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Bend of the River
The Anthony Mann - James Stewart crowd-pleaser now comes to Region A Blu-ray. With its bright Technicolor hues, it's the wagon train…
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Film Noir 9 Film Collection
Mill Creek and Kit Parker package nine mid-range Columbia features from the 1940s and 1950s, not all of them strictly noir but…
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On the Basis of Sex
With two major movie accolades in one year, Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the real Wonder Woman, bar none. Mimi Leder's…
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Diamonds of the Night
Director Jan Němec made his name during the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, and later saw his career cut short when…
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The Star Witness
Veteran William Wellman directed this pre-Code thriller that puts an average New York family at odds with a pack of ruthless gangsters.…
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The River’s Edge
Is it a film noir? This desert-set crime tale sees a rat (Ray Milland) escaping to Mexico with a bag of cash,…
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Vampyres
Dull vampire pix were once as ubiquitous as zombie pix are now, but when a good one came along we'd certainly take…
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Becky Sharp
Some show had to be the first -- back in 1935, this was the first movie to be produced entirely in full…
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Underground (1928)
It's expressive silent filmmaking at its best -- Anthony Asquith vies with Alfred Hitchcock for most creative direction in silent-era England. Elissa…
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Manhattan goes nuts as thousands of Beatles fans arrive to celebrate the arrival of the Mop Tops from Liverpool. Experts at wringing…
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The Quiller Memorandum
Michael Anderson directs a classy slice of '60s spy-dom. In West Berlin, George Segal's Quiller struggles through a near- existential battle with…
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The Triple Echo
This obscure 1972 thriller features excellent performances by Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed, and marks the feature debut of the great director…
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The Body Snatcher
This bona fide classic may be, as Gregory Mank says, the best American horror picture of the 1940s. The teaming of Boris…
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The Fiancée & The Invisibles
Why do stories about resisting the Nazis seem so important right now? Here are two discs from different labels, with one subject.…
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The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot
The man who did what and then what? Robert D. Krzykowski's first feature isn't a throwaway joke, but an elegantly crafted and…
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The Glass Bottom Boat
It's wacky, daffy and incredibly square, yet Frank Tashlin's late career Doris Day romp has a certain gotta-watch interest factor: the male…
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Wanda
The work of a great, original, natural filmmaker, Wanda continues to confound viewers that don't recognize honest human reality when they see…
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The Deadly Mantis
It's big, it buzzes, and it screams like a banshee. So why is the Mantis monster so ho-hum? Universal-International tried to squeak…
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Detour
This is a big one, the restoration we long thought would never come. CineSavant tries to explain what makes Edgar G. Ulmer's…
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The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk took our heads off with this intense, thematically adult tale of love and obsession in a Depression-Era flying circus that's…
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Jivaro 3-D
Verily, Blu-ray 3-D is better than most theatrical 3-D! Paramount's fourth and last 3-D production went out to theaters only in 2-D,…
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
With his exaggerated visuals, eye-popping color and frantic characterizations, Frank Tashlin has been promoted to a genuine 'fifties icon. This freewheeling comedy…
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Der Hund Von Baskerville
Sherlock Holmes fans have another good version of a favorite Holmes tale to savor, a late German silent film in full expressionist…
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The Doctor
William Hurt, Christine Lahti and Elizabeth Perkins do excellent work in this superior drama which delivers an important, unforced life lesson. An…
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Phantom Lady
Robert Siodmak's first film noir is a visually expressive masterpiece in the lush romantic tradition that imposes a dreamlike mood on a…
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The Mark of Zorro (Im Zeichen des Zorro)
Hollywood classics don't have to be stuffy -- this 1940 swashbuckling adventure has style, great action, laughs and one of the most…