Black Dog

Starring:Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Graham Beckel, Brenda Strong, Rusty De Wees, Cyril O'Reilly, Erin Broderick, Charles S. Dutton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lorraine Toussaint, Hester Hargett, Stuart Greer, Whitt Brantley, Mark Steven Robison, Elizabeth Jaye Moore
Director: Kevin Hooks
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?) brought comic Steve Martin to the screen in this mostly funny 1979 movie about a relentlessly stupid but innocent man, whom we get to know from childhood (where it never occurred to him that he was white as he was raised by a family of black sharecroppers) to romance (where he doesn't quite know what to do with Bernadette Peters). Martin is game as the moron, and this is the kind of film with funny moments people still talk about. --Tom Keogh

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That wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin, makes his film-starring debut in the wacky comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he s smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, becomes a millionaire by inventing the Opti-grab handle for glasses and shows why he s one of the hottest comic performers in the world.

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Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jackie Mason
Directed By: Carl Reiner
Running Time: 94 Min.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

goofy, .......2007-05-28

the product was new, and the shipping was great. I have never received anything bad from Amazon. This movie is so goofy, and almost funny.

The Jerk.......2007-03-12

this is one of the greatest movies of all time! A must have for any Steve Martin fan. The movie played well and arrived in good time and good condition. The special features are fun too! The ukalelie gal is tops!
I am very pleased with my purchase. Thank you!

A Favorite.......2007-03-08

I couldn't find a copy of The Jerk at any of the local retail outlets. I was surprised to find a copy with such ease and also a great price. I love the movie and couldn't be more pleased.

He hates these cans!.......2007-02-10

Steve Martin's first starring movie role and arguably his best. Very silly and would be pretty un-pc nowadays, especially compared to his recent movies. All the little things in the movie all are great, being brought up as a 'poor black child', S$#%-head the dog, the cans, the circus, Bernadette Peters :), the Ukelele song 'You Belong to Me' (I can somewhat play it on my Uke), his 'special' purpose :D, the Optigrab, cat juggling, the 'eggplant' scene, the Thermos! I can forgive all his recent dreck just because he created this film.

This movie is a mixture between..........2007-01-15

obvious humor and subtle, quirky zings you have to pay attention to "get". A good movie for the entire family. I sat with mine, ages 14 through 45, and we all enjoyed it greatly!

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"He was not a pet, he was a person"
Don't get me wrong, the movie is brilliant...
Man's Best friend
The most conservative work of fiction I've ever read. I don't think this aspect of the story transfers well to the big screen
Still trying to figure this film out

A Boy & His Dog
Starring: Hal Baylor , Susanne Benton , Don Carter , Ron Feinberg , and Michael Hershman
Manufacturer: First Run Features
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ASIN: B0000C825J
Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Closely adapted from the acclaimed novella by Harlan Ellison, this postapocalyptic black comedy has emerged as a cult favorite since its release in 1975, when Don Johnson was a relative unknown and still years away from TV stardom on Miami Vice. Here Johnson plays a young, libidinous loner named Vic who roams the postnuclear wasteland with his loyal dog, Blood, a remarkable hound with keen intelligence and the ability to telepathically communicate with his less-intelligent master. It's survival of the fittest, so food and sex are Vic's highest priorities, and he gets plenty of both when recruited into a mysterious underground society in desperate need of young fertile males. While Blood must fend for himself on the unfriendly surface, Vic realizes that he's an exploited prisoner and must escape to return to the canine friend he left behind. Thanks in large part to the sly wit of Blood (whose sarcastic voice is splendidly provided by Tim McIntire), this clever and disturbing film readily earns its lasting reputation as a low-budget classic, and features a funny yet chilling supporting role for Jason Robards Jr. --Jeff Shannon

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"He was not a pet, he was a person".......2007-06-26

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

"A Boy and His Dog" (1975) is based on a well-known novella by Harlan Ellison of the same title. The movie focuses of the adventures of a young scavenger Vic (Don Johnson) and his telepathic dog Blood as they wander through the wasteland where Phoenix, Arizona used to be in 2024 AD after the end of WWIV that resulted in nuclear holocaust. In their duet, Blood seems more intelligent, experienced, sarcastic, and reasonable than Vic but they need each other to survive, to find food for both and the girls for Vic. All females have moved underground where a parody on pre-war suburban middle class life has been preserved and it has been over six weeks since Vic got laid last. Blood will sense a girl who dressed like a boy to attend the screening of an old porn-movie and Vic will follow her as far as the underground city "Topeka" against the Blood's advices. Little he knew that Quilla June was supposed to lure him down under where he will be used as a source for sperm that the underground women desperately need to get pregnant. After series of adventures, Vic was able to break away from the scary looking machine he was hooked up to with Quilla June's help and two of them escape to the surface...

