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A Midsummer Night's Dream [VHS]

A Midsummer Night's Dream [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: James Cagney , Joe E. Brown , Dick Powell , Mickey Rooney , Victor Jory
Director: Max Reinhardt , William Dieterle
James Cagney and Mickey Rooney romping in a Shakespearian fairyland? This could only be A Midsummer Night's Dream, Warner Bros.' 1935 attempt at classing up the proletarian studio. The legendary German stage director Max Reinhardt had produced the play at the Hollywood Bowl to enchanted, sold-out audiences, and Warners decided to hand Reinhardt the keys to the studio (along with fellow Germans William Dieterle, co-director, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who adapted Mendelssohn's music). Reinhardt created an eye-popping phantasmagoria, a movie laced with sparkling sequins, flying fairies, and moon-kissed forests. As for the words, Reinhardt had a collection of Warners studio players, notably James Cagney as Bottom, whose playing of "Pyramus and Thisby" with Joe E. Brown is perhaps the movie's comic high point. The other actors are decidedly varied, and they tend to be overwhelmed by the production design. Not so Mickey Rooney, whose performance as Puck is a feral, antic act of imagination (he was 14 during filming); picture a boy raised by wolves who somehow memorized Shakespeare. His Puck growls and screams and mocks the drama of the other characters, a little postmodern imp...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]

The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Errol Flynn , Olivia de Havilland , Basil Rathbone , Claude Rains , Patric Knowles
Director: Michael Curtiz , William Keighley
Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing Technicolor adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor." Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks's silent version), Eugene Palette the portly Friar Tuck, and Melville Cooper the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood, and his easygoing manner is a marvelous counterpo...
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The Heiress [VHS]

The Heiress [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Olivia de Havilland , Montgomery Clift , Ralph Richardson , Miriam Hopkins , Vanessa Brown
Director: William Wyler
In this 1949 dramatization of Henry James's Washington Square, Olivia de Havilland is the plain but presentable spinster who lives with her domineering father (Ralph Richardson). What she lacks in looks she makes up for in wealth, and soon finds herself the object of much attention by Montgomery Clift. At the heart of this drama is the question of his possibly mercenary agenda. De Havilland does not seem to care one way or the other, but her father cannot believe any man would love her for any reason but her wealth.

This version does not stray too far from the novel. It is a masterpiece that reveals both suppressed anger within a family and the suppression of women in the 19th century. De Havilland, all simmering desire and controlled rage, won an Oscar for best actress, and Aaron Copland copped one for best score. It is no surprise that this handsome picture was also awarded Oscars for costume design and art direction. It was remade and updated with an oddly feminist twist in 1997under the novel's original title. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Adventures of Robin Hood / Movie [VHS]

Adventures of Robin Hood / Movie [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Errol Flynn , Olivia de Havilland , Basil Rathbone , Claude Rains , Patric Knowles
Director: Michael Curtiz , William Keighley
Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing Technicolor adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor." Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks's silent version), Eugene Palette the portly Friar Tuck, and Melville Cooper the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood, and his easygoing manner is a marvelous counterpo...
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They Died with Their Boots On (Colorized) [VHS]

They Died with Their Boots On (Colorized) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Errol Flynn , Olivia de Havilland , Arthur Kennedy , Charley Grapewin , Gene Lockhart
Bert Glennon, who shot Stagecoach and seven other John Ford classics, has given this Raoul Walsh biopic of George Armstrong Custer a burnished glow--an evocative interplay of raw sunlight and elegiac shadow like no other vintage Warner Bros. Western. Glennon's artistry and Walsh's trademark gusto sustain enthusiasm even as the screenplay beggars belief. The flamboyant Custer (Errol Flynn), rushed into Civil War service straight from West Point, did get promoted overnight to general and establish a spectacular record for "ride to the guns" leadership. However, Custer as defender of Indians' rights--to the point of willing his own Last Stand so he could accuse corrupt Indian Commissioners from the grave--is historical rewrite of such sweeping chutzpah as to shame DeMille. Flynn and Olivia de Havilland make an even more appealing couple than usual, and the big supporting cast is unflaggingly energetic above and beyond the call of duty. --Richard T. Jameson
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Airport 77 [VHS]

Airport 77 [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Lee Grant , Joseph Cotten , Olivia de Havilland , Brenda Vaccaro
Director: Jerry Jameson

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Dark Mirror (B&W) [VHS]

Dark Mirror (B&W) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Olivia de Havilland , Lew Ayres , Thomas Mitchell , Richard Long , Charles Evans
Director: Robert Siodmak

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To Each His Own [VHS]

To Each His Own [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Olivia de Havilland , John Lund , Mary Anderson , Roland Culver , Phillip Terry
Director: Mitchell Leisen

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A Midsummer Night's Dream [VHS]

A Midsummer Night's Dream [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: James Cagney , Dick Powell , Ian Hunter , Verree Teasdale , Hobart Cavanaugh
Director: Max Reinhardt , William Dieterle
James Cagney and Mickey Rooney romping in a Shakespearian fairyland? This could only be A Midsummer Night's Dream, Warner Bros.' 1935 attempt at classing up the proletarian studio. The legendary German stage director Max Reinhardt had produced the play at the Hollywood Bowl to enchanted, sold-out audiences, and Warners decided to hand Reinhardt the keys to the studio (along with fellow Germans William Dieterle, co-director, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who adapted Mendelssohn's music). Reinhardt created an eye-popping phantasmagoria, a movie laced with sparkling sequins, flying fairies, and moon-kissed forests. As for the words, Reinhardt had a collection of Warners studio players, notably James Cagney as Bottom, whose playing of "Pyramus and Thisby" with Joe E. Brown is perhaps the movie's comic high point. The other actors are decidedly varied, and they tend to be overwhelmed by the production design. Not so Mickey Rooney, whose performance as Puck is a feral, antic act of imagination (he was 14 during filming); picture a boy raised by wolves who somehow memorized Shakespeare. His Puck growls and screams and mocks the drama of the other characters, a little postmodern imp...
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Not As a Stranger [VHS]

Not As a Stranger [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Olivia de Havilland , Frank Sinatra , Robert Mitchum , Gloria Grahame , Broderick Crawford
Director: Stanley Kramer

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