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Knickerbocker Holiday
Nostalgia Home Video
In the New Amsterdam colony in the 1650s, free-willed newspaper publisher Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy) runs afoul of iron-fisted, peg-legged governor Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn), who places Brom behind bars and makes a play for the newsman's sweetheart. Lively film version of the Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson musical also stars Constance Dowling, Shelley Winters, Fritz Feld; songs include ...
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Higher & Higher
Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley
Turner Home Ent, 2001
Classic News on this Review
+ I love this movie...
+ Sinatra's first film is a gem...
+ The Whelan Touch
+ Should Be on DVD!
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So This is Washington
Chester Lauck; Norris Goff
Timeless Video, 1942
Lum & Abner go to Washington to show their invention and end up giving advice to Senators and Congressmen from a park bench.
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Kismet (1944)
Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich
MGM (Video & DVD), 1998
You have heard of the word, now see the movie "Kismet"
+ The sum of the parts exceeds by far its result!
"Kismet" is an Arabian Nights fantasy about Hafiz (Ronald Colman), a scheming beggar in the court of the Caliph (James Craig), who wins the hand of the dancing girl (Marlene Dietrich), the mistress of Mansur, the Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold). There are all sorts of palace intrigues going on, but ...
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The Story of Dr. Wassell / Movie
Philip Ahn, Barbara Britton
Universal Studios, 1996
Story of Dr. Wassell
+ The Story of Dr. Wassell
+ Gary Cooper at his best
+ De Mille turns a heroic true story into flamboyant melodrama
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Desert Victory
Harold Alexander, Erwin Rommel
Kino Video, 2000
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None But the Lonely Heart
Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore
Turner Home Ent, 1998
First Rate Drama
+ A very nice VHS, but how dare they not put this on DVD?
+ Close to home for Mr. Grant.
+ You get to see another, more somber side of "archie"
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Christmas Holiday
Nostalgia Home Video
Dark drama follows the saga of a cabaret singer (Deanna Durbin) in WWII New Orleans who, through a series of flashbacks, relates to a stranded G.I. the sad story of her marriage to a murderous ne'er-do-well (Gene Kelly). Loosely adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by "Citizen Kane" scribe Herman J. Mankiewicz, the film co-stars Gale Sondergaard, Richard Whorf. 93 min.
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Follow the Boys
George Raft, Vera Zorina
Universal Studios, 1998
Follow the Boys VHS
+ FOLLOW THE BOYS (1944)
Tape was brand new and I received it in just 3 or 4 days after I placed my order. My husband's uncle was one of the soldiers in the movie and we were thrilled to be able to find the movie.
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Hello Frisco Hello
Alice Faye, John Payne
20th Century Fox, 1994
The video was a hit!
+ Just as I remember it - In all it's glory!!
+ Alice Faye Classic Video Movie
+ Nice old musical film
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Bombardier
Randolph Scott, Pat O'Brien
Turner Home Entertainment, 1993
Underrated World War II Classic!
This underrated war film was made in 1943, in the middle of World War II, and thus it has a wartime hyperpatriotism lacking in many of the WWII films made in the 1950's. It follows a group of bombardier hopefuls through training and their first big mission in a B-17 squadron. The film was intended ...
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Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
Fredric March, Alexis Smith
MGM (Warner), 1998
PLEASANT NOSTALGIA.
+ Good Twain Bio for forties Hollywood
Twain was someone who lived a full life in his 75 years. He was a Mississippi riverboat man in his early years, and he experimented with gold mining in California. As a writer of growing stature, he courted and won the well-bred Olivia Langdon who traveled with Twain around the world. Twain was in ...
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Riding High
Eddie Kidd
Lions Gate/Live Home Video, 2002
Riding High~Eddie Kidd
This film was filmed in my local town and the jump over the vaiduct is 5 mins away from my house.
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Johnny Come Lately
James Cagney, Grace George
Republic Pictures, 1997
What a wonderful story!
+ Johnny Come Lately
This movie has everything, what a great story! Cagney of course delivers another one of his best performance's. Alot of people don't realize that Cagney made alot of (otherthangangster) movies where he can make you laugh, cry and feel good all in one. This one is that type. I miss you MR. CAGNEY!
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Two Girls & A Sailor
June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven
MGM (Warner), 1998
Review 2Girls and a Sailor
+ Sing Away the War
+ Can't help but be amazed with June and GLoria
+ Ageless classic
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