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Power and sex are at the heart of this adaptation of Harold Robbins's soap opera bestseller, set in the 1930s and loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes. George Peppard stars as Jonas, a hard-drinking young aircraft tycoon who starts going off the deep end when his tyrannical father (Leif Erikson) dies. After reclaiming the girl his father stole from him (Carroll Baker), Jonas starts producing movies--at first to help his old friend, a silent-film star struggling to make the transition to sound (Alan Ladd) but eventually to placate his out of control ego. After numerous failed marriages and ever-worsening alcoholism, Jonas finally makes an effort to face the demons of his past, but it may be too late.Director Edward Dmytryk (THE YOUNG LIONS, RAINTREE COUNTY) enlivens this sprawling film with his sense of character and period detail. Peppard is fine as the lead, and Alan Ladd unusually accessible as the aging cowboy star, Nevada Smith. The women in the cast, though, have little to do except manipulate the men for money and sex. Fans of this sort of thing, however, should find such shallowness merely part of the racy, sudsy fun.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital Mono - English Dolby Digital Mono - FrenchInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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In this dramatic Mexican production, a small town, working class employee lives day by day in despair due to that fact that he is forbidden to court a landowner's beautiful daughter. When he decides to get a job would help his situation, but harm most big landowners, a hit is put out on him.DVD Features:Region (Unknown)Keep CaseSingle Side - Single LayerFull Frame - 1.33
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Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), and her adolescent daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Although Humbert gets involved with Charlotte, it is Lolita with whom he becomes obsessed. When Charlotte sends her daughter away to summer camp (the aptly named Camp Climax), Humbert becomes consumed with jealousy. He finally takes Lolita out of camp and heads out alone with her. He is pestered along the way by Clare Quilty (played magnificently by Peter Sellers), who threatens to expose him. But nothing can break the hold Lolita has over Humbert.From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man's hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl's toenails--Kubrick's biting, darkly comic LOLITA burns with sexual energy as it follows the debasement of an intelligent, worldly man in a series of carefully choreographed long takes that boil over with psychosexual tension. Although little physical contact is shown, Kubrick hints at it beautifully, especially in the drive-in scene in which both Charlotte and Lolita grab on to Humbert's hands. And yet given the serious nature of the subject matter, Kubrick pauses long enough to include a riotous slapstick scene of Humbert and a bellhop struggling over a cot as Lolita sleeps quietly on the bed, as well as Quilty playing Ping-Pong with a seemingly endless supply of balls. Stanley Kubrick's highly controversial masterwork is a fascinating look at pedophilia and sexual taboos that lead to obsession and murder.
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In the stark beauty of the Australian landscape, Colo (Isabelle Huppert), a woman suffering from an eye injury she received in a car accident, faces possible blindness which propels her into seclusion. Soon she meets Robert (Robert Menzies), an attractive blind man. A romance develops, bringing new meaning to their lives as they teach one another how to see.DVD Features:Region 0Snap CasePan& Scan - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Isolated Audio Track - 1. Music Score
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The sequel to the classic Israeli drama NOA AT 17, NO LONGER 17 features actress Dalia Shimko repeating her role as Noa, the idealistic teen who is now a middle-aged woman. The kibbutz where Noa grew up has become wracked with financial difficulties, and is contemplating expelling the elderly members who can no longer work their keep. Noa returns to her home to help her mother, who is among those who could be ousted. But when she comes back, it becomes only the first in a series of familial reunions that re-trigger old arguments and problems. NO LONGER 17 follows its predecessor by concentrating on characters in the context of the political and social changes in Israel.
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