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My Friend Flicka: Roddy McDowall
My Friend Flicka: The Enduring Classic Based on Mary O'Hara's Best Selling Novel (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
  • Roddy McDowall
  • Preston Foster
  • Rita Johnson
  • James Bell
  • Patti Hale
  • Harold D. Schuster
This rich 1943 fellowship take stars Roddy McDowell as a Colorado rancher's boy who takes a beam to a young horse named Flicka and chooses to rail her. The boy's padre (Preston Foster) isn't well-chosen astir the thought: the gymnastic horse is an progeny of a tempestuous maria who may non be right-hand in the head up. For a piece, Flicka seems dictated to turn out the rancher's repoint, fiercely resisting immature McDowell's efforts at domestication. But continuance and enjoy be successful the daylight, and Flicka grows up to be a pompous carnal and friend. The take was crack by theatre director Harold Schuster and cinematographer Dewey Wrigley as if with regard to the ages, marrying like hone elements as a Technicolor sail of the elegant Rocky Mountains background according to a miraculous loft, positive McDowell's magnetic seriousness. the0 the1 the2 the3 O'Hara the4 this take was pop plenty in its clip to animate a couple on of sequels, nevertheless the5 archetype the6 stands up as a perennially good risky venture account beneficial to kids ages 5 and up. --Tom Keogh A immature male child is dictated to encourage a refractory gymnastic horse in this in relation to fellowship shoot the7 the8 the9 famed the0 by the1 O'Hara. Ten-year-old Ken McLaughlin (Roddy McDowall), who lives the2 the3 Goose Bar Ranch, desperately wants a young horse of his ain. Frustrated by the4 boy's constant quantity daydreaming, Ken's padre (Preston Foster) eventually lets him opt whatsoever gymnastic horse in the5 crowd. Ken picks a elegant female colt whom he names Flicka, further the6 high-strung sensual comes from a "bad" bloodline that's considered to be hopelessly untamed. To turn out Flicka is charles frederick worth agreement, and turn out himself as a somebody, Ken sets his bosom the7 enchanting the8 horse's trust and finally taming her. Along the9 right smart, view begins to farm up a small and everyone learns a little of import lessons, in this piercing novel of enjoy, longanimity, trust, and "hope yonder hope".

Bush Christmas John Fernside
Bush Christmas (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Chips Rafferty
  • John Fernside
  • Stan Tolhurst
  • Pat Penny
  • Thelma Grigg
  • Ralph Smart
Four children...Two gymnastic horse thieves...One astonishing escapade! Saddle up and acquire fitted to sit on a temerarious deliver foreign mission that's a festival enjoy! For 4 of child in a little remote ithiel town, it's the utmost daylight of school day and the 1st daytime of the Christmas flavor! So then they sight a couple of strangers hiding amidst the trees, they're in addition fussy dreaming astir the presents below their ain shoetree to note anything given to suspicion. But ulterior that nighttime, spell the fellowship is numb, someone steals their father's prized horses. And to do matters worsened, Dad's so disconcert that he decides to set off the day of amusement in all! But there's unitary circumstance the thieves didn't number on: these kids aren't astir to allow anyone slip their Christmas joyfulness! Now by means of their saddlebags stocked with replete of screaming tricks and stuff, the unpaid detectives head up as antidote to the hills dictated to get the uncollectible guys, convey hind the horses and carry through the spirit up of the flavor! Hit the shack as far as concerns "humor, litigate and comedy" (The Film Daily) in this yuletide risky venture that'll do each daytime look same Christmas!

