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![Mary Poppins [DVD] [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BYw6vrZCL._SL160_.jpg "Mary Poppins [DVD] [1964]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Julie Andrews,
Dick Van Dyke,
David Tomlinson,
Glynis Johns,
Hermione Baddeley
Director:
Robert Stevens
There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim-Chim Cheree") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). Many consider Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's career--and it was the only one of his features to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award until Beauty and the Beast in 1991. --Jim Emerson
 A Disney Classic, 2010-05-14
"Mary Poppins" have been my favourite movie from the very first time I saw it back in the 60-ties when it was made. Though I'm somewhat older today I still enjoy the songs, the dancing and the warmth it gives to your heart. A true family film - for young and old!
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![Brigham Young [DVD] [1940] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S2RHEQWBL._SL160_.jpg "Brigham Young [DVD] [1940] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]")
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Staring:
Tyrone Power,
Linda Darnell,
Dean Jagger,
Brian Donlevy,
Jane Darwell
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Great tale, even for a non religious person!, 2009-08-15
I find Mormonism fascinating, and no I am not a Mormon, dont know any, and am not religious at all! The history of the church was certainly ripe for a movie. These poor guys and gals got kicked out of every town they set up in, finally culminating in their 1000+ mile trek to Utah. Good characters and nice turn by Vincent Price (briefly, as prophet Joseph Smith).
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![Gone With The Wind [Blu-ray] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XSOCbFDTL._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind [Blu-ray] [1939]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Vivien Leigh,
Leslie Howard,
Olivia De Havilland,
Harry Davenport
Director:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Laura Hope Crews, Harry DavenportDirectors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
clarke, 2010-01-25
gone with the wind on blu ray i say wow the sound is very it looks good with 1080p so buy this won you love this blu ray
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![Gone With The Wind - 70th Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517Ex-DNjML._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind - 70th Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1939]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Evelyn Keyes,
Ann Rutherford,
Laura Hope Crews,
Harry Davenport
Director:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
First off, if you're a GwtW fanatic, you must buy this four-disc collection. But then again, you probably don't need to read this to make that decision. For the rest of us, know that the kitchen-sink approach has been established here with two full discs of extras. The film's restoration under Warner's brilliant Ultra-Resolution process is the major contribution to the set. However, the bare-bones version released years ago isn't bad and the film still doesn't pop off the screen as do films from the headier days of Technicolor (like the earlier Ultra-Resolution DVD release of Meet Me in St. Louis). That said, the set is worthy of the most popular movie ever made. Rudy Behlmer's feature-length commentary is dry but an exhaustive reference guide to the entire history of the film. Need more? There's the excellent full-length documentary The Making of a Legend (1989) narrated by Christopher Plummer, plus two hour-long older biographies on the two main stars. There are many new vignettes on the rest of the cast, all narrated by Plummer (a nice touch to tie everything together). The new 30-minute interview/reminisce with Oliva de Havilland will be interesting to older fans, but tiresome for the younger set. The usual sort of trailers and premiere footage is here along with a curious short ("The Old South", directed by Fred Zinnemann) that was produced to help introduce the world to the history of the South. --Doug Thomas
A kid's review of the best film ever, 2010-03-13
My dad showed me this film when I was four or five and I still love it. All my friends think this is boring and stupid, but I love it. Rhett Butler is my favourite character in the film. I don't know why, he just is. The colour on this DVD set is just amazing, and there are tiny little details that you don't see the first time you watch it. The audio is also fantastic and clear. Now "improvments" have been make on the film, which is great! It's just the original film and nothing else. The extras are just as great as the condicion of the film itself. The best extra in my opinion is the making of "Gone with the Wind". This set has become one of my very favourite sets in my collection. I recommend it to all! GET THIS SET!
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![3 Godfathers [DVD] [1948]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BNHTTZXNL._SL160_.jpg "3 Godfathers [DVD] [1948]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
John Wayne,
Pedro Armendáriz,
Harry Carey Jr.,
Ward Bond,
Mae Marsh
Director:
John Ford
When humanism becomes a fact,then we 'll gather at the river, 2000-12-12
Although when "The Three Godfathers", had been released in 1948, met a string of castigated reviews, this film is a true must for every fan of John Ford's films.Actually Ford has tackled twice with the same subject during the Hollywood silent period, usind in one of them his real life long friend, Harry Carey. So, the three godfathers come to be a dedication to Harry Carey, since during the main titles, one can see " To Harry Carey, a star of the early western sky" Moreover, The Three Godfathers introduce for the first time the son of Harry Carrey, Harry Carey Jr. in a magnificent performance accompanied by those of John Wayne (one of the best of his long-standing career) and Pedro Armendariz,Jr. The magnificent screenplay is signed by Frank S. Nuggent and Lawrence Stallings. The film discusses a real-life story in which three bandits found a dying woman in the desert and helped her to bear her child. Her last wish was these three to become godfathers of te child. I won't go on telling all the story, but i will finish with the lyrics sung at the end of the film "Shall we gather at the river, a beautiful beautiful river, gathered with the Saints at the river that flows by the throne of God?" That's all folks. I hope we 'll enjoy this magnificent film, and give way to many tears.
