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![The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C900B2X9L._SL160_.jpg "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Paul Hubschmid
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Paula Raymond
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Cecil Kellaway
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Kenneth Tobey
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Donald Woods
Director:
Eugène Lourié
A matinee programmer with lofty ambitions, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is best appreciated as a vintage showcase for the stop-motion animation of special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen. The hoary plot follows the cold-war formula that dominated science fiction movies of the 1950s: After an atomic bomb test in the northern polar ice cap, a gigantic dinosaur--the fictional "Rhedosaurus"--is awakened from eons of dormancy, plots an undersea course for the Eastern seaboard, and proceeds to wreak havoc on New York City, culminating in a showdown with military marksmen at the Coney Island amusement park. Stock footage and tissue-thin drama make this a by-the-numbers monster flick, further hampered by Eugene Lourie's lackluster direction and a wooden B-movie cast. And yet, Harryhausen's first independent effort retains its atomic-age fascination: Beast marked yet another technical milestone for Harryhausen's impeccable techniques, and its perpetual status as a sci-fi classic is duly acknowledged in the DVD bonus features, including a retrospective featurette and a latter-day reunion of Harryhausen and longtime friend Ray Bradbury, whose short story "The Fog Horn" served as...
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![Brainstorm (1983) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/212XSAQK31L._SL160_.jpg "Brainstorm (1983) [VHS]")
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Christopher Walken
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Natalie Wood
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Louise Fletcher
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Cliff Robertson
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Jordan Christopher
Director:
Douglas Trumbull
Brainstorm is a fascinating but frustrating film, simply because it dabbles in greatness but fails to develop the fullest implications of its provocative ideas. It's a visually dazzling film with outstanding special effects; directed by veteran effects creator Douglas Trumbull, of 2001 fame; but too caught up in marvels of hardware and software at the expense of its characters, who remain interesting but dramatically two-dimensional. The story involves the development of a headset recorder that can replay one person's experiences--even their emotional states--into the mind of another. The device obviously invites corporate or military exploitation, and Cliff Robertson plays a ruthless executive determined to tap into its lucrative potential. But when a scientist (Louise Fletcher) records her own death experience with the device, along with incriminating evidence, the technology's inventor (Christopher Walken) must unlock the mysteries of his colleague's suspicious demise and the very nature of death itself. Punctuated by remarkable sequences from the perspective of those who use the mind-expanding headset, Brainstorm dares to reach for ambitious themes and inno...
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![Tale of Two Cities [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21T297J58GL._SL160_.jpg "Tale of Two Cities [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Ronald Colman
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Elizabeth Allan
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Edna May Oliver
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Reginald Owen
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Basil Rathbone
Director:
Jack Conway
, Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman isn't even on screen for the most famous lines of his career ("It's a far, far better thing I do..."), but such is the power of the moment and the performance that everybody remembers it anyway. A Tale of Two Cities was the follow-up for producer David O. Selznick and high-class studio MGM to their hit adaptation of another Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield. While not scaling the heights of that impeccable production, Tale gives a tight, straightforward reading of Dickens' story of the French Revolution. Colman plays the drunken romantic Sydney Carton, who pines for the lovely Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) even though she marries former French aristocrat Charles Darnay (Donald Woods). Meanwhile, back in Paris, the Revolution erupts, and Darnay is fated for the guillotine... perhaps. Along with Colman's expert study in melancholy, the film is crammed with fragrant supporting players, such as Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, and the uniquely unsettling Blanche Yurka as the endlessly-knitting Madame Defarge. In a handful of scenes, Basil Rathbone makes the Marquis de Evremonde the quintessence of clueless privilege ("With what I get from thes...
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![The Story Of Louis Pasteur [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/218FJ488F5L._SL160_.jpg "The Story Of Louis Pasteur [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Paul Muni
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Josephine Hutchinson
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Anita Louise
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Donald Woods
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Fritz Leiber
Director:
William Dieterle
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![Because of Him [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QQCE61YVL._SL160_.jpg "Because of Him [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Deanna Durbin
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Charles Laughton
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Franchot Tone
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Helen Broderick
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Stanley Ridges
Director:
Richard Wallace
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![Anthony Adverse [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GVA7RPGNL._SL160_.jpg "Anthony Adverse [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Fredric March
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Olivia de Havilland
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Donald Woods
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Anita Louise
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Edmund Gwenn
Film adaptation of Hervey Allen's bestselling novel of a young man with a tragic past who grows up carrying out adventures across 19th-century Europe, Cuba and Africa.
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![Elvis / Kissin Cousins [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MF04JQCML._SL160_.jpg "Elvis / Kissin Cousins [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Elvis Presley
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Arthur O'Connell
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Glenda Farrell
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Jack Albertson
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Pamela Austin
Director:
Gene Nelson
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![Remember the Titans [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C58M4QTQL._SL160_.jpg "Remember the Titans [VHS]")
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Denzel Washington
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Will Patton
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Wood Harris
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Ryan Hurst
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Donald Faison
Director:
Boaz Yakin
Guaranteed to work or your money back - PLEASE NOTE ALL MONIES FROM THIS SALE GO TO A 501 (C)3 NO KILL ANIMAL SHELTER
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![Watch on the Rhine [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BHMVY27XL._SL160_.jpg "Watch on the Rhine [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Bette Davis
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Paul Lukas
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Geraldine Fitzgerald
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Lucile Watson
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Beulah Bondi
Director:
Hal Mohr
, Herman Shumlin
Film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's World War II play about a German man and his wife being pursued by Nazi agents in Washington, D.C.
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![Public Enemy [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EZAMPK6RL._SL160_.jpg "Public Enemy [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
James Cagney
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Jean Harlow
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Edward Woods
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Joan Blondell
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Donald Cook
Director:
William A. Wellman
Director William Wellman (Wings), a World War I veteran who turned his experiences in battle into an insistence on unpretentious violence in his films, made Public Enemy a particularly brutal account of the rise and fall of a monstrous gangster (James Cagney). Cagney delivers one of the most famous performances in film history as the snarling crook who--in one of the film's most famous scenes--smashes a grapefruit into the face of Mae Clarke. The film's a bit dated, but its action scenes still pack an unusual wallop. --Tom Keogh
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