"Blessed are the cheesemakers," a wise man once said. Or maybe not. But the point is Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire that does not target specific religions or religious leaders (like, say, Jesus of Nazareth). Instead, it pokes fun at the mindless and fanatical among their followers--it's an attack on religious zealotry and hypocrisy--things that that fellow from Nazareth ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Terence Bayler, Peter Brett, John Case, Graham Chapman, John Cleese

You know that rock & roll has staying power when it can survive even the homogenization that comes from being performed on Broadway. So it is with this live performance of a Broadway revue that celebrated the music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, one of the finest songwriting teams ever to have hits with Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, the Drifters, the Coasters, and everyone else who mattered ...

Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Starring: Ken Ard, Adrian Bailey, Matt Bogart, Brenda Braxton, Victor Trent Cook
Directed By: Don Roy King

This fizzy musical was a Broadway smash in 1962, and boy, is it a product of its era. Executive washrooms, gray-flannel-suit businessmen, hip-swinging secretaries--they're all preserved in the movie's brightly colored amber. J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) is the window washer who climbs the corporate ladder in a few days, guided by a how-to book. The Frank Loesser songs are great fun, the Bob ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Maureen Arthur, Janice Carroll, Jeff DeBenning, Paul Hartman, John Holland

Baywatch alum David Hasselhoff stars in the dual title roles of Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's version of Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic horror classic. The story of the brilliant scientist who uncovers the good and evil aspects of the human heart was a pay-per-view event on the Broadway Television Network, filmed on stage before a live ...

Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Starring: David Hasselhoff, Coleen Sexton, Andrea Rivette, George Merritt, Barrie Ingham
Directed By: Don Roy King

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1958 direct-to-screen follow-up to their My Fair Lady was--miraculously--every bit as memorable as that stage smash. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris and based on a Colette story, Gigi also is about a girl (Leslie Caron) on a lower rung of society who blossoms into Cinderellahood before our eyes and ears. Thank heaven for Hermione Gingold and Maurice ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Directed By: Charles Walters, Vincente Minnelli

One of the world's most talented and best-loved performers, Julie Andrews reaches new heights in the most challenging role of her career as a woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman! Filmed on the Broadway stage in 1995 (and based on the 1982 film), the immensely popular Victor/Victoria is a warm, funny, wildly energetic look at the nature of love, gender perceptions and the ...

Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Andrews, Robert, Nouri, York

Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in a vacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater--a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. This disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well as the original 60-minute concert film, whose production and ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason
Directed By: Adrian Maben

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Directed By: Morton DaCosta

Anything is possible in Brigadoon, the Lerner and Loewe musical put to celluloid in 1954 by director Vincente Minnelli: a village can reappear for only one day each century, and Gene Kelly can tap-dance on a dirt path. Kelly and Van Johnson play a pair of New Yorkers who go on a hunting vacation in the highlands of Scotland. But what Tommy Albright (Kelly) captures is the heart of a bonny ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones
Directed By: Vincente Minnelli

Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran filmmaker Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still) mostly stays out of the way of the film's appealing elements, which include a ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood
Directed By: Robert Wise