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Audrey Hepburn Collection (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, Roman Holiday) [VHS]

Audrey Hepburn Collection (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, Roman Holiday) [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Humphrey Bogart , Audrey Hepburn , William Holden , George Peppard , Gregory Peck
Director: Billy Wilder , Blake Edwards , William Wyler
What a trio of movies in this boxed set: three of Audrey Hepburn's best performances in three of her best films. In Breakfast at Tiffany's, she is perfectly cast as Holly Golightly, Truman Capote's prevaricating heroine who has forgotten her past to create a more interesting present--and Blake Edwards's film version is both beguiling and sad. In Sabrina she is ideal as the chauffeur's daughter who comes back from Paris looking a lot better than when she left--and attracting the attention of a pair of wealthy brothers: playboy William Holden and stuffy Humphrey Bogart. And in Roman Holiday, her debut and for which she received an Oscar, she is delightful as the escaped princess who slips away from her handlers and spends a day with a reporter (Gregory Peck), falling in love and seeing how the normal folks live. --Marshall Fine
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The Night of the Grizzly [VHS]

The Night of the Grizzly [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Clint Walker , Martha Hyer , Keenan Wynn , Nancy Kulp , Kevin Brodie
Director: Joseph Pevney

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First Men in the Moon [VHS]

First Men in the Moon [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Edward Judd , Martha Hyer , Lionel Jeffries , Miles Malleson , Norman Bird
Director: Nathan Juran

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Some Came Running [VHS]

Some Came Running [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Shirley MacLaine , Martha Hyer , Arthur Kennedy
Director: Vincente Minnelli
The first time Frank Sinatra acted in an adaptation of a James Jones novel, he won an Oscar--it was in From Here to Eternity. The resurgent Sinatra found one of his best subsequent roles as a bitter, boozy failed writer, the hero of Jones's Some Came Running. Returning to his hometown in the Midwest, he runs into the rampant hypocrisy of the "good" life, as embodied by his insincere brother (Arthur Kennedy). Sinatra the cynic plumps for the company of a floozy (Shirley MacLaine) and a misogynist gambler (Dean Martin), while making a desperate bid for the affection of a strait-laced teacher (Martha Hyer). Director Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me in St. Louis) infuses the material with a slow-burning tension, and the climax at a carnival is an eye-filling piece of orchestrated chaos. Elmer Bernstein's moody score is another plus. Footnote to film history: the hero of Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt says he wears his hat in the bathtub as an hommage to Dean Martin in Some Came Running. --Robert Horton
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Sons of Katie Elder [VHS]

Sons of Katie Elder [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: John Wayne , Dean Martin , Martha Hyer , Michael Anderson Jr. , Earl Holliman
Director: Henry Hathaway
John Wayne recovered from his first bout with cancer to appear in this 1965 film as the brother of Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and Michael Anderson Jr. All four characters are wandering souls prone to trouble, but after the funeral of their frontier mother, they set out to avenge her death. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Wayne's director on True Grit), the film moves like a conventional, latter-day Western, with good performances from Wayne and Martin, who'd already costarred with the Duke in Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo. Nice support from Dennis Hopper (who had a legendary conflict with Hathaway on this film), Strother Martin, and George Kennedy. --Tom Keogh
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Battle Hymn [VHS]

Battle Hymn [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Rock Hudson , Anna Kashfi , Dan Duryea , Don DeFore , Martha Hyer
Director: Douglas Sirk

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Houseboat [VHS]

Houseboat [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Cary Grant , Sophia Loren , Martha Hyer , Harry Guardino , Eduardo Ciannelli
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cary Grant and Sophia Loren look just swell together in Houseboat, and why shouldn't they? Grant was still at his best, Loren was bewitching Hollywood as an exotic new ingénue, and offscreen they had had a torrid affair a couple of years earlier, during the shooting of The Pride and the Passion. The two tanned stars are the main attraction in this romantic comedy, which installs single dad Cary and his three children on a dilapidated houseboat on the Potomac River. Sophia is the maid, except she's not really a maid but the cultured daughter of a famous musician. Yes, this is one of those situation comedies in which every problem could be cleared up if only one character told the truth about the situation. If that sort of thing drives you crazy, best skip this one. It's no classic, but those two icons are awfully appealing. --Robert Horton
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Sabrina (Commemorative Edition) [VHS]

Sabrina (Commemorative Edition) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Humphrey Bogart , Audrey Hepburn , William Holden , Walter Hampden , John Williams
Director: Billy Wilder

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Carpetbaggers [VHS]

Carpetbaggers [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: George Peppard , Alan Ladd , Robert Cummings , Martha Hyer , Elizabeth Ashley
Director: Edward Dmytryk
The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trash classic most people are too embarrassed to admit they actually enjoy. But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time--especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way. The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast: Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut--uncharacteristically, as a good girl. The sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star. Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along, but the rest is thick melodrama indeed. --Robert Horton
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My Man Godfrey [VHS]

My Man Godfrey [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: June Allyson , David Niven , Jessie Royce Landis , Robert Keith , Eva Gabor
Director: Henry Koster

List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $34.67