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553,430 | 989,035 | 44,075 | 7 | The dramatic narrative doesn't quite hang together , but the performances and presentation are often incredible . . . | Stark , brutal Warner Bros . drama about the Ku Klux Klan , in much the same vein as the studio's " Black Legion " from 1937 ( and with curious echoes of Tennessee Williams ' " A Streetcar Named Desire " , written in 1947 ) . Fashion model from New York checks in on her recently-married kid sister once she's down South... |
553,088 | 989,035 | 59,540 | 7 | Groovy , atmospheric melodrama | Ordinary crime plot , written by Zekial Marko from his novel " Scratch a Thief " , is given vivid , hyperkinetic Ralph Nelson direction , beginning in a jazz club with a drum solo that is crazy-cool . Marko and Nelson really lay on the mid-'60s jive , but Nelson's quasi-European handling and groovy cinematic tricks mak... |
550,856 | 989,035 | 36,377 | 7 | Religious drama rakes the heart . . . | In 1858 Lourdes , a young girl causes an unintentional furor after she claims to have seen a holy vision in an unkept grotto and travels there every day to pray . Lovely Jennifer Jones is perfect in the lead , bolstering an occasionally wayward narrative that spend perhaps too much time on the town-naysayers who think ... |
551,567 | 989,035 | 70,797 | 7 | Thoughtful , compelling TV-movie . . . even with all the clichés | Dory Previn wrote the teleplay ( and the songs ) for this Hugh Hefner-produced television drama about an aging chorus girl ( Kim Novak , looking stunning ) coming to a crossroads in her life : her thirteen-year relationship with a popular lounge singer is going nowhere , and the club where she works is going topless . ... |
550,786 | 989,035 | 120,514 | 7 | Wonderfully bright , cynical , jaded , and romantic biopic | The mid-life years of ( now genteel ) decadent behavior by one of late Victorian England's celebrities , the Irish-born novelist-poet-playwright Oscar Wills Wilde ( 1854 ? 1900 ) . Director Brian Gilbert doesn't bandy about giving us the childhood torments of a literary genius ; instead , he and screenwriter Julian Mit... |
551,575 | 989,035 | 103,074 | 7 | Despite some fundamental weaknesses , it has really held up over time . . . | Two accidental female fugitives elude the police while attempting to drive across the Southwest to Mexico . Filmmaker Ridley Scott shows a terrific talent for directing women here , and the performances by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis are almost uncanny . One can hardly believe that these two haven't been friends for... |
553,468 | 989,035 | 41,929 | 7 | An exceptional western . . . | Paramount's remake of their own 1936 western " The Texas Rangers " has three small-time stagecoach robbers separated after tangling with a sniveling extortionist and his cohorts in 1879 Texas ; two of the men inadvertently join the Texas Rangers and find that working for the right side of the law really suits them , wh... |
551,993 | 989,035 | 41,890 | 7 | One of Walt Disney's personal favorites | A boy-and-his-sheep story , set on a farm at the turn of the century , and a valentine to childhood . This family film from Walt Disney opens , literally , with help from a collection of animated greeting cards . It proceeds from there with bits of animation accentuating the story of a likable youngster entering his be... |
553,411 | 989,035 | 120,772 | 7 | Sensitive straight / gay romance pre - " Will & Grace " | Despite a downright peculiar finish which gives new meaning to the term ' feel-good ' , " The Object of My Affection " is a careful , perceptive and insightful comedy-drama about a straight woman and her gay-male best friend living together . Keeping the obvious sex-jokes at bay , the movie strives to create three-dime... |
552,624 | 989,035 | 539,221 | 7 | Packed with plot . . . and plenty of sexy action | Some of these early episodes of " Charlie's Angels " have enough plot for a TV movie . . . with the strong production elements and supporting cast worthy of a television feature . A tragic auto accident out on the dustbowl racecar circuit leads the Angels to believe there was dirty-pool being played out on the track , ... |
553,146 | 989,035 | 539,211 | 7 | I won't dance . . . don't ask me | The Angels infiltrate a dance studio that fronts for a blackmail partnership between the owner , the star dance teacher , and a sleazy local detective . Farrah Fawcett-Majors ' Jill poses as a disco instructor ( " A little hustle , a little bump , and a little freelance , " she says at her job interview ) ; Jaclyn Smit... |
552,849 | 989,035 | 41,587 | 7 | Witty , intelligent drama . . . | Three society wives ( all close friends ) receive a letter stating that a fourth friend has run off with one of their husbands . Cynical , but exceptionally rich , occasionally quite humorous and enjoyable soaper featuring good work from Jeanne Crain , Linda Darnell , Ann Southern , and a young , green Kirk Douglas . C... |