While technically, the movie is not the most spectacular or visually prominent, the acting of the main characters, the communication between a boy (good performance from young and very handsome Don Johnson) and his dog (Tim McIntire was very convincing providing the voice of "Blood" and singing the main title song, "A Boy and His Dog"), and especially the story, dark and funny, make it well deserving of its cult status.

I wanted to see the movie because I am very impressed by Ellison's writings and consider some of his short stories the best, the most brilliant, incredible, shocking, and disturbing ever written. The first one I read literally took my breath away. It was "The whimper of the whipped dogs" that I found in the thick volume "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century" and it was the brightest star among the works of such writers as O'Henry, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, and many wore. Since my first encounter with Ellison's writing, I became his loyal fan. Later, I read Ellison's collection "Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon Of Modern Gods" which "The whimper of the whipped dogs" opens. While reading the story that gave the book its title, "The Deathbird", I first learned about "A Boy and His Dog":

"Yesterday my dog died. For eleven years Ahbhu was my closest friend. He was responsible for my writing a story about a boy and his dog that many people have read. He was not a pet, he was a person. It was impossible to anthropomorphize him, he would not stand for it. But he was so much his own kind of creature, he had such a strongly formed personality, he was so determined to share his life with only those he chose, that it was impossible to think of him as simply a dog."
-Harlan Ellison "Ahbhu", the short story inserted in "The Deathbird"

After having read "The Deathbird", I was not surprised with the ending of "A Boy and A Dog", the story and the movie. Even though, they are attributed to the genre of science-fiction satire (and they are, intelligent, sharp, sarcastic, and biting), I think of them more as the meditation on many important subjects and the tribute Ellison paid to the true friendship, loyalty, and love. He also could've brought to the story resentment and disappointments from his broken marriages and relationships.

Don't get me wrong, the movie is brilliant..........2007-02-17

...which is why I keep buying every new release that comes out in the hopes that it will be better than the last. No such luck. This is the same transfer as the previous two releases -- from the original laserdisc, and with the same problems: dropped frames, dust and scratches all over it. And despite Amazon's description, this release is NOT ANAMORPHIC, though, like the others, it is widescreen. (I've submitted a change to the description). I could live with the dust and scratches -- after all, all the known prints of this film have been knocking around for almost thirty years, and as far as I know no pristine negative exists anymore. But I *wish* we could get an anamorphic transfer. How is it that a Hugo award-winning film that is so loved by critics can be overlooked for a decent DVD treatment for so long?

Now, the good: In addition to the now-familiar (and very entertaining) L.Q. Jones commentary track which has appeared on all the others, we also get two trailers restored to the DVD (these appeared on the first release, but not the one from Slingshot). And the fact that it is available once again at all -- I didn't relish the idea of shelling out ~$100 if something happened to current copy. Kudos to Firstrun for printing 'em again.

But dangit, won't *someone* step up to the plate and give us a decent anamorphic transfer? I'm begging here, which even Blood could only bring himself to do once.

Man's Best friend.......2007-02-12

Saw the movie when it first came out years ago, loved it then and love it now. Tongue in cheek, futuristic society, after math of the second big bang.

The most conservative work of fiction I've ever read. I don't think this aspect of the story transfers well to the big screen.......2007-02-07

A Boy and His Dog is not a well made movie. The budget for this project was just too low perhaps. It concerns a boy and his intelligent K-9 traveling companion, 'Blood'. 'Intelligent', as in smarter than friend Vic, and telepathic. Blood 'talks'. According to the movie, dogs like these were bred for war - before the big war, the nuclear war. The war, to, really, end-all-wars. Vic and Blood travel across the post-apocalypse wasteland looking for food sex and good times. The original story was an award winner written by SF writer Harlan Ellison. As a youth Ellison traveled the country as a carnival worker and is said to have really been in youth gangs. The conversation between Vic and Blood, sounds, authentic. The dialog doesn't sound dated. You can also enjoy the movie for it's adventure. You can enjoy it for it's mother-of-all twist endings. You could appreciate the movie for the social statement it makes.