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![Ox-Bow Incident [DVD] [1943] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VP9C7VBKL._SL160_.jpg "Ox-Bow Incident [DVD] [1943] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]")
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Staring:
Henry Fonda,
Dana Andrews,
Mary Beth Hughes,
Anthony Quinn,
William Eythe
Director:
William A. Wellman
More Than A Western, 2005-02-25
"The Ox-Bow Incident," while a western by genre, is a profound analysis of the social phenomena of lynch mobs. This transcends the classic lynchings through hanging, but the manner by which groups of people presume guilt as condemn the suspect without a fair hearing.Henry Fonda's character is one man who believes in capital punishment, but also believes in the right to a fair trial. However, he faces down a large posse of bloodlusting men who are not interested in examining the difficult truth, but instead who prefer the convenient satiation of their rage. How does one voice among many speak, especially if they don't want to hear? There is a depth to it, similar to "Twelve Angry Men," also starring Fonda. Anthony Quinn is one of two men facing a tree-hung noose. MASH's Henry Morgan is very young and dapper here (without his horse, Sophie), and stars as Fonda's friend. A subplot regards a military leader who essentially leads the posse to the men, and his relationship with his son whom he forces to come along. The son, a prim and delicate sophisticate is opposed to his machismo-laden father in both personality and mission. Their conflict between right and wrong, son against father, man against child is more than a subplot, but a natural part of any such confrontation. A short film of 75 minutes apparently not yet on DVD, it is acclaimed as a classic. However, it is far from showing the powerful vistas of "Red River" or the gruff but witty one-liners of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." It moves quickly, and its tight editing avoids cliches and limits the viewer from feeling as if he can expect the next line. I fully recommend "The Ox-Bow Incident." It is the sort of movie worth watching in a high school civics course, or in a movie discussion group. Anthony Trendl
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![Jesse James (1939) (Full Dub Sub Dol Sen) [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T7EgvBOyL._SL160_.jpg "Jesse James (1939) (Full Dub Sub Dol Sen) [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]")
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Staring:
Tyrone Power,
Henry Fonda,
Nancy Kelly,
Randolph Scott,
Henry Hull
Director:
Henry King, Irving Cummings
The Best film since ?!!, 2003-08-26
Jesse James is just one of those great films. Everyone knows he is a famous outlaw, but they don't know the real story. The James boys mother was killed by a St Louis Railroad man. After that The James gang was out to screw the St Louis railroad, by robbing them. But being an outlaw was no life for Jesse's wife and son. they left him, and he went crazy. But just when Jesse went to "retire" and start a new life with his family, he was killed by one of his former gang members so that he could claim the $25, 000 reward for Jesse and get amnesty.The picture and sound are remarkable. It is in colour, and looks like 1998 quality, not 1938. I would definately snap this one up immediately!!
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![Gary Cooper Collection (2pc) (Dig Slip) [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X2KYDQMYL._SL160_.jpg "Gary Cooper Collection (2pc) (Dig Slip) [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]")
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Staring:
Fredric March,
Gary Cooper,
Miriam Hopkins,
Ray Milland,
Franchot Tone
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch, Henry Hathaway, Lewis Milestone, William A. Wellman
 Well worth it if only for Design for Living and Beau Geste, 2008-02-14
The Gary Cooper Collection is a mixed bag. It contains near perfect examples of sophisticated sexual comedy (Design for Living) and rousing adventure that combines nobility, sacrifice, villainy and action (Beau Geste). Trailing them is the high spirited but erratic Lives of a Bengal Lancer, which also features a fine performance by Franchot Tone. Then bringing up the rear are The General Died at Dawn and Peter Ibbetson. Cooper is not a good match for Design or Ibbetson, but he shines in Geste, Lancers and, despite the corny dialogue, General. The price is right even if you only want Design for Living, Beau Geste and Lives of a Bengal Lancer. As much as I like Beau Geste, Design for Living is the one that for me takes the prize. Since, unlike Geste, it now is almost forgotten, it's the one I'll talk about.
There's no doubt about what's going on in Design for Living, a delightful high comedy about a ménage a trois, written by Noel Coward as rewritten by Ben Hecht and directed by Max Lubitsch...and it's not hanky panky. No, it's just joyous, straightforward sex.
When two artists, the painter George Curtis (Gary Cooper) and the playwright Tom Chambers (Fredric March), encounter Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins) on the train to Paris, their 11-year friendship is going to be intriguingly tested. Gilda (with a soft "g") captures them both, and she reciprocates but can't choose. And why should she? She moves in with them. There's only one solution, however, to the inevitable problem. "Boys," she tells them "it's the only thing we can do. Let's forget sex." And with that, of course, neither they nor we can.