552,782 | 989,035 | 120,789 | 7 | Inconsistently developed , but clever , magical and amusing | Once they magically enter the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom , squabbling siblings Reese Witherspoon and the ingratiating Tobey Maguire instinctively bring with them their ' 90s sensibilities , which causes havoc and miracles . Strange though that the residents of Pleasantville are immune to miracles . Gary... |
553,524 | 989,035 | 32,811 | 7 | Convincing war-time drama packs quite a punch . . . | Brave , hard-hitting adaptation of Phyllis Bottoms ' novel concerns tight-knit German family in 1933 Europe who are suddenly ( and violently ) torn apart by the invading Nazis once Hitler rises to power . A shattering chapter in history is vividly recalled by director Frank Borzage and a terrific cast including James S... |
551,648 | 989,035 | 539,250 | 7 | Terrific title for a middling episode . . . the Angels suffering from a case of the blahs | Not-bad episode of the TV detective series from Leonard Goldberg and Aaron Spelling concerns a hospital beset with an attempted rapist high on a new stimulating drug ( Hycodroxcin ! ) . The Angels get on board right away : Jill and Kelly posing as student nurses , Bosley as a patient - - with an actual bone spur in his... |
552,762 | 989,035 | 110,912 | 7 | Kinetic and sneaky , narcotizing and primal . . . | Quentin Taranatino co-wrote , directed and co-stars in this flamboyant , literate , byzantine drama which is structured like a dime-store novel . John Travolta and Samuel L . Jackson are Los Angeles hit-men , Uma Thurman is a gangster's girl whom Travolta is asked to entertain , Bruce Willis plays a boxer on the run af... |
553,601 | 989,035 | 59,037 | 7 | McQueen is the king | Thoroughly entertaining gambler's flick has Steve McQueen well-cast as stud-poker player involved in sweat-inducing winner-take-all poker tournament in New Orleans ; Edward G . Robinson is the card-playing master who is Steve's main competition , Tuesday Weld is Steve's innocent squeeze , Ann-Margret is a sultry flooze... |
551,641 | 989,035 | 539,238 | 7 | Cluttered script fails to flesh out the large cast of characters . . . but the girls look great | An ambitious episode of the detective series which might have been better as a two-hour special , or a TV-movie ; there simply isn't time on the clock to do justice to all these ideas . The Angels investigate a modeling agency after a startling beauty ( a " dead ringer " for Kelly ) is found strangled with a rag doll (... |
551,931 | 989,035 | 72,400 | 7 | Intelligently-crafted doomsday thriller on a tight budget . . . | Thoughtfully considered , well-acted made-for-TV drama stars Peter Graves as a family man on an excavation excursion with his kids in the California mountains who survives a radioactive blast followed by an earthquake ; slowly , the family comes to realize the astronomical proportions of the accident when they get back... |
550,941 | 989,035 | 97,351 | 7 | Old-fashioned corn given new Hollywood sheen | Iowa farmer and his wife are the laughing stock of their small town after he plows over acres of his corn field to build a baseball diamond . Why ? Because a whole plan has been set into motion , and Ray and his farm are the lucky ones chosen . A meaningful experience for moviegoers , especially men , touches upon ever... |
551,475 | 989,035 | 111,102 | 7 | Has familiar themes , but it is eloquently told . . . | Chris Menges , who in 1992 directed the very fine , unusual Goldie Hawn drama " CrissCross " , takes on another curious , strangely moving film with " Second Best " . William Hurt plays a single , middle-'40's postman in a Welsh village who wants to adopt a boy . We learn why , and we also learn why the young boy who's... |
551,365 | 989,035 | 79,948 | 7 | A smart , sophisticated movie that unfortunately palls with 30 minutes to go | Although puzzlingly slow-moving , " Starting Over " is a gentle , funny film about a newly-divorced man attempting to date again . I loved it when Burt Reynolds ( in a benign but amiable performance ) hits the furniture store to fill up his apartment , but then sits in his studio surrounded by all the new pieces and no... |
551,519 | 989,035 | 120,689 | 7 | A sterling drama ; complex and surprisingly emotional . . . | Lengthy but well-realized , highly absorbing adaptation of a serialized Stephen King novel concerning prison guards in the 1930's who are profoundly touched by one Death Row inmate . Unpleasant subject matter ( and several vile supporting characters ) don't detract from the emotional value of the piece , which is profe... |
550,858 | 989,035 | 561,419 | 7 | Amo Que Paso ? | Annette Funicello does her second guest turn on Walt Disney's television serial " Zorro " ( this episode being part of the " Disneyland " series , separate from the regular two-season run of " Zorro " ) . She plays a young miss from Santa Clara who arrives to visit her adoptive " uncle " Don Alejandro who , along with ... |
551,783 | 989,035 | 89,853 | 7 | Depression-era fantasy , heavily-padded but with lovely moments . . . | Mia Farrow gives one of her best performances as Cecilia , a Depression-era waitress with her head in the clouds who gets dumped on over and over ; after a miraculous situation comes her way and promises a better life , she has to choose between reality and fantasy . . . although some outcomes are predestined . Luminou... |