The movie begins, in a movie theater. One gangs 'action' is running an abandoned theater. Admission: one can of non-radiated food. From there Vic travels to a large underground bomb shelter where the citizens live in a repressed manner said to be reminiscent of the 1950's. Vic is captured by them. They want to use him as their 'stud' because all the men are sterile. One reviewer even saying, this is one of the messages of the film, repression leads to men being sterile.

Vic likes the idea of being able to sleep with all the women (in the book he's really going to be sleeping with them - in the movie he's hooked up to an unpleasant 'milking machine') he likes the idea... but he doesn't like his loss of freedom. He escapes with a girl from the down-under Quilla June. Quilla herself is part of group of youths rebelling against the grown ups, and here, the movie ups-the-ante from the book. In the story, the only rebellion is simply their escape. The 'youth rebellion' I think gives us another chance to compare this society with our own.

Quilla liberates Vics guns and then they shoot their way out of town. Vic noticing Quilla's horror, turning to blood lust, saying to himself, "do you have to waste so much ammunition..." This is the point in the book where it becomes obvious this story has an agenda. As they are making their escape, shooting at the last townsfolk, Vic says to himself, "they should have known better than to mess with Jimmy Cagney". Cagney being the actor who always plays the gangster in the movies he so loves to watch earlier in the movie. Then of course right after their escape, there's the twist ending.

This is the most conservative work of fiction I've ever read, ever. I don't think this aspect of the story transfers well to the big screen. Perhaps the filmmaker failed. Perhaps the failure is on the part of the viewer. Do we have an underlying fear of seeing things in an incorrect way? The original story was written in 1968. Is it difficult for us to empathize with a world view so different from the one we're ordinarily presented with? It's not a view we see too often nowadays. It's certainly something we don't expect to see when sitting down to watch a movie.

Still trying to figure this film out.......2007-02-03

Alright, I'm going to go ahead and give this film 5 stars... but the stars are for incomprehensibility, rather than anything else which can make a sci-fi film truly great. Harlan Ellison must have one really twisted mind, if he wrote stuff like this. He is one old geezer who seriously needs to be picked up and put in a rest home.

OK, yeah, all of us guys are motivated by sex and food, as Don Johnson and his canine sidekick have reminded us throughout the picture... and being a red-blooded straight male myself, I of course had the hots for the nuclear-survivor girl who had the big doe eyes and the white mime makeup on her face.

To this day, however, I can't figure out what was supposed to have happened at the end, and I watched the picture 5 times. Did Vic leave the girl as she went back underground with the rest of her bizarre tribe, or (gasp!), did he kill her and cook her for dinner, as food for himself and the psychic dog? The film doesn't tell us.

Seems like such a stupid shame, to have sex with a beautiful young woman, only to cut her up and roast her later. Not a film for the uninitiated.

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Beyond silly
Black Dog
Waste of Talent, Waste of Two Hours
black dog
One Of The Greatest Films In The History Of Cinema

Black Dog
Starring: Patrick Swayze , Meat Loaf , Randy Travis , Gabriel Casseus , and Brian Vincent
Director: Kevin Hooks
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ASIN: 0783228686
Release Date: 1998-10-14

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An ex-con daredevil trucker must reinfect himself with white-line fever in order to save his wife and kid from nasty gunrunners in this enjoyably mindless, twisted-metal-fest from the director of Passenger 57. Longtime MIA action stud Patrick Swayze (who snagged the part after Kevin Sorbo had to suddenly vacate due to health problems) is even more expressionless than usual in the lead role, but helmer Kevin Hooks compensates with a seriously rocking country soundtrack, some pleasantly eccentric supporting characters (including erstwhile crooner Randy Travis and a way-over-the-top Meatloaf as a psychotic trucker preaching damnation by the dashboard light), and--most importantly--a whole lot of rolling iron getting smashed in spectacularly kinetic fashion. A low-down, down-home, cotton-picking flick that blows up real good. --Andrew Wright

Customer Reviews:

Beyond silly.......2007-04-03

I watch (and love) zombie movies, so my ability to suspend disbelief or to enjoy mindless mayhem is extremely high. I don't even mind Mr Swayze in the right film. Red Dawn or Point Break? Watch them anytime. Road House or Next of Kin? Well, maybe not all the way through, but I can always make it to the next commercial break if I'm channel surfing and I see one of them. But this is so absurd, with such endless data dumps where Mr Swayze has to explain to the other characters his own back story or the inner workings of truck brakes (yawn on both counts), and with villains who are beyond comic relief to being just Darwin award winners, that it's impossible to sit through.

