The Deathmaker (DVD)
The true story of Fritz Haarmann, a German salesman who killed and dismembered 24 young men, THE DEATHMAKER is a harrowing journey into the mind of a killer. Based on the psychiatric report made of Haarmann as he was being evaluated for soundness of mind to determine if should stand trial, the film follows Professor Ernst Schultze as he tries to penetrate Haarmann`s mind during a six week examination. Slowly, Schultze begins to uncover Haarmann`s motives and psychoses, revealing the motives and methods of one of the 20th century`s most brutal killers.NR"
Director: Romuald Karmakar
ACTORS: Gotz George
Horror Classics - The Bat/The House on Haunted Hill (DVD)
Two Vincent Price horror films collected on one DVD.
THE BAT was adapted from the stage mystery by Hopwood and Rinehart and directed by Crane Wilbur who had written House Of Wax. The plot concerns a maniac known as The Bat lurking in a spooky mansion.
THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, directed by William Castle, casts Vincent Price as the super rich Fredrick Loren, who offers five people ten grand apiece to stay in a creepy old house.NR"
Director: Crane Wilbur|William Castle
ACTORS: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane
Kadosh (DVD)
With KADOSH (meaning Sacred) director Amos Gitai paints a powerful picture of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem`s isolated Mea Shearim district. KADOSH follows two sisters through two events initiated by the community`s Rabbi: an arranged marriage and an arranged divorce. Although Malka (Meital Barda) is in love with Yaakov (Sami Hori), who broke his connection to Orthodox Judaism when he joined the army, she consents to marrying the man to whom the Rabbi has willed her, and she quickly finds herself trapped in a miserable, abusive relationship. Meanwhile, Malka`s sister Rivka (Yael Abecassis), is forced to end her 10-year marriage to Meir (Yoram Hattab), because she has not fulfilled her obligation to bear him a child. The film presents difficult issues both about the way that women are devalued and mistreated in this community, and about the extent to which the rigors of this traditional faith prohibit any experience of the outside world. At the same time, Gitai`s fly-on-the-wall approach allows the viewer to carefully observe the rituals, beliefs, and relationships in this ultra-Orthodox world, and understand more about a culture that was essentially lost to the Holocaust, but that is preserved in Mea Shearim.NR"
Director: Amos Gitai
ACTORS: Meital Barda, Yael Abecassis, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Yoram Hattab, Sami Hori
Great Musical Classics (DVD)
Three great musicals form the glory days of Hollywood. Legends of the genre such as Fred Astaire and Judy Garland star in triple feature of extravagant dancing and singing. ROYAL WEDDING (1951), TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (1946), and FIESTA (1941) are the films included.
ROYAL WEDDING: Dancing and romance collide in ROYAL WEDDING as a brother-sister dance team (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) open their musical show in London shortly before the English royal wedding and find love of their own. Showcasing some of Astaire`s most memorable dance scenes in film history--Astaire`s hat-rack partner and his dancing on the ceiling (impressive even to those jaded by special effects)--this tale of finding true love when it`s least expected, and least wanted, has delighted audiences since the movie`s release in 1951.
Flirty Ellen and dance-focused Tom have escaped the clutches of many marriage-minded partners, keeping their joint entertainment careers their first priority. When they leave New York to sail for London to open a new musical show, Ellen leaves behind many besotted men but no regrets. But when a ladies` man (and lord) falls hard for Ellen, and a British girl in the dance chorus needs Tom`s help to locate her fianci, both brother and sister realize that this time love must come first.
TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY: This large-scale Technicolor musical is one of those over-the-top, maximalistic productions that the Golden Age of the Studio System was famous for! Based on the life and times of composer Jerome Kern, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY features an all-star cast which includes the great crooner Frank Sinatra, the legendary musical starlet Judy Garland, and the notoriously beautiful Lena Horne. And of course, it features many of the hit tunes of the era.
FIESTA: A fiesta is held for a girl who returns from Mexico City to her father`s hacienda. A musical comedy featuring Mexican folk tunes and many Latin favorites sung in Spanish and English.NR"
Director: Stanley Donen|Richard Whorf
ACTORS: Fred Astaire, Robert Walker, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore
Science and the Swastika (DVD) 2-Disc Set Adolf Hitler was a man whose inconceivable hate yearned for domination and whose role in the Jewish Holocaust has to this day caused much anger and hatred among people of all descents. SCIENCE AND THE SWASTIKA is an in-depth...
Adolf Hitler was a man whose inconceivable hate yearned for domination and whose role in the Jewish Holocaust has to this day caused much anger and hatred among people of all descents. SCIENCE AND THE SWASTIKA is an in-depth documentary depicting the horrifying way Adolf Hitler`s use of the scientific community made murderers of normal, everyday men. This collection contains four episodes documenting the powerful Nazi regime during this appalling period in history.
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