Music Man
Amazon. com key videoThe Music Man was one of the last great movie musicals of all studios, and this proved that rarest of events: a Broadway show that measurably improved by its transition to the screen. Robert Preston made musical debut – both live and on film – as "Professor" Harold Hill, the optimistic charlatan who promises to teach a small group of city boys from the "think system." But that's the part Preston was born in play and what it will always be remembered better. Composer Meredith Willson based The Man music on its own small-town Midwestern childhood, around 1912, an almost mythical place where the old-maid librarian appears and sings like Shirley Jones. The boy himself is an adorable Ron Howard, lisp-singing "Gary, Indiana." Willson entire score, which describes the combination of what are now the standards such as "Goodnight My Someone" and "Till You Was There "and show-specific numbers (" Trouble "," 76 trombones ") is never less than infectious. This dazzling special edition is also bright and sunny and every July 4th in Iowa could ever hope. – Robert Windeler
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Guns of Afghanistan- The History Channel
Product DescriptionLocated in the heart of Central Asia at the crossroads of ancient trade routes key, Afghanistan is a nation that has been forged in the conflict. Since the time of Alexander the Great, foreign invaders are a familiar presence, and Afghans have fought back with a combination of unconventional tactics and mastery of increasingly sophisticated weapons. WEAPONS OF AFGHANISTAN records the long and bloody history of firearms in war-ravaged nation, the local Jezail flintlock rifle in the ubiquitous AK-47. Former Soviet fighters talk faces advanced weapons such as anti-aircraft Stinger missile, which the U.S. provided to Afghan fighters during the Soviet occupation. And interviews with Mujahideen provides a valuable look at their world, what has been forged by decades of nearly uninterrupted war.
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Double, Double, Toil & Trouble
DescriptionMake way for spells, witches, wizards and adventure! It's Halloween, the scariest, funnest event of a fall. But for Lynn and Kelly farmer (Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen) something scarier could happen. A downturn in the family business, the farmers will lose their home – unless the spirited twins find a way to save! Year: 1993 Director: Stuart Margolin Starring: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman, Meshach Taylor
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America’s Funniest Home Videos: Family Follies
Amazon. comAre you are a person who loves wacky show blooper. . . but hates Bob Sagat; Then this is the video for you! America Funniest Home Videos: Family Follies highlights the best moments of the family from the show, capturing slices of life, which in turn hilarious, heartwarming, and incredible. Should be dealt with disasters marriage, sibling chaos, and all the getting-hit-in-the-crotch movies could possibly want. This is really a "best of" package – a clip brings a smile, a wince or a belly laugh. Included is one of the sweetest bloopers that will never see: the boy who cries because they desperately want to grow. All this – and Bob Sagat! Instead we have a cool pair of narrators who know that sometimes it is better to let the clip speak for itself. – Brendan J. LaSalle
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Dangerous Missions : Assault on Iwo Jima
Product DescriptionAssault On Iwo Jima * The actual battle scenes. * Learn why Iwo Jima was so important for America. * Memories of the survivors and expert commentary. 6821 Americans and 21,000 Japanese soldiers lost their lives in a period of 36 days on an island in early 1945. Learn the history behind the iconic image of American soldiers building the stars and stripes on the sands of Iwo Jima. Just 660 miles from Tokyo, three Marine divisions stormed the beaches to meet the forces of Imperial Japan. Codenamed Operation Detachment, the fight was supposed to last three or four days, but instead became the bloodiest battle in the history of the Marine Corps. Dangerous missions collect eyewitness survivors, commentary by military historians, and fight scenes really one of the worst battles of all time. Learn why this small island was so important to the American plan to defeat Japan and why such a terrible toll to be paid.
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Baby Dance
Amazon. comThe tension is so palpable in The Baby Dance, feels more like a play, the adaptation of one. Laura Dern, gifted in playing the roles of white-trash (Citizen Ruth), the yuan, a dirt-poor Louisiana mother pregnant with her fifth child, who answered "a wealthy couple's baby is like" now. Stockard Channing is Rachel, the would-be adoptive mother who quietly conflicts with Dern at every turn. The dance of two women do together with their husbands during the weeks before the birth of the baby is filled with friction. Both wear their desperation to their sleeves – one driven by poverty to sell her child, the other from infertility to buy this key. Unexpected soap opera-like twist threatens to overturn the deal baby, creating sad, aching finish that fits right in with the final song of the film, a mournful country twang. – Valerie J. Nelson
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Sunshine
Amazon. comAlthough Sunshine was a Hungarian, Istvan Szabo, and deals with the history of Hungary as refracted through three generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family, you might be more inclined to give three hours of your life, if the approach David Lean film in the spirit. It is a picture-English, and the music of Maurice Jarre score recalls the Doctor Zhivago. Szabó emulates Lean-style home for the merger of epic sweep of history with the crystalline detail the lives of people, so as to shape the destiny we saw through personal moments that feel at once evanescent and eternal. Lighting cameraman, Lajos Koltai, is one of the few filmmakers equal to taking these moments in lapidary images – cinematic sunshine of the highest order. "Sunshine" is a literal translation of Sonnenschein, the family name of the central characters. And "Destiny" is a concept Sors, name three Sonnenschein offspring choose for themselves to fully understand issues as the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The two brothers, Ignatz (Ralph Fiennes) and Gustave (James Frain)? Sister (by adoption) Valerie (Jennifer Ehle) is really their cousin. Both men love, and Ignatz rocks of ultratraditional family by taking as his wife. However, the Sonnenscheins and Sors enter the 20th century in loving solidarity, grateful to live in a liberal and tolerant regime. This is all swept away by the Great War, the rise of Nazism and its replacement, the new fascism of Stalinist Communism. Valerie survives them all – though I later played by Rosemary Harris, the mother of Ehle. For his part – or parts – Ralph Fiennes continues to embody the next two generations of the Sonnenschein / Sors men, the proudly patriotic Adam and his son, the rudder Ivan, whose guilt over compliant prisoner at Auschwitz leads him to buy a passion puritanism of the Stalinist purges. Fiennes rises to the formidable challenge of creating three very different characters who all share the same congenital weaknesses and pain potential for greatness. This is an important film of beauty and sometimes shattering power. Even three hours is not enough to do justice to all the characters all turn recovery of history and politics and fairness. But the film is never less than gripping, and a report on "family values," well almost forever. – Richard T. Jameson
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Abbott & Costello: Buck Privates
Amazon. comUniversal Studios hit box-office gold when they drafted vaudeville comedians and radio stars and Bud Abbott Lou Costello and transformed into one of the most successful screen teams of the 1940s and 1950s. After a tryout as supporting characters in the musical One Night in the tropics, which starred in Buck Privates cheats as directed in the wrong hiding outside New York street cop Nat Pendleton. Of course he ends the drill sergeant and comic strips as they wreak havoc for the armed forces. Is heavy in uniform, with the bare bones of a story provided by spoiled millionaire playboy Lee Bowman, movies of All-American former chauffeur Alan Curtis, and the girl next door they both pursue, Jane Frazee. The lackluster subplot is directed with some verve by Arthur Lubin, and energy of the film comes entirely from the lively by-play of the comedians and Costello of flustered and nervous double-take physical comedy (including a hilarious rifle drill in which the out – of-step soldier marches to a different compass direction). The Andrews Sisters singing "You're lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", among other things, the future stooge Shemp Howard shows where the "mess" in mess hall comes from as a cook the victim of misconceptions KP Costello. This little comedy was a huge success and made Abbott and Costello most valuable commodity of Universal, which led to quick then with another peacetime armed forces comedy in the Navy. – Sean Axmaker
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Biography: Cathy Rigby – Finding the Balance
DescriptionShe was once a favorite of America's biggest Olympic hope. But back in pigtails and medals were an invisible struggle for perfection. This account of life with Cathy Rigby examines the difficulties of growing up with an alcoholic father, battle with bulimia, the fearlessness is shown the beam balance, and the transition to show business.
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The Russian-German War – Part II – The Killing Ground ~ VHS
Product DescriptionThe Russian-German War (The Killing Ground) Second World War. The violence that marked the 1400-day conflict along the Russian Front and the cost of Russia's one-tenth of the population are brought to life "The Killing Ground
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