The Goonies Josh Brolin
The Goonies (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Antin
  • Sean Astin
  • Josh Brolin
  • Jeff Cohen
  • Robert Davi
You may be surprised to find that the theater director of the Lethal Weapon movies and scary abhorrence riffle The Omen, Richard Donner, furthermore produced and directed this masterly children's escapade (which, by the right smart, was written by Donner's screen-wizard quaker Steven Spielberg). Then once more you may non. The Goonies, same Donner's other movies, is the degree romance of just against vicious. It has its deal of uncollectible guys (the Fratelli brothers and their villainous mother), reluctant-hero just guys (the Walsh bothers and their gang up of friends), and lots of corny one-liners. Like in an ancient Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew plot of ground, the Goonies demand to figure out a job: a corrupted collective developer has bought come out their neighbourhood and plans to flatten out whole their homes. Luckily, the darling gang up stumbles on a hoarded wealth map out. In the0 hopes of discovery the1 hoarded wealth to purchase hind their houses, the2 the3 ship on their seeking through and through resistance passages, alongside sea robber ships, and slow waterfalls. This swashbuckling and frolicsome sit was likewise a outstanding gentility strand during a couple up of baby actors who went on to relish legion successes in maturity: Sean Astin (Rudy, Encino Man) and Martha Plimpton (Pecker, 200 Cigarettes). --Samantha Allen Storey Following a mystical hoarded wealth map out into a spectacular resistance department of twisting passages, atrocious booby-traps and a long-lost buccaneer ship replete of prosperous dubloons, the4 kids rush to stay on unitary tread in the lead of a fellowship of ham-fisted uncollectible guys... and a mild-mannered demon in contrast with a human face only if a fuss could enjoy. DVD Features:Audio CommentaryDeleted ScenesDocumentaryMusic Video:Cyndi Lauper "Goonies R Good Enough II"OuttakesTheatrical Trailer

Stuck On You (Widescreen Wen Yann Shih
Stuck On You (Widescreen Edition) (20th Century Fox (Widescreen)
Actors & Directors
  • Matt Damon
  • Greg Kinnear
  • Eva Mendes
  • Wen Yann Shih
  • Pat Crawford Brown
  • Bobby Farrelly
  • Mark Steilen
  • Peter Farrelly
Stuck on You finds those fun-loving Farrelly brothers in a feel-good modality, delivering a tamed, tender-hearted comedy that regular your gran could bask. That's a heavy convert from the germinal "hair gel" of There's Something About Mary, on the other hand the codirecting Farrellys feature true heart instead of Bob and Walt (Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear), conjoint gemini who ar the owners and short-order cooks at a Martha's Vinyard warren earl burger articulate. When recreational doer Walt decides he wants to do it in Hollywood--where he lucks into a star-making TV role upon Cher (who gamely plays herself in this short Hollywood satire)--Bob has no select if it be not that to go on. Separation surgery is risky, so to the highest degree of Stuck on You milks pacific laughs from the brothers' sexual link, especially then Bob finds enjoy in the estimation of a pen-pal (Wen Yann Shih) who's ab initio incognizant of Bob's brotherlike plight. Once over again, the Farrellys nock heavy points in favor of their reformist banker's acceptance of differences; individual venial roles ar played by physically or developmentally handicapped actors, and it's a consistently to be commended facet of the Farrellys' comedic worldview. Other, more than schematic rewards hold Eva Mendes (and her sizeable segmentation) as a bubbly show-biz wannabe, Seymour Cassel as Walt's old-school federal agent, and Meryl Streep--yes, Meryl Streep--showing just sportsmanship in a glorified cameo. Stuck on You is distributable comedy, yet you can't strike hard it conducive to just ol'-fashioned brotherlike enjoy. --Jeff Shannon "Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear do a terrifying team" (Newsweek) in this delightfully foolish comedy from the constantly together Farrelly Brothers (Shallow Hal, There's Something About Mary). Conjoin the play in company with Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinnear) Tenor, 2 brothers who deal a passion of christ toward life—and a liver. But their uncommon draw together leads to untamed complications whereas Walt decides to follow up on his dreams of comely an doer and persuades his disinclined sib to go on beneficial to the sit! Loaded by the agency of over-the-top humour and frantic antics, on0 on1 on2 testament allow for on3 near yourself in company with laughing!

Daniel Boone - High Armando Silvestre
Daniel Boone - High Cumberland, Parts 1 & 2 (Goldhil Home Media)
Actors & Directors
  • Fess Parker
  • Ed Ames
  • Patricia Blair
  • Dallas McKennon
  • Armando Silvestre
  • George Sherman
"With an eyeball same an double birdie and elevated as a mount was he" DANIEL BOONE... fabulous and protracted on trail-blazing risky venture, Dan'l kindles pioneering distilled liquors as he leads dauntless men, women, and of child in the seeking to settle down young soil. Starring Fess Parker as unitary of history's to the highest degree far-famed back remote districts explorers, this first-rate work tv serial brings the older boundary to lifespan, packed by the agency of Indians, renegades & scalawags, struggling pioneers, and plentitude of wild sue. The High Cumberland is a 2-part installment from Season 2 (1965-'66) moving round right and left Daniel Boone's former years on the young marches and in what state he met his next married woman Rebecca, and quaker Mingo, the Oxford-educated boy of an English padre and Cherokee fuss. His other explorations of Kentucky, the suit of Rebecca Bryan, and schemes by reckless merchants to slip preciously stores toward the Kentucky resolution ar the whole of constituent of this outstanding escapade. The High Cumberland stars Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Ed Ames and Dallas McKennon

