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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (DVD)
Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) is a mad scientist who has built a bunch of blond bimbo robots. Soon he is using them to lure drooling millionaires, who cannot resist their charms, to his lair. Once inside, these wealthy suckers are so enamored with the robots` assets that they don`t mind signing over their own.NR"
Director: Norman Taurog
ACTORS: Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart, Fred Clark
The Right Stuff (DVD) Special Edition; Two Discs This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe. Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break t...
This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe. Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break the sound barrier. These maverick men would stop at nothing to achieve winning speed. Led by their champion, Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard), they caroused at the local watering hole while sharing tales of extreme sport and bravery--until the Russians successfully sent their Sputnik satellite into the skies, and the United States government panicked, quickly launching a space program of its own. In an effort to find the right men for the job, the government searched the desert and the seas, compiling a crew of daredevil space cowboys willing to do anything for the chance to represent America in the space race. After grueling medical, physical, and psychological tests, seven men were left standing, led by American hero John Glenn (Ed Harris), test pilots Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), and Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank), and Navy man Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn). With the help of the media and the government, these men became overnight heroes, sacrificing their freedom and their families for the dream of space travel. This piercing exploration of the men and wives behind the mission serves as a testament to the determination of America to dominate the field of space exploration, while offering an intriguing portrait of a period in which America wanted to believe in perfect men and their perfect wives, even if the reality was vastly more complex. Philip Kaufman`s gripping film also features fabulous special effects and stunning aerial cinematography.
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Director: Philip Kaufman
ACTORS: Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Charles Frank, Fred Ward
Are You Being Served? - V. 5: Fifty Years On (DVD)
The employees of the Grace Brothers department store avoid work again in three episodes of the hit BBC series: Fifty Years On, Oh What a Tangled Web, and Forward Mr. Grainger. NR"
ACTORS: Mollie Sugden, John Inman
The Magnificent Ambersons (DVD)
The story of Orson Welles and his 1942 film THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS is one of Hollywood`s most intriguing and mysterious soap operas. The legendary filmmaker`s completed film was drastically re-edited by its studio, RKO Pictures, prompting a battle which raged for years and created decades of speculation among film enthusiasts and scholars. Finally, in 2001, the cable channel A & E took Orson Welles` original shooting script and realized it in this lavish production, directed by the acclaimed Mexican auteur Alfonso Arau (LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE.) 60 years after its original production, Welles` vision has finally been allowed to shine through.NR"
Director: Alfonso Arau
ACTORS: Madeleine Stowe, Gretchen Mol, James Cromwell
The Gambler (DVD)
THE GAMBLER, directed by Karel Reisz, stars James Caan in a difficult role as Alex Freed, a compulsive gambler with many inner demons, who is completely out of control. He can`t resist a bad bet because that`s where the juice is. While his irrational rationalizations--largely influenced by Dostoyevsky, whose novel, THE GAMBLER, he teaches to his students at City College--might seem like a lot of existential hot air, they are well dramatized, making his descent downward believable even as his actions become increasingly frenetic.
Reisz provides a sound realism to the THE GAMBLER`s settings both in Las Vegas and on the streets of New York. Made at the same time as Robert Altman`s CALIFORNIA SPLIT, which attempted to visually create the internal world of the compulsive gambler, here Reisz presents a gritty realism to the world of bookies, loan sharks, and their violent enforcers. He relies on Caan, generally a more physical actor, to portray the cultured intellectual who loves Mahler, but is obsessed with danger. Caan starts slowly, and with the help of Lauren Hutton in a good performance as Billie, his predictable blond girlfriend, he illuminates the world of gambling in this tense, realistic film.R"
Director: Karel Reisz
ACTORS: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Burt Young, Morris Carnovsky
