Princess Nine Vol. 1: First Inning (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
Princess Nine Vol. 1: First Inning (DVD)
Ryou Hayakawa is without a doubt the best high school pitcher in Japan, possessing a blistering fastball that will shatter the bat of anyone able to catch up with it. Ryou is also a girl, making her something of an oddity and unfortunately giving her fewer opportunities to play professional ball. However, this changes when Keiko Himuro, the president of a powerful corporation, decides to put together a female baseball team. Selecting Ryou along with two other players and a manager, Keiko charges them with putting together the best female baseball team on the planet. However, Ryou finds that doing so won`t be so easy when Izumi, Keiko`s famous daughter, begins resenting her and one of the best male baseball players in Japan begins to take more than a professional interest in her.NR"
A Farewell to Arms (DVD)
Frank Borzage`s drama is the original, highly acclaimed film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway`s 1929 novel about the poignant, ill-fated wartime romance between an American paramedic and an English nurse in WWI. This skillfully crafted film features two of the premiere stars of 1930s Hollywood--Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes--in the leads.NR"
Director: Frank Borzage
ACTORS: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack LaRue
Lilies (DVD)
A Catholic bishop is taken hostage in a prison by his boyhood friend, Simon, in 1952. Simon forces his boyhood friend to reenact the events that shaped both their lives forty years earlier.R"
ACTORS: Jason Cadieux, Matthew Ferguson
Death of a Prophet: The Last Days of Malcolm X (VHS/EP)
This film follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X. Fanatics tried to firebomb his home. They tried to murder him while he slept. Why was he so hated? Where were the police on the day of his assassination? How did his killers manage to escape?NR"
Director: Woody King
ACTORS: Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King
Rembrandt (DVD)
A character study focusing on the later life (particularly at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s) of Rembrandt Van Rijn is depicted through a series of vignettes. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt`s work took on a new darkness, which soured many of his patrons but remains amongst his most memorable work.NR"
Director: Alexander Korda
ACTORS: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Gertrude Lawrence, Edward Chapman, Roger Livesey
