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State Fair (1945) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Jeanne Crain , Dana Andrews , Dick Haymes , Vivian Blaine , Charles Winninger
Director: Walter Lang
"I've got that nice, tired old feeling," says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while Oklahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of Iowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem "All I Owe Iowa"? Still, it is R and H, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" is here as well as some other decent ditties. There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while her brother meets a lovely big-band singer with a secret. But the bucolic, Old Farmer's Almanac feel is genuine, and it's most obviously a picture of a bygone era when someone expostulates gleefully, "You're gonna be the wife of a journalist!" Not a "don't miss" but not a dismiss either. --Keith Simanton

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Satan Bug [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: George Maharis , Richard Basehart , Anne Francis , Dana Andrews , John Larkin (VI)
Director: John Sturges

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The Bastard: Part 1 of the Kent Family Chronicles [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Andrew Stevens , Tom Bosley , Kim Cattrall , Buddy Ebsen , Lorne Greene
Director: Lee H. Katzin

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Man of La Mancha / Movie [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Peter O'Toole , Sophia Loren , James Coco , Harry Andrews , John Castle (II)
Director: Arthur Hiller
It's hard to imagine a finer Don Quixote than Peter O'Toole, who's spent most of his career with a slightly mad, dreaming look in his marvelous eyes. O'Toole's suitability for the role is tested by the Broadway treatment of Man of La Mancha, the film version of the hit stage musical. Everybody knows "The Impossible Dream," that indomitable hymn to, well, quixotic questing, and it is indeed the best of the Spanish-inflected songs. Despite the location shooting in Italy, Love Story director Arthur Hiller can't elude the stagey concept (in which Cervantes, imprisoned by the Inquisition, acts out the tale of Don Quixote for his fellow prisoners). James Coco, as Sancho Panza, is overshadowed by the film's irresistible Dulcinea: Sophia Loren, at her mature peak. (Her singing, alas, is not as ripe as her beautiful self.) If you love Cervantes for his earthy ironies, this movie will seem a curious slice of inspirational shtick. --Robert Horton

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Laura (1944) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Gene Tierney , Dana Andrews , Clifton Webb , Vincent Price , Judith Anderson
Director: Otto Preminger , Rouben Mamoulian
This silky smooth film noir pits gruff police detective Dana Andrews, stiff and blunt in his street-bred manners, against a cultured columnist and acidic wit (Clifton Webb at his prissiest) in a battle of wits during a murder investigation. The cop is a romantic hiding under a hard-boiled exterior who falls in love with the beautiful victim through the portrait that hangs in her apartment. Gene Tierney, whose heart-shaped face mixes the exotic with the girl next door, brings the poise and calm of a model to her role as the object of every man's gaze and the target of a killer. Laura, handsomely shot in dreamy black and white, is the first and best of Otto Preminger's cool, controlled murder mysteries. In the gritty world of film noir it remains the most refined and elegant example of the genre, but under the tasteful decor and high-society fashions lies a world seething in jealousy, passion, blackmail, and murder. Vincent Price costars as a blithe gigolo and David Raksin's lush theme has become a wistful romantic standard. --Sean Axmaker

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Pretty in Pink [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Molly Ringwald , Harry Dean Stanton , Jon Cryer , Annie Potts , James Spader
Director: Howard Deutch
The era of Molly Ringwald's profitable collaboration with writer-producer-director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) was at its peak with this 1986 film (directed by Howard Deutch but in every sense part of the developing Hughes empire). Ringwald plays a high school girl on the budget side of the tracks, living with her warm and loving father (Harry Dean Stanton) and usually accompanied by her insecure best friend (Jon Cryer). When a wealthy but well-meaning boy (Andrew McCarthy) asks her out, her perspective is overturned and Cryer's character is threatened. As was the case in the mid-'80s, Hughes (who wrote the script and produced the film) brought his special feel for the cross-currents of adolescent life to this story. In its very commercial way, it is an honest, entertaining piece about growing pains. The attractive supporting cast (many of whom are much better known now) does a terrific job, and Ringwald and Cryer have excellent chemistry. --Tom Keogh

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55 Days at Peking [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Charlton Heston , Ava Gardner , David Niven , Flora Robson , John Ireland
Director: Andrew Marton , Guy Green , Nicholas Ray

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Abbott & Costello: Buck Privates [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , Lee Bowman , Alan Curtis , The Andrews Sisters
Director: Arthur Lubin
Universal Studios hit box-office gold when they drafted vaudeville comedians and radio stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and turned them into one of the most successful screen teams of the 1940s and 1950s. After a tryout as supporting characters in the musical One Night in the Tropics, they starred in Buck Privates as con artists who accidentally enlist while hiding out from New York street cop Nat Pendleton. Naturally he winds up their drill sergeant and comic foil as they wreak havoc on the armed forces. It's vaudeville in fatigues, with the bare bones of a story provided by spoiled millionaire playboy Lee Bowman, his strapping All-American former chauffeur Alan Curtis, and the girl-next-door they both pursue, Jane Frazee. The lackluster subplot is directed with little verve by Arthur Lubin, and the film's energy comes completely from the snappy by-play of the comedians and Costello's flustered double takes and jumpy physical comedy (including a hilarious rifle drill in which the out-of-step soldier marches to the direction of a different compass). The Andrews Sisters sing "You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," among others, and future St...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Charlton Heston , Rex Harrison , Diane Cilento , Harry Andrews , Alberto Lupo
Director: Carol Reed
Carol Reed (The Third Man) directed this 1965 portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison), who commissioned the artist to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Based on a novel by Irving Stone, the script plods along, juggling the dynamics between the two men along with a somewhat perfunctory love story and distracting battle sequences. Reed seems more attuned to the nuances and great pains of the artistic process, as seen in sequences of Michelangelo working. But the overall focus of the film is unfortunately fuzzy. --Tom Keogh

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Devil's Disciple (1959) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , Laurence Olivier , Janette Scott , Eva Le Gallienne
Director: Alexander Mackendrick , Guy Hamilton

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