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A Century to Remember (DVD)
This documentary contains a collection of some of the most striking images of the 20th Century. Accompanied by a stunning classical soundtrack, it provides a compellingly moving portrait of the past one-hundred years.NR"
Loving You (DVD)
An eager publicist discovers Jimmy Tompkins (Elvis Presley) while she`s touring through the South with a swingin` hillbilly band. Convinced of his talent, she persuades the guys to give the young man a chance. The pairing clicks and the group starts to take off, creating an early form of rock-n-roll along the way. As Jimmy becomes more successful he pursues a romance with a comely country gal (Lizabeth Scott), but finds himself increasingly confused about the new course his life is taking. Things really heat up when the band lands a spot on national TV -- their one shot at the big time. Will the King bail out just as things are getting good? LOVING YOU, Elvis` second feature appearance, features such hits as Teddy Bear, and Got A Lot of Livin` To Do. NR"
Director: Hal Kanter
ACTORS: Elvis Presley, Wendell Corey, Lizabeth Scott, Dolores Hart, James Gleason
Great Stars of Opera (DVD)
The Bell Telephone Hour was a series of television specials which ran from 1960 to 1966 and showcased some of the biggest talents in contemporary opera. The best performances from these telecasts have been compiled onto this one spectacular video release, which features topnotch singing from the likes of divas including Anna Moffo, Joan Sutherland, and Leontyne Price, plus Carusos including Richard Tucker, Guiseppe Di Stefano, and Franco Corelli.NR"
ACTORS: Anna Moffo, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Leontyne Price
Rhythm of Resistance - Black South African Music (DVD)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Malombo, Johnny Clegg, the Mahotella Queens and more are featured in this compendium of black South African music. In the post-apartheid age of South Africa, indigenous music that had been oppressed by the white rulers is finally allowed to be heard. This release is an emotional look at the days in which this music was hidden -- much of the footage was secretly, even illegally, filmed. This video is a musical celebration that is also deeply political and transgressive.NR"
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (DVD) Checkpoint In John Ford`s stark, melancholy swan song for the conventional frontier Western, aged Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns to the small town of Shinbone with his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), for the funeral of his ...
In John Ford`s stark, melancholy swan song for the conventional frontier Western, aged Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns to the small town of Shinbone with his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), for the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphan (John Wayne), where he recounts for reporters his relationship with the man. His arrival in the town years earlier as a newly minted lawyer had been welcomed with a vicious beating by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), a flamboyant thug hired by powerful business interests fearful of the lawyer`s intentions to stump for statehood. Doniphan, a rancher and feared gunman, finds Stoddard unconscious, takes him into town, and continues to protect him, particularly after coming to realize that the woman he loves cares more for the lawyer. Despite Doniphan`s warnings that the only law in the region comes at the end of a gun barrel, the stubborn lawyer insists on teaching the illiterate townspeople about the rule of law in a democratic society. When Stoddard is elected as the regional delegate to the territorial convention, Valance baits the politician, a notoriously inept gunman, into a showdown.
The film, which plays like a Western version of Freud`s CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, reflects the aging director`s ambivalence about many of the beliefs that had animated his earlier work. Shot on two soundstages because of a limited budget and Ford`s poor health, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE blends a stripped-down look with an intentionally fractured, ambiguous narrative to stand as a haunting elegy for the fearless gunman, the endless wilderness, and the loss of freedom their vanishing betokens.
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Director: John Ford
ACTORS: John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Dutton Peabody