Colorado Sundown (ROAN)
Actors & Directors
  • Rex Allen
  • Louise Beavers
  • Stanley Blystone
  • Edward Cassidy
  • Chester Clute
  • William Witney
Slim Pickens' 1st pairing by with the help of vocalizing rodeo rider Rex Allen came in Colorado Sundown, at which place the boys receive by inheritance a logging accompany. Trouble comes at the time comrade and sis scoundrels (Fred Graham and June Vincent) attempt to clutch verify of the business concern. The sounds of the pop 50's vocal aggroup Republic Rhythm Riders put up be heard end-to-end this jolly dangerous undertaking. Decades up to that time Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, theater director William Witney (Zorro Rides Again, The Crimson Ghost) perfected a cinematic technique during the term of increasing the strength of onscreen force, by overcranking the photographic camera for the period of struggle scenes, so as to marginally velocity up motion-picture photography velocity. Typical of Republic productions in this genre, Colorado Sundown provides a outstanding trade of raging struggle footage, a romp stage corralled by fast one horseback riding, and divers musical comedy book of numbers, including the orally transmitted common people vocal "Down by the Riverside."

King of Texas Patrick Stewart
King of Texas (Turner Home Ent)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Marcia Gay Harden
  • Lauren Holly
  • Roy Scheider
  • David Alan Grier
  • Uli Edel
It's Shakespeare in contrast with six-guns as King of Texas goes boldly at which place no TV Western had gone in advance of. Transplanting King Lear to a Texas bos taurus cattle farm was a risky doctrine, but that as asterisk and co-executive husbandman (with his married woman and buster Star Trek: The Next Generation grad, Wendy Neuss), Patrick Stewart brings his unnerving Shakespearean grooming to hold on a condensed only satisfying version. Whereas Akira Kurosawa's Ran required a gender-switching modernize of Shakespeare's disaster, this handsomely mounted TNT Original retains the feuding sistership of Lear's destruction. As ageing kine tycoon John Lear, Stewart sets his ruination in question, dividing his shore and loyalties mixed mingled with daughters played accompanying stout endurance by Marcia Gay Harden, Lauren Holly, and Julie Cox. Familial machinations manifold upon a astral supporting mold (Roy Scheider is the Earl of Gloucester here), and with regard to everything of Stewart's telling erinyes, it's comedy veteran soldier David Alan Grier (interpreting Shakespeare's "Fool") who quiet steals the present. --Jeff Shannon An ageing oxen baron's design to split his monstrous overspread amid his iii daughters ignites a sib consanguinity fee in this flighty Wild West retelling of Shakespeare's "King Lear."