552,616 | 989,035 | 72,251 | 7 | Thoroughly gripping despite glum production . . . | Robert Shaw leads a group of stooges in the violent hijacking of a New York subway train ; Walter Matthau is the acerbic detective assigned to the case . Nearly-perfect urban thriller adapted by the ingenious Peter Stone from John Godey's book . The atmosphere is charged with tension throughout ; one can almost taste t... |
550,466 | 989,035 | 120,696 | 7 | Fast , exciting action flick with possibly too much shooting ( and everyone a bad shot ! ) | Christian Slater plays an armored truck guard who has to deal with thieves , the crooked police , a fierce Indiana rainfall , and a flooded town while trying to protect three million dollars in the company vehicle . Well-done action flick isn't epic-scale , but does have many suspenseful close-calls and colorful charac... |
551,683 | 989,035 | 97,521 | 7 | Ragged but interesting | Unusual film was wrongly advertised as a wacky comedy ; it is actually a surprisingly sensitive and light-on-its-feet drama about friendship . Mentally backward man ( James Belushi , in his best performance ) hits the road with an escaped female mental patient named Eddie ( Whoopi Goldberg ) who has a brain tumor and k... |
552,500 | 989,035 | 32,981 | 7 | Serious-comedy with the offbeat Sturges touch . . . | Shoplifting young woman in New York City is nearly sent to the pokey over the holidays , but is rescued by the prosecuting attorney on the case , who takes her home for Christmas . Mitchell Leisen directs a screenplay by Preston Sturges ; despite reported trouble between the two , Leisen seems to completely understand ... |
551,852 | 989,035 | 52,561 | 8 | Masterful courtroom drama , impeccably cast . . . | Otto Preminger's film-version of John D . Voelker's book is perhaps the ultimate cinematic courtroom showdown , one which has little to do with the actual case of an Army soldier on trial for killing his wife's alleged rapist . James Stewart ( as the small town defense attorney ) and George C . Scott ( as the high-powe... |
551,722 | 989,035 | 61,184 | 8 | Boozy rage , hard-fought battles , empty triumph | A fading professor and his boozy , malicious wife invite a nervous , innocuous young couple over for drinks . . . and so begins a wrenching battle of wits . It's a night of spite and malice , practically medieval torture in the verbal form . Were it not for the evocative cinematography and the amazingly raw performance... |
550,648 | 989,035 | 147,612 | 8 | Sex : it's on everyone's mind ! | The sexual foibles , perversities and hang-ups of a trio of sisters , their parents , neighbors and friends - - told in a low , slightly monotone , key . It's a rich carousel of scared , scary lives with an inter-connecting pattern : the disillusionment of coupling - - and how one keeps trying to succeed in this depart... |
551,798 | 989,035 | 95,686 | 8 | Golden Girl goes solo ! | Bea Arthur is wonderful ( as always ) playing a widow who becomes reacquainted with her high school squeeze ; trouble is , he's got a relationship going with a young sexy thing , but may just dump the nubile girl for this older , more sensuous woman . One of the best lines has Arthur dressing herself up for a date in f... |
552,607 | 989,035 | 175,880 | 8 | Byzantine collection of California lives | Absorbing , shocking , grandiose , overwrought . . . words that only fitfully describe a generally undefinable movie about different characters in California . It is filmed with such sweeping passion , such oddly nuanced grace , that I was willing to overlook some of the nastiness in the handling and the long sections ... |
553,288 | 989,035 | 78,330 | 8 | Terrific TV thriller . . . | Lois Duncan's young-adult mystery novel " Summer of Fear " gets a fine , if low-budget , television treatment , capably directed by Wes Craven . Intriguing story features an appealing Linda Blair playing popular young woman and horse-rider whose family takes in her orphaned cousin - - a perplexing girl who harbors secr... |
552,960 | 989,035 | 217,869 | 8 | Masterful film-making | A perversely enjoyable unease permeates this psychological thriller from writer-director M . Night Shyamalan , here following his commercial success with " The Sixth Sense " in top form . A comic book connoisseur with an alarming , lifelong bone density deficiency befriends a security guard who was recently the only su... |
553,318 | 989,035 | 78,269 | 8 | Bullseye ! | Technically mediocre , but an adrenaline-fueled crime-thriller adapted from Anders Bodelsen's book " Think of a Number " . Bank employee Elliott Gould dupes bank robber Christopher Plummer out of a small fortune , leading to a head-spinning game of cat-and-mouse . Gould and Plummer both do career-peak work , with Plumm... |
550,628 | 989,035 | 95,270 | 8 | Nostalgia gone askew | John Waters reveals a somewhat more sentimental side with " Hairspray " , a movie several people have told me they absolutely hated . I wondered what it was about Waters ' style as a filmmaker that could provoke such anger ? I think it's his affection for ' 60s movie-clichés transposed through nostalgia and Waters ' ow... |
