The Day the Earth Caught Fire (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (DVD)
When the Americans test a nuclear weapon at the South Pole at the exact moment that the Soviets are testing their own weapon at the North, the earth`s axis is jolted out of alignment, causing catastrophic changes in global weather patterns. Additionally, the earth has been dislodged from its orbit, and is now hurtling towards the sun. It`s a race against time as the world prepares for additional nuclear detonations which could restore life as we know it. This classic piece of British science fiction won a British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and has been completely restored by Anchor Bay, including tinted sequences not seen since the movie`s original theatrical release in 1961.NR"
Director: Val Guest
ACTORS: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern
The Wanderers (DVD)
The high school scene of the Bronx in 1963 is ruled by rival gangs. The Wanderers are the Italians-only gang, ruled by a group of streetwise, fast-talkin` boys looking for good times and pretty girls in the streets of their tight-knit neighborhood. This charming vignette of 1960s Bronx life, set to the bopping music of the era, follows the lives of boyhood friends and fellow Wanderers Richie (Ken Wahl), Joey (John Friedrich), Turkey (Alan Rosenberg), and newcomer Perry (Tony Ganios) as they fight their local competition, the Baldies, a group of menacing bald-headed toughies, and struggle to make it to a big football rumble with the slick Del Bombers, the local rival black gang. Along the way, Richie is forced to face the repercussions of a romance with a local Mafia daughter (Toni Kalem) while Perry and Joey realize the truth about their hard-living parents (including Olympia Dukakis as Joey`s mother). All the while the boys carouse and party at their neighborhood hangouts, living life on the edge while struggling to avoid the other gangs. THE WANDERERS, directed by Philip Kaufman (who later went on to direct THE RIGHT STUFF and THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING), is a simultaneously nostalgic and bittersweet vision of street life in 1960s New York, exploring the hardships of growing up on the streets and protecting gang members at any cost while facing the future and losing childhood innocence. The soundtrack features classic tunes by Dion, the Shirelles, the Four Seasons, the Angels, and others.R"
Director: Philip Kaufman
ACTORS: Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Olympia Dukakis, Alan Rosenburg
World`s Greatest F1 Cars (DVD)
This interactive program covers over 100 of the most impressive, award-winning F1 cars in the world. Ferraris, Alpha Romeos--they`re all here, all of the World Championship winning cars of the last several years.NR"
Aviation Week - Superior Airpower (DVD)
Aviation Week presents another collection of the high-flying, high-powered war-birds that make modern battle so fierce and action-packed. Fighters, bombers, or reconnaissance, all of the featured machines are guaranteed to raise the level on your thrill-meter. Includes the following segments, Flight Deck, which takes you into the pilot`s seat and onto the deck of an aircraft carrier, Stealth: Flying Invisible, which takes you up close to the nearly invisible aircraft created by stealth technology, and Desert Storm: Thunder in the Gulf, which collects the most outstanding aerial footage of from Desert Storm.NR"
Psychic Force (DVD)
An imaginative, frightening science fiction anime, PSYCHIC FORCE tells of a corrupt government that exploits the special abilities of its citizens to gain power. In a future century, several people have been able to harness psychic abilities, which they can choose to use for either good or evil purposes. Their ruling government manages to take control of these gifted people, draining their powers and leaving them as empty shells. This wonderfully animated futuristic adventure is an action packed suspense thriller which is already considered a new anime classic in Japan.Unrated"
