statement that "I have a way of my own with seamen" is ... Read More:
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Nice Girl?starring: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan directed by: William A. Seiter October 04, 2004 |
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The Gable-Laughton version of Mutiny on the Bounty bears about as much relation to history as Michelle Pfeiffer does to Idi Amin and in some ways it's a rather under-ambitious and repetitive bit of work for all the splendor of its staging. Much of the first half is just a catalog of brutalities completely at odds with the facts (the unlucky Bligh was a much more lenient captain than was good for him and the loss of the Bounty was cited by many contemporaries as proof that then-recent reforms of conditions were a disastrous mistake) and more in keeping with Victorian melodrama. Laughton's performance certainly takes the hint and delivers an unsubtle but entertaining essay in bluster and volume, although his unfortunate statement that "I have a way of my own with seamen" is ... Read More:
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Dangerous [1935]starring: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone directed by: Alfred E. Green |
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The Gable-Laughton version of Mutiny on the Bounty bears about as much relation to history as Michelle Pfeiffer does to Idi Amin and in some ways it's a rather under-ambitious and repetitive bit of work for all the splendor of its staging. Much of the first half is just a catalog of brutalities completely at odds with the facts (the unlucky Bligh was a much more lenient captain than was good for him and the loss of the Bounty was cited by many contemporaries as proof that then-recent reforms of conditions were a disastrous mistake) and more in keeping with Victorian melodrama. Laughton's performance certainly takes the hint and delivers an unsubtle but entertaining essay in bluster and volume, although his unfortunate statement that "I have a way of my own with seamen" is ... Read More:
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