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Richard Simmons is the king of motivational exercise, especially if you're a beginner. This video workout is a dance party simulating a class reunion, with an energizing live band playing lively hits from the '50s and '60s, such as "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Dancing in the Streets." The singers and musicians sometimes come offstage and dance with the ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Richard Simmons, Sally Knyvette, Paul Darrow, Jan Chappell, Michael Keating
Directed By: E.H. Shipley

Manufacturer: Sony
Starring: Michael Jackson, Hakeem Abdul-Samad, Khiry Abdul-Samad, Tajh Abdul-Samad, Brandon Quintin Adams
Directed By: Colin Chilvers, Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield

Writer-director Alan Parker's feature debut Bugsy Malone is a pastiche of American movies, a musical gangster comedy set in 1929, featuring prohibition, showgirls, and gang warfare, with references to everything from Some Like It Hot to The Godfather. Uniquely, though, all the parts are played by children, including an excellent if underused Jodie Foster as platinum-blonde ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi, Martin Lev
Directed By: Alan Parker

Manufacturer: Academy Home Entertainment
Starring: Therry Bannon, John Boylan, Harvey Churchill, Graham Greene, Phil Harns
Directed By: Ryszard Bugajski

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Vestron
Starring: Michael Jackson

It's easy to assume this is just another dumb redneck comedy from Burt Reynolds's years of underachievement. But it's not bad as a dumb redneck comedy at all. Directed by career stuntman Hal Needham, Smokey and the Bandit is just a goofy chase starring a bunch of Reynolds's Hollywood cronies. New to the job as film boss, Needham brings a silly but energized sensibility to the production and ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry, Paul Williams (III)
Directed By: Hal Needham

A mixed bag as variations on A Christmas Carol go, this 1970 British musical tells the usual story of Scrooge (Albert Finney) and his spirits on Christmas Eve, although the whole thing is set to music by Leslie Bricusse. Except for Finney's feisty and involved performance, however, there isn't much to recommend this. The songs, which absorb so much of the evolving story line and emotions, ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith
Directed By: Ronald Neame

Manufacturer: Vestron Music Video
Starring: Rick Baker, Michael Jackson, John Landis, Josh Paddock, Vincent Price
Directed By: John Landis

Manufacturer: Vestron Video
Starring: Michael Jackson

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Joanna Barnes, Ellen Burstyn
Directed By: Vincente Minnelli