550,527 | 989,035 | 70,321 | 8 | Stella Stevens in perfectly shrewish " Poseidon Adventure " mode | After seeing " The Poseidon Adventure " in 1972 , I had a new favorite actress : I thought Stella Stevens stole the show ! So it was a wonderful surprise to see this TV-film advertised on ABC's Movie of the Week - - just a few months after I had ' discovered ' this fantastic lady . It all begins with Stella gunning a w... |
551,112 | 989,035 | 166,924 | 8 | Eerie , provocative take on Bergman's " Persona " . . . | Complex , byzantine drama with sexual heat , and nearly impossible to describe . David Lynch's purposefully over plotted sex-drama plows ahead with its confusing minutiae ( and Lynch's penchant for personal fetishes ) as if we all feel the same way . His story , about a bright-eyed , naive young woman arriving for the ... |
552,546 | 989,035 | 43,456 | 8 | Although rather naïve today , it is hands-down the best sci-fi drama of the 1950s . . . | Director Robert Wise takes a clichéd thematic approach to this science-fiction drama about an outer space visitor who escapes military confines and goes to live amongst regular American citizens , to hopefully find out why we're so cynical a race and eventually spread his message of peace . This is the type of ' 50s no... |
553,387 | 989,035 | 113,280 | 8 | He's a man so shy , he doesn't even think he deserves love . . . | Solemn , but terrific mood piece about a shy , chubby cook in a rivertown restaurant who fantasizes about getting to know the new waitress who just hired on , a perky young thing with long brunette hair and a big charming smile . Graceful film never goes the commercial route , injecting shady characters into the mix or... |
552,176 | 989,035 | 87,482 | 8 | Tough on Hollywood | Say what you will about the Shyer-Meyers team ( " Private Benjamin " , " Father Of The Bride " , " Baby Boom " ) , they know how to craft a movie , often exploiting every ounce of sentiment from their scripts . " Irreconcilable Differences " is somewhat of a departure for them however , a depiction of neurotic movie pe... |
552,974 | 989,035 | 53,221 | 8 | Long but cheerful , colorful Howard Hawks western . . . | A marvelous , rather witty oater in old Hollywood's best style . Dean Martin plays a drunken Texas sheriff saddled with a volatile situation : he's got custody of a killer who's in league with his strong arm brother , a well-known rancher who promises to set him free ; the sheriff enlists the aid of a drifting cowboy ,... |
553,598 | 989,035 | 96,091 | 8 | Surprisingly touching | This TV-movie begins like most others in the good-girl-goes-bad vein , but it drew me in regardless . It's quickly apparent that " Shattered Innocence " is a well-made , well-acted and written picture and it really caught me off guard . The young woman whose innocence is shattered is based on real-life porn-star Shauna... |
551,916 | 989,035 | 60,445 | 8 | Goofy , fast-paced , innocuous | Minor fun featuring Shirley MacLaine as a cabaret dancer who gets a chance to become a key player in a major heist masterminded by thief extraordinaire-wannabe Michael Caine . It has lots of twists and surprises , and it's fun , but the sleek , more serious opening moments prepare you for a totally different picture th... |
552,354 | 989,035 | 78,444 | 8 | Mazursky's penchant for the sublimely ridiculous gives the film a wafty comic undertone . . . | An acting triumph for Jill Clayburgh , playing a N . Y . C . wife and mother whose husband tells her he's fallen in love with another woman . Brittle , biting , funny , and moving serious-comedy benefits from a screenplay which is sometimes strangely over-the-top and yet nearly always on-track emotionally . In his dete... |
553,231 | 989,035 | 452,594 | 8 | Rather like a raucous " Flintstones " extension . . . but the serious edge gives it so much more substance | A Chicago tour guide and his live-in girlfriend , an art gallery seller , have a messy split , but neither wants to leave their condo . Viewers expecting a wacky romantic comedy with lots of nutty behavior will pretty much get what they want for the better part of an hour . Yet , this surprising film has a tough , edgy... |
552,218 | 989,035 | 60,390 | 8 | Engrossing , underrated sci-fi | From Ray Bradbury's novel about totalitarian society that has banned books and printed words in order to eliminate independent thought ; Oskar Werner plays professional book-burner who becomes enraptured with stories . Possibly a bit too thin at this length , but a fascinating peek at a cold future ( which the times ha... |
550,969 | 989,035 | 192,387 | 8 | Fascinating restoration and behind-the-scenes gossip . . . | Chronicling the restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterwork " Vertigo " , we get background information and amazing behind-the-scenes photographs and gossip about one of the greatest films ever made . I loved getting to see those rare pics of Hitch in San Francisco , and that original cover of the French novel " D'ent... |
