James Cagney thrills in a rare (and limber) song-and-dance performance as composer-entertainer George M. Cohan. This nostalgic biography is told in flashbacks, covering Cohan’s formative years becoming Broadway’s brightest star and touching upon his loves, musicals, and artistic triumphs. Director Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood) offers Cagney ample opportunities to invent an utterly [...]
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Yankee Doodle Dandy – COLORIZED [VHS]
Posted by admin on July 9th, 2010
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Posted by admin on July 4th, 2010
British actress Pauline Collins repeats her stage success as the character Shirley Valentine, a married woman who decides in her middle years that she wants more out of life. Leaving her spouse behind, she heads to Greece, where she grows close to a low-key, local bloke (Tom Conti). Collins and director Lewis Gilbert (Educating Rita) [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: british-actress, educating-rita, intimate-atmosphere, lewis-gilbert, married-woman, pauline-collins, shirley-valentine, stage-success, tom-conti, tom-keogh, warm-presence Comments OffRobin Hood (A Walt Disney Masterpiece) [VHS]
Posted by admin on June 26th, 2010
A minor classic from Disney, this 1973 all-animal, all-animated musical version of the familiar story is more charming than one might expect. Perhaps it’s the warm, chummy take on key relationships within the legend–the way Robin Hood (Brian Bedford) gets twitterpated whenever the subject of Maid Marian (Monica Evans) comes up or the way best [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: andy-devine, animation-division, brian-bedford, george-lindsey, jungle-book, maid-marian, monica-evans, peter-ustinov, phil-harris, rich-legacy, roger-miller, sherwood-forest, terry-thomas, thomas-george, tom-keogh, walt-disney, wolfgang-reitherman Comments OffAlice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection) [VHS]
Posted by admin on June 24th, 2010
Imaginatively rendered but slightly chilly, this 1951 Disney adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is also appropriately surreal. Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) has all the anticipated experiences: shrinking and growing, meeting the White Rabbit, having tea with the Mad Hatter, etc. Characterization is very strong, and the Disney team worked hard to bring screen [...]
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Posted by admin on June 17th, 2010
Roald Dahl’s modern classic for children becomes a delightful combination of live action and stop-motion animation by the team that made The Nightmare Before Christmas: director Henry Selick and producers Tim Burton (Batman) and Denise Di Novi. The story concerns young James (played for real and through voice-overs by Paul Terry), who is orphaned and [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: creepy-crawly, dance-numbers, david-thewlis, delightful-combination, henry-selick, jane-leeves, joanna-lumley, miriam-margolyes, pete-postlethwaite, randy-newman, richard-dreyfuss, roald-dahl, simon-callow, tim-burton, tom-keogh Comments OffScarlett (Special Collector’s Editon) [VHS]
Posted by admin on May 30th, 2010
This soapy but highly watchable television “sequel” to Gone with the Wind, the most popular Hollywood movie ever made, has nothing to do with memories of a vanished antebellum South. But it does end up in Ireland, where the determined Scarlett O’Hara Butler (played with frosty passion by Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) turns hard times into an [...]
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Posted by admin on May 19th, 2010
Disney’s 1992 animated feature is a triumph of wit and skill. The high-tech artwork and graphics look great, the characters are strong, the familiar story is nicely augmented with an interesting villain (Jafar, voiced by Jonathan Freeman), and there’s an incredible hook atop the whole thing: Robin Williams’s frantically hilarious vocal performance as Aladdin’s genie. [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: animated-feature, classic-vhs, gilbert-gottfried, jonathan-freeman, linda-larkin, love-story, robin-williams, scott-weinger, title-character, tom-keogh, vhs-disney, vocal-performance, walt-disney Comments OffLast of the Dogmen [VHS]
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2010
Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought was necessary to make sense of the story (it wasn’t), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barbara Hershey) search for the descendants of a Cheyenne tribe who [...]
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Posted by admin on May 11th, 2010
Disney’s first animated feature in CinemaScope is now available in widescreen presentations on video, and it is definitely good to get the whole picture. One of the studio’s most original and charming movies, the 1955 film tells the story of a rakish, street-smart dog named Tramp, who helps an aristocratic pooch named Lady out of [...]
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Posted by admin on May 5th, 2010
Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is sabotaged by [...]
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