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1.The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm starring: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden directed by: George Pal, Henry Levin December 21, 1994
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Recently TCM showed Bros. Grimm in a widescreen transfer that had alll 3 camera angles visible. It was great! Write them and request a rebroadcast and then get your DVD Recorders ready! Don Atlanta

2.The Tamarind Seed starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O'Herlihy, Sylvia Syms directed by: Blake Edwards January 01, 1998
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I LOVED this movie when I watched it in the late 80s on VHS. Now, not only can't I find it on DVD here or anywhere online for this area of the world, but I can't even find a VHS copy anywhere. It seems like Australia and Japan and the UK have PAL versions available. Does anyone out there have any influence with the studio to make sure they release this on DVD for WORLDWIDE distribution? Anyway, this was a fantastic movie, very different type of role for Julie Andrews (serious), quite well done. The setting in Barbados was magnificent, and the chemistry between Andrews and Sharif was really mesmerizing. I really want to see this film again. Anyone have any idea how to get it?

3.Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Sabotage, Man Who knew Too Much, 39 Steps, Lady Vanishes, Young And Innocent, Number 17, Rich And Strange, Murder, Secret Agent starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Leslie Banks directed by: Alfred Hitchcock September 08, 1997
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As the next reviewer states, these are recorded in EP mode and the quality suffers, BUT WHAT A COLLECTION! I was especially pleased to see that the 10th tape was Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Hitchcock's early films are such a joy: German Expressionism, slapstick comedy, long, long takes that show off the stage sense of the actors and Hitchcock himself, the beginnings of his particular film style, and his deep sense of social justice. If you can afford The Early Years DVD Collection you will get most of the same films, with the exception of The 39 Steps and Juno and the Paycock, but for the price this beats anything.

4.Comrade X starring: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden directed by: King Vidor September 01, 1998
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After the release of Ninotchka there was an attempt to explore and exploit and blend the love with the political consequences of living in a country placed behind the iron' s curtain. Nevertheless King Vidor `s only minor film is precisely this one in which nothing happens, due perhaps the narrowness of its limits.

5.Song of Norway starring: Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad, Christina Schollin, Frank Porretta, Harry Secombe directed by: Andrew L. Stone August 11, 1998
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Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror) are no ordinary movie realists. In 1960, when they decided to make a movie about the sinking of an ocean liner, (The Last Voyage), they hired the aged Ile de France, hauled her out into the Pacific Ocean, and then effectively scuttled her, in the interests of their art and their commerce. In an industry where big is par, the Stones think colossal. In 1970, their newest project opened at the Cinerama Theater, on a screen almost as wide as the Scandinavian peninsula. SONG OF NORWAY is a film resurrection of the 1944 Broadway operetta about Edvard Grieg, set to the Grieg music as edited and rearranged by Robert Wright and George Forrest, who also wrote those lyrics that Mr. Grieg somehow happened to overlook. A saccharine fantasy with 45 musical ... Read More

6.Boys' Night Out starring: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Janet Blair directed by: Michael Gordon March 02, 1994
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There were a lot of humorous surprises in this movie. For starters, James Garner lives with his mother and is a nerdy weather buff! Then there's Kim Novak, who takes to the role of a seductress with aplomb, only a minute after she arrives for what she thought was an apartment inspection. The 1950s-style paternalism all the men dish out to Novak in spite of their lurid extramarital fantasies is downright charming. I give this movie two thumbs up, and am sure you will too.

7.The White Tower starring: Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oskar Homolka, Cedric Hardwicke directed by: Ted Tetzlaff April 25, 1990
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So okay, we've all heard of the "forgotten cinematic treasures" that turn out to be a load of cockywocky, but this is the real thing. The choice of title was unfortunate, but they didn't know that in 1950. "White Tower" is a Hollywood version of the "mountain film", a strange interwar German genre that served as a nursery for people like Leni Riefenstahl. In mountain films, a doomed climbing team composed of varied and conflicting types takes on an "unconquerable" peak, dying one by one on the way up until the only survivor reaches the top to undergo an ineffable mystical experience before freezing to death. (No wonder they lost the war.) "White Tower" replaces the metaphysics with melodrama, and that's all to the good. The setting is the immediate postwar era, where a burnt-out GI is goaded by an ex-Nazi ... Read More

8.Madwoman of Chaillot starring: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain directed by: Bryan Forbes February 21, 1995
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The story does no justice to the great cast of this movie. Every character seems a bit soft in his/her head in this flick.

9.I Remember Mama (1948) starring: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn, Cedric Hardwicke directed by: George Stevens January 05, 1998
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I finally got around to watching this movie after knowing about it for some time and coming close to watching it once. I found it thoroughly delightful with just the right amount of sentimentality, not overly mushy. Being a book lover and especially of English literature, I particularly enjoyed the references to some of my favorite books. While the film obviously centers around the mother (played wonderfully by Irene Dunn in a role like no other I've ever seen her in) I think tribute should also be made to the somewhat silent yet strong role the father played. I particularly liked the way he offered coffee to the daughter when she so obviously had "grown up" (as well as the look on his face when the mother doused with cream) and the "smoking" lesson he taught his son. But the whole movie was wonderful stuff. Definitely recommend viewing ... Read More

10.War & Peace (1956) starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom directed by: King Vidor October 22, 1996
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If you are lazy like me and don't see even a remote chance of reading this thousand and something pages novel but in the meantime want to know the literature of Russia go for the movie! In general with all due respect to Tolstoy, I generally do not like his way of getting too much into the detail to the point that 50 pages pass by and you feel that you are still reading the description of ONE room...!

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