553,104 | 989,035 | 529,650 | 8 | Hoss and the Scarlet Lady . . . | Unbeknownst to him , Hoss Cartwright has fallen in love at first sight with a woman of ill-repute ( played in an extremely polite manner by Gena Rowlands ) who is visiting her sister from racy San Francisco . This being 1963 , the writers can't use the words ' jezebel ' or ' prostitute ' , but the point is made clear w... |
551,625 | 989,035 | 51,201 | 8 | Courtroom drama par excellence . . . | The combination of Agatha Christie's play , Billy Wilder's fluid direction , and superlative performances by Charles Laughton , Marlene Dietrich , and Tyrone Power combine to make this film quite extraordinary , if outré . Laughton plays a brandy-swilling English barrister defending Power on the charge of murder ; Diet... |
553,294 | 989,035 | 78,966 | 8 | Crackerjack thriller ! | Intelligent , nail-biting drama came out of nowhere in 1979 and soon was on the cover of every newspaper in America ( when life imitated the film ) . A nuclear power plant employee in Southern California is threatened by superiors when he decides to go public with the real story behind an accident at the plant . Ostens... |
552,055 | 989,035 | 79,033 | 8 | Viva Vaccaro ! | Brenda Vaccaro never really fit into any conventional Hollywood mold ; even a brief stint as Michael Douglas ' real-life girlfriend didn't get her major press , so the lady had to find her own way . Terrific early spots in " Midnight Cowboy " and the Robert Mitchum mood piece " Going Home " didn't quite afford her a fo... |
553,597 | 989,035 | 71,360 | 8 | Coppola's best film | Ingenious and mesmerizing little art film from Francis Ford Coppola , just off " The Godfather Part II " and doing astounding , fluid work . Gene Hackman gives a superbly controlled performance as a wire-tapper who gets too involved in one of his cases , leaving him in the center of a macabre swirl of events . One of t... |
552,264 | 989,035 | 183,531 | 8 | An eyeful ! and what eyes ! | Nancy Sinatra's TV special ( originally aired on the night of Dec . 11 , 1967 ) has arrived on DVD in immaculate condition . It has built up such a mystique over the years that most people probably expect GENIUS . Well , there's a touch of genius in it . It's campy , most of all , and could benefit from better pacing ,... |
551,340 | 989,035 | 71,315 | 8 | It's a flaw . . . in the iris . . . | Seminal classic of ' 70's cinema , with Jack Nicholson excellent as a mostly-ethical ex-cop turned private detective in 1930's Los Angeles who believes he's been hired by the wife of the Chief Engineer of the Water and Power Department ; she thinks her husband's cheating on her but , as it turns out , she's not the rea... |
552,376 | 989,035 | 335,266 | 8 | Any movie with aimlessness at its core is going to seem straying to some . . . | Despite an occasional misstep , I felt writer-director Sofia Coppola's sure-hand throughout this rather lovely film about isolation finding an outlet in admiration . While not a love story per se , " Lost in Translation " is very romantic and charming as it ambles along , bringing two kindred spirits together . Coppola... |
551,981 | 989,035 | 86,425 | 8 | Quirky characters who eventually grow on you | The shifty , funny / serious tone of " Terms Of Endearment " caught a lot of people off guard in 1983 and word-of-mouth about it being a seriously good tearjerker / comedy was strong ( opening near Christmas probably didn't hurt it come Oscar time either ! ) . But since then , TV sitcoms have been mining this kind of f... |
550,463 | 989,035 | 335,119 | 8 | Not without flaws , but beautifully presented | Wide-eyed , hard-working young woman in Holland circa 1665 leaves home for a job as scullery maid to a painter and his family ; quickly , she becomes the artist's secret assistant and muse , eventually posing for Vermeer's famous title-named portrait . Stunning art direction , lively pacing and an absorbing narrative a... |
551,361 | 989,035 | 79,813 | 8 | Hey Kate , I'm getting some static ! . . . . " Not as much as you're going to get . " | P . J . Soles should have become a big star after playing Riff Randall , # 1 fan of the punk rock group the Ramones . She's so exuberant , you don't care that she's obviously too old to still be in high school ( that fact is leveled out by having all the high schoolers look 24 ) . It's a fast-paced frolic that doesn't ... |
550,797 | 989,035 | 59,837 | 8 | Not really camp , more in the line of grisly good fun ! | Connie Stevens once again shows what a fine , natural actress she is , here playing a young lass from Wisconsin who must spend seven nights in her late father's house of horrors before she can receive her inheritance ; Dean Jones plays a reporter who smells a story and befriends the easily-spooked girl . Terrific secon... |
551,591 | 989,035 | 79,417 | 8 | Very calculated and pressed out , but some of the manufactured heart is indeed moving . . . | The marriage of an upscale New York City couple with child falls apart when the wife wants out ( " It took a lot of courage for her to walk out that door ! " a neighbor tells us ) ; the busy , distracted husband takes on the " motherly " responsibilities and grows closer to his son , but soon the wife returns . Highly ... |
