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The Song Of Bernadette [1943]

starring: Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb
directed by: Henry King

Release Date March 26, 2007
A fantastic film that won quite a few awards. Even though the film is in black and white it captures the heartache,indignity, faith, and a true story of Bernadette Soubirous and the struggles of a poor family living in one tiny room and Bernadette suffering ill health with Asthma. Bernadette was 14yrs old when the first apparition appeared, she had over 18 visions from Our Lady at the Grotto in France in 1858. She died in 1879 and was Canonized. Lourdes is celebrating it's 150th year where over 8 million people visit the Grotto every year, bathe in the freezing cold spring water and people come in Procession to celebrate Our Lady apparitions. This Year Pope Benedict XVI will be celebration Mass in Lourdes on the 13th September due to 150 years ... Read More:

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The Big Country [1958]

starring: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives
directed by: William Wyler

Release Date June 11, 2001
The Big Country is a wondeful film starring a host of major stars. Gregory Peck gives a wonderful performance as an outsider coming to the West who doesn't quite fit in. It is an epic film but well worth watching. All in all in a very good film.

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A Star Is Born - 2 Disc Special Edition [1954]

starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan
directed by: George Cukor

Release Date February 10, 2003
In this Film Judy Garland gives an extraordy performance. Mason is superb as well, as are the entire supporting cast. But Garland by this stage in her life had virtually driven herself into professional exile by her addiction to drugs, drink, men and self-destruction. Given one last chance and with no insurance company prepared to touch her with a barge-pole, she gives a genuine bravura performance that is surely one of the great performances by any Actress in any Film in Hollwood's history. Many will argue that she was just playing herself, and up to a point they have a point, but sometimes great Acting is just that and no more, exposition of one's real self. In this case Garland's exposure of her real self is beyond brave for she knew what she really ... Read More:

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Days Of Wine And Roses [1962]

starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt
directed by: Blake Edwards

Release Date April 19, 2004
Alcoholism is a disease. Fine. And yet wrong. The disease is obsessivity, the fact that some people cannot live within satisfying an obsession of some kind. And I am afraid everyone has a degree of obsessivity that could lead to a catastrophe in many situations. The problem is the object of this obsessivity. It is dangerous if it is excessive and aiming at an object that destroys your willpower, your selfcontrol, your selfesteem. It can be alcohol. It can be tobacco. It can be eating. It can be coffee or tea or any spft drink. It can be any illicit drug. It can be any medical and legal drug. It can be work. It can be absolutely anything. Many of those things are not dangerous but some can be deadly both for the person concerned by the obsession and for the people ... Read More:

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Staying Alive [1983]

starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso
directed by: Sylvester Stallone

Release Date October 07, 2002
Sylvester Stallone pumped up John Travolta and the rest of the World for the sequel to the ground breaking "Saturday Night Fever". It deflated faster than needle pricked blow-up Popeye balloon. It may be worth renting and watching stoned just to see what bad actors do with nasty characters. The ending is a "Broadway" production that seems like a badly concocted rock concert with lasers and props that just don't make sense - "Dante's Inferno"? Terribly cliche.

The dancing is mechanical and uninspired using brother Frank Stallon's hit song, "Far From Over" in so many different outtakes, I thought I had been in rehearsal too long. Nepotism reached new lows.

The true unforgivable error Stallone made was the abuse and horrible editing he gave to the Bee ... Read More:

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The Unforgiven [1959]

starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford
directed by: John Huston

Release Date March 01, 2004
I can't understand people who write reviews like the previous reviewer, he is nitpicking. He is obviously a professional critic, only those people write such rubbish.
This film is one of the best westerns made, it is a superior movie to the one eastwood made with the same title. The acting is superb, what can you expect, when you have such an all star pedigree cast.
If you love westerns and want a good film to pass the evening, when there is nothing interesting on the box. Put on this film, you won't be disappointed.

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Duel In The Sun [1946]

starring: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall
directed by: King Vidor

Release Date October 13, 2008
I can't understand people who write reviews like the previous reviewer, he is nitpicking. He is obviously a professional critic, only those people write such rubbish.
This film is one of the best westerns made, it is a superior movie to the one eastwood made with the same title. The acting is superb, what can you expect, when you have such an all star pedigree cast.
If you love westerns and want a good film to pass the evening, when there is nothing interesting on the box. Put on this film, you won't be disappointed.

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A Star Is Born / Meet Me In St. Louis [1954]

starring: Judy Garland, Tom Drake, Margaret O'Brien, Leon Ames, James Mason
directed by: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli

Release Date April 24, 2006
I can't understand people who write reviews like the previous reviewer, he is nitpicking. He is obviously a professional critic, only those people write such rubbish.
This film is one of the best westerns made, it is a superior movie to the one eastwood made with the same title. The acting is superb, what can you expect, when you have such an all star pedigree cast.
If you love westerns and want a good film to pass the evening, when there is nothing interesting on the box. Put on this film, you won't be disappointed.

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Greta Garbo Signature Collection: Anna Christie / Mata Hari / Queen Christina / Anna Karenina / Camille / Ninotchka

starring: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, John Gilbert
directed by: Clarence Brown

Release Date February 27, 2006
All Greta Garbo's key films from the talking era in one box set - only notable exception being Grand Hotel. But this is a minor complaint: it is an ensemble piece (it is included in the Joan Crawford Signature Collection where it clearly shows that young Crawford can more than hold her own in any company) and is, on balance, minor film in Garbo's career.

The films included here - just pay attention to the titles: each is named after her character. Signature collection indeed! I can't think of another star ever to have pulled off such a career proving trick, showing clearly what a huge, huge box office draw she was, and what power "The Swedish Sphinx " held over the studios as well as the public. Not bad for a shy, lanky girl who's single mother was a cleaner in Stockholm... ... Read More:

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Fallen Angel [1945]

starring: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
directed by: Otto Preminger

Release Date March 29, 2004
There is a great deal in Fallen Angel that does not stack up. The dialogue and characterisation of the heroine does not convince us as viewers, and therefore would not be potent enough to bring about the change in the characterisation of the film's anti-hero, and there his salvation. The hard-boiled cop from New York, with the farcical interrogation technique, does not gell either. But even with these significant flaws, the Fallen Angel qualifies as an outstanding film noir: Dana Andrews makes more than a good fist of the role, and portrays a vulnerability that you know compels him to do bad things, and Linda Darnell, in the femme fatale role, easily draws you in, as does the main location for plot development, the tiny diner on the quayside, surrounded by fog and a sense of foreboding. The ... Read More: