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The Wizard of Oz (Special Edition)
»rank: 10960
Chroniques et points de vue:Form[D[D:When it was released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939, The Wizard of 0z didn't start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while 0z's TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home video has made this lively musical a mainstay in the staple diet of great American films. Young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), ...
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The Wizard of Oz (Two Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 11049
Chroniques et points de vue:From :When it was released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939, The Wizard of 0z didn't start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while 0z's TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home video has made this lively musical a mainstay in the staple diet of great American films. Young Dorothy Gale (Judy ...
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Kitty Foyle
»rank: 27471
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:After initially rejecting the role as too sentimental, Ginger Rogers found the title character of Kitty Foyle to be an 0scar winner and a career breakthrough. Released in 1940, only a year after her nine-picture partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Kitty Foyle helped establish Rogers as a nonmusical box-office star. The film portrays a white-collar working girl who receives a warm and welcome marriage proposal from Mark (James Craig), a kindly but humble doctor. As soon as she accepts, however, she receives a different proposition, this ...
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In Old Chicago
»rank: 24841
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 0ld Chicago was 20th Century Fox's grandest production of 1938, and it's still worthy of classic status. Along with MGM's 1936 earthquake drama San Fracisco, it ranks among the finest of the early disaster films, and the climactic depiction of the great Chicago fire of 1871 is still impressive, with some shots that are just as amazing as the digitally rendered disaster effects of present-day Hollywood. lt's a highly fictionalized account of the 0'Leary family, whose legendary milk-cow kicked over the lamp that set Chicago ablaze, ...
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Taylor and Taylor
»rank: 24841
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 0ld Chicago was 20th Century Fox's grandest production of 1938, and it's still worthy of classic status. Along with MGM's 1936 earthquake drama San Fracisco, it ranks among the finest of the early disaster films, and the climactic depiction of the great Chicago fire of 1871 is still impressive, with some shots that are just as amazing as the digitally rendered disaster effects of present-day Hollywood. lt's a highly fictionalized account of the 0'Leary family, whose legendary milk-cow kicked over the lamp that set Chicago ablaze, ...
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A Lawless Street
»rank: 29282
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt would be nice to say that hiring Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo) to direct A Lawless Street led to its becoming a classic Randolph Scott Western. Can't do it. At this point in his career, Randy was cutting corners as star-producer, scoping out his next oil well, and not worrying that a blind grandma could see he was being doubled in the fight scenes. Scott plays a town marshal who's had enough of 'taming the beast,' just when greedy men are conspiring to ...
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