Rachel Rachel

Joanne Woodward can do no wrong - at least when it comes to acting. As the sexually repressed spinster schoolteacher in Rachel Rachel (1968), Woodward expresses emotion with a raised eyebrow or a torrent of tears. She earned the Golden Globe and ga...

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Rachel Rachel, DVD

Joanne Woodward can do no wrong - at least when it comes to acting. As the sexually repressed spinster schoolteacher in Rachel Rachel (1968), Woodward expresses emotion with a raised eyebrow or a torrent of tears. She earned the Golden Globe and ga...

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Raging Bull, DVD

One can often tell when a movie is going to be worthy by the opening film score. The music intro of Raging Bull €“ "Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo" by the Orchestra of Bologna Municop Thetra, notes such a forecast. Direction by Martin ...

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Rain Man

The Special Edition DVD of Rain Man (1988)  once again offers a chance to see one of those movies you can see over and over again. The genius in this film of Tom Cruise as Charlie and Dustin Hoffman as his brother, Raymond, keeps viewers laughing l...

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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! DVD

This satire on suburban living doesn't seem as funny today as it probably was in the 1950s, but the all-star cast of Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Joan Collins are hard to keep your eyes off of. The story about a woman (Woodward) to busy do...

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Ride The High Country

Ride the High Country (1962) is one of Sam Peckinpah's most enjoyable Westerns. The story is about Steve Judd (Joel McCrea), an aging lawman and his former friend Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) who agree to transport gold from a Sierra Nevada min...

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Ride the High Country DVD

Ride the High Country (1962) is one of Sam Peckinpah's most enjoyable Westerns. The story is about Steve Judd (Joel McCrea), an aging lawman and his former friend Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) who agree to transport gold from a Sierra Nevada min...

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Road House DVD

  Road House (1948), a film noir classic, stars one of the queens of noir, Ida Lupino. She is outstanding as the lounge singer who tears apart an old friendship with fatal results. The film contains the elements necessary ...

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Road to Morocco, DVD

Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour hit the road again in Road to Morocco (1942). This time the road winds its way through dunes and the transportation is a camel; but the three stars manage to sift through the sand to dig up lots of laughs. ...

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Romance On The High Seas

The romantic comedy/musical Romance On The High Seas starring Doris Day starts with the wedding of socialite Elvira (Janis Page) to Michael Kent (Don DeFore, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo). While walking down the aisle she sees him making eyes at someo...

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