Black Dog.......2007-03-08

Ithink Black Dog is avery good movie. It has losts of supense and twists to keep you wondering who is the bad is. I would reccomend it to anyone who likes suppense.

Waste of Talent, Waste of Two Hours.......2007-02-10

First off, we're given a character that we can't really like: a man who lost his CDL and just got out of prison because he got into an accident that killed someone. Accident or not, someone died through his carelessness and/or incompetence. So what do the filmmakers do? Put him back behind the wheel. Strike one.

Swayze, in addition to driving illegally, is smuggling. Despite his supposed remorse for his prior offense, he has no problem taking a job that any moron can see is a shady deal. Big strike two.

One of the most ludicrous scenes is when his wife and daughter are kidnapped. The mom runs through the house screaming her daughter's name. The daughter turns around from the bathroom mirror with a blank-faced "Huh?" (uh...she totally missed her mom's panic-stricken screeching?). Then, as a reward for all this misadventure, the FBI cheerfully gives Swayze, the killer-behind-the-wheel, his license to drive again. Strike three, and bye-bye. I have no sympathy for this guy and his whiney family at all.

The director should have let Randy Travis sing for two hours; at least that would have given this film some entertainment quality. If you want to watch a halfway decent trucker movie, rent "Smokey and the Bandit."

black dog.......2006-11-06

the film was excellant there was lots of action, there was also great well known actors in it to, there was no bad langauge and no sex scene's

One Of The Greatest Films In The History Of Cinema.......2005-11-13

Patrick Swayze + Meatloaf + Randy Travis + Trucks = Pure unadulterated awesomeness.

Black Lagoon Volume 2 Limited (w/ Dog Tag)

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Black Lagoon Volume 2 Limited (w/ Dog Tag)
Starring: Black Lagoon
Manufacturer: GENEON [PIONEER]
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ASIN: B000PY316Q
Release Date: 2007-07-24

Product Description

Filled with scenes of heroic bloodshed, Black Lagoon is Action Incarnate!
The Black Lagoon Company gets into a brutal head to head battle with a bunch of neo-nazi freaks after the same sunken booty. Revy and Dutch blaze a trail full of blood and bullets in an attempt to get back their bounty and make an exit in style. The tension between Rock and Revy builds up to such extreme levels that an easy day of running errands has almost fatal consequences! Will they kiss and make up or will Rock get a bullet in the head?

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No movie on disk

The Jerk [HD DVD]
Starring: Lillian Adams , Alston Ahern , Domingo Ambriz , Kimberly Cameron , and Helena Carroll
Director: Carl Reiner
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B000NA6MMW
Release Date: 2007-04-17

Description

That wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin, makes his film-starring debut in the wacky comedy hit The Jerk. Steve plays Navin Johnson, the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches…right back to rags. Steve propels Navin through a string of misadventures-becoming smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, surviving a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, and becoming a millionaire by inventing the "Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses-and shows why he's one of the hottest comic performers in the world.

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No movie on disk.......2007-06-11

No movie on disc. Just a blank CD. Not amazons fault but just beware

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"He was not a pet, he was a person"
Don't get me wrong, the movie is brilliant...
Man's Best friend
The most conservative work of fiction I've ever read. I don't think this aspect of the story transfers well to the big screen
Still trying to figure this film out

A Boy And His Dog
Starring: Hal Baylor , Susanne Benton , Don Carter , Ron Feinberg , and Michael Hershman
Director: L.Q. Jones
Manufacturer: Lumivision
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ASIN: 6304492405
Release Date: 1999-03-30

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Customer Reviews:

"He was not a pet, he was a person".......2007-06-26

Don't get me wrong, the movie is brilliant..........2007-02-17

Man's Best friend.......2007-02-12

Saw the movie when it first came out years ago, loved it then and love it now. Tongue in cheek, futuristic society, after math of the second big bang.

The most conservative work of fiction I've ever read. I don't think this aspect of the story transfers well to the big screen.......2007-02-07

Still trying to figure this film out.......2007-02-03

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goofy,
The Jerk
A Favorite
He hates these cans!
This movie is a mixture between...

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Starring: Catlin Adams , Domingo Ambriz , Helena Carroll , Maurice Evans , and Richard Foronjy
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Release Date: 1998-04-29

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Customer Reviews:

goofy, .......2007-05-28

the product was new, and the shipping was great. I have never received anything bad from Amazon. This movie is so goofy, and almost funny.

