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One Night With the King
Starring: Tiffany Dupont , Luke Goss , John Noble , Omar Sharif , and John Rhys-Davies Director: Michael O. Sajbel Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000JJSJO6 Release Date: 2007-01-30 |
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The moving biblical tale of Esther--a humble Jewish girl who saved her people from annihilation and won the heart of the handsome Persian king Xerxes--is the subject of One Night with the King, a lush ode to one of the Old Testament's most inspiring women. Esther, played with spark and confidence by Tiffany Dupont, could perhaps be said to be the first career woman to "have it all"--while also serving her people, and God. The film, shot on location in India, has the feel of the great epics of the '60s--a sensation underscored by the appearance, in small but pivotal roles, of both Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole. (Even Raiders of the Lost Ark's John Rhys-Davies--"Bad dates!"--echoes earlier desert adventures.) But the film belongs to the willful Esther, who navigates among war, bloodlust, persecution, and terror with the strength of knowing she's serving the Lord, and her people. If the film has a few anachronisms--including the young Esther's suitor, who has blonde streaks and a surfer-dude delivery ("The market was rilly busy today")--its heart and its focus never waver. Fans of biblical tales and well-made drama for the entire family shouldn't miss it. --A.T. HurleyDescription
One Night with the King is a sweeping epic about Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia.Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, evens as she seeks to win the heart of the king, in this exciting and inspiring story about destiny.
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Why mess with perfection?.......2007-06-27
Sub-par Plot and Production Reduce a Great Story Into So-so Movie.......2007-06-25
Esther.......2007-06-22
A better attempt than most..........2007-06-03
FLOWERS, STARS AND ROMANCE - BUT VERY LITTLE TRUTH.......2007-06-02
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Sarah Brightman - Harem Desert Fantasy
Starring: Sarah Brightman Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001C9YRC Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
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Theater star Sarah Brightman turns up the heat in this sexy, baroque DVD counterpart to her 2003 world music CD, Harem. Brightman's artistic purpose on that album--marrying the rhythms of the Middle East to her otherwordly pop sound (as opposed to her boomy, operatic sound)--aren't lost here, but don't expect to catch a glimpse of such exciting studio collaborators as violin star Nigel Kennedy amidst countless shots of the diva in various states of undress. The lavish visual production sets several songs in exotic recreations of fabled harems, where lust is tempered by decorum but sex is clearly on the menu. For a change, Brightman's ethereal version of "Stranger in Paradise" (from Kismet) is shot against a starkly beautiful, mountainous backdrop, and "What You Never Know," a song about the passage of time, includes touching images of children and old people. --Tom KeoghCustomer Reviews:
Never again.......2007-06-07
Sarah Brightman's Harem Desert Fantasy.......2007-02-06
Sarah Brightman - Harem Desert Fantasy.......2007-01-21
Wonderful Entertainment.......2006-11-04
Sarah Brightman - Harem Desert Fantasy (2003).......2006-02-03
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Abbott & Costello in Hollywood / Lost in a Harem
Starring: Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , Frances Rafferty , Bob Stanton , and Jean Porter Director: S. Sylvan Simon , and Charles Reisner Manufacturer: Warner Home Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000HWZ4CK Release Date: 2006-11-21 |
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Buzz (Bud Abbott) and Abercrombie (Lou Costello) work in a Tinseltown haircut salon where they usually just take a little off the side. But why not take 10% off the top instead? So the fellas become movie talent agents, setting in motion the lights-camera-comedy antics of Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, including Costello being mistaken for a prop dummy during the filming of a saloon brawl, Bud and Lou coping with insomnia, and a pursuit finale in the cars and on the tracks of a roaring roller-coaster. You'll also find Lost in a Harem. Locked in is more like it, as the two land in the hoosegow twice, where their timing, repartee and monkeyshines shine. Douglas Dumbrille plays the evil potentate who uses hypnosis against the boys ? making this a tale of Arabian daze and nights. The grand wazir orders you to watch!Customer Reviews:
GREAT DVD.......2007-06-06
Good pair of movies.......2007-01-18
never to old to enjoy good comedy.......2007-01-10
What Happened To The Transfers?!.......2006-12-30
YOU WON'T BE LAUGHING !!.......2006-12-17
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Classic Comedy Teams Collection (Abbott & Costello in Hollywood / Air Raid Wardens / Gold Raiders / Lost in a Harem / Meet the Baron / Nothing but Trouble)
Starring: Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , Frances Rafferty , Bob Stanton , and Jean Porter Director: S. Sylvan Simon , Sam Taylor , and Edward Sedgwick Manufacturer: Warner Home Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000HWZ4F2 Release Date: 2006-11-21 |
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This three-disc set is perhaps not the ideal introduction to Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy, but vintage comedy buffs and fans of these legendary teams will welcome the opportunity to fill in their collections with these lesser-known and rarely seen films, packaged as three double features (each volume also available separately). Abbott & Costello fare best with two films they made for MGM while they were still relatively in their prime. Lost in a Harem(1944) is sublime silliness as hapless entertainers Bud and Lou, stranded in the Middle East, who become embroiled in a plot to dethrone an evil king. This film features a knockabout version of the vintage vaudeville routine "Slowly I turn," as well as bizarrely gratuitous numbers by Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra, whom the king has kidnapped and hypnotized (!). In Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945), the duo are barbers-turned-agents who run amuck on the MGM lot. Less star-studded than the title promises (Rags Ragland, anyone?), there are some great routines, including a sequence in which Lou must act as a prop dummy to elude studio guards.This collection is a particular treasure trove for Stooges fans, unearthing two of the trio's obscure features. The first, Meet the Baron (1933) captures Moe, Larry, and Curly at the beginning of their screen careers with original partner Ted Healy. The film itself is more a vehicle for radio comedian Jack "Vas you dere, Charlie?" Pearl as his signature character, Baron Munchausen. Gold Raiders (1951) was the only feature the Stooges made with Shemp. It's a slaphappy "C" western costarring George O'Brien as, yes, a lawman-turned-insurance salesman. Despite the premise, it's played mostly straight, and is not an all-out spoof like the later, The Outlaws Is Coming. Laurel and Hardy, who began in silent films, were in sad decline by the time they made Air Raid Wardens (1943) and Nothing but Trouble (1944), but these two films at least manage to recapture some of the magic of this most beloved of comedy teams. Wardens is a wartime "we must all pull together" homefront comedy in which the blundering boys stumble upon a Nazi sabotage plot. Pathos does not become the team ("I guess we're not smart like other people," a dejected Stan says at one point), but a poster-hanging sequence and an all-too-brief tit-for-tat encounter with the great Edgar Kennedy will evoke fonder memories. In Trouble, Stan and Ollie are in another fine mess as a butler and chef who make a shambles of high society and foil a plot to murder a boy-king. Whether as sheer nostalgia for a bygone era or as the simple provider of family-friendly laughs, this welcome collection fits the bill. Donald Liebenson
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THE THREE STOOGES DOUBLE FEATURE Available sundry through Saturday! Larry, Shemp and Moe are sundries salesmen in the comedy Western GOLD RAIDERS. Larry, Curly, Moe...uh-oh! They're janitors at an all-girl college in the romp MEET THE BARON, also starring Jimmy Durante. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO DOUBLE FEATURE You ought to be in pictures: Tinseltown barbers Bud and Lou take their cut as aspiring talent agents in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN HOLLYWOOD. Sand and silliness. The guys face an evil