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The Great Ziegfeld
(1936) [G]
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever bigger, more spectacular shows... More
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Dr Seuss: The Lorax
(1972) [G]
The whole family will love these delightful Dr.Seuss favorites! Animated fables that continue to enchant audiences everywhere.
The award-winning tale of The Lorax tells the story of the greedy, three-chopping Once-lers and the brave little Lorax who speaks up for the vanishing forest. Then, in... More
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The Circus (2 Disc Set)
(1928) [G]
The Little Tramp brings his slapstick hijinks to the big top. Charlie Chaplin's film The Circus begins in a fading circus, where the equestrienne (Merna Kennedy) can't jump the hoops and the clowns can't make the audience laugh. Outside on the midway, The Little Tramp falls into a series of... More
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Strangers on a Train (2 disc set)
(1951) [M]
Two strangers, making idle chitchat on a train, agree that "some people are better off dead", and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders, they could commit the perfect, motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous... More
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Monterey Pop (2 Disc Set)
(1968) [M]
The first concert film of the rock & roll era, Monterey Pop is an invaluable record of some of the major musical figures of the late 1960s. The organizers of the Monterey International Pop Festival, held June 16-18, 1967, wisely chose to record the proceedings on film for commercial distribution.... More
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Johnny Cash Live at Town Hall Party
(1958) [E]
Legendary U.S. rock & roll and country music pioneer Johnny Cash live in concert on early 1950's American TV show "Town Hall Party". Rare historic value of the performances offsets the obvious limitations of the kinescope transfer. This DVD contain two rarely seen Johnny Cash shows, live on stage... More
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Eddie Cochran Live at Town Hall Party
(1959) [E]
Legendary U.S. rock & roll pioneer Eddie Cochran live in concert on early 1950's American TV show "Town Hall Party". Rare historic value of the performances offsets the obvious limitations of the kinescope transfer. More
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Gene Vincent at Town Hall Party
(1958) [E]
Legendary U.S. rock & roll pioneers Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps live in concert on early 1950's American TV show "Town Hall Party". Rare historic value of the performances offsets the obvious limitations of the kinescope transfer.
October 25, 1958
Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps... More
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West Side Story (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1961) [PG]
Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a... More
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West Side Story
(1961) [PG]
Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a... More
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The Fugitive Kind
(1959) [M]
Valentine Xavier is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one too many times, he vows to quit the scene and start anew elsewhere. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small southern town somewhere between New Orleans and... More
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Freaks
(1932) [PG]
Inspired by childhood recollections of running away with the circus and befriending the sideshow freaks, Tod Browning's vision of sideshow life is both bizarre and disturbing. On its release in 1932 Freaks was greeted with revulsion and disgust by critics and public alike, losing $164,000 dollars... More
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A Farewell To Arms
(1957) [PG]
In the Winter of 1917 an American ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) enlists in the Italian army and is wounded in action. He is gradually restored to health by a beautiful young nurse (Jennifer Jones). When they find themselves falling in love, they try to escape the horrors of the war by fleeing to... More
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(1954) [PG]
The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler,... More
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Daisy Miller
(1974) [G]
Cybill Shepherd is Daisy Miller, a woman who did as she pleased, but seldom pleased anyone except herself. Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller is adapted from Henry James’ classic novella about an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is... More
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A Man Called Horse
(1970) [PG]
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th century. When an English lord is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the chief’s aging mother (Dame Judith Anderson) as a servant.... More
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The Parallax View
(1974) [M]
Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to... More
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Nashville
(1975) [M]
This 1975 film sits near the top of any list of the best films of the 1970s. Robert Altman, at his most Altmanesque, spins together plot strands involving two dozen people over the course of one particularly busy weekend in Music City, USA. Though several of the story lines deal with... More
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Casablanca (Special Anniversary Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1942) [PG]
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no... More
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Limelight (2 Disc Set)
(1952) [G]
A young dancer wants to know if the white-haired gentleman who saved her life is Calvero, the great music hall comedian. "I was," the gent replies. Charles Chaplin's Limelight is a glimmering homage to what was, a proud look at a bygone entertainment era and a bittersweet tale of an artist... More
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Soylent Green
(1973) [M]
Soylent Green is landmark screen science-fiction, a riveting entertainment and a cautionary tale that holds a mirror to a tomorrow rife with ecological disaster. Working well again in the futuristic genre following Planet Of the Apes and The Omega Man, action titan Charlton Heston portrays Thorn,... More
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The Gold Rush (2 disc set)
(1925) [G]
The Gold Rush, Charles Chaplin famously said, is "the picture I want to be remembered by." In 1998, leading movie critics and experts voted and remembered, choosing this 24-karat comedy as one of the American Film Institute's Top 100 American Films. Chaplin's irrepressible Little Tramp seeks... More
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The TAMI/TNT Show
(1964) [G]
This is not actually a concert film, but a compilation of two concert films, "The T.A.M.I. Show" and "The Big T.N.T. Show," both of which were shot 20 years previously More
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Valley Of The Dolls
(1967) [M]
Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young... More
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The Desperate Hours
(1955) [PG]
Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has... More
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
(1970) [M]
Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is a veteran homicide detective, investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political activist Reverend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), the last person seen with the victim. On the home front, after dealing with the criminal element... More
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Sleeping Beauty
(1959) [G]
Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent - who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a poisoned spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three goodnatured -... More
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Donovan's Reef
(1963) [PG]
Producer-director John Ford once again demonstrated his successful formula for rambunctious, combative comedy and romance in this action-packed John Wayne classic. Life on a South Pacific island for two ex-Navy buddies (John Wayne and Lee Marvin) is just about perfect - they spend most of their... More
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