Ben Hecht often bragged that only one line of Coward's survived in his screenplay. All I know is that Hecht's words are some of the finest and funniest, as well as the most amusingly realistic, you're likely to find in a high-gloss Hollywood comedy. The movie just barely got in under the wire before the Production Code began to enforce the prude's code of morality on America. Lubitsch and Hecht create a sophisticated world in which going to bed with someone you like is as natural as...well, going to bed with someone you like. There's no leering or innuendo in the movie, just a reliance on the sophistication of the audience. For instance, Gilda explains to Tom and George the differences between how men and women sort things out. "You see," she tells them, "a man can meet two, three or four women and fall in love with all of them, and then, by a process of interesting elimination, he is able to decide which he prefers. But a woman must decide purely on instinct, guesswork, if she wants to be considered nice." The point we're aware of with a smile is that Gilda not only is nice, but smart, and that she's already tested the waters with each of them.
We start the movie with a ménage a trois, but one which turns into a duet with George and then a duet with Tom. After some encounters with business versus art, we all come to our senses and enjoy the sight of Gilda, George and Tom reunited in New York with a plan in mind. "Now we'll have some fun," Gilda says happily. "Back to Paris!" I have a feeling that forgetting sex won't be part of the plan for long.
The frisson of a bi-sexual ménage a trois is substantially toned down by Lubitsch and Hecht. While it wasn't explicit in Coward's stage play, one would have to be deaf and blind not to get the subtext, especially with Coward and Alfred Lunt as the two male leads when the play opened. In the movie, however, this just becomes inconsequential speculation, especially with Gary Cooper and Fredric March in the roles. Cooper manages not to embarrass himself in this highly polished comedy of sex and style, but it's clear that what works in Cooper's favor are his looks, not his line delivery or body language. March and Hopkins, however, are completely at ease and are a joy to watch.
Hollywood wouldn't make movies this adult and amusing until the Fifties, and even then the level of sophistication and respect for the audience, in my opinion, never fully recovered. Every now and then it's possible to come across in pre-Code Hollywood films of such mature pleasure you hope others will like them, too. Says one character in Design for Living, "Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of 100 per cent virtue and three square meals a day." How wrong he was...and is.
Design for Living is one of the five films packed onto two discs from The Gary Cooper Collection. It looks fine, just as the others do.
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![The Grapes Of Wrath [DVD] [1940]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QKVRRATEL._SL160_.jpg "The Grapes Of Wrath [DVD] [1940]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Henry Fonda,
John Carradine,
Jane Darwell
Director:
John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath, 2009-09-12
This is a film that is worth watching many times, The acting is excellent and so is the storey. Don't make them like this today.
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![Gone With The Wind [DVD] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sFUFh6v4L._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind [DVD] [1939]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Evelyn Keyes,
Ann Rutherford,
Laura Hope Crews,
Harry Davenport
Director:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
First off, if you're a GwtW fanatic, you must buy this four-disc collection. But then again, you probably don't need to read this to make that decision. For the rest of us, know that the kitchen-sink approach has been established here with two full discs of extras. The film's restoration under Warner's brilliant Ultra-Resolution process is the major contribution to the set. However, the bare-bones version released years ago isn't bad and the film still doesn't pop off the screen as do films from the headier days of Technicolor (like the earlier Ultra-Resolution DVD release of Meet Me in St. Louis). That said, the set is worthy of the most popular movie ever made. Rudy Behlmer's feature-length commentary is dry but an exhaustive reference guide to the entire history of the film. Need more? There's the excellent full-length documentary The Making of a Legend (1989) narrated by Christopher Plummer, plus two hour-long older biographies on the two main stars. There are many new vignettes on the rest of the cast, all narrated by Plummer (a nice touch to tie everything together). The new 30-minute interview/reminisce with Oliva de Havilland will be interesting to older fans, but tiresome for the younger set. The usual sort of trailers and premiere footage is here along with a curious short ("The Old South", directed by Fred Zinnemann) that was produced to help introduce the world to the history of the South. --Doug Thomas
A kid's review of the best film ever, 2010-03-13
My dad showed me this film when I was four or five and I still love it. All my friends think this is boring and stupid, but I love it. Rhett Butler is my favourite character in the film. I don't know why, he just is. The colour on this DVD set is just amazing, and there are tiny little details that you don't see the first time you watch it. The audio is also fantastic and clear. Now "improvments" have been make on the film, which is great! It's just the original film and nothing else. The extras are just as great as the condicion of the film itself. The best extra in my opinion is the making of "Gone with the Wind". This set has become one of my very favourite sets in my collection. I recommend it to all! GET THIS SET!
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