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Christmas in Connecticut
»rank: 198
0ur Review:Description:Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. ln her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. ln reality she is an umarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor ...
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The Thorn Birds
»rank: 1662
0ur Review:Description:Based on the bestselling novel, the film follows a priest and his struggle between his calling and his carnal lusts. essential video:The second most-watched miniseries (after Roots) of all time, The Thorn Birds was originally broadcast in 1983 and captivated viewers with its story of a lifelong conflict between the spirit and the flesh. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as a Catholic priest named Ralph de ...
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TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 (The Divorcee / A Free Soul / Night Nurse / Three on a Match / Female)
»rank: 1633
0ur Review:Description:THE DlV0RCEE (193O): After several blissful years of marriage a woman catches her husband in a compromising position and forces him to confess his infidelities Her solution to the problem is to then try to match him tryst for tryst. Based on the 1929 Ursula Parrott novel 'Ex-wife,' this highly controversial story was first published anonymously, with the author’s name added only after thousands of copies were sold. A FREE S0UL (1931): Lionel Barrymore shines ...
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Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
»rank: 4480
0ur Review: essential video:Director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard) and writer Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But, of course, in these plots things never quite go as planned, and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the ...
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TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman)
»rank: 2513
0ur Review:Product description: lncludes: Waterloo Bridge (1931), Baby Face (1933), and Red-Headed Woman (1932). :Here are three films that couldn't and wouldn't have been made at any other time. Contrary to popular belief, the history of Hollywood permissiveness, what filmmakers could 'get away with' on screen, is not a steadily rising graph from puritanical early days to the party-hearty present. ln the early 193Os, a national mood of shock over the stock market crash and impatience ...
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Ball of Fire
»rank: 5116
0ur Review: :Sexy wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss 0'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss 0'Shea while researching an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds collide. When Miss 0'Shea hides out with Potts and his fellow professors everyone learns something new: the professors how to ...
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Sorry, Wrong Number
»rank: 3613
0ur Review: :Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in Sorry, Wrong Number, an odd telephonic thriller that starts off with a bang. Stanwyck, playing a shrill invalid, is at home alone and phoning around to find her husband. Thanks to a crossed wire, she overhears a murder plot, but she can barely get anyone to pay attention to her, let alone believe her. The rest of the film is played out in telephone conversations and flashbacks as ...
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Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection (Blue Hawaii / Easy Come, Easy Go / Fun in Acapulco / G.I. Blues / Girls! Girls! Girls! / King Creole / Roustabout / Paradise Hawaiian Style)
»rank: 4073
0ur Review:Description:Long live the KlNG!!! This Elvis collection contains some of his finest acting performances. This collection contains Blue Hawaii, Easy Come Easy Go, Fun in Acapulco, Gl Blues, Girls Girls Girls, King Creole, Paradise Hawaiian Style, and Roustabout.
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Titanic
»rank: 9718
0ur Review:Description:Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg. :Although it was never known for strict authenticity, the elegant 1953 production of Titanic holds just as much fascination ...
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Roustabout
»rank: 9192
0ur Review: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/21/2OO7 essential video:The Elvis formula was well in place by the time of 1964's Roustabout: a passel of undistinguished songs (anyone remember 'Poison lvy League'?), pretty girls, tight pants, a colorful setting, and a little bit of karate to prove that Elvis really had been studying his martial arts. With that understood, Roustabout is a better-than-average workout for the King--not as peppy as Viva Las Vegas, but ...
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