Create new memories that will last a lifetime as you experience the dazzling animation and timeless storytelling of Disney's Sleeping Beauty. The legend that transcends time begins with the glorious celebration of Princess Aurora's birth - a joyful event that makes Maleficent one of the most spectacular villains ever extremely jealous. As the years pass and the princess grows into a beautiful and graceful young woman three Good Fairies do their best to protect Aurora. But alas on her 16th birthday Aurora pricks her finger on an enchanted spinning wheel and falls under Maleficent's spell and into a deep sleep. Only brave Prince Phillip can defeat a fire-breathing dragon and battle his way to the tower to awaken the princess from her dreams. Magic adventure and romance all spin together in Disney's ultimate fairy tale. Special Features: Music and More: 'Once Upon A Dream' Music Video by Emily Osment Disney Song Selection Backstage Disney: Princess Fun Facts Grand Canyon The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
Stanley Kubrick's 1961 version of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's notorious 1953 novel, prompted a scandal in its day: even to address the issue of paedophilia on screen was deemed to be as perverted as the hapless protagonist Humbert Humbert. James Mason plays Humbert, the suave English Professor whose gentlemanly exterior peels away as quickly as his scruples once exposed to Sue Lyons' well-developed teenage beauty. In order to be close to her, he marries her mother, the lonely and pathetically pretentious Charlotte (Shelley Winters) only for her to expire conveniently, leaving Humbert free to embark on a motel-to-motel trek across America with Lolita in tow, evading suspicions that theirs is more than a father-daughter relationship. Peter Sellers, meanwhile, gives a Dr Strangelove-type tour de force performance as Clare Quilty, a TV writer also in pursuit of Lolita, who harasses Humbert under several guises, including a psychiatrist. As a movie, Lolita is flawed, albeit interestingly so. The sexual innuendo (a summer camp called Camp Climax, for example) seems jarring and pointless, while Sellers' comic turn detracts from any sense of guilt, tension or tragedy. It's as if the real purpose of the film is to offer a sort of silent, mocking laughter at the wretched Humbert and systematically divest him of his dignity. By the end, he is a babbling wretch while Sue Lyons' Lolita is pragmatic and self-possessed. It's Mason and Lyons' performances, which lift the film from its mess of structural difficulties. Decades on, their central relationship still makes for pitifully compulsive viewing. On the DVD: Few extras, sadly, though the brief original trailer is excellent, built around the question, "How could they make a film out of Lolita?". The original black and white picture and mono sound are excellent. --David Stubbs
Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of 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 sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Malificent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke, Amazon.com
The timeless classic "Sleeping Beauty" celebrates its 50th Anniversary by awakening on DVD. It also marks the first Disney Platinum title to be released on Blu-ray. Both DVD and Blu-ray are available to buy from Monday 27th October, 2008
Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of 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 sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Maleficent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke, Amazon.com
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers. In particular he must handle the difficulties created by a reckless hot-shot pilot named Woody Jason who not only wants to fight a one-man war but to waltz off with Gordon's girlfriend too.
Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of 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 sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Malificent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke, Amazon.com
A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep which can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. This classic makes wondrous use of Tchaikovsky's same-titled ballet score.
The timeless classic "Sleeping Beauty" celebrates its 50th Anniversary by awakening on DVD. It also marks the first Disney Platinum title to be released on Blu-ray. Both DVD and Blu-ray are available to buy from Monday 27th October, 2008
Led by bounty hunter Gypsy Smith a US army detatchmentattempts to capture a suspected Indian renegade in a Cheyenne camp. But the mission goes wrong and there's a bloody massacre. Smith finds a small child called White Wolf among the bodies and takes him to the Maxwell family. The boy grows up not fully Indian not fully white but fully in love with the Maxwell's daughter Rachel to the disapproval of her father. Years later Gypsy Smith reappears leading a group of black settlers and White Wolf (or Corby - his 'white' name) joins them to try to return to his own people. A magnificent epic drama that tackles the issues of racism love and conflict in the Wild West of the 1880's.
A collection of war films starring the iconic John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. The Fighting Seabees 3. The Flying Tigers 4. Back to Bataan 5. Jet Pilot 6. The Flying Leathernecks
Izzy (Robin Tunney) is a young photographer and her partner Peter (Joel Edgerton) is assistant professor at an LA university. Newly engaged and madly in love they find their idyllic world shattered by a random act of violence. But there is more than one victim to this indiscriminate crime as Izzy's parents the eccentric Arlene (Cybill Shepherd) and sportswriter John (Elliott Gould) together with Peter's mercurial father Eddie (Scott Wilson) all become affected by the events. Can the couple and their close circle of family and friends find the strength to recover from the trauma? They key is not about looking at what happened but looking to what happens next.
Limited Edition 'Watch and Play' Pop-Up Package with character cutouts. Only available for a very short time at time of release. First time on 2-disc Platinum Edtion. Never seen before expanded version of the film.
An entertaining and insightful one-hour look at the friendly rivalry between Mr. Blue Suede Shoes and Mr. White Buck Shoes who dominated the pop charts in the 1950s. As Pat himself puts it 'I was the salt and he was the pepper'. Included are rare film TV and newsreel clips plus revealing interviews with such luminaries as Dick Clark Tom Jones Glen Campbell Kenny Rogers Phyllis McGuire Bill Medley Arlene Dahl Joe Esposito Shirley Jones and the legends themselves: Elvis and Pat Boone.
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