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1492 - Conquest of Paradise [VHS]

1492 - Conquest of Paradise [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Gérard Depardieu , Armand Assante , Sigourney Weaver , Loren Dean , Ángela Molina
Director: Ridley Scott
One of Ridley Scott's most wrong-headed films, this one (like all of his movies) looks fabulous and sounds utterly ridiculous, almost from the beginning. His first mistake was casting the wonderful Gerard Depardieu as Columbus and forcing him to speak English, which Depardieu does with decided difficulty. After spending way too much time on the ocean with Columbus's three ships (you kind of wish they would sail over the edge of the world), they arrive in the West Indies, only to turn around and sail back. The rest of the film deals with the not particularly comprehensible politics of Columbus's venture, which leads to the violent slaughter of trusting natives by a band of cardboard villains. Depardieu, who radiates sympathy, looks like he's at sea with this material. --Marshall Fine
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Deep in My Heart [VHS]

Deep in My Heart [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: José Ferrer , Merle Oberon , Helen Traubel , Doe Avedon , Walter Pidgeon
Director: Stanley Donen

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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca [VHS]

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Andy Garcia , Esai Morales , Naím Thomas , Gonzalo Penche , Teresa José Berganza
Director: Marcos Zurinaga
The fate of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca under the brutal Franco regime is the subject of this political thriller. Esai Morales plays an expatriate writer named Ricardo who returns to his hometown Granada in 1954 to find out what happened to Lorca (Andy Garcia), his boyhood hero. With Franco's forces still in power, Ricardo meets a lot of official resistance, takes a few beatings, and defies the wishes of his own host (Jeroen Krabbé), an army colonel who was thickly involved in the torture and assassinations of the 1936 revolution. The closer the intrepid journalist gets to the truth of Lorca's disappearance, however, the more gray that truth becomes, and the more obscure the line between heroism and villainy. This film by Marcos Zurinaga suffers from a bit of miscalculation--Morales's character is simply not interesting enough to hold the center of the story and be our window into the great Lorca--but it is nonetheless startling and tragic in its revelation of complicated truths. As Lorca, Garcia is the picture of nobility, and supporting roles by Krabbé, Edward James Olmos, and Miguel Ferrer add a great deal of dramatic texture. --Tom Keogh
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Ay, Carmela! [VHS]

"Ay, Carmela!" [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Carmen Maura , Andrés Pajares , Gabino Diego , Maurizio De Razza , José Sancho
Director: Carlos Saura

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Evil That Men Do [VHS]

Evil That Men Do [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Charles Bronson , Theresa Saldana , Joseph Maher , José Ferrer , René Enríquez
Director: J. Lee Thompson

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Peter and Paul [VHS]

Peter and Paul [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Eddie Albert , Clive Arrindell , Raymond Burr , Kenneth Colley , Vernon Dobtcheff

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Berlin Tunnel 21

Berlin Tunnel 21

Staring: Richard Thomas , Horst Buchholz , José Ferrer , Jacques Breuer , Kenneth Griffith
Director: Richard Michaels
  • Based on the book by Donald Lindquist [ASIN 0380018438]
  • A daring rescue attempt
Five desperate men attempt a daring rescue under the Berlin Wall in this action-packed adventure. The year is 1961. The Soviets have just cut off East Berlin from West Berlin. A young U.S. Army Lieutenant and his East German girlfriend cannot marry because she is forbidden to leave her sector of the city. A few brave people make daring escapes across the barrier, but must leave their families and friends behind. Determined to rescue their loved ones and bring them to the West, five young men attempt a daring rescue under the Berlin Wall. The suspense and action build as the East German police close in, and time starts to run out.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told [VHS]

The Greatest Story Ever Told [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Max von Sydow , Dorothy McGuire , Charlton Heston , Michael Anderson Jr. , Carroll Baker
Director: David Lean , George Stevens , Jean Negulesco
The life of Christ got an excessively long treatment (260 minutes, later trimmed to 195) in this 1965 film directed by George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank). Max von Sydow does beautiful work as Jesus--his spontaneous mourning at discovering his friend Lazarus has died is not like anything in other New Testament epics--and Stevens renders the familiar tale with a handsome authenticity. But the project is nearly undone by an unwise gimmick in which seemingly half of Hollywood's living stars at the time make brief (often very brief) cameo appearances, some of which are ridiculous. But there is a lot to like in the film, and Von Sydow's sensitive nobility sticks in the memory. --Tom Keogh
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Samson and Delilah [VHS]

Samson and Delilah [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Max von Sydow , Belinda Bauer , Stephen Macht , Daniel Stern , Clive Revill
Director: Lee Philips

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Caine Mutiny [VHS]

Caine Mutiny [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Humphrey Bogart , José Ferrer , Van Johnson , Fred MacMurray , Robert Francis
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context. --Tom Keogh
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