Casablanca HD DVD

Casablanca HD DVD Special Features How very interesting that Casablanca, a film viewed by Warner Brothers in 1943 as nothing special, and one that producer Hal B. Wallis had wanted to cast Ronald Reagan, Dennis Morgan and Ann Sheridan as the...

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Cat and the Canary, The (1927)

An old, dark house. A lunatic on the loose. A fortune people will do anything to get their hands on. These are the ingredients comprising one of Universal's earliest screen shockers, 1927's silent feature The Cat and the Canary. You may be ...

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Cat and the Canary, The (1939)

In The Cat and the Canary (1939) Bob Hope is teamed with Paulette Goddard in a spooky, haunted house mystery/comedy. The little kids will enjoy it for the scariness, the adults will relish the laughs. What makes this film stand out is the clever on...

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Cat and the Canary, The, DVD

In The Cat and the Canary (1939) Bob Hope is teamed with Paulette Goddard in a spooky, haunted house mystery/comedy. The little kids will enjoy it for the scariness, the adults will relish the laughs. What makes this film stand out is the clever on...

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Cat People

Cat People (1942), starring Simone Simon and Kent Smith, is a shining example of the sort of innovation producer Val Lewton brought to the horror genre. Pretty much just given a title and asked to create a movie from scratch, Lewton seized the oppo...

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China Seas DVD

Cruising has come a long way since 1935 when Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Rosalind Russell sailed from Hong Kong to Singapore on a ship crewed by drunks and incompetents in China Seas. The attire of the passengers is elegant, the ship's ameniti...

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Christmas in Connecticut

We forget that Christmas movies need not necessarily be all about Christmas. The genre tends to get a bum rap, the work of crass comedies filled with holiday hokum and phony sermons about the yuletide spirit. 1945's Christmas in Connecticut man...

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Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll

It's sad to see the definition of "rock 'n' roll" currently being stretched to the breaking point. In any  retailer's electronics section are scores of albums by people who can   play instruments but who can    hardly  be ...

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane (1941) is an enigma. Movie fans in general seem to ignore it when talking about their favorite films, yet it continually shows up as #1 or in the top five on TOP MOVIES OF ALL TIME lists. Clearly, it's not a warm and fuzzy film. Bu...

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Cowboy and the Lady, The

We've seen this plot before. Many times before. Pampered woman weds an ordinary man. Even the title, The Cowboy and the Lady, makes it clear what this film is about. However, this 1938 film, starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon,  starts out wi...

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