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The Blob [VHS]

The Blob [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Shawnee Smith , Donovan Leitch , Kevin Dillon , Jeffrey DeMunn , Candy Clark
Director: Chuck Russell

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes [VHS]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jerry Anderson , Don Birch , Eric Christmas , Tom Coleman (II) , Art K. Koustik
Movies with "wacky" titles are almost never any good, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! was intentionally made to be an instant golden turkey. Despite that, and the grade-Z production values, this is a regularly funny film. You need to be a fan of the kind of low-budget horror movie it's spoofing, and you need to be very forgiving of the technical ineptness and frequent clunkers, but it works. The story? Well, tomatoes attack, basically. Jack Riley and the San Diego Chicken are in it, and that genuinely alarming helicopter crash you see in an early scene was a real accident. Seen now, the whole ratty affair brings back agreeable memories of the circa-1978 college-movie/midnight-cinema era, when seeing this film was virtually unavoidable. The sequel, Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (with a young George Clooney), is actually an even funnier film. Director John De Bello would continue to squeeze the Tomatoes franchise for years to come. --Robert Horton
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In a Lonely Place [VHS]

In a Lonely Place [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Humphrey Bogart , Gloria Grahame , Frank Lovejoy , Carl Benton Reid , Art Smith
Director: Nicholas Ray
One of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances dominates this unusual 1950 film noir, which focuses less on the murder mystery at the center of its plot than on the investigation's devastating effect on a fragile romance. For Bogart, already a noir icon, the Andrew Solt script afforded an opportunity to explore a more complex and contradictory role--an antiheroic persona in line with the actor's most accomplished and absorbing triumphs throughout his career.

For maverick director Nicholas Ray, the film posed the challenge of taking crime dramas beyond their usual formulas and into a more mature realm, as well as a chance to cast a jaundiced eye on the film industry itself. Its protagonist is Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter with an acerbic wit and a violent temper. Tasked with adapting a bestseller, he meets a hatcheck girl who's read the book, hoping to glean its highlights before writing the script. When she's found murdered, Steele becomes the prime suspect, and a tightening knot of suspicion forms around the writer.

Steele's only, inconclusive witness is a pretty new neighbor, Laurel (Gloria Grahame), and the couple fall in love even as the pressure mounts. At first t...
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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid [VHS]

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: William Powell , Ann Blyth , Irene Hervey , Andrea King , Clinton Sundberg
Director: Irving Pichel

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The Jewel in the Crown - Complete Set [VHS]

The Jewel in the Crown - Complete Set [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Tim Pigott-Smith , Geraldine James , Wendy Morgan , Judy Parfitt , Rosemary Leach
The New York Times called it 'Superb!' and Time found it 'Ultimately rewarding...with a sterling cast.' This adaptation of Paul Scot's masterpiece, The Raj Quartet, won over 20 international awards, including a Golden Globe and an Emmy. Filmed on location, it re-creates the turbulent period when British colonial rule in India came crashing down. The memorable cast includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Charles Dance.
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The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS]

The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Jaclyn Smith , Art Carney , Paul Le Mat , Mason Adams , June Lockhart
Director: Jackie Cooper

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Weekend Warriors [VHS]

Weekend Warriors [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Chris Lemmon , Lloyd Bridges , Vic Tayback , Graham Jarvis , Brian Bradley
Director: Bert Convy
Set in the early 60's as a group of Hollywood would-be actors attempt to avoid the draft by signing up to be in the National Guard on the weekend. What transpires is a wacky comedy of errors with a platoon of star-crazed actors acting like party animals. 80's comedy filled with well-know TV actors like Vic Tayback, Daniel Greene. Starring veteran screen actor Lloyd Bridges in an uncanny performance as the recruit hungry Sergeant. Also features a bevy of beautiful women. This film is rated R. A Lightning Video US VHS Release.
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State of the Union [VHS]

State of the Union [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Spencer Tracy , Katharine Hepburn , Van Johnson , Angela Lansbury , Adolphe Menjou
Director: Frank Capra
State of the Union is somewhat better as a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movie than it is as a Frank Capra picture. No doubt about it, these are two good roles for the smitten stars: Tracy is a self-made businessman reluctantly drafted into a dark-horse presidential candidacy; Hepburn is his estranged but whip-smart wife, who joins him on the campaign trail. Adding intrigue is the newspaper heiress (played with relish by baby-faced Angela Lansbury) who's the cause of their marital problems. She's also the one who convinces a longtime political horse-trader (Adolphe Menjou) to take up the campaign--which leads to a series of compromises for the candidate.

The Capra flavor is here, in the paeans to liberty and the American Way, and in the crackling pacing of dialogue scenes. Capra's affection for supporting players is also evident, with standout stuff from Menjou, Van Johnson (as a cynical aide), Lewis Stone, and Raymond Walburn. But the film's roots as a hit play (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) are a little too evident, and the film as a whole doesn't feel as bracingly Capraesque as the director's 1930s work. Having said that, the political satire is as relevant ...
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The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS]

The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Jaclyn Smith , Art Carney , Paul Le Mat , Mason Adams , June Lockhart
Director: Jackie Cooper

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Caught (1949) [VHS]

Caught (1949) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: James Mason , Barbara Bel Geddes , Robert Ryan , Frank Ferguson , Curt Bois
Director: Max Ophüls
Max Ophüls's dark "Cinderella" melodrama belongs as much to the murky world of film noir as to the polished European dramas of high-society power games. Barbara Bel Geddes is a carhop who puts her hopes in a charm-school education and a modeling gig. When cold, demanding industrialist millionaire Robert Ryan suddenly proposes, her fashion magazine fantasies come true, but her loveless marriage makes her new mansion home a lonely gilded cage where she's more servant than wife. She runs off and becomes a white-collar receptionist (in furs and Saks gowns). James Mason, an idealistic doctor, hires her and slowly wins her heart, but her monstrous husband responds with a campaign of blackmail and psychological torments. Ophüls fights a script that all too often puts its themes into the mouth of Mason, whose constant harangues against the pursuit of money for money's sake sound increasingly like a broken record, but the director's delicate style beautifully captures both the surface elegance and emptiness of the millionaire lifestyle. Bel Geddes undergoes the transformation from a callow, naïve kid to a woman of strength and moral fortitude, while Mason tempers his saintliness with mom...
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