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1.Frosty's Winter Wonderland starring: Andy Griffith, Shelley Winters, Dennis Day, Paul Frees, Jackie Vernon (II) directed by: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. December 21, 1993
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BACKGROUND: The 1976 cel animated real sequel to Frosty the Snowman, it is shorter than the original Frosty at half an hour format. Made 7 years after the original Frosty which was an hour long format. The character design was by Paul Coker Jr, who did the same work for the first special, so the visual continuity works very well. Frosty gets a wife named Crystal (Played by Shelley Winters). While the first show was narrated and sung by Jimmy Durante, this time we have the voice talents of Andy Griffith. The famous voice actor Paul Frees stars as Jack Frost, and the policeman. Frees was a regular at the studio and had voiced the policeman, ticket seller, and Santa in the original. Dennis Day voiced the Parson, and Jackie Vernon voiced Frosty just like he did in the original. The writer is Romeo ... Read More

2.Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Ws) starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Suzan Farmer directed by: Terence Fisher September 10, 1997
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Vampires & More! 20 Movie Pack Dracula, prince of darkness was directed by Terence Fisher, who had guided Christopher Lee through his first performance as the blood-thirsty count. Yhis film was the first NOT to feature Dracula's nemesis Van Helsing(played by Peter Cushing). Instead vamoire-fighting expertise was supplied by Andrew Kier in the role of Father Shandor. Like Van Helsing, Shandor despises blind superstition, but recognizes the forces of evil and respects their power. Dracula, Prince of Darkness, is in many ways a different sort of film from Hammer's, Horror of Dracula. Rather than jumping right into the expected vampiric activities, this film, takes its time introducing and developing its new characters before the revival of Dracula. Along with Shandor, the film's featured characters ... Read More

3.Portrait of a Lady starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker directed by: Jane Campion November 18, 1997
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Visually, I would rate this film five stars. And, I'm certain, that those reviewers who see past this film's flaws and award the film four or five stars are rewarding the stunning visuals. But, dramatically, its barely a three (and that's being generous), because, unfortunatley, it seems, that Campion is far more interested in period detail and far more fascinated with various costume choices and interior designs than she is in allowing her actual characters to do or say interesting things. No one in this film is alive. This is, in part, the theme of the film (and Henry James' fiction in general): everyone, in some way, is living a stifled life. But, it is a problem when the sets are infused with more color & life than the actual people. Mary-Louise Parker (whose eccentric bespectacled performance is the most ... Read More

4.Meet Danny Wilson starring: Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr, Vaughn Taylor directed by: Joseph Pevney January 01, 1998
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Why this fine film has been overlooked for more than fifty years is beyond me. Frank Sinatra's performance as the obnoxious little vocalist who comes good at the end is a standout and his songs remain evergreen. If ever a film needed to be looked at anew this is the one. Release it on DVD. Now!

5.The Gorgon starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe directed by: Terence Fisher June 11, 1996
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The Gorgon started out with a fascinating premise: An American scientist, determined to find the answer to osteoporosis, force-feeds residents of a Los Angeles retirement home massive quantities of calcium the way French farmers force-feed corn mash to geese. To the scientist's frustration, the residents turn to stone before he can properly record his experiments. Instead of the Nobel Award for medicine, late one stormy night he receives a lethal injection at a state prison while screaming that his intentions were misunderstood. When financing fell through, the producers kept the cast and the plaster statues of men and women and hurriedly rewrote the screenplay to appeal to a wider audience. Now, deep in Transylvania in the village of Vandorf, near the forbidding Castle Borski, villagers still turn to stone. The instruments ... Read More

6.Rasputin: Mad Monk (Ws) starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Suzan Farmer directed by: Don Sharp September 10, 1997
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Whilst this isn't a classic a Hammer film by any means, it does make for strangely compelling viewing. The film was obviously made on a very small budget, and I suspect it was filmed soon after Dracula: Prince of Darkness as the cast is very similiar and some of the same sets look the same. Rasputin is a drinker and womaniser who has healing powers. Using these he becomes the trusted Doctor to the Zsars wife. However his motives are suspect.. Christopher Lee plays the title role (based on a real historical person and in part true) and is the best and worst thing about the film. Without Lee's screen presence this simply wouldn't have worked. However in places I found his performance a little over the top (dare I say even a little hammy). In the UK on region 2 this is available as part of "The Hammer Collection" boxed ... Read More

7.Cat Girl starring: Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Ernest Milton, Lily Kann directed by: Alfred Shaughnessy April 28, 1993
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This AIP-imported British suspenser gives a very young and pretty Barbara Shelley the role Simone Simon played in Lewton and Tourneur's original masterpiece. She holds her own, although the movie itself cannot as a rule measure up. The movie transplants to then-present-day England the story of a jealous woman, who may or may not be marked with a family curse to kill when her passions are provoked. The change is that her family keeps a panther on their estate, and rather than change into the cat per se, she may be possessed by its spirit. Which presents an obvious plot hole absent from the 1942 version: why not just off the feline and be done with the curse? It's adequately done, and Shelley has wicked fun (in that campy, low-key British style on display in Michael Gough films of the 60's), but the film is as a whole a plodding ... Read More

8.Village of the Damned (1960) starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith directed by: Wolf Rilla April 27, 1995
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Wolf Rilla's 1960 production of "Village of the Damned" was a cinematic jewel from a bygone era. A combination of a well conceived plot, a professional cast and creative direction was sufficient to evoke fear and terror without the use of special effects and buckets of stage blood. Based on the novel "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham the film depicted a strange phenomenom that befell the English countryside town of Midwich. An inexplicable and undetectable force caused every living creature within an area surrounding the town to be rendered unconscious. While only lasting a few hours this bizarre occurrence had the local military at its highest alert trying to ascertain what happened. There weren't any major catastrophes as a result of this event just minor bumps and bruises. In a short while however it was discovered ... Read More

9.Dark Angel [aka "Uncle Silas"] starring: Peter O'Toole, Jane Lapotaire, Beatie Edney, Alan MacNaughton, Tim Woodward directed by: Peter Hammond December 29, 1993
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Great movie- I'm hopeing this is available on DVD someday. Watching it on VHS now isn't that cool. One of my favorite movies!!

10.Executive Suite (1954) starring: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon directed by: Robert Wise September 01, 1998
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Another depiction of corporate greed with William Holden playing the good guy and Fredric March the bad guy. An excellent supporting cast featuring June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern among others.

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