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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Hayley Mills,
Maureen O'Hara,
Brian Keith,
Charles Ruggles,
Una Merkel
Director:
David Swift
Hayley Mills is the two-fer star of this original version of the 1961 Disney comedy. The young actress plays twin sisters originally unaware of each others' existence and who later determine to bring their divorced parents together again by secretly trading places. Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara bring some adult legitimacy to their roles as the wary parents, Joanna Barnes is a good sport as dad's new and despised girlfriend, and director David Swift makes the whole production sprightly, warm, and fun. --Tom Keogh
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Spencer Tracy,
Joan Bennett,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Don Taylor,
Billie Burke
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
This 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic may show its age here and there, but it's still a far sturdier movie than the 1991 Steve Martin vehicle. Spencer Tracy earned yet another Oscar nomination for his wonderfully well observed portrayal of Stanley Banks, a decent (if occasionally long-winded) fellow who gets caught up and cut up in the rudderless spectacle that is the wedding of his only daughter (Elizabeth Taylor, of course). It's a sage commentary on the class mores of the day--how much does one spend? (Or, more accurately, when does one quit spending?) Does one invite one's work colleagues, even if they don't know the bride? Tracy is simply magnificent, gruffly warm and ...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Linda Darnell,
Cornel Wilde,
Richard Greene,
George Sanders,
Glenn Langan
Director:
John M. Stahl, Otto Preminger
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Judith Anderson,
Florence Bates,
Nigel Bruce,
Leonard Carey,
Leo G. Carroll
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence Olivier is dashing and weak, fierce and cowed. Joan Fontaine is strong yet submissive, defiant yet accommodating. There isn't a false moment or misstep, but the film must have killed the employment outlook of a...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Jean Simmons,
Stewart Granger,
Deborah Kerr,
Charles Laughton,
Kay Walsh
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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Hayley Mills,
Maureen O'Hara,
Brian Keith,
Charles Ruggles,
Una Merkel
Director:
David Swift
The Parent Trap Original Disney Movie. Includes Animated Short Donald's Double Trouble.
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Cary Grant,
Eva Marie Saint,
James Mason,
Jessie Royce Landis,
Leo G. Carroll
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959) is Alfred Hitchcock at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite"; seminal Hitchcock critic Robin Wood (in his book Hitchcock's Films Revisited) makes an airtight ca...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lana Turner,
Kirk Douglas,
Walter Pidgeon,
Dick Powell,
Barry Sullivan
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
In The Bad and the Beautiful, Kirk Douglas plays a tyrannical, manipulative producer fallen on hard times. To get back on his feet, he asks for help from three Hollywood giants whose careers he helped launch--a director (Barry Sullivan), an actress (Lana Turner), and a writer (Dick Powell). Unfortunately, they all hate him. Flashbacks explain why. Douglas had been close to all three at different points in his career: He and the director started out together making B-movies, he gave the wayward actress her first starring role, he turned the novelist into a successful screenwriter. Then in one way or another he stabbed each of them in the back, though not always del...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Merle Oberon,
Laurence Olivier,
David Niven,
Flora Robson,
Donald Crisp
Director:
William Wyler
One of the most compelling tragic romances ever captured on film, Wuthering Heights is an exquisite tale of doomed love and miscalculated intentions. Though only half of Emily Bronte's classic tale of Heathcliff and Catherine was filmed by director William Wyler, it lacks for nothing. The story begins when a Yorkshire gentleman farmer brings home a raggedy gypsy boy, Heathcliff, and raises him as his son. The boy grows to love his stepsister Catherine, with catastrophic results. Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon were perfectly cast as the mismatched lovers, with Olivier brooding and despairing, Oberon ethereal and enchanting. This won cinematographer Gregg Tol...
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
John Agar,
Mara Corday,
Leo G. Carroll,
Nestor Paiva,
Ross Elliott
Director:
Jack Arnold
When the radiation-spawned giant ants of Them! swarmed over American screens to become one the most successful films of 1954, it didn't take long for the rest of the insect kingdom to follow suit. The best of these mutant bug movies is Jack Arnold's giddy Tarantula, with Leo G. Carroll as a scientist whose experimental, radiation-treated nutritional supplements transform the title creature into a rampaging monster. The hungry arachnid graduates from rabbits to cattle to people as it grows and creeps across the barren countryside in search of food, dwarfing the desert hills in simple but unsettling special effects shots. John Agar plays the square-jawed docto...
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