Mystery & Suspense VHS Movies
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12 Angry Men
Price: $12.89
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Ossie Davis, Courtney B. Vance Directed By: William Friedkin Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The Uninvited
Price: $89.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MCA/Universal Home Video Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney Directed By: Lewis Allen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the spookiest ghost stories ever put to film, The Uninvited is also one of the few classic haunted-house movies to treat the subject with respect and seriousness. Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey play a brother and sister who leave the city to live in a beautiful old house dramatically perched on a cliff overlooking the Cornish coast. As they discover some of the house's peculiarities--the unexplained chill that settles in certain rooms, the aroma of mimosas that wafts through the house, flowers that wilt when brought inside--they are told by local girl Gail Russell that the house is haunted, by the spirit of Russell's mother no less. The rationalist city folk first scoff at the idea but as Milland slowly falls in love with the frightened girl he investigates the legends and discovers some startling hidden truths. |
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Separate But Equal
Price: $11.11
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Republic Pictures Starring: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Cleavon Little, Gloria Foster Directed By: George Stevens Jr. Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its "eyes off the prize" while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision. It was the culmination of a lengthy, legally complex, and morally compelling struggle that began humbly in South Carolina in 1950, where future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Sidney Poitier)--then a New York-based lawyer for the NAACP--fought on behalf of an underprivileged black community facing social injustice despite the 1896 decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) that promised "separate but equal" treatment in the wake of slavery's abolition. |
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The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley - The Case of the Christmas Caper
List Price: $9.98 Now Only: $8.99 You Save: $ 0.99 (10%)
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Publisher: Dualstar Video Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The Olsens put on a big birthday celebration with lots of friends and make the viewer feel invited. Singing, games, presents, cake--it's all here. The focus is once again on the girls as celebrities (and therefore as products, like dolls), and that shtick can be a little wearing when so much of the show is concerned with underscoring their self-conscious cuteness. --Tom Keogh. |
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Bronx Tale
Price: $9.48
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Savoy Pictures Starring: Patrick Borriello, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Clem Caserta, Robert D'Andrea Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight- arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. De Niro makes his directorial debut with this production and, except for a little stiffness, does very well by the characters and their world. The story does not go precisely where one might expect it to go: Palminteri knows better than to force the central figure to choose between the two most important men in his life, and he doesn't fill time with stock drama about crime or family conflict. Joe Pesci makes an extremely effective and uncredited appearance at the end as a man who doesn't have to do more than speak softly to communicate how dangerous he is. --Tom Keogh. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Widescreen)
Price: $9.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White Directed By: Robert Mulligan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defense of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. |
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Notorious
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Fay Baker, Ingrid Bergman, Wally Brown, Louis Calhern, Ricardo Costa (II) Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of Alfred Hitchcock's classics, this romantic thriller features a cast to kill for: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains. Bergman plays the daughter of a disgraced father who is recruited by American agents to infiltrate a post-World War II spy ring in Brazil. Her control agent is Grant, who treats her with disdain while developing a deep romantic bond with her. Her assignment: to marry the suspected head of the ring (Rains) and get the goods on everyone involved. |
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Verdict (1982)
Price: $19.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea Directed By: Sidney Lumet Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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In this 1982 courtroom drama written by David Mamet and directed by Sidney Lumet, Paul Newman found the perfect role for a transitional period of his stellar career. As alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank Galvin, Newman shook off his screen persona as a handsome, blue-eyed hunk to portray an aging, weary man whose best years are behind him, with a shot-glass future that looks very bleak indeed. But when Galvin is given a chance to redeem himself--by proving medical negligence in the case of a comatose woman--he makes one final effort to regain his self-respect and tarnished reputation. He's an underdog against formidable odds, facing a powerful, politically connected lawyer (James Mason, slick as ever) who will do anything to win his case, regardless of professional ethics. |
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The Godfather Collection
List Price: $44.85 Now Only: $12.49 You Save: $ 32.36 (72%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Paramount Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Throughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as The Godfather Saga. The films are our very own Shakespearean cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic tone. |
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Mother Goose Rock N Rhyme
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Lyons / Hit Ent. Starring: Harry Anderson, Cyndi Lauper, Brian Bonsall, Elayne Boosler, Bobby Brown Directed By: Jeff Stein Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Mother Goose is missing from Rhymeland and it's up to Little Bo Peep and Mother Goose's son, Gordon, to find her. What is Rhymeland? It's the land of nursery rhymes created by Mother Goose. Problem is, if Mother Goose isn't around to keep the nursery rhymes alive, Rhymeland and its inhabitants will simply disappear. In this colorful, somewhat demented place, rock stars masquerade as Mother Goose characters and provide a whole new, if somewhat strange, perspective on classic rhymes. |
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