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Camille (1937)
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor
Warner Home Video, 2000
Camille on DVD
+ Best Movie of all Time
+ Excellent in every way!
+ Camille
+ Garbo shines
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Sony Pictures, 2000
High Noon In The Big Apple
+ Add Me To The List
+ A Most Sublime Piece of "Capra-Corn" with Cooper and Arthur at Their Youthful Zenith
+ Definitively he seems to be taken by the delfts
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The Sisters of the Gion
Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura
Homevision, 2000
Sister's of the Gion--Light and Shadow
+ The Destiny Of Two Sisters!
+ Japanese Feminism from the 1930s
+ Doomed Beauty
+ A Tale of Two Sisters
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Dodsworth
Mary Astor, John Barclay
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
FORGOTTEN CLASSIC
+ Amazon has the wrong name for the main male lead
+ One of the True Cinematic Greats
+ Why so expensive???
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Fury (1936)
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy
MGM (Warner), 1998
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
+ Mob Mentality Yes, But This Film is Also About "The Other"
+ INDICTMENT OF MOB RULE!
+ Blind "Fury"
+ Dead Man's Revenge
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Follow the Fleet
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Turner Home Ent, 1999
fine and somewhat underrated Fred and Ginger musical
+ Astaire and Rogers back to earth
+ Different!
+ They Remeet Cute in This One
+ follow the fleet
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Charge of the Light Brigade
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
MGM (Warner), 1994
Flynn at his Best
+ Flynn in arguably his most important movie
+ Colorized Version : Charge of the Light Brigade
+ Classic tale of romance, friendship, love, and sacrifice.
+ classic great movie
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La Chienne
Michel Simon, Janie Marèse
Kino International, 2002
A DOUBLE GEM VIDEO
This 1931 Renoir movie, made four years after the arrival of the first talking picture, is a very realistic analysis of some aspects of Montmartre way of living, with it's crude dialogue, lightened only by Renoir's naturalistic poetry. Michel Simon gives in this film (and in "L'Atalante") one of ...
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Swing Time
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Turner Home Ent, 1999
La crème de la crème.
+ Astaire/Rogers - maybe their best film and the best DVD package
+ Not to be carried away, but this is one of the best musicals Hollywood has ever produced
+ Silly to Sublime -- Or Swinging-- in Seconds
+ Swing Time
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Osaka Elegy
Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa
Homevision, 1996
The intelligence in action!
+ Kept Woman
+ A masterpiece from Japan
Taking a certain advantage about the well expected humane male condition , a tough , sassy working girl tries to get her award in the middle of this state of things . Excellent dramatic comedy around the exploitation of the woman in Japan.
A critic said once an interesting point of view about ...
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Rembrandt (1936)
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence
MGM (Video & DVD), 2000
"I live in a beautiful, blinding, swirling mist"
+ Classic Artistic Bio
+ My boy Charlie!
+ Definitely worth renting!
+ An excellent movie but ...
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Show Boat (1936)
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones
MGM (Video), 1998
How is this not on DVD?
+ Stunning...
+ Incredible, Over-looked musical!
+ Classic Version of a Classic Musical
+ Should be on DVD
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
MGM (Video & DVD), 1994
An amazing story about a towering figure in history!
+ Educational biography
+ An excellent telling of this amazing scientist's story
+ Paul Muni: The Master of Historical Biography
+ Fighting The Establishment
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The Fanny Trilogy (Marius/Fanny/Cesar)
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay
Kino Video, 2004
Sublime, hilarious and wonderfully moving
+ Stunning, Beautiful classic French cinema
+ Priceless!
+ What An Absolute Pleasure To See These Films Again!!
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My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Criterion, 2001
The Classic Screwball Comedy
+ sometimes classics can't be matched
+ A Classic!
Funniest screwball comedy ever made, in a beautiful transfer. If you've ever seen this on tv or on other (cheaper) dvds, you won't believe how much better the Criterion restored version is. Crisp & beautiful. It's a version the movie deserves. You'll see things in this transfer that were too ...
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