551,749 | 989,035 | 44,223 | 8 | Pure lyrical nonsense ! | Both ridiculous and magical , this is a comedic fantasy which really works . Former armed forces dog - - a German Shepherd who just inherited a fortune from a wealthy people-hater - - is poisoned and dies , reincarnated soon as a private detective out to solve his own murder . This set-up may sound an awful lot like th... |
550,529 | 989,035 | 70,828 | 8 | James Brolin : a television hero | Forget " Marcus Welby " ! When I think of James Brolin , I instantly recall a host of terrific movies he did right in a row in 1972-73 : " Skyjacked " , " Westworld " , the TV-film " Short Walk To Daylight " , and this compact little thriller . After being mugged and knocked unconscious by teenagers in a department sto... |
553,485 | 989,035 | 120,338 | 8 | A technical marvel , it also manages to be emotionally charged and involving | I half-expected an overwrought concoction of incredible high drama , but James Cameron's fictionalized film of a real incident from 1912 is nearly free of derivative devices or sappy puppy love issues . Before the infamous ocean liner perishes in the icy Atlantic Ocean , two passengers - - third-class gadabout Leonardo... |
552,226 | 989,035 | 59,243 | 8 | Excessive , expensive , but undeniably shrewd and funny . . . | Blake Edwards ' tribute to silent-era slapstick , a live-action cartoon about a turn-of-the-century auto race , is full of wild gags , pratfalls and fast talk . The film really engages the viewer in its hammy mix of comedic elements and the cast is very game . The autos and locations are wonderful , but the film runs t... |
553,399 | 989,035 | 59,043 | 8 | A quiet menace | William Wyler's rather even-keeled thriller about a psychopath who , upon winning a lotto pool , takes up residence in an isolated manor and kidnaps a beautiful co-ed , keeping her in a hidden room / dungeon . There are no melodramatic hysterics , no crazy-eyed antics , no gory slashings . . . just a straightforward st... |
552,276 | 989,035 | 219,699 | 8 | Haunting and deliciously involving | Southern psychic and single parent Cate Blanchett is pulled against her will into the logistics of a popular local girl's disappearance . Although the brutality inherent in the script is laid on with a trowel , " The Gift " has many mesmerizing moments , not the least of which is the casting of luminous Blanchett , sen... |
553,147 | 989,035 | 539,207 | 8 | I have the feeling one of us is gonna get to play call-girl . . . | This episode of Aaron Spelling's " Charlie's Angels " , only the tenth show of the program's first season , already knew how to exploit Farrah Fawcett-Majors ' appeal to budding male ( and female ) teenagers : put her on a skateboard and have her roll for her life ! The Angels are assigned to the case of a missing man ... |
551,698 | 989,035 | 539,260 | 8 | Sounds like an inside job . . . | Wealthy Grace Rodeheaver of Los Angeles hires Townsend Investigations to uncover the identity of the person ( or persons ! ) responsible for stealing expensive jewelry out of her wall-safe . . . without leaving so much as a fingerprint ! Immediately , detectives Jill , Kelly , Sabrina , and ever-faithful John Bosley di... |
552,271 | 989,035 | 72,431 | 8 | Incredible cast and production design , erratic script | I would be hard-pressed to find another comedy with a cast this good . Everyone ( Gene Wilder , Madeline Kahn , Marty Feldman , Peter Boyle , Cloris Leachman , Teri Garr , Gene Hackman , Kenneth Mars ) sparkles in their own realm of dementia here - - especially Wilder , whose brand of mayhem uncorks at whim and sometim... |
551,765 | 989,035 | 41,473 | 8 | Appealing Christmas confection ! | Bright and engaging holiday-themed romantic comedy has single mom Janet Leigh wooed by two men over the holidays : devil-may-care Robert Mitchum ( who really does have a sardonic demon in his eyes ! ) and staunch , dull Wendell Corey . Poor Corey really has a thankless role here , not only playing the third wheel but b... |
551,253 | 989,035 | 72,226 | 8 | Early Goldie , early Spielberg , both first-rate . . . | Petty crook is busted out of jail by his determined-yet-reckless wife ; seems their infant son has been farmed out to a wealthy couple while the two were behind bars and the Mrs . wants her baby back now . There's a scene midway through " The Sugarland Express " that still takes my breath away : Goldie Hawn and William... |
552,087 | 989,035 | 375,063 | 8 | Masterful blend of comedic , dramatic and romantic elements . . . | Alexander Payne directed and adapted Rex Pickett's book about two former San Diego college chums , a schoolteacher and a TV actor , taking a week off for some rest and relaxation up in California's Santa Barbara County , planning to attend a wine-tasting convention but hooking up with two lovely ladies who have no idea... |
