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Lilith
There's no movie quite like Robert Rossen's adaptation of the J.R. Salamanca book: mental illness and disturbance is neither simplified nor jammed…
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Three Coins in the Fountain
Ah, yes -- it's a hot day in 1954, so what could be better than a cool movie theater projecting beautiful Italian…
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Melvin and Howard
What does the American dream mean to you? Hardworking folk just want the job and the house and the family as promised…
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The Land Unknown
"Behind A Barrier Of Antarctic Ice...A Paradise Of Hidden Terrors!" Universal-International laid out a pretty penny to film this elaborate spin on…
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The Prisoner
Alec Guinness transfers an acting challenge from the stage to the screen, in this account of a Cardinal forced to knuckle under…
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The Heiress
William Wyler and a trio of fantastic actors make indelible movie history from a grim story by Henry James. How much of…
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A Face in the Crowd
Elia Kazan never stopped making great pictures, but much of his output after 1952 was politically defensive in nature. This powerful indictment…
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Tarantula
A plug for commercial exterminators everywhere, William Alland's titanic hairy spider provided plenty of chills for 1950s drive-ins, delivering exactly the naïve…
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The Reckless Moment
One of Max Ophüls' best American movies is this razor-sharp 'domestic film noir' with excellent acting and a premise that was probably…
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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…