“The Making of the Film” – Part 3 – DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE
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Hondo (Full Screen) $6.85 Although scarcely seen in its original 3-D, and entirely out of sight for a decade and a half after its producer-star died, Hondo has maintained a high rep among John Wayne fans–and it wasn’t even directed by Howard Hawks or John Ford. (Actually, Ford did shoot some second-unit stuff while visiting Wayne on location.) Half-breed Hondo, companioned only by an antisocial dog, tends to be more sympa… |
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Diva – Meridian Collection (1981 – Remastered WS) $18.38 Modern noir meets high opera in the French suspense flick Diva. Delivery boy Jules has an opera obsession. He spends his small disposable income on sophisticated sound equipment and manages to bootleg a live performance of his favorite diva, Cynthia Hawkins (played by real-life opera singer Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez). But Jules is spotted making the recording by shady investors who want the tap… |
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The Naked Gun – From the Files of Police Squad! [VHS] $3.99 David Zucker–of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker creative troika behind Airplane! and television’s Police Squad!–directed this 1988 feature film based on the latter show. Leslie Nielsen returns to his old TV role of Lt. Frank Drebin, the deadpan idiot with a detective’s badge. The reinvention of the failed series as a theatrical feature seems to have inspired everyone involved to make a pretty funny m… |
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Tombstone [VHS] $3.17 This Western has become a modest cult favorite since its release in 1993, when the film was met with mixed reviews but the performances of Kurt Russell (as Wyatt Earp) and especially Val Kilmer, for his memorably eccentric performance as the dying gunslinger Doc Holliday, garnered high praise. The movie opens with Wyatt Earp trying to put his violent past behind him, living happily in Tombstone wi… |
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George of the Jungle [VHS] $3.60 Disney scored an unexpected hit with this goofy live-action remake of Jay Ward’s Saturday-morning cartoon, a zippy Tarzan parody with topical references and absurd gags. Disney’s big-screen version, starring Brendan Fraser as the sweet, hopelessly inept jungle hero, puts the emphasis on slapstick and silly fun. The klutzy hero, still swinging into trees and stray boulders, saves a lost L.A. social… |
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Grayeagle [VHS] $7.95 … |
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