December 31, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Original air date: 1997.
- Running time: 180 minutes.
- Narrated by Ossie Davis.
Comments Off on Ken Burns, Thomas Jefferson, PBS, 1997
December 30, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: July 19, 1978.
- Running time: 104 minutes.
- Tagline: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies…
- The last entry of the Pink Panther series featuring Peter Sellers, who died in 1980.
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December 29, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: May 4, 1959 (UK).
- Running time: 87 minutes.
- Tagline: Sherlock Holmes’ Most Terrifying Adventure!
Comments Off on Terence Fisher, The Hound of the Baskervilles, United Artists, 1959
December 28, 2009
Rating: 3/5 Buy
- Release date: October 17, 2006 (direct-to-video).
- Running time: 85 minutes.
Comments Off on John Shiban, Rest Stop, Warner Home Video, 2006
December 27, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: March 24, 1939.
- Running time: 80 minutes.
- First of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the detective duo.
Comments Off on Sidney Lanfield, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 20th Century Fox, 1939
December 26, 2009
Rating: 3/5 Buy
- Release date: April 15, 2005.
- Running time: 90 minutes.
- Tagline: What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.
Comments Off on Andrew Douglas, The Amityville Horror, Dimension Films, 2005
December 24, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: September 2, 1949 (UK).
- Running time: 104 minutes.
- Tagline: HUNTED… By a thousand men! Haunted… By a lovely girl!
- Robert Krasker won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
Comments Off on Carol Reed, The Third Man, British Lion Films, 1949
December 23, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: April 12, 1940.
- Running time: 130 minutes.
- Tagline: The shadow of this woman darkened their love.
- George Barnes won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
- David O. Selznick won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Comments Off on Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca, United Artists, 1940
December 22, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: December 15, 1976.
- Running time: 103 minutes.
- Tagline: Why are the world’s chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is.
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December 13, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: May 21, 1975.
- Running time: 114 minutes.
- Tagline: You may rest assured that there’s trouble, because Inspector Clouseau is on the case… That’s the trouble.
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December 12, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: June 1, 1956.
- Running time: 120 minutes.
- Tagline: A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!
- Jay Livingston and Ray Evans won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. For the song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”.
Comments Off on Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Paramount Pictures, 1956
December 8, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: February 14, 1963 (Italy).
- Running time: 138 minutes.
- Language: Italian.
- Tagline: A picture that goes beyond what men think about – because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!
- Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Italian).
- Piero Gherardi won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.
Comments Off on Federico Fellini, 8½, Angelo Rizzoli, 1963
December 7, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: April 15, 1979.
- Running time: 96 minutes.
- Tagline: Woody Allen’s New Comedy Hit.
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December 6, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: June 27, 1956.
- Running time: 116 minutes.
- Tagline: In all the world – in all the seas – in all adventure, there is no might like the might of Moby Dick.
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December 5, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: December 1934 (UK).
- Running time: 75 minutes.
- Tagline: Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world…
Comments Off on Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Gaumont-British, 1934
December 4, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: November 18, 1965 (Italy).
- Running time: 132 minutes.
- Language: Italian, English.
- Tagline: The man with no name is back! The man in black is waiting… As if one wasn’t enough… As if death needed a double!
- “Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.”
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December 2, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: December 25, 1961.
- Running time: 100 minutes.
- Tagline: Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?
Comments Off on Jack Clayton, The Innocents, 20th Century Fox, 1961
December 1, 2009
Rating: 4/5 Buy
- Release date: April 13, 1957.
- Running time: 96 minutes.
- Tagline: Life Is In Their Hands — Death Is On Their Minds!
Comments Off on Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, United Artists, 1957