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Biography: Humphrey Bogart - Behind the Legend -
The name Humphrey Bogart conjures up images of the tough character who is the master of intrigue in Hollywood films of the 1930s. The plain-speaking Bogart always solves the mystery and gets the girl, in such films as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, and To Have and Have Not. This program traces the life and movie career of a man whose personal experience was so different from his screen persona. There are archival film clips of some of Bogart's unforgettable roles, such as in Casablanca, The African Queen, and The Treasure of Sierra Madre. Interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as the actor himself, provide an intimate look at this giant of American cinema. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, Rovi
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Directed by William Wyler/The Love Trap -
Includes:The Love Trap (1929) Directed by William Wyler (1986) The Love Trap Directed by William Wyler, The Love Trap centers around a chorus girl whose sudden job termination (on the day of her eviction, no less) leads her to a hasty decision -- she would attend a party and make money by whatever means necessary, however dubious those means may be. It isn't long before the young woman ends up on the receiving end of an attack, and not only finds herself thrown out of the party, but homeless, penniless, and at the mercy of a good-hearted taxi-cab driver. The cab driver lets her take up temporary residence inside one of his cars, and winds up falling in love with the singer, as she would with him. Certain that they were meant to be together, the couple rushes off to the altar; sparking no small amount of ire from the cab driver's snooty, upper crust family. Indeed, the relatives raise a mighty fuss -- his uncle goes so far as to expose the new bride of having been the host's mistress at the ill-fated party she had attended at the height of her desperation, which leads to a heated showdown between husband, mother, and uncle. The Love Trap features Laura LaPlante, Nell Hamilton, Norman Trevor, and Jocyln Lee ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi Directed by William Wyler This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips from many of Wyler's better-known works, such as Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, and Funny Girl. A long interview with the director himself (conducted a few days before he died) provides his personal perspective on his work and interviews with his actors and colleagues offer some surprising comments about the man. Terence Stamp feels Wyler may not have had a good command of English, while Laurence Olivier notes that Wyler taught him how to drop theatrical exaggerations and act for the camera. Bette Davis gives the most extensive commentary. Excerpts from home movies show Wyler and his family on vacation and also record a bit of the making of Wuthering Heights. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Dance With Me
Producers include: Sergio Mendes, Emilio Estefan Jr, Tony Moran, Keith Thomas, Phil Harding.Engineers include: Javier Garza, Bob Rosa, Sebastian Krys, Bill Whittington, Isais Asbun.DANCE WITH ME is alive with energy, a soundtrack album that begs to be danced to. The Latin music included here is wildly diverse, bringing together dance standards as well as songs written for the film, every song pulsating with rhythm and passionate intensity. Even the sentimental ballad sung by the movie's stars, Vanessa L. Williams and Chayanne, "You Are My Home," conjures up images of a dance floor. Many Latin dance styles are represented, from cha-cha (Thalia's "Echa Pa'Lante") to samba, tango, merengue and rhumba. DANCE WITH ME is a vibrant, exciting reflection of the film, which depicts the worlds of competitive ballroom dancing and underground salsa clubs.
Pirates Of The Golden Age Movie Collection DVD
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with four swashbuckling films in the Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection! Join unforgettable shipmates Errol Flynn Maureen O'Hara Anthony Quinn Yvonne DeCarlo and Donald O'Connor as they take to the high seas in search of boundless excitement and glorious treasure. Including the classic favorites Against All Flags Buccaneer's Girl Yankee Buccaneer and Double Crossbones this is one must-own collection that will have you wanting to set sail again and again! AGAINST ALL FLAGS A British naval officer (Errol Flynn) is unjustly condemned for desertion and finds redemption with a rascally pirate captain (Anthony Quinn) and a beautiful buccaneer (Maureen O'Hara). BUCCANEER'S GIRL Love walks the plank when an ambitious New Orleans entertainer (Yvonne DeCarlo) discovers that the aristocratic playboy she's fallen for has a secret identity as a legendary pirate. YANKEE BUCCANEER 'X' marks the spot where a U.S. commander (Jeff Chandler) must se
Friday / Menace Ii Society / Set It Off Blu-Ray from Warner Bros.
3 movies from the toughest streets of L.A.
Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir (Paperback) Book
Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: 'Hell we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We were just making movies. Cary Grant and all the big stars at RKO got all the lights. We lit our sets with cigarette butts.' Film noir was made to order for the 'B ' or low-budget part of the movie double bill. It was cheaper to produce because it made do with less lighting smaller casts limited sets and compact story linesabout con men killers cigarette girls crooked cops down-and-out boxers and calculating scheming very deadly women. In Death on the Cheap Arthur Lyons entertainingly looks at the history of the B movie and how it led to the genre that would come to be called noir a genre that decades later would be transformed in such 'neo-noir' films as Pulp Fiction Fargo and L.A. Confidential. The book loaded with movie stills also features a witty and informative filmography (including video sources) of B films that have l
Casa [ECD]
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Track Listing: 1. En Tus Ojos, 2. Amor es Rosa, 3. Casa, 4. Gusano, 5. Cuarto Encima, 6. Alimento de la Vida, 7. Suelo, 8. En Direccion Contraria, 9. Saul, 10. Ser Humano, 11. Tic Tac, 12. Hormigas, 13. Solamente Te lo Doy a Ti, 14. Cuando Todo Cambia, 15. Un Pato - (theme song of the hit Mexican movie Temporada de Patos)
Harry Potter The Mirror Of Erised By Noble Collection from Warner Bros.
