Classic VHS Movies
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Beauty and the Beast (A Walt Disney Classic)
Price: $7.40
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White Directed By: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman. |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney's Masterpiece)
List Price: $26.99 Now Only: $4.25 You Save: $ 22.74 (84%)
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Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Roy Atwell, James MacDonald (II), Marion Darlington, Otis Harlan, Billy Gilbert Directed By: David Hand Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the brightest nuggets from Disney's golden age, this 1937 film is almost dizzying in its meticulous construction of an enchanted world, with scores of major and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct identity. When you watch Snow White's intricate, graceful movements of fingers, arms, and head all in one shot, it is not the technical brilliance of Disney's artists that leaps out at you, but the very spirit of her engaging, girl-woman character. When the wicked queen's poisoned apple turns from killer green to rose red, the effect of knowing something so beautiful can be so terrible is absolutely elemental, so pure it forces one to surrender to the horror of it. Based on the Grimm fairy tale, Snow White is probably the best family film ever to deal, in mythic terms, with the psychological foundation for growing up. |
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Price: $32.49
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Bing Crosby Directed By: Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the brightest nuggets from Disney's golden age, this 1937 film is almost dizzying in its meticulous construction of an enchanted world, with scores of major and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct identity. When you watch Snow White's intricate, graceful movements of fingers, arms, and head all in one shot, it is not the technical brilliance of Disney's artists that leaps out at you, but the very spirit of her engaging, girl-woman character. When the wicked queen's poisoned apple turns from killer green to rose red, the effect of knowing something so beautiful can be so terrible is absolutely elemental, so pure it forces one to surrender to the horror of it. Based on the Grimm fairy tale, Snow White is probably the best family film ever to deal, in mythic terms, with the psychological foundation for growing up. |
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Sleeping Beauty (Fully Restored Limited Edition) (Walt Disney's Masterpiece)
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Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy Directed By: Clyde Geronimi Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. |
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A Town Like Alice
Price: $29.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Starmaker Entertainment Starring: Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, Dorothy Alison, Yuki Shimoda Directed By: David Stevens Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. |
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Fantasia (Walt Disney's Masterpiece)
List Price: $24.99 Now Only: $5.60 You Save: $ 19.39 (78%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, James MacDonald (II), Walt Disney, Julietta Novis Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Ford Beebe Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas, and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are simply glorious, such as "Night on Bald Mountain," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and "The Nutcracker Suite." The animation ranges from subtly delicate to fiercely bold. |
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Rachel, Rachel
Price: $25.00
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons, Donald Moffat Directed By: Paul Newman Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas, and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are simply glorious, such as "Night on Bald Mountain," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and "The Nutcracker Suite." The animation ranges from subtly delicate to fiercely bold. |
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The Little Mermaid (Fully Restored Special Edition) (Disney's Masterpiece)
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Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards Directed By: Ron Clements, John Musker Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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From the moment that Prince Eric's ship emerged from the fog in the opening credits it was apparent that Disney had somehow, suddenly recaptured that "magic" that had been dormant for thirty years. In the tale of a headstrong young mermaid who yearns to "spend a day, warm on the sand," Ariel trades her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch (classically voiced by Pat Carroll), for a pair of legs. Ariel can only succeed if she receives true love's kiss in a few day's time and she needs all the help she can from a singing crab named Sebastian, a loudmouth seagull, and a flounder. The lyrics and music by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken are top form: witty and relevant, and they advance the story (go on, hum a few bars of "Under the Sea"). |
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Cinderella (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection)
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Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Disney's adaptation of the beloved fairy tale became a classic in its own right, thanks to some memorable tunes (including "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," and the title song) and some endearingly cute comic relief. We all know the story--the wicked stepmother and stepsisters simply won't have it, this uppity Cinderella thinking she's going to a ball designed to find the handsome prince an appropriate sweetheart, but perseverance, animal buddies, and a well-timed entrance by a fairy godmother make sure things turn out all right. There are a few striking sequences of pure animation--for example, Cinderella is reflected in bubbles drifting through the air--and the design is rich and evocative throughout. It's a simple story padded here agreeably with comic business, particularly Cinderella's rodent pals (dressed up conspicuously like the dwarf sidekicks of another famous Disney heroine) and their misadventures with a wretched cat named Lucifer. |
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Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection)
List Price: $24.99 Now Only: $4.79 You Save: $ 20.20 (81%)
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Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 personality to Carroll's eccentric creations. For a Disney film, however, it seems more the self-satisfied sum of its inventiveness than a truly engaging experience. --Tom Keogh. |
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