551,939 | 989,035 | 58,997 | 8 | More surprising than the outcome is how well Carol Lynley holds her own against Laurence Olivier ! | Carol Lynley does some fabulous work here as American woman newly arrived in England whose little daughter is apparently kidnapped from school on her first day . The catch is , nobody knows the child and Lynley is having trouble proving she even exists ! Terrific mystery from director Otto Preminger , an uneven filmmak... |
551,592 | 989,035 | 755,155 | 8 | Terrific episode featuring spunky Annette Funicello . . . | Available on VHS under the title " The Mystery of Don Cabrillo " , this is a terrific episode from Walt Disney's " Zorro " TV series . Wonderfully spunky Annette Funicello guest stars as a pretty , but seemingly confused young girl , perhaps a pathological liar , arriving in Los Angeles from Spain and attempting to rec... |
550,627 | 989,035 | 52,278 | 9 | One of Clark Gable's best films - - Doris's too | Classy , rapid-fire comedy that combines " His Girl Friday " with any one of the Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn battle-of-the-sexes . The set-up of the plot is rather hoary and contrived ( gruff city editor of a New York newspaper - - who is so anti-education that he hates the smell of chalk - - falls for a journali... |
552,870 | 989,035 | 70,291 | 9 | You don't have to move . . . . . . if you're smart enough | Superb whodunit with all the pieces right there for you to place : James Coburn is wicked as the cunning gamester inviting to his yacht the failed screenwriter ( Richard Benjamin ) , his alcoholic wife ( Joan Hackett , in a sympathetic performance ) , the catty agent ( Dyan Cannon , more wired than ever before ) , the ... |
552,163 | 989,035 | 52,357 | 9 | From among the dead . . . | Alfred Hitchcock's " Vertigo " has a narcotizing effect , a lulling , dream-like ambiance that is hard to shake off , which may explain why many viewers keep returning to it . Retired police detective James Stewart meets and makes over a woman who reminds him of his only true love - - a suicidal woman he lost , but per... |
552,015 | 989,035 | 104,466 | 9 | A sucker punch to marriage | ' Mature ' is an apt description of this drama written and directed by Woody Allen , centering on a New York couple whose relationship hits a wall after finding out their best friends are splitting up . It's an often gut-wrenching picture that doesn't shy away from some really tough scenes and emotions . That said , I ... |
550,521 | 989,035 | 43,274 | 9 | Maybe not as " charming " as most Disney films . . . | . . . and certainly " Pinocchio " had a more popular and memorable song score , but for my money I'd pick " Alice In Wonderland " as one of Walt Disney's top achievements in animation . From Lewis Carroll's story , and filled with knock-out colors ( pinks and blues and reds on inky blacks ) , this episodic tale would n... |
552,181 | 989,035 | 53,172 | 9 | The wildest behind in New York City ! | A party-line turns an interior decorator and a songwriting ladies ' man into enemies - - that is , until he gets a look at her . When Doris Day is forced into a nightclub by a junior-suitor , she makes the best of it and does a shimmy on the dance-floor in a tight white dress - - you can't blame Rock Hudson ( at a near... |
550,880 | 989,035 | 60,463 | 9 | First-class slapstick and romance | Is this Doris Day's best movie ? Probably not , but it is one of her funniest and I laughed more here than at any of her bedroom comedies from this era . Fashionably advertised as a spy comedy - - it's really not ( there's one spy late in the film ) - - it features our Doris as a kooky widow with a menagerie of pets wh... |
552,281 | 989,035 | 94,540 | 9 | The whine of a harmonica , the shriek of laughter born of pain . . . | A terrifically intense dramedy which features possibly the most realistic familial unit in TV sitcoms , not to mention a marriage between Roseanne and Dan Connor ( Roseanne and John Goodman ) which is pin-point exact , warm and right - - and feels lived in . All non-believers have to do is watch a few episodes : the ti... |
553,106 | 989,035 | 59,982 | 9 | Heartbreaking Buffy | Brian Keith proved to be so good working with little kids : he is warm and paternal , tough but never rigid , always bemused by their antics and reassuring everyone with his calming smile when their spirits were down . When Buffy makes friends with some kids from the bad section of town , Uncle Bill buys her hand-me-do... |
551,913 | 989,035 | 59,793 | 9 | Slick , smoothly-done laugh-getter | Not only does this Disney comedy feature the least-objectionable performance by Dean Jones EVER , it also has Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine as a wonderfully kooky pair of suburban sisters AND a fantastic feline hero . This Siamese cat is just gorgeous , and it's a lot of fun watching the bumbling humans trying to ta... |
551,116 | 989,035 | 70,903 | 9 | Hollywood schmaltz or deeply felt love story ? | Actually , " The Way We Were " is both , and happily so . It's a classy romantic period drama about a 1940s wallflower in New York who blooms in love with her ex-jock boyfriend ( an old acquaintance from their college days ) , and the movie overflows with star-power . None of today's celebrities have the kind of chemis... |
