DVD: Anne Francis

DVD: Anne Francis

DVD:

Anne Francis

Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis

Warner Home Video, 2006

Forbidden Planet
This is a movie that I have loved since I first saw it as a child. I bought it on VHS and finally on DVD. Although it is old, the special effects for that time period were outstanding. It is actually the only movie that I have ever seen Leslie Neilson acting in a ...

Blackboard Jungle

Richard Brooks, Glenn Ford

Warner Home Video, 2005

"DO YOU LIKE SWING"? A CLASSIC....... OH DADDY O!
Blackboard Jungle is an interesting film that features Glen Ford and some young new talent that would find bigger fame in later years. Sidney Poitier,Vic Marrow and Jamie Farr(Jameel Farrah then) all play teens in this tale of juvenile delinquents in a lower class ...

The Serpent And The Rainbow

Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson

Universal Studios, 2003

An underrated shocker from Wes Craven!
Dennis Allan (Bill Pullman) is a Harvard anthropologist who just came back from the jungles of South America has been given an assignment to go to Haiti to find a formula which is rumored to bring the dead back to life and can be useful. On his trip, he falls for a ...

Forbidden Planet

Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis

Warner Home Video, 2000

Forbidden Planet
This is a movie that I have loved since I first saw it as a child. I bought it on VHS and finally on DVD. Although it is old, the special effects for that time period were outstanding. It is actually the only movie that I have ever seen Leslie Neilson acting in a ...

Miss Marple - 3 Feature Length Mysteries (The Body in the Library / A Murder Is Announced / A Pocketful of ...

Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford

BBC Warner, 2002

Miss Marple 3 features
Got this for my mom and I enjoyed it just as much as she did. Joan Hickson is Miss Marple come off the pages to life itself. If you're a Christie fan this is a must have for your library collection.

Honey West: The Complete Series (4pc) (Full B&W)

Anne Francis, John Ericson

Vci Entertainment, 2008

The forerunner of so many TV shows, this series deserves more attention
This 1965 series is noted as groundbreaking in pop culture history because it was the first to feature a female private detective (or as the Ideal board game called her, a "girl private eye"). Tough and independent yet sultry and willowy, Honey apparently inherited her ...

Funny Girl

Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif

Sony Pictures, 2001

Mrs. Arnstein, Mrs. Arnstein. What a Beautiful Beautiful Name...
When Barbra Streisand reprised her role as Fanny Brice in the movie version of Funny Girl, her stardom was cemented. Not only was it a huge hit, but it was loved by audiences, has gone on to be one of her most adored performances, and made her an Academy Award winning ...

Forbidden Planet [HD DVD]

North and South - The Complete Collection

Kirstie Alley, David Carradine

American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 2004

the north and south
It was a very good story and we enjoyed it very much. Passed it around to family members.

To Be or Not to Be

Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft

20th Century Fox, 2006

Mr & Mrs Brooks
Mrs. Robinson has grown up and turned to comedy. Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Mel Brooks) is an outstanding comedienne. Don't let the beginning put you off-stick with it. And Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Charles Durning. Mel for once in a STARRING role, although ...

Forbidden Planet (Ultimate Collector's Edition)

Mazes and Monsters

Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson

Trinity Entertainment, 2005

Games Without Borders
"Mazes and Monsters" was part of the Reagan-era moral panic over the Dungeons and Dragons game. It was an '80s afterschool special,a made-for-TV movie about the dangers of gaming. It was back when fundamentalists considered it occultic, diabolical, and dangerous. This ...

Battle Cry

Van Heflin, Aldo Ray

Warner Home Video, 2003

...GANG WAY!!!!!!.......HERE COMES THE MARINES.......
Excellent movie [DVD] about WW2 and the USMC....from the spartan Marine Boot Camp scenes and the dangerous amphibious landing/assaults against Japanese Marines throughout the Pacific war...good casting and on location scenery...looking again at Mainside at Camp ...

Charley's Aunt

Jack Benny, Kay Francis

20th Century Fox, 2007

Where the nuts come from!
If you liked the play, you'll like the movie. If you've never seen the play, you may need to remind yourself of when this story was written, and when it was filmed. I could never picture Jack Benny in this role, and yet he was excellent. As for the DVD itself, the ...

Strictly Business

Daryl Barnes, Halle Berry

Warner Home Video, 2007

Romantic Comedy
A romantic comedy that doesn't give enough credit to the co-stars Tommy Davidson (In Living Color), Anne Marie Johnson, & Samuel L. Jackson. Joseph C. Phillips and Halle Berry deliver the theme of the story well - Phillips playing the role of a "square" investment ...