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It's a Dog's Life [VHS]

It's a Dog's Life [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Jeff Richards , Jarma Lewis , Edmund Gwenn , Dean Jagger , Willard Sage
Director: Herman Hoffman

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Pride & Prejudice [VHS]

Pride & Prejudice [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greer Garson , Laurence Olivier , Mary Boland , Edna May Oliver , Maureen O'Sullivan
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Jane Austen's wonderful novel has been adapted to the screen many times, with this 1940 version representing the golden age of the Hollywood studio era. Greer Garson, then just on the cusp of her stardom, plays the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, smartest of five daughters who must be married off. Laurence Olivier is that difficult fellow Mr. Darcy, whose mulishness about the Bennet girls begins to thaw when he gets a dose of Elizabeth's sense and sensibility. The film is done up in the glamorous MGM house style, which means we're stuck with the less-than-inspired direction of Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld), redeemed somewhat by a collection of handsome sets (Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse won the Oscar for Interior Decoration) and the dandy photography by Karl Freund, one of the greats. Anyone accustomed to the 1995 miniseries version of Pride and Prejudice will need to adjust to the swifter demands of a two-hour movie, and to be sure this version, like the 2005 Keira Knightley remake, simplifies some of Austen's scenes. It's one of the few films, by the way, with Aldous Huxley as a credited screenwriter. Edmund Gwenn is lovely as Mr. Bennet, and Mary Boland br...
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Miracle on 34th Street [VHS]

Miracle on 34th Street [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Edmund Gwenn , Maureen O'Hara , John Payne , Gene Lockhart , Natalie Wood
Director: George Seaton
The original 1947 version of this Valentine Davies story follows the misadventures of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as he gets a job playing Santa Claus at Macy's department store in New York City. Natalie Wood is the little girl who tells him she doesn't believe in Santa, and Maureen O'Hara and John Payne are the couple who help Kris through a trial in which he must prove he's the jolly fellow from the North Pole. A sweet movie and perennial Christmas favorite, this is one of those movies that gets under your skin and must be revisited every so often. --Tom Keogh
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Them (1954) [VHS]

Them (1954) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: James Whitmore , Edmund Gwenn , Joan Weldon , James Arness , Onslow Stevens
Director: Gordon Douglas
That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence for Alien among countless others). The special effects may be dated, but this brilliantly rational-sounding film has held up wonderfully in all other regards, including some starkly effective location work in the high Arizona desert, a genuinely inspired sound design guaranteed to bring on the creepy-crawlies, and an unexpectedly dry sense of humor (mainly personified by Grade-A egghead scientist Edmund Gwenn). This is essential viewing for all those who consider themselves science fiction or horror fans. Heroic hardcase James Arness previously played for the other team as the titular character in The Thing from Another World. --Andrew Wright
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Anthony Adverse [VHS]

Anthony Adverse [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Fredric March , Olivia de Havilland , Donald Woods , Anita Louise , Edmund Gwenn
Director: Mervyn LeRoy , Michael Curtiz
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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Green Dolphin Street [VHS]

Green Dolphin Street [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Van Heflin , Lana Turner , Donna Reed , Richard Hart , Frank Morgan
Director: Victor Saville

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Keys of the Kingdom [VHS]

Keys of the Kingdom [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Gregory Peck , Thomas Mitchell , Vincent Price , Rose Stradner , Roddy McDowall
Director: John M. Stahl

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The Devil and Miss Jones [VHS]

The Devil and Miss Jones [VHS]

Staring: Jean Arthur , Robert Cummings , Charles Coburn , Edmund Gwenn , Spring Byington
Director: Sam Wood
In one of those plot devices so dear to writers of romantic comedy (in this case, the venerable Norman Krasna, of Wife vs. Secretary and Mr. and Mrs. Smith), financier Charles Coburn goes undercover as a shoe salesman in a Manhattan department store that's a tiny part of his portfolio, hoping to discover why the employees hate him so much. He has the luck to be assigned to the counter next to Jean Arthur, rasping out one of her inimitable hard-nosed working-girl-with-a-heart-of-gold performances, who befriends Coburn and introduces him to her boyfriend (Robert Cummings)--the leader of the labor unrest. Directed by the stodgy Sam Wood (King's Row), the film flirts with '30s radicalism but settles for prudent class reconciliation: turns out that all the employees want is a little bit of gratitude and respect. Coburn got his first Academy Award nomination for his gruff but ultimately lovable coot (and won the Oscar two years later, opposite Arthur in The More the Merrier), a part he was to play for much of the rest of his career. Some startling deep-focus effects suggest that cinematographer Harry Stradling may have been spying on Citizen Kane, shoot...
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The Devil and Miss Jones [VHS]

The Devil and Miss Jones [VHS]

Staring: Jean Arthur , Robert Cummings , Charles Coburn , Edmund Gwenn , Spring Byington
Director: Sam Wood
In one of those plot devices so dear to writers of romantic comedy (in this case, the venerable Norman Krasna, of Wife vs. Secretary and Mr. and Mrs. Smith), financier Charles Coburn goes undercover as a shoe salesman in a Manhattan department store that's a tiny part of his portfolio, hoping to discover why the employees hate him so much. He has the luck to be assigned to the counter next to Jean Arthur, rasping out one of her inimitable hard-nosed working-girl-with-a-heart-of-gold performances, who befriends Coburn and introduces him to her boyfriend (Robert Cummings)--the leader of the labor unrest. Directed by the stodgy Sam Wood (King's Row), the film flirts with '30s radicalism but settles for prudent class reconciliation: turns out that all the employees want is a little bit of gratitude and respect. Coburn got his first Academy Award nomination for his gruff but ultimately lovable coot (and won the Oscar two years later, opposite Arthur in The More the Merrier), a part he was to play for much of the rest of his career. Some startling deep-focus effects suggest that cinematographer Harry Stradling may have been spying on Citizen Kane, shoot...
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Student Prince (1954) [VHS]

Student Prince (1954) [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Ann Blyth , Edmund Purdom , John Ericson , Louis Calhern , Edmund Gwenn
Director: Curtis Bernhardt , Richard Thorpe

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