 | South Pacific [Read More ...]
Description: The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, brought to lush life by the director of the original stage version, Joshua Logan. Set on a remote island during the Second World War, South Pacific tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) "as corny as Kan... |
 | Three Coins in Fountain [Read More ...]
Description: Velvety and glazed like a fattening pastry, this 1954 love story concerns three American women who make wishes for love in Rome, and end up having three romances. The cast is fine, but as for the film, what you see is what you get. There's no mystery to any part of this movie--li... |
 | Rome Adventure [Read More ...]
Review: Rome Adventure:
I saw this film in 1962 just days after returning from a tour of Italy. While not a classic film by any means, I was totally won over and was back in Italy again. Whenever I watch it and listen to Max Steiner's wonderful score I can practically smell Rome. It w... |
 | Little Women (1949) [Read More ...]
Description: This sumptuous 1949 film adaptation of the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel isn't as good as the 1933 Katharine Hepburn version, or even the 1994 remake starring an Oscar-nominated Winona Ryder, but it does offer its own pleasures, especially in seeing an all-star cast put through... |
 | Story of Esther Costello [Read More ...]
Review: Esther-Fest:"The Story of Esther Costello" has to be one of my very favorite movies with Joan. I know I say that all the time but this time I really mean it. At the very least, it has to be one of Joan's very best movies from the fifties. My three favorite movies from this era, o... |
 | Little Women (1949) (Clam) [Read More ...]
Description: This sumptuous 1949 film adaptation of the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel isn't as good as the 1933 Katharine Hepburn version, or even the 1994 remake starring an Oscar-nominated Winona Ryder, but it does offer its own pleasures, especially in seeing an all-star cast put through... |
 | South Pacific [Read More ...]
Description: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Academy Award -winning "South Pacific" is a towering musical masterpiece and the tender love story of a naïve young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French Plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) on a U.S. occupied South Sea island. The breathtaking sco... |
 | Christopher Columbus (1985) [Read More ...]
Biography of the explorer who convinced Spanish royalty to send him on a trip to chr(39)the Indieschr(39) and found the Caribbean instead. |
 | Omen 3: The Final Conflict [Read More ...]
Description: Set in an eerie future, The Great Recession has arrived. As worldwide starvation and economic doom prevail, so does Damien who relentlessly continues his sinister plot to control the world. Damien's evil power reaches out across the Atlantic when he's appointed ambassador to Eng... |
 | Ayn Rand - WE THE LIVING [Read More ...]
Description: Beautiful, strong-willed Kira (Alida Valli) is torn between two men (Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti) while she courageously defies the authoritarian rule of post-revolutionary Russia. Her passionate struggle for the right to her own life burns at the core of WE THE LIVING.... |
 | A Time For Miracles [Read More ...]
Review: A Good Family Movie:I thoroughly enjoyed this movie of the life of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint. It is very well done and is well suited for family viewing as few films are today.
While the movie is pleasant and easy to watch, there certainly is... |
 | The Bobo [Read More ...]
Singing Blue Matador:A really funny Peter Sellers movie where he gets dyed blue in the end for revenge. |
 | Legend of Lost [Read More ...]
Description: The good news is, one of John Wayne's least-known films has been restored to widescreen splendor. The bad news is, there's a reason Legend of the Lost has gone mostly unshown: it's a grievously misbegotten movie. Oh, the credits get you jumping: Wayne and international love godde... |
 | The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection (South Pacific, The Sound Of Music, The King And I, State Fair, Carousel, & Oklahoma!) [Read More ...]
Description: This lavish set contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and ... |
 | The Far Pavilions (EP Version) [Read More ...]
Description: The first happy day in the adult life of Anjuli (Amy Irving) is the day her husband's body is set on fire. Her rich and powerful husband, the Rana of Bhitor (Rossano Brazzi), is ritually immolated in a lavish ceremony where his other wife, Anjuli's half sister, is expected to com... |
 | Summertime [Read More ...]
Description: There was a time before Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago when David Lean made smaller, more effortlessly picturesque movies, and this splendid Venetian travelogue and love story is one of them--the last, actually, before the epic onslaught started with the Oscar-winning The ... |
 | Italian Job [Read More ...]
Description: This little-known cult caper is about as depraved as they come. Michael Caine, ever the enterprising swinger and swindler, has an ingenious plan to steal a huge cache of Chinese gold to be shipped to Turin as collateral for a new Fiat plant. Since the Italy-Great Britain soccer m... |
 | Christopher Columbus [Read More ...]
Review: Write to Warner Home Video for a DVD release of Christopher Columbus:Anyone who is interested in seeing a DVD release of this mini-series should write to the studio that owns the rights to it:
Warner Home Video
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA
91522
U.S.A.
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 | Barefoot Contessa [Read More ...]
OVER THE TOP:Usual Hollywood formula - rich boy finds poor but beautiful and talented girl, rich boy marries girl, beautiful and talented girl discovers that
rich husband has nothing working below the belt, rich boy finds wife and stable boy in barn together- and shoots them both... |
![]() | South Pacific [Read More ...]
Description: The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, brought to lush life by the director of the original stage version, Joshua Logan. Set on a remote island during the Second World War, South Pacific tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) "as corny as Kan... |