552,277 | 989,035 | 79,522 | 9 | A fresh , funny , askew ( if flawed ) valentine to love's aftertastes . . . | Say what you will about Woody Allen , he knows how to write dialogue for women particularly well . They are seldom condescending or man-hating , they are just as flaky and scattered as the men they love , and their feelings are never prettied up nor put down . The female-roles in " Manhattan " for Diane Keaton , Mariel... |
553,110 | 989,035 | 90,106 | 9 | Intelligent , heartbreaking drama | Movies about suicide are certainly not going to be pleasant from the outset ( and I know several people who refused to watch " Surviving " simply because of its theme ) , but I think viewers will find something special here . Ellen Burstyn plays a doctor's wife and mother who clouds her life with activity so that she c... |
551,650 | 989,035 | 539,255 | 9 | One of the better written episodes of the show's sterling first season . . . | The Angels come to the rescue of blackmail victims who have been instructed to play poker at an out-of-county casino and lose heavily with each monthly visit ; the gambling action takes Jill , Sabrina , Kelly , and faithful Bosley to Las Vegas , where Kelly poses as a showgirl , Sabrina is a tax auditor , and Jill is a... |
552,142 | 989,035 | 70,510 | 10 | But . . . I . . . don't . . . have it ! . . . " Then get it ! " | Exceptionally winning and entertaining film , a lovely piece of yesterday groomed by extraordinary cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs and director Peter Bogdanovich . Adapted by Alvin Sargent from the novel " Addie Pray " , story of a con-artist in the Depression who gets saddled with a streetwise orphan doesn't mess with m... |
551,723 | 989,035 | 69,704 | 10 | Seems almost an accidental classic | I don't know if George Lucas really knew what he had in this picture - - surely the script seemed funny enough , and the thought of the cars and the period music was enticing - - but did he really know these " unknown " actors who bring these characters to life ? It seems almost a fluke , shot in 29 days and on a tight... |
550,948 | 989,035 | 473,215 | 10 | Brief but exquisite ; one of the most amazing documentaries you'll ever see . . . | Theatrically-released documentaries today seek to inform and ( most importantly ) entertain and amuse us , and for the most part they do a very good job . But how about a documentary experience which is something so personal , so special , it has the viewer reexamining his formative years ? This PBS valentine to educat... |
552,353 | 989,035 | 71,115 | 10 | Martin Scorsese in a rare romantic mood ! | Starring the incomparable Ellen Burstyn , giving an Oscar-winning performance ( one of the finest of the 1970s ) , this comedy-drama is gritty and tough , but never off-putting . After her husband dies , 35-year-old Alice Hyatt from New Mexico and her smart-mouthed 11-year-old son Tommy take to the road , chasing her g... |
552,780 | 989,035 | 94,721 | 10 | Has a crazy rhythm all its own | It may take two or three viewings to warm up to " Beetlejuice " . It has a kooky , cockeyed sensibility and a rhythm that is by turns easy , lazy and frenetic . A charming couple in New England die and come back to their beloved home as ghosts , determined to rid the place of the horrendous new tenants . Possibly the m... |
445,746 | 1,048,771 | 78,504 | 2 | Jawdroppingly bad . . . appalling is more like it ! ! ! | What must have looked good on paper turned out to be a case of bad concept , bad design , bad acting , bad singing , and the worst choreography ever seen in a major musical ! ! THE WIZ is so appallingly bad in its execution , that it staggers the imagination to think that anyone would think this film could make money a... |
445,355 | 1,048,771 | 385,560 | 2 | Insufferable . . . schlock of the worst kind . . . a stupid waste of time . . . | SCHLOCK would have been a better title for this absurd excursion into a poor excuse for a fright flick . Nothing redeems it . Not the story , the sub-par acting from a mostly teen cast , the witless dialog , the tired old explanation for all the goings on , and the complete lack of logic . Whenever things get dull , an... |
445,323 | 1,048,771 | 233,274 | 3 | Dreadfully artificial bio of the world's most famous child star . . . | Did we all see the same movie ? ? ? I can't believe the raves some of the others are giving this really awful bio which , believe or not , was authorized by Shirley Temple herself , based on her book CHILD STAR . Gives me the feeling that some are awfully easy to please . First of all , ASHLEY ROSE ORR , whatever her m... |
447,116 | 1,048,771 | 77,890 | 3 | There's no magic for Lassie in this dull story . . . | When THE MAGIC OF LASSIE opened at Radio City Music Hall , I was foolish enough to believe it would be as heart-warming as some of the first Lassie films were . Not . The story was abysmal , the songs by the Sherman brothers were way below their usual level , the characters were uninspired and JAMES STEWART and MICKEY ... |
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