Romance never dies. Sam (Andrew Lincoln) and Baggy (Andrew Rajan) share a house in London play cricket visit the pub and watch porn. It's not much of a life but it's better than coal mining. Sam secretly wants to be a singer and has a deeper interest in his friend Alison than he's willing to admit. Baggy? He's never been able to trust a girl since his fiance jilted him at the altar - besides married women seem safer. Of course commitment is a lot harder than smoking a
Born Yesterday was the box-office comedy hit of 1950 and won a Best Actress Oscar for the exceptional Judy Holliday, recreating her long-running Broadway triumph as Billie Dawn, the quintessential dumb blonde who finally gets herself some smarts. The film resonates with the sophisticated sparring in Garson Kanin's script and there are tightly controlled performances from William Holden as the cynical journalist hired to polish Billie up for Washington society and Broderick Crawford as Harry Brock, her rough, crooked and ambitious boyfriend. But Born Yesterday is Holliday's picture, as she runs the gamut from brassy insouciance to tentative, vulnerable enlightenment. She hasn't thought of her estranged father in five years: "It's nothing against him. I haven't thought of anything in five years." Her gradual awakening to the realisation that she is a stooge for Brock's corrupt business deals, and the way she sheds her chorus girl's intellect in the face of growing political awareness, are brilliantly traced. Holliday's dead-pan delivery makes the pathos of her self-discovery both hilarious and deeply touching; it's the hallmark of a comic genius, which makes the sparseness of her subsequent film appearances all the more regrettable. On the DVD: Born Yesterday is presented in full screen (1.33:1) ratio. Like the mono soundtrack, the black and white picture quality has triumphantly survived its more than half century. Extras include a gallery of vintage advertisements and an original theatrical trailer, plus filmographies and welcome, comprehensive booklet notes. --Piers Ford
This spectacular retelling of Gaston Leroux's immortal horror tale stars Claude Rains as the masked phantom of the Paris opera house - a crazed composer who schemes to make a beautiful young soprano the star of the opera company and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
Cross 'Romeo & Juliet' with the Demolition Derby and you have 'Grand Theft Auto' Ron Howard's directorial debut produced by Roger Corman. Can a young runaway couple get hitched in Vegas before two sets of parents a jealous boyfriend a private dick and a mob of bounty hunters catch them?
Lots of action and an abundance of music take center stage in this classic Roy Rogers' western. The action takes place in the frontier town of Caliente California shortly after that state's admittance to the Union. It is a turbulent time when land-hungry settlers fortune hunters and outlaws threaten the existence of the Old Spanish dons and their sprawling ranchos. Roy stars as the right-hand man for one of the Spanish aristocrats Don Miguel (Frank Puglia). Another of the original Spanish-Americans Delgado (Jack LaRue) robs Don Miguel's son of $40 000 and places the blame on the upstart American settlers. It's up to Roy to settle accounts which he does in an exciting fight at the edge of the ocean.
The Desert Trail: A rodeo star joins his gambling friend in a few adventures including being unjustly accused of robbery. They fight to prove their innocence by travelling to Poker City to uncover the truth. The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit by a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father... Paradise Canyon: An undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeit
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