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Cinema of Discovery Julien Duvivier in the 1920s
If discovering brilliant filmmakers appeals, it's difficult to to better than this five-disc, nine-feature labor of recovery and restoration from Lobster films.…
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Edge of Darkness
Righteous propaganda fuels the patriotic fire: Lewis Milestone and Robert Rossen's blood-soaked ode to Norwegian resistance goes way over the top. These…
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Kitten with a Whip
Showbiz dynamo Ann-Margret tries on 'teenage hellion' for size. She terrorizes the straight, impossibly patient John Forsythe, sending him on a weekend…
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The Devil’s Men
Devil worshippers are running amuck in Greece, haven't you heard? This Greek-English horror show stars Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance, so it…
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
It's something completely different . . . a genuine obscurity, a Swiss spy fantasy from the 1960s with major appeal to fans…
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Busby Berkeley's musical comedy extravaganza not only gets away with a social message, it makes one of the best cultural statements ever…
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The Capture
It's a manhunt South of the Border -- Niven Busch's drama has violence and murder but is really a novelistic character study…
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The Brain Eaters
They're after you, and your wives and children! This Corman/VeSota/Ed Nelson shocker with the excellent poster is a Robert Heinlein knockoff that…
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Black Magic
Orson Welles in fine form! This lavishly produced costume drama, beautifully cast and directed, was filmed on location in gorgeous Italian palazzos,…
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Stage Fright (1950)
Alfred Hitchcock puts Jane Wyman in harm's way, as she tries to rescue her unworthy boyfriend Richard Todd from a murder charge.…
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The Naked Jungle
This creepy-crawly epic enjoyed a strong reputation on my grade-school playground. Does George Pal's man-versus-the-elements saga hold up 68 years later? The…
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A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
It's the 'other' version of Dickens' terrific novel, an English film that few Americans have seen. This Australian DVD is in the…
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Last Train from Gun Hill
One of the best yet least seen of John Sturges' westerns couples a fine screenplay with strong star perfs and superb direction:…
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All My Sons
Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson are excellent in this adaptation of Arthur Miller's award-winning Broadway play, about a family torn apart…
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The Great Moment
Every once in a while a movie studio would ruin what might have been a masterpiece -- and Preston Sturges' last-released Paramount…
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A Hard Day’s Night 4K
The Fab Four's first and biggest movie hit comes to 4K Ultra HD! The Beatles brought something new and exciting to 1964…
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The Blockhouse
For this perplexing British production Peter Sellers fronts a solid cast (Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson and Peter Vaughn) in a…
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Straight Time
Small thief and parolee Max Dembo is pinned in a parole system that all but guarantees he'll go back to robbing banks…
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Breaking In
Favorite director Bill Forsyth lends his knack for droll understatement to a screenplay by John Sayles, a crime tale that opts for…
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Dancing with Crime + The Green Cockatoo
Lovers of vintage English crime thrillers will have a lot to chew over with this pair of escapist gangster pix, one pre-war…
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The Mighty Peking Man
A monster ape-man smashes Hong Kong accompanied by his adopted daughter, a sexy blonde in a daringly abbreviated bikini. The lavishly produced…
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Red Angel
Yasuzo Masumura's searing outrage didn't abate in the 1960s; this unflinching view of the WW2 Japanese counterpart of a 'M.A.S.H.' unit cuts…
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A Reflection of Fear
'Teach your children well' they say, but Sondra Locke's young girl in this show is the victim of parenting so bad it…
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Day the World Ended
Another key '50s sci-fi makes it to Blu-ray in an admirable encoding. Roger Corman's end-of-the-world survivalist struggle against radioactive mist and three-eyed…
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A Walk in the Sun
Lewis Milestone directed this poetic, optimistic ode to the American infantryman, a 'lone patrol' saga that emphasizes its soldiers' hopes and fears.…
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Maverick director Robert Aldrich's one foray into grand-scale epic filmmaking is returned to crystal clarity in this fine import disc, a restoration…