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Duke of West Point [VHS]

Duke of West Point [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Louis Hayward , Joan Fontaine , Tom Brown , Richard Carlson , Alan Curtis

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Rebecca [VHS]

Rebecca [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Judith Anderson , Florence Bates , Nigel Bruce , Leonard Carey , Leo G. Carroll
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence Olivier is dashing and weak, fierce and cowed. Joan Fontaine is strong yet submissive, defiant yet accommodating. There isn't a false moment or misstep, but the film must have killed the employment outlook of any women named Danvers for about 20 years. Brilliant stuff. --Keith Simanton
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Jane Eyre [VHS]

Jane Eyre [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Orson Welles , Joan Fontaine , Margaret O'Brien , Peggy Ann Garner , John Sutton
Director: Robert Stevenson
Made two years after Citizen Kane, this 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre sure looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, costar Joan Fontaine--who plays the title character--has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set.) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson, who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits for the studio, such as Mary Poppins, gets the credit. But there's no mistaking Welles's masterful hand in the film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. --Tom Keogh
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Until They Sail [VHS]

Until They Sail [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Jean Simmons , Paul Newman , Joan Fontaine , Piper Laurie , Charles Drake
Director: Robert Wise

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A Damsel in Distress [VHS]

A Damsel in Distress [VHS]

Staring: Fred Astaire , George Burns , Gracie Allen , Joan Fontaine , Reginald Gardiner
A Damsel in Distress is a lighthearted romp to showcase the classic comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen, the classic songwriting team of George and Ira Gershwin, and the classic dance team of Fred Astaire and... Joan Fontaine? Damsel was filmed in 1937 when Astaire was taking a break after his seventh film with Ginger Rogers, so the 19-year-old Fontaine plays Lady Alyce Marshmorton, a young British woman whose scandalous love life leads to a mistaken-identity problem with American Jerry Halliday (Astaire). OK, so the romance falls flat and Fontaine can't really dance, but Burns and Allen provide their usual screwball comedy (especially in a funhouse sequence) and Astaire is as charming as ever, such as his dance with a drum set (an idea he revisited in Easter Parade) to "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and his rendition of "A Foggy Day," which set the standard for all singers to follow. Those songs are among the finest film songs the Gershwins ever wrote, and they're complemented by "I Can't Be Bothered Now" and "Things Are Looking Up." Fontaine, incidentally, got out of the musical-comedy business and over the next few years landed some pretty fair gi...
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Ivanhoe (1952) [VHS]

Ivanhoe (1952) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Robert Taylor , Elizabeth Taylor , Joan Fontaine , George Sanders , Emlyn Williams
Among the most exciting of MGM swashbucklers, Richard Thorpe's 1952 Ivanhoe stars Robert Taylor as the medieval hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, Ivanhoe is steadfast in his determination to raise the ransom for the captured King Richard (Norman Wooland), but the effort is full of peril. First is Ivanhoe's reunion with his estranged father (Finlay Currie), a Saxon who hates the Norman king and refuses to give his son the money. Then there's Ivanhoe's unpopular rescue of a wealthy Jew, Isaac (Felix Aylmer), from anti-Semites, and the subsequent decision by Isaac's beautiful daughter, Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor), to pay Ivanhoe's entry fee in a tournament. (The strapped knight seeks the tourney's cash prize.) Wait, it gets worse: two of Ivanhoe's closest associates (played by George Sanders and Robert Douglas) collude with Richard's evil brother, Prince John (Guy Rolfe), to discredit their friend and steal away Rebecca and another woman, Rowena (Joan Fontaine)--who also fancies Ivanhoe--for themselves. Yes, the situation looks grim, but surprise appearances by a couple of legendary hero types toward the end help level the playing fi...
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The Emperor Waltz [VHS]

The Emperor Waltz [VHS]

Staring: Bing Crosby , Joan Fontaine , Roland Culver , Lucile Watson , Richard Haydn
Director: Billy Wilder

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Serenade [VHS]

Serenade [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Mario Lanza , Joan Fontaine , Sara Montiel , Vincent Price , Joseph Calleia
Director: Anthony Mann

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September Affair [VHS]

September Affair [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Joan Fontaine , Joseph Cotten , Françoise Rosay , Jessica Tandy , Robert Arthur
Director: William Dieterle

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Gunga Din [VHS]

Gunga Din [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Cary Grant , Victor McLaglen , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Sam Jaffe , Eduardo Ciannelli
This big, boisterous adventure is more inspired by than based on Rudyard Kipling's famous poem. Legendary screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur have fashioned a rousing Hollywood movie full of high adventure, knockabout comedy, and old-fashioned male bonding. And old-fashioned it is: the trio of British officers and best friends who form the core of the film are a 19th-century three musketeers in India, threatened by the interventions of a woman who means to marry the dashing Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). Blustery commander MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) schemes to keep Ballantine in the army while his second in command, the treasure-hunting Cutter (Cary Grant in a hopelessly mugging comic performance), continues searching for his elusive mother lode, but all their plans are thrown into chaos when the rise of the bloodthirsty Thugs threaten Britannia's soldiers. Sam Jaffe takes up the rear guard in turban, loin, and full-body make-up as the titular Gunga Din, the loyal water carrier who dreams of becoming a soldier. Bombastically chauvinist and naively imperialist, the film is bound to rub some people wrong, but Stevens creates a thrilling spectacle in the grand Hollywo...
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