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Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Paul Drake, Carole Davis, James T. Callahan, Sonny Landham, Carl Franklin
Directed By: Michael O'Herlihy

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, Carl Duering
Directed By: Stanley Donen

Peter Yates's 1968 cop drama has its existentialist pretensions, but there is something seductive about its strained seriousness and Steve McQueen's intentionally stoic performance as a San Francisco police detective on the trail of a murderer. A couple of key action sequences boost the film's stature, the most memorable of which is a vertiginous car chase that Yates almost approaches as a dance. ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall
Directed By: Peter Yates

The Saint gets mixed up with European counterfeiters

Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Starring: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod, Athene Seyler
Directed By: Jack Hively, John Paddy Carstairs

The only one of August Wilson's plays to be filmed (and for television, at that), this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winner is an amazing piece of work. Adapted by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards, who staged it on Broadway, the play deals not just with racism and its effects but with the ongoing legacy and curse of slavery on modern blacks. Set in 1920s Pittsburgh, the story deals with the arrival of ...

Manufacturer: Hallmark
Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Tommy Hollis, Lou Myers
Directed By: Lloyd Richards

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Lona Andre, Carl Brisson, Kitty Carlisle, Duke Ellington, Gwenllian Gill

Contains Four Classic Feature Films: PEARL OF DEATH (1944) The master detective must solve a series of horrible murders involving busts of Napoleon and a missing gem that has caused murder and misfortune since the days of the Borgias. THE SCARLET CLAW (1944) Holmes and Watson journey to Canada to attend a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society. Before long, they are ...

Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon, Frederick Worlock
Directed By: Roy William Neill

Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
Starring: Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Cheeta, Leslie Bradley
Directed By: Charles F. Haas, H. Bruce Humberstone, Sandy Howard

Elvis looks sleek and cool in Speedway, a decided improvement over the pasty indifference he displayed in his middle-era range of pictures. The movie itself is standard Presley formula, with the King again playing a race-car driver, this time in trouble with an IRS agent (Nancy Sinatra) over his taxes. (There's even a production number about taxes. Argggh.) On the plus side, a bunch of ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby, Gale Gordon, William Schallert
Directed By: Norman Taurog

The poet, vocalist, and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron is both the descendant of the African griots and the forefather of rap. In the early '70s, he boldly proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," and in the '80s he warned us of the "New World Order" with his prophetic and satirical single, "B Movie." The gifted filmmaker Robert Mugge filmed the controversial artist in performance ...

Manufacturer: Winstar
Starring: Gil Scott-Heron, Ed Brady, Robert Gordon, Glen 'Astro' Turner, Larry MacDonald
Directed By: Robert Mugge