Jazz Scene USA - Phineas Newborn Jr. Trio/Jimmy Smith Trio (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
Jazz Scene USA - Phineas Newborn Jr. Trio/Jimmy Smith Trio (DVD)
Two episodes from 1962`s California jazz series. Jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. shines with such compositions as Theme for Basie and Lush Life. Hammond Organ wizard Jimmy Smith is captured on tunes including Walk on the Wild Side and The Champ. The Jazz Scene USA program truly does bring the viewer back to the halcyon days that were jazz`s golden days.NR"
Phenomena (DVD)
Released in the US in heavily edited form as CREEPERS in 1986, Italian horror master Dario Argento`s masterpiece manages to be involving and interesting while providing a steady stream of funhouse style shocks. Jennifer Corvino (Connelly) is attending a Swiss boarding school for girls when she discovers she is able to communicate telepathically with insects. When a serial killer begins murdering students, bug specialist Dr. McGregor (Pleasance) must help her use her powers to find the killer. With a soundtrack featuring Motorhead and Iron Maiden making the experience ever more disorienting, you won`t know where Argento is taking you next. Check the run time, as many different versions exist (the 110 minute version is the most complete).NR"
Director: Dario Argento
ACTORS: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Patrick Bauchau
Natural Splendors - Volume 1 (DVD)
Enjoy beautiful scenes of nature from the American West and Southwest while listening to soothing new age and classical music. Relax, meditate, or just have it on for nice background ambiance. Featuring photography from Jim DeLutes and music from Hennie Bekker.NR"
Sherlock Holmes - The House of Fear (DVD) Digitally Restored Each member of The Good Comrades --a club of seven wealthy men living together in a Scottish castle--has a large insurance policy upon himself, made out to the last surviving member of the club. Super sleuth Sherloc...
Each member of The Good Comrades --a club of seven wealthy men living together in a Scottish castle--has a large insurance policy upon himself, made out to the last surviving member of the club. Super sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are called in to the case after two of the members die under mysterious circumstances--each after receiving a letter containing orange seeds. This classic Holmes mystery is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s story THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS.
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Director: Roy William Neill
ACTORS: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh
Combat Camera - The Pacific (DVD)
A compilation of original and uncensored newsreels from Movietone News, Universal Newsreel, and the U.S. Navy. These vintage films are presented in their entirety, exactly as they were one viewed by audiences in theaters all over America. Includes Midway and Coral Sea Battles, Fury In the Pacific (Tarawa), Yanks Invade Marshall Islands, Yanks Smash Truck, Movietonews (Biak/Saipan Battles), Battle of Philippines, Allied Chiefs Meet, U.S. Marine Capture Tarawa, Battle of Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima (Bonds), MacArthur Liberates Manila, Iwo Jima, Buy War Bonds - Iwo Jima, Fleet That Came To Stay (Okinawa), Salute To the Navy, and Japan`s Surrender. NR"
Director: Budd Boetticher
