Train Robbers, The DVD

John Wayne turns in another bigger-than-life persona while Ann Margret's sizzle consumes the screen in The Train Robbers (1972). This action/adventure/comedy classic, is a variation of a tale told many times before, but this telling is a deligh...

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Two Mules for Sister Sara DVD

When a two fisted Civil War veteran rides into town and sees a damsel in distress, what else would he do but rescue her? So starts Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), an oater with a twist. Hogan (Clint Eastwood in his sexy prime) rescues the beautif...

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Under the Yum Yum Tree DVD

Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963), which stars Jack Lemmon as a sex-crazed landlord, shows just how zany this noted actor could be. The film has never been released on DVD before, but as of June 2009, is part of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) ...

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Undying Monster, The

Adapted from Jessie Douglas Kerruish's novel, The Undying Monster (1942) is another early picture about the myth that a man can become a werewolf and turn into a wolf late at night and stalk victims. The Hammond family lives in a gated English ...

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Vicki DVD

Vicki (1953), definitely a film noir, includes murder and off-screen violence; beautiful women; doggedly persistent policemen, it's photographed with dark shadows and stark camera angles and you have a typical film noir. The lead character (Jea...

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West Side Story DVD

West Side Story (1961) is considered by many fans as the most cinematic of all movie musicals. The melodramatic musical, based on the Broadway play of 1957, takes its story from the pages of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet's tragedy of feudi...

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When Harry Met Sally Collectors Editon DVD

You can tell a movie is a success when either a dialogue line or a scene is repeated, copied or morphed for years following its release. No simulated scene of sexual satisfaction by a fully clothed female will ever stand up to Meg Ryan's (Sally...

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) is film noir at its best. How can a brutal cop murder a suspect yet remain the hero throughout? Leave it to the one-two punch of Otto Preminger and Ben Hecht to get it right and work their magic. Director Preminger ma...

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White Zombie DVD

Once upon a time zombies weren't the flesh-eating ghouls as depicted in Land of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and scores of straight-to-DVD imitators ripping off George Romero's vision. Instead, zombies were simply mindless lunkheads under th...

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Wild Bunch, The Special Edition DVD

"The Wild Bunch" 2-Disc Special Edition, Sam Peckinpah's original director's cut stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien and Ben Johnson. The story is a forceful tale of desperados bound together by ...

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