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Gideon

Gideon

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Christopher Lambert , Charlton Heston , Carroll O'Connor , Shirley Jones , Shelley Winters
Director: Claudia Hoover
Charlton Heston, Carroll O'Connor, Shirley Jones, Mike Connors, Barbara Bain, and Shelley Winters star in this story about discovering the most important thing... having fun again.
Portrait of a Lady [VHS]

Portrait of a Lady [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Nicole Kidman , John Malkovich , Barbara Hershey , Mary-Louise Parker , Martin Donovan (II)
Leave it to New Zealand director Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) to begin an adaptation of Henry James's great novel (set in the late 1800s) with a group of late-20th-century women from Down Under talking about the importance of a kiss. Like any good film adaptation (and it's a very good one, indeed), this exquisitely framed and mounted Portrait of a Lady is at least as much Campion as it is James. The story of strong-willed, independent-minded Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman, whose skin here is photographed like delicate porcelain) is a tricky one to dramatize, since it's largely about good intentions going awry, roads not taken, misguided decisions made for good reasons. Headstrong American orphan Isabel rejects the proposal of a decent, sensible English suitor, Lord Warburton (Richard E. Grant), because she wants to find her own destiny and identity first. Instead, she is seduced by Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich), an effete collector of art (and women) whom one character describes as a "sterile dilettante." How Isabel's life, and the lives of those who love her, are affected by this fateful (but irreversible?) decision is what the bulk of the film ...
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Night of the Hunter (1955) [VHS]

Night of the Hunter (1955) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Robert Mitchum , Shelley Winters , Lillian Gish , James Gleason , Evelyn Varden
Director: Robert Mitchum , Charles Laughton
In the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote The African Queen). The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil. Like a nightmarish premonition of stalker movies to come, Night of the Hunter tells the suspenseful tale of a demented preacher (Robert Mitchum, in a performance that prefigures his memorable villain in Cape Fear), who torments a boy and his little sister--even marries their mixed-up mother (Shelley Winters)--because he's certain the kids know where their late bank-robber father hid a stash of stolen money. So dramatic, primal, and unforgettable are its images--the preacher's shadow looming over the children in their bedroom, the magical boat ride down a ri...
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A Place in the Sun [VHS]

A Place in the Sun [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Montgomery Clift , Elizabeth Taylor , Shelley Winters , Anne Revere , Keefe Brasselle
Director: George Stevens
George Stevens won an Oscar for his 1951 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy, though the film seems a little overwrought today and even self-parodying at times. Still, Montgomery Clift's performance as a poor lad so drawn to a rich, beautiful girl (Elizabeth Taylor) that he contemplates killing his lower-class fiancée (Shelley Winters) is powerful, sympathetic, and mesmerizing. Taylor makes a strong impression, but Winters is awfully good in the less-glamorous role. The tone of the film is oppressive--the film doesn't exactly breathe with possibility--but there are lots of good reasons to give this movie a visit. --Tom Keogh
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Stepping Out [VHS]

Stepping Out [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Liza Minnelli , Jane Krakowski , Bill Irwin , Ellen Greene , Sheila McCarthy

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City On Fire

City On Fire

Staring: Ava Gardner , Barry Newman , Henry Fonda , Shelley Winters
Director: Alvin Rakoff

Pete's Dragon [VHS]

Pete's Dragon [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Sean Marshall , Helen Reddy , Jim Dale , Mickey Rooney , Red Buttons
Director: Don Chaffey
Disney loved to mix live action with animation (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks), but this 1977 effort falls on its face. The turn-of-the-century story concerns an orphaned boy whose only friend is a cartoon monster. While the latter is entertainingly rendered, the rest of the film strains to be enchanting and the cast overreaches in a big way. Not for anybody over the age of ten. --Tom Keogh
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Diary of Anne Frank (1959) [VHS]

Diary of Anne Frank (1959) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Millie Perkins , Shelley Winters , Joseph Schildkraut , Richard Beymer , Gusti Huber
Director: George Stevens
George Stevens (Giant) directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl from Amsterdam who hid in an attic with her family and others during the Nazi occupation. As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky eyed enigma and--in retrospect--too old for the part; but she is surrounded by an outstanding cast, including Joseph Schildkraut as Anne's patient father, Ed Wynn as a cranky dentist who moves into Anne's "room," and Shelley Winters as the loud Mrs. Van Daan. Stevens turns the many overlapping dramas of the caged characters into the foundation of Anne's growth as a young woman, ready for life and love just at the moment the dream comes to an end. Beautifully shot by cinematographer William C. Mellor, and written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from their stage production. --Tom Keogh
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Executive Suite (1954) [VHS]

Executive Suite (1954) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: William Holden , Barbara Stanwyck , June Allyson , Fredric March , Walter Pidgeon
Director: Robert Wise

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Poseidon Adventure [VHS]

Poseidon Adventure [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Gene Hackman , Ernest Borgnine , Shelley Winters , Red Buttons , Carol Lynley
Director: Irwin Allen , Ronald Neame
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