This stunning recreation of the Mirror of Erised as seen in the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a perfect gift for fans of the young wizard. This mirror measures 16.5 x 8.5 inches and can be mounted on a wall or can rest on a tabletop.
Falcon Mystery Movie Collection, The Volume 1 from Warner Bros.
Miscreants beware! The Falcon is on the hunt! Suave, sophisticated, hard-boiled and high-minded, amateur sleuths Gay and Tom Lawrence AKA The Falcon were a perfect fit for the acerbic styling of siblings George Sanders and Tom Conway. Follow the saga from
Victim of Beauty -
In this made-for-cable TV movie, an attractive woman leaves her small-town life hoping to make it as a model. However, her success earns her more admiration than she bargained for when a deranged killer begins murdering her male friends. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
Man Apart/Running Scared (Dbfe) Dvd from Warner Bros.
A one-two action-punch with stars from The Fast and the Furious movies! When the going gets tough, DEA agent Sean Vetter gets tougher in the explosive revenge thriller A Man Apart (Side A). Vin Diesel flexes his action-hero muscles as Vetter, on a mission
Poirot: The Movie Collection: Set 5 DVD
As originally produced in the United Kingdom for London Weekend Television> and starring David Suchet as the famous title character Belgian detective Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot debuted in 1989 and thereafter ran for decades checking in consistently as a staple of English broadcasting. As the program rolled on it placed a greater and greater emphasis on feature-length episodes in lieu of hour-long ones. This collection from the Acorn Media label presents three Poirot episodes; each runs approximately the length of one average movie hence the subtitle The Movie Collection. Included are: Murder on the Orient Express (season 12 Episode 4; 2010); Third Girl (season 11 Episode 3; 2008); and Appointment with Death (season 11 Episode 4; 2008). Special features include a list of Poirot books; a documentary where Suchet hosts an on-camera tour of the Orient Express; notes by David Suchet and co-star Tim Curry; and more.
Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film [With DVD] (Paperback) Book
![Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film [With DVD] (Paperback) Book](/dvd-movies/image/2966800045366401/looking-at-movies-an-introduction-to-film-with-dvd-paperback-book/ "Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film [With DVD] (Paperback) Book")
The Third Edition of Looking at Movies is as visually engaging and fun to read as previous editions and now contains new material on film history film genre and cultural contexts and even more help with film analysis. Supplementary materials conceived and created by the authors integrate seamlessly with the text. Two DVDs contain nearly four hours of film clips frame sequences short films and animations to show what the text describes. The Looking at Movies student website provides an abundance of review and ancillary materials including the Writing About Movies guide.The Looking at Movies package including the text DVDs website and writing guide costs less than competing texts alone making it an outstanding value for students.
Midnight Movie Blu-ray
A midnight screening of a 1970s cult horror film becomes a wholesale bloodbath after the members of the audience see one of their friends butchered on the big screen and quickly surmise that there's a madman in the theater who seeks to slaughter them all. It was just another rundown movie house in a small suburban town -- what better place for a screening of a true cult classic? But this isn't your typical horror film because years ago the director had been locked away in a psychiatric hospital after having a complete mental breakdown. The teens at the screening have no idea that he escaped from the hospital nearly five years ago and that chances are good he's still out there somewhere. When the film starts to roll and the heckling begins the atmosphere in the theater is loose and fun. Giddiness gives way to deep-rooted dread however when the horrified audience is forced to watch as one of their good friends is viciously murdered right before their very eyes. This is no movie a
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Widescreen Anniversary
You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college professor; Martha (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) is his virago of a wife. George and Martha know just how to push each other's buttons, with George having a special advantage: he need only mention the couple's son to send Martha into orbit. This evening, the couple's guests are Nick (George Segal), a junior professor, and Honey (Sandy Dennis), Nick's child-like wife. After an evening of sadistic (and sometimes perversely hilarious) "fun and games," the truth about George and Martha's son comes to light. First staged on Broadway in 1962 with Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, Edward Albee's play was adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman, who managed to retain virtually all of Albee's scatological epithets (this was the first American film to feature the expletive "goddamn"). Lehman opened up the play by staging one of George's speeches in the backyard, and by relocating the film's second act to a roadside inn (he also added four lines--"all bad," according to Albee). Thanks to the box-office clout of stars Taylor and Burton, not to mention the titilation factor of hearing all those naughty words on the big screen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was a hit, and it won 5 Oscars, including awards for Taylor and Dennis, though it lost Best Picture to A Man for All Seasons. First-time director Mike Nichols lost the Oscar, but this movie gave him a perfect transition from his stage work and established him as a hot young Hollywood director, leading to his acclaimed (and Oscar-winning) work on his next movie, The Graduate. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Live From Baghdad from Warner Bros.
A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wie
