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A magical, musical nanny brings a breath of fresh air into the stuffy Banks household in turn-of-the-century England. Overstuffed with gaiety, this children's fantasy is filled to the brim with wonderful dance numbers and outrageous songs (such as...
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Mary Poppins (DVD - 1964)
45th Anniversary Special Edition
1964 - Musical & Performing Arts Rating: Write a Review
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Though not quite on a par with the same-titled film starring Alistair Sim, this version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is still a moving version of the classic story. A wealthy miser learns how wonderful and fulfilling life can be with a little generosity at...
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A Christmas Carol (DVD - 1938)
1938 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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This collection presents nine classic Sherlock Holmes movie adaptations starring four different actors (Basil Rathbone, Arthur Wontner, Raymond Massey, and Reginald Owen) in the role of the titular sleuth: THE WOMAN IN GREEN, TERROR BY NIGHT,...
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The Classic Sherlock Holmes Collection (DVD - 2009)
2009 - Horror/Suspense Rating: Write a Review
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A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk, the...
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Mrs. Miniver (DVD - 1942)
1942 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Now known simply as FASHIONS, the lavish Warner Bros. musical FASHIONS OF 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of William Powell and Bette Davis. It all begins when genial con artist Sherwood Nash (Powell) transfers his base of operations from...
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Fashions of 1934 (DVD - 1934)
1934 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Can an estranged couple ever hope to rekindle the fires of their past romance? Performer Julia Packett answers her daughter Susan's wedding invitation and travels to France for the ceremony. Julia has not seen Susan since she was a tot, but...
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Julia Misbehaves (DVD - 1948)
1948 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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THE LETTER was the first film version of the Somerset Maugham play of the same name. Broadway star Jeanne Eagels plays the wife of Reginald Owen, the owner of a Malayan rubber plantation. The film opens with Eagels shooting a man (Herbert Marshall)...
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The Letter (DVD - 1929)
1929 - Action/Adventure Rating: Write a Review
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in MRS. MINIVER to star instead in the insignificant trifle WE WERE DANCING. Loosely based on two Noel Coward playlets originally presented as part of the omnibus production TONIGHT AT 8:30,...
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We Were Dancing (DVD - 1942)
1942 - Comedies Rating: Write a Review
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This adaptation of Marcia Davenport's romantic novel tells the story of Mary Rafferty, a young Irish woman who works as a maid for the wealthy Scott family. Although the clan has become rich through the steel mine they own in Pittsburgh, they face...
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The Valley of Decision (DVD - 1945)
1945 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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On the eve of WWII, a newlywed couple (MacMurray and Crawford) about to embark on their honeymoon are suddenly given an important assignment by the British Secret Service. Despite a total lack of previous espionage experience, their mission is to...
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Above Suspicion (DVD - 1943)
1943 - Action/Adventure Rating: Write a Review
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A peripatetic World War II romance with a little tragedy and plenty of Hollywood-style propaganda stirred into the mix. Nice-but-boring Kirk Davis is head over heels in love with pretty blonde reporter Paula Lane. Their romance fizzles and fraternal...
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Somewhere I'll Find You (DVD - 1942)
1942 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Can a pampered, publicity-hating heiress find true love with a reporter? And just how far will he go to get a story? In this star-studded wacky adventure comedy, Michael (Clark Gable) and Barnabas (Franchot Tone), two rival foreign correspondents,...
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Love on the Run (DVD - 1936)
1936 - Comedies Rating: Write a Review
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This movie still sets the standard for what musicals should be. The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography. As if the big story and all-star cast weren't enough, they threw in...
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The Great Ziegfeld (DVD - 1936)
1936 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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A lavish period drama about Napoleon's romance with the Polish countess Marie Walewska. When the French general takes a fancy to Marie, her husband and countrymen urge her to take him as her lover. Their reason is practical: Poland needs Napoleon's...
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Conquest (DVD - 1937)
1937 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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This collection presents nine classic Sherlock Holmes movie adaptations starring four different actors (Basil Rathbone, Arthur Wontner, Raymond Massey, and Reginald Owen) in the role of the titular sleuth: THE WOMAN IN GREEN, TERROR BY NIGHT,...
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The Classic Sherlock Holmes Collection (DVD - 2009)
2009 - Horror/Suspense Rating: Write a Review
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This movie still sets the standard for what musicals should be. The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography. As if the big story and all-star cast weren't enough, they threw in...
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The Great Ziegfeld (DVD - 1936)
1936 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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"Paris. May 9, 1940. The ninth night of the ninth month of a war too uneventful to be taken seriously and too far away to worry about," says the opening legend of Jules Dassin's REUNION IN FRANCE. While the indolent French upper class enjoy its...
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Reunion in France (DVD - 1942)
1942 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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A group of daring adventurers set out in a unicorn-shaped balloon on a trip across the African continent. During their perilous travels they battle everything from sandstorms to Sultans. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon (DVD - 1962)
1962 - Action/Adventure Rating: Write a Review
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Gene Kelly and Judy Garland star in this swashbuckling musical, brilliantly directed by Vincente Minnelli. A cloistered young girl in the Caribbean, who's about to enter into an arranged marriage with an older man, dreams only of a famous pirate --...
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The Pirate (DVD - 1948)
1948 - Musical & Performing Arts Rating: Write a Review
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Based on the novel by James Hilton (whose LOST HORIZON and GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS had already been made into profitable films), this lavish MGM show features Ronald Colman as a soldier who has lost his memory. He escapes from the hospital to find...
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Random Harvest (DVD - 1942)
1942 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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