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The Far Country
Did star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann corner the market on upscale 'A' '50s westerns? This beauty sends Stewart, Ruth Roman…
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The 3-D Nudie-Cuties Collection
Oh, have you reached the right page? We know you were looking for the review of Aunt Minerva's Hymns of Faith in…
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Sinister stabbings, women kicked and beaten, perverse hoodlums selling cocaine and murdering street-beat bobbies: what happened to civilized English crime? Cavalcanti's…
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Great Day in the Morning
Jacques Tourneur's 'big sky' western gives us the beauty of Colorado mountains plus stunning color images (originally Technicolor) of his attractive cast:…
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The Man Between
Critics compare this sophisticated spy thriller to Carol Reed's earlier Triumph set in Vienna with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles -- but…
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Eegah
Mean-spirited 'Bad Movie' satirists forget that production values aren't everything, even if the collected works of Barry Mahon and Coleman Francis say…
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Operation Crossbow
'Mission impossible' escapism about high-stakes wartime sabotage looks at an authentic, dramatic episode of WW2 -- the onslaught of futuristic V-Weapons on…
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Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory
Italian horror from the early 1960s covers a wide range of quality, from eerie hauntings to tacky vampire romps. For one of…
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Hammer Volume Four Faces of Fear
Powerhouse Indicator continues its series of exotic attractions from the house of Hammer with four more titles, three of which are front-rank…
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Seven Days to Noon
Is this movie ground zero for Atom-fear science fiction? The Boulting Brothers assemble the very first movie about a nuclear terror plot,…
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The World The Flesh and The Devil
The world could come to an end in a lot of ways but 1950s sci-fi was fond of making it end like…
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Matewan
John Sayles' coal strike epic is grand American filmmaking bolstered by fine Haskell Wexler cinematography, great performances by dedicated actors, and a…
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Scarface 4K Ultra HD
Brian De Palma's 1983 saga of hoodlum Tony Montana is an exceptional remake that's become a classic almost by default -- it's…
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An American Werewolf in London
An old-fashioned monster movie gore-fest that hasn't dimmed in popularity, John Landis's slightly twisted telling of a hiking mishap pulled nervous laughter…
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3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
The experts were right when they said that silent filmmaking was developing something unique and beautiful, before talkies came along and spoiled…
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Quatermass and the Pit
Don't run away because we use the word 'profound' to describe this 1967 sci-fi classic -- some call it the best of…
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The Devil Rides Out
Hammer's key Satanic Mass epic comes to Blu-ray in a terrific improved transfer. Christopher Lee's pitched battle with Charles Gray's necromancer Mocata…
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Parasite 3-D
Nope, this isn't the new Bong Joon-ho movie, but a 3-D oldie from 1982. Although it's by no means a great picture,…
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The Lavender Hill Mob
They're 'The Men Who Broke the Bank and Lost the Cargo!' Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway shine in one of the funniest…
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Time Without Pity
Joseph Losey's fortunes as an expatriate director took an upswing with this efficient, nervous and somewhat overcooked thriller with a daunting ticking-bomb…
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Hercules in the Haunted World
Mario Bava excelled with at least five super sword 'n' sandal pictures -- shooting two Hercules classics and directing two viking sagas…
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Man of a Thousand Faces
Now that we can read the real story of the great silent actor and makeup magician Lon Chaney, the inaccuracies are fairly…
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
Some movies just don't get the respect they deserve, which cues pushy reviewers to sing their praises. Forget everything you've read and…
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Ida Lupino Filmmaker Collection
More than a movie star: America's one female Hollywood director working in the 1950s receives a four-title boxed set well worth the…
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Holocaust
This four part, eight hour miniseries turns the fate of a family of German Jews into a sprawling drama that covers all…
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The Letter
It's the formidable Bette Davis once again, in yet another superior William Wyler picture. The Somerset Maugham play is a classy vehicle…