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I Married a Witch [VHS]

I Married a Witch [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Fredric March , Veronica Lake , Robert Benchley , Susan Hayward , Cecil Kellaway
Director: René Clair
This fun and stylish Rene Clair comedy gave two big Hollywood names--Fredric March and Veronica Lake--a chance to break away from their stereotypically serious roles (as intense leading man and film noir vamp, respectively) and exercise their funny bones. The sultry Lake stars as a Salem witch burned at the stake who returns to haunt the descendants of the Puritans who let her smolder, namely aspiring politician March. Lake concocts a love potion for her victim that will get him to fall in love with her, rather than his snooty fiancée (Susan Hayward in one of her early roles). Things get a wee bit complicated when said potion works its spell on Lake instead and she falls head over broomstick for March. Blissfully hilarious and romantic, this Witch is blessed with great chemistry between March and Lake (who never looked lovelier), dryly funny one-liners, and a scene-stealing performance by Cecil Kellaway as Lake's perennially drunk warlock dad. Robert Benchley of Algonquin Round Table fame also pops up in a supporting role. Rumored but never actually confirmed to be the basis for the hit TV series Bewitched. --Mark Englehart
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Inherit the Wind [VHS]

Inherit the Wind [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Spencer Tracy , Fredric March , Gene Kelly , Dick York , Donna Anderson
Director: Stanley Kramer
Two of the juiciest roles in the American theater fall at the feet of Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, and both men make a meal of it. Inherit the Wind, based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, that galvanizing legal drama of the 1920s. When a young Tennessee teacher is prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school, he receives unwanted public attention as well as the legal advice of a giant. Tracy plays the role based on Clarence Darrow, the eloquent defense attorney, and March storms his way through a part based on Williams Jennings Bryan, the failed presidential candidate (and famed orator) who prosecuted the case. Gene Kelly plays a character based on the acid-penned H.L. Mencken, reporting on the trial and caustically commenting on the absurdity of the human animal. Stanley (Judgment at Nuremberg) Kramer's direction is not especially subtle, but the verbal fireworks unleashed during the trial sequences are still stirring. Even the different styles of the actors are intriguing: March is all mannerism and false padding around the belly, while Tracy does his patented ...
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Seven Days in May (B&W) [VHS]

Seven Days in May (B&W) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , Fredric March , Ava Gardner , Edmond O'Brien
Director: John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel "Jiggs" Casey, whose easygoing manner is jolted by evidence of a possible plot to overthrow the American government. Scripted by Rod Serling from the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, the film plays much like a classic live TV drama (the medium that spawned both Frankenheimer and Serling), with the drama arising from conversations and confrontations and the action largely limited to scenes within the Pentagon and the White House. An ominous undercurrent of danger seeps through the realistic (and often real) settings of the film, conveyed chiefly through the intensity of the excellent ensemble performances. Notable among the supporting cast are Ava Gardner as a lonely Washington socialite who was once the general's mistress, Edmond O'...
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Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) [VHS]

Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Norma Shearer , Fredric March , Charles Laughton , Maureen O'Sullivan , Katharine Alexander
Director: Sidney Franklin

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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
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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Executive Suite (1954) [VHS]

Executive Suite (1954) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: William Holden , Barbara Stanwyck , June Allyson , Fredric March , Walter Pidgeon
Director: Robert Wise

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Best Years of Our Lives (1946) [VHS]

Best Years of Our Lives (1946) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Fredric March , Dana Andrews , Myrna Loy , Teresa Wright , Virginia Mayo
Director: William Wyler
Winner of seven Academy Awards, including best picture, director, actor, and screenplay, William Wyler's brilliant drama about domestic life after World War II remains one of the all-time classics of American cinema. Inspired by a pictorial article about returning soldiers in Life magazine, the story focuses on three war veterans (Fredric March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell in unforgettable roles) and their rocky readjustment to civilian life in their Midwestern town of Boone City. Capturing the contradictory moods of America in the mid to late 1940s, this three-hour drama spans a complex range of honest emotions, from joyous celebration and happy reunion to deep-rooted ambivalence and reassessment of personal priorities. A movie milestone when released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives still packs a punch with powerful, timeless themes. --Jeff Shannon
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Hombre [VHS]

Hombre [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Paul Newman , Fredric March , Richard Boone , Diane Cilento , Cameron Mitchell
Director: Martin Ritt
Paul Newman is the blue-eyed "savage," a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. It's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. It's hard to "like" Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his unsentimental directness. Fredric March is sweaty with corruption as a crooked Indian agent, and Richard Boone smiles his deadly charm as a lusty bad man. While this 1966 Western wears its social politics on its dusty sleeves, director Martin Ritt tempers the revisionist moral of the tale with a stripped-down ruthlessness befitting the rugged, unforgiving landscape. --Sean Axmaker
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit [VHS]

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Gregory Peck , Jennifer Jones , Fredric March , Marisa Pavan , Lee J. Cobb
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as a haunted New York executive whp defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama scripted and directed by the celebrated Nunnally Johnson (The Three Faces of Eve).
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Anna Karenina (1935) [VHS]

Anna Karenina (1935) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Fredric March , Freddie Bartholomew , Maureen O'Sullivan , May Robson
Director: Clarence Brown
Garbo won two consecutive New York Film Critics Awards for best actress in this and Camille--an altogether more satisfying selection. At 95 minutes, this handsome David O. Selznick production for MGM hasn't a prayer of doing justice to the rich supporting cast of characters in Tolstoy's thick novel (notably Kitty, through no fault of the perky Maureen O'Sullivan). That was equally true of Clarence Brown's 1927 silent version Love (1927), also starring Garbo, but it was both more passionate and more fluid; Brown's direction here gathers no momentum within scenes or in the film overall. Garbo's quiet "Too late, too late," as she realizes early on what a tragedy her obsessive love affair must lead to, is exquisitely doomed; but Fredric March makes a tiresome, even petulant, Vronsky. It's a measure of the film's misdirection that Basil Rathbone, icy-cold as the careerist husband Karenin, inspires more sympathy. At least he's entertaining. --Richard T. Jameson
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