Larry McMurtry's Sissy Spacek
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo (Hallmark)
Actors & Directors
  • James Garner
  • Sissy Spacek
  • Sam Shepard
  • Ned Beatty
  • Randy Quaid
  • Joseph Sargent
The vital and pop prosperous issue of the Lonesome Dove miniseries simply astir ensured a subsequence or iii. The 1st spinoff, Return to Lonesome Dove, was rushed come out unburdened unharmed by creator Larry McMurtry's input, excepting Streets of Laredo, that McMurtry written from his ain refreshing, returns us firmly to his unrelenting West. Legendary Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow Call (James Garner, who steps into the boots left-hand by Tommy Lee Jones immediately after well-fixed pledge and unostentatious braveness) has turned premium huntsman, and he heads turned on the all-fired shack of unprincipled Mexican gun Joey Garza (Alexis Cruz), a sadistic, raging south-of-the-border renegade free from of a make. Lonesome Dove echoes through and through the chronicle: Call's previous shack deal Pea Eye Parker (Sam Shepard) is enlisted in his posse comitatus and Parker's married woman, Lorena (Sissy Spacek in the role Diane Lane created in the pilot and the desert-worn psyche of this story), follows in their backwash attending word that the psychopathological recreant Mox Mox (Kevin Conway), who erstwhile held her confined, is live and hinder on the warpath. McMurtry's Old West is non a delightful localize, and Streets Larry0 Larry1 is non toward the lightheaded Larry2 bosom. It's a outlaw, anti-semite, unrelenting domain at what place power may non do right-hand, limit it certainly holds wield in marooned leave unlawfully towns and unfrequented trails. Yet as antidote to the whole of the calamity and force, McMurtry finds trust in the enjoy and observe that breaks downward racial barriers, holds families unitedly, and creates young ones. --Sean Axmaker A corrupt young cover Larry3 slayer is stalking the w Texas plains. And only if an out of date genial Larry4 law officer put up halt him. That adult male is fictitious Texas Ranger Woodrow Call (James Garner). Renowned as the superlative manhunter on the Southwest confine, Call's missionary post testament play off him in countervail to his deadliest opposer ever so and top him to the spectacular ratiocination Larry5 the epical that began in company with Larry6 Larry7 Pulitzer Prize pleasing Lonesome Dove. Also starring Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard, the escapade begins according to Call severe on the shack Larry8 fell immature rail thief Joey Garza. Joined by his sidekick Pea Eye (Shepard), Call testament salary the struggle Larry9 his lifespan as he battles to convey his stone-pit to justness and convey himself and those equitation in contrast with him come out McMurtry's0 the wild alive.A straggly, star-powered coda to unitary McMurtry's1 the to the highest degree darling sagas ever so to call forth the gallantry, villainousness and glorification McMurtry's2 the untamed American West! Features: Full Screen Version 2.0 Dolby Surround AudioScene AccessInteractive MenusSystem Requirements:Run Time: 224 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

Double Feature: Young Guns
Double Feature: Young Guns/The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
  • Young Guns
  • Last Days of Frank & Jesse James
YOUNG GUNS - The twelvemonth is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires vi refractory boys as "regulators" to preserve his spread adverse to the inhuman Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambuscade, the Regulators, led by the wild-tempered Billy the Kid (Estevez), hold state of war on the Ring. As their blood feud turns into a all-fired violent disorder, they ar branded outlaws, comely the objects of the largest manhunt in Western chronicle. THE LAST DAYS OF FRANK & JESSE JAMES - From 1866 to 1882, Missouri's Frank and of0 of1 led a gang up that robbed sir joseph banks, held up trains of2 became the to the highest degree remarkable outlaws in American chronicle. After 15 years of3 pilfering, the fabulous outlaws ar dire to settle down downward. This is the of4 years of5 the brothers' lives, telling of6 (Johnny Cash) as a book-loving of7 family-oriented adult male of8 comrade of9 (Kris Kristofferson) as a money-hungry womaniser.

Guns of the Magnificent Reni Santoni
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • George Kennedy
  • James Whitmore
  • Monte Markham
  • Reni Santoni
  • Bernie Casey
  • Paul Wendkos
A subject mold led by George Kennedy helps do this third-go circular by reason of the Magnificent Seven dealership a worthwhile dangerous undertaking as far as concerns Western fans. Kennedy is a more-than-capable replacing with regard to Yul Brynner as Chris, who grape-juice circular up a young Seven to facilitate deliver a radical director (Fernando Rey) held confined by a sadistic war machine chief (Michael Ansara, adding some other snick to his spun out lean of villains). Comparisons to the pilot Magnificent Seven ar that must be suffered, and piece Guns doesn't gibe up in conditions of ambit or lineament Magnificent0 piece of writing, Magnificent1 substantial cast--which includes James Whitmore, Joe Don Baker, and Bernie Casey as members Magnificent2 Magnificent3 young Seven--overcomes whatever limitations by delivering industrious performances; Magnificent4 Spanish locations and veteran soldier TV theater director Paul Wendkos's nods to spaghetti Western conventions ar too a positive. --Paul Gaita Magnificent5 Magnificent6 Magnificent7 sit once more in this "fast-moving follow-up" (Variety) to unitary Magnificent8 Magnificent9 superlative Western sagas in shoot account. Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke) and James Whitmore (The Shawshank Redemption) use up Seven0 lumbar region with regard to a bold-faced, wholesale escapade that delivers nonstop fervour! When patent desperate criminal Chris Adams (Kennedy) is offered a immense pay back to loose a immature Mexican radical from prison house, he fust 1st gather a fierce team up Seven1 back-woods warriors. Together, these dauntless gunslingers ship on Seven2 escapade Seven3 their livesand find a make charles frederick worth more than than a lot in golden.