The Jerk.......2007-03-12

A Favorite.......2007-03-08

I couldn't find a copy of The Jerk at any of the local retail outlets. I was surprised to find a copy with such ease and also a great price. I love the movie and couldn't be more pleased.

He hates these cans!.......2007-02-10

This movie is a mixture between..........2007-01-15

obvious humor and subtle, quirky zings you have to pay attention to "get". A good movie for the entire family. I sat with mine, ages 14 through 45, and we all enjoyed it greatly!

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KILLER TERRIERS?

Dogs
Starring: Debbie Davis , Linda Gray , Russ Grieve , Elizabeth Kerr , and Sandra McCabe
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
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Release Date: 2006-07-25

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KILLER TERRIERS?.......2007-02-14

This movie tried to do for the canine set what Hitchcock's BIRDS did for our feathered friends, but believe me, it's nowhere near the classic.
DOGS is basically an abysmal movie, replete with ridiculous plotting and horrible acting. Even NCIS' David McCallum, sporting a bowl haircut, looks embarrased to be involved. With no real reason given except for increased pherenomes, this town's canine set is going bonkers when they're in packs and attacking and killing everyone. There is no terror involved though...how can a terrier or a cocker spaniel be frightening? Skip this..it's for the dogs!!!

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a fine example of Canadian cinema!
eid ro evom

Roadkill
Starring: Shaun Bowring , Giovanna Buhagiar , Nazareno Buhagiar , Valerie Buhagiar , and Ellen Dean
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ROADKILL (DVD MOVIE)

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a fine example of Canadian cinema!.......2004-08-14

Roadkill is the first part of a loosely connected rock `n' roll/road movie trilogy by Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald. The movie was something of a breath of fresh air when it debuted because Canadian film had, up until then, been traditionally known as notoriously boring or, worse, derivative of American movies. McDonald managed to fuse the low budget aesthetics of the emerging U.S. indie film movement with a distinctively Canadian take on the road movie genre.

Extras include a nine-minute short film by McDonald called "Elimination Dance," starring McKellar as a man who attends a dance marathon with couples being eliminated for hilariously bizarre reasons like "anyone who's lost a urine sample in the mail."

Next up is another McDonald short film entitled "Fort Goof" that runs six and half minutes long. The director holds a casting call for a role in a movie. A roomful of women audition and give all kinds of different readings of the same lines of dialogue.

A small collection of behind-the-scenes photographs can be accessed in the "Photo Gallery" section.

Finally, the highlight of the supplemental material is an audio commentary by actor/screenwriter Don McKellar and the film's producer Colin Brunton. They fondly recount anecdotes about making the movie. This is a good track as both men talk constantly and impart a genuine enthusiasm and humour about their movie.

Roadkill is an excellent example of Canadian cinema. While it adopts a distinctly American genre like the road movie, it remains uniquely Canadian in content (except for the presence of Joey Ramone) and attitude. Bruce McDonald remains one of the unsung heroes of the Canadian film scene, often overshadowed by its more well-known figures, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan and Denys Arcand. McDonald has remained fiercely independent over the years, supplementing his film career with a prolific one in Canadian television. Roadkill is an excellent example of his early work and an engaging, entertaining movie in its own right.

eid ro evom.......2004-07-07

I first saw this movie on the cbc about 12 years ago or so. Then, in my late teens, it really had an affect on me. This is probably the best black and white, Canadian, rock and roll road movie you'll ever see. I think it still holds up after all these years.
The story follows Ramona, who works for a concert promoter, to northern Ontario. She's there to find the Children of Paradise and bring them back to Toronto so they can stop wasting the promoters money. Along the way she meets Don McKellar, a serial killer and Bruce MacDonald, a music video director. There's even a cameo from Joey Ramone.
The ending is a little goofy but I really like this movie. It's not for everyone, though. Fans of the late 80's independant movement (music and film) should take note.

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Great Classic Gangster Comedy!!

Behave Yourself
Starring: Farley Granger , Shelley Winters , William Demarest , Francis L. Sullivan , and Margalo Gillmore
Director: George Beck
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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Release Date: 2004-03-23

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Great Classic Gangster Comedy!!.......2004-08-20

This is a great classic 50's gangster comedy involving a cute terrier dog that has a great cast including Shelley Winters and now it's on DVD for all to enjoy!!

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