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Start the Revolution Without Me [VHS]

Start the Revolution Without Me [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Gene Wilder , Donald Sutherland , Hugh Griffith , Jack MacGowran , Billie Whitelaw
Director: Bud Yorkin
Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth shortly before the French Revolution. One pair is reared as royalty; the other is raised as the children of peasants. The plot in this film by Bud Yorkin is a wonderful mishmash of Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Molière, with the peasant brothers joining the revolutionaries while their bizarrely foppish siblings eat cake and ignore the events around them. Wilder and Sutherland are joined by a who's who of British comedy stars, including Billie Whitelaw, Hugh Griffith, and Victor Spinetti (and a cameo by Orson Welles)--yet this film flopped upon release, only to become a cult item among college students of the period. --Marshall Fine
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The Canterbury Tales [VHS]

The Canterbury Tales [VHS]

Rated: NC-17
Staring: Hugh Griffith , Laura Betti , Ninetto Davoli , Franco Citti , Josephine Chaplin
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Exodus (1960) [VHS]

Exodus (1960) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Paul Newman , Eva Marie Saint , Ralph Richardson , Peter Lawford , Lee J. Cobb
Director: Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger's 1960 adaptation of Leon Uris's novel is a sprawling 220-minute tale of the founding of modern Israel, starring Paul Newman as a Resistance leader. The film works best as an example of Preminger's estimable skill with all levels of drama and action, but as a reflection upon history it is compromised by stereotypes, unpersuasive relationships, and a certain moral ambivalence about issues related to the subject. There are good and exciting sequences, however, particularly one involving an effort to break through a British blockade and get to the homeland. --Tom Keogh
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Oliver [VHS]

Oliver [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Mark Lester , Ron Moody , Shani Wallis , Oliver Reed , Harry Secombe
Director: Carol Reed
Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship," and to further observe that "it's as if the movie set out to be a tribute to Dickens and his melodramatic art as well as to tell the story of Oliver ...
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Kind Hearts & Coronets [VHS]

Kind Hearts & Coronets [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Dennis Price , Alec Guinness , Valerie Hobson , Joan Greenwood , Audrey Fildes
Director: Robert Hamer
Alec Guinness, best known for the serious dramatic roles and authoritative presence of his later films, made his mark early as a versatile character actor and a gifted comic performer. These talents are shown to their best in this bewitchingly black-hearted 1949 comedy of a poor cousin murdering his way up the inheritance ladder of a titled, old-money family. Guinness, in only his third film, becomes practically the entire family tree, starring in no less than eight hilarious roles. Handsome Dennis Price is the scheming relative, the progeny of an unfortunate marriage that turned his mother into a family pariah. Determined to earn the title he believes is rightfully his, he ingratiates himself back into the family and plots his ascension through a succession of Guinness-created social dinosaurs, joyfully killing off his kin in a series of inventive assassinations. It's class warfare in action, and Price is winning the war. The delectable Joan Greenwood costars as the married object of Price's affections, whose own venomous nature becomes apparent when Price falls for Valerie Hobson, the cultured widow of one of his victims. Robert Hamer directs with a light touch and dry wit, marry...
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Exodus (Widescreen) [VHS]

Exodus (Widescreen) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Paul Newman , Eva Marie Saint , Ralph Richardson , Peter Lawford , Lee J. Cobb
Otto Preminger's 1960 adaptation of Leon Uris's novel is a sprawling 220-minute tale of the founding of modern Israel, starring Paul Newman as a Resistance leader. The film works best as an example of Preminger's estimable skill with all levels of drama and action, but as a reflection upon history it is compromised by stereotypes, unpersuasive relationships, and a certain moral ambivalence about issues related to the subject. There are good and exciting sequences, however, particularly one involving an effort to break through a British blockade and get to the homeland. --Tom Keogh
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Counterfeit Traitor [VHS]

Counterfeit Traitor [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: William Holden , Lilli Palmer , Hugh Griffith , Carl Raddatz , Ernst Schröder
Director: George Seaton

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes [VHS]

The Abominable Dr. Phibes [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Vincent Price , Joseph Cotten , Hugh Griffith , Terry-Thomas , Virginia North
Director: Robert Fuest
Meet Doctor Phibes: A one-time concert musician who's now an all-time crazed murderer. In this clever, crypt-kicking classic, horror meister Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit. Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise: "Nine killed her, nine shall die, nine eternities in doom! "After a team of surgeons botch his beloved wife's surgery, leaving her for dead, the emotionally distraught Dr. Phibes creatively concocts a fatal prescription for revenge. Using the Good Book as his guide, Phibes unleashes a score of old testament atrocities ? from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats ? on his enemies that climax in what may be one of "the eeriest endings on screen record" (Syracuse Herald-Journal)!
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Ben Hur (1959) [VHS]

Ben Hur (1959) [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Charlton Heston , Jack Hawkins , Stephen Boyd , Haya Harareet , Hugh Griffith
Director: William Wyler
Ben-Hur scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards® in 1959 and, unlike some later rivals, richly deserved every single one. This is epic filmmaking on a scale that had not been seen before and is unlikely ever to be seen again. But it's not just running time or a cast of thousands that makes an epic, it's the subject matter, and here the subject--Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) and his estrangement from old Roman pal Messala (Stephen Boyd)--is rich, detailed, and sensitively handled. Director William Wyler, who had been a junior assistant on MGM's original silent version back in 1925, never sacrifices the human focus of the story in favor of spectacle, and is aided immeasurably by Miklos Rozsa's majestic musical score, arguably the greatest ever written for a Hollywood picture. At four hours it's a long haul (especially given some of the portentous dialogue), but all in all, Ben-Hur is a great movie, best seen on the biggest screen possible. --Mark Walker
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Cry of the Banshee [VHS]

Cry of the Banshee [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Vincent Price , Elisabeth Bergner , Essy Persson , Hugh Griffith , Sally Geeson
Director: Gordon Hessler

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