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Great Literature on Film
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Tarzan's Secret Treasure / Tarzan's New York Adventure
(1942) [G]
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941):
A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exits on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold. Everyone is captured by wicked natives. Tarzan and his elephants... More
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The Ugly American
(1963) [G]
Marlon Brando stars in this volatile political thriller based on the best selling book. As a compassionate American in Southeast Asia during the Cold War Brando turns in a tour-de-force performance as he tries to keep the country's democratic and Communist forces from explosive confrontation. More
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Primary Colors
(1998) [M]
Masterfully adapted by director Mike Nichols and his former-comedy-partner-turned-screenwriter, Elaine May, Primary Colors plays like a sophisticated comedy with loads of memorable scenes and dialogue, but it sneaks up on you with devastating dramatic impact. Anchored by Travolta's superb... More
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Cousin Bette
(1998) [M]
COUSIN BETTE, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac, stars Jessica Lange in a delicious performance. Elisabeth Fisher (Jessica Lange), known to her relatives as Bette, is a humble seamstress in a burlesque theatre in Paris. She has always been taken for granted by her rich relations, and has... More
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The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]
From director Bernardo Bertolucci comes this epic dramatisation of Paul Bowles' novel. Starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger, this is an extraordinary voyage of vision, redemption and love. Yearning for adventure and an escape from a suffocating, repressive society, Port and his wife Kit... More
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Death In Venice
(1971) [PG]
One man becomes so obsessed by the beauty of a young boy in Venice that he cannot bear to leave, even when the city is affected by a plague. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann. More
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Fahrenheit 451
(1966) [PG]
Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of... More
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La Bete Humaine
(1938) [PG]
A mad train driver falls in love with a married woman. They plot to kill the wife's husband. Based on the novel by Emile Zola. French dialogue. More
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The Lord Of The Rings (Animated)
(1978) [PG]
One Ring To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them, One Ring To Bring Them All, And In The Darkness Bind Them.
Only the first two parts of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic fantasy trilogy of the same name are covered by this rotoscoped animated feature about a band of travelers of different races who... More
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Mr and Mrs Bridge
(1990) [PG]
Directed by James Ivory, Mr and Mrs Bridge stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as Walter and India Bridge, a traditional couple living in Kansas City in the 1940s. The Bridges have three children: the strong-willed Ruth (Kyra Sedgwick); Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard), a carbon copy of his... More
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A Farewell To Arms (1932)
(1932) [PG]
In Italy during World War I, a British nurse (Helen Hayes) meets and falls in love with an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper). Amidst the horrors of war, their love is true, but fragile, and it's fateful ending is one of the most moving experiences ever portrayed on the big screen. More
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A Man For All Seasons
(1966) [G]
The dazzling international cast featured in director Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons helps bring to life one of the most thrilling dramas of intrigue and courage ever filmed. Adapted from Robert Bolt's play, Robert Shaw plays the lusty King Henry VIII who wants to divorce his wife in order... More
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Treasure Island (1950)
(1950) [G]
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard... More
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Gone With The Wind
(1939) [PG]
David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is "the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking," Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said: "it looks better than it has in years." This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards... More
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A Clockwork Orange
(1971) [R]
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it all at the tragic expense of others. Alex’s journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the... More
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Manon Des Sources
(1986) [PG]
The equally extraordinary, highly successful and award-winning sequel to Jean de Florette based on the classic. The timless story continues when the late Jean de Florette's daughter Manon, now grown up into a beautiful free-spirited shepherdess on her father's Provence farm. But when she finally... More
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Time Regained
(1999) [R]
Time Regained (aka Le Temps Retrouve) is a French language film starring the eternally graceful Catherine Deneuve. The film is based (loosely) on Marcel Proust's saga 'a la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (Remembrance Of Things Past). While the film does not strictly follow the structure of Proust's... More
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To Kill A Mockingbird
(1962) [PG]
Harper Lee's semi-autobiographical novel was the basis for this award-winning and heart-stirring drama. Young Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy, witnesses the racist bigotry of her small Alabama town when her idealistic lawyer father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of... More
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Clear And Present Danger
(1994) [M]
Harrison Ford returns as intrepid CIA agent Jack Ryan in this critically acclaimed box-office smash from the producers of Patriot Games. When his mentor Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) becomes gravely ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment:... More
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The World According To Garp
(1982) [M]
In this splendid film adaption of John Irving's bestseller, Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp, a complex and unpredictable writer at odds with a violent and cruel world. "The World According to Garp" earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor, John Lithgow, and Best... More
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
(2001) [MA]
With memorable performances from Nicolas Cage (Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air, Leaving Las Vegas) and Penelope Cruz (Blow, All The Pretty Horses), acclaimed director John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) creates breathtaking imagery set amid the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II. When... More
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Doctor Zhivago (2 Disc Set)
(1965) [PG]
From the novel by Boris Pasternak, David Lean’s Film Of Doctor Zhivago is hailed by critics everywhere as brilliant and one of the most popular movies ever. A sweeping epic about one charismatic man’s struggle that spans several decades to survive in war-convulsed Russia. That man is Yuri... More
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The Great Escape
(1963) [PG]
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner,... More
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All The Rivers Run (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [M]
Set in the boom town of Echuca, Australia's largest inland port in the 1890s, All the Rivers Run is the classic romantic tale of love between a woman, a man and the river that binds them together. When the young Philadelphia Gordon is shipwrecked and off the coast of Australia and her parents are... More
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Under Milk Wood
(1973) [PG]
Dylan Thomas only wrote one play and this is the first and only screen adaptation of that world famous Welsh classic. The original play has been presented in nearly every country in the world, and on celluloid it remains by turn moving, funny, beautiful and completely timeless - a kaleidoscope of... More
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Kangaroo
(1986)
D.H. Lawrence's tale of an idealist writer who flees the wreck of post-war Europe in search of a freer, more tolerant world in which to re-build his marriage. He and his wife settle in Australia and soon face the leader of a secret Fascist army who tries to bully them into em-bracing his ideas..... More
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Phantom Of The Opera
(1943) [PG]
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with... More
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Dracula (1931)
(1931) [PG]
Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale, none is more enduring than this 1931 original. Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below. Bela Lugosi, starring... More
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Catch 22
(1970) [M]
Mike Nichols' superbly directed cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy, Catch 22 is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together, they are frightened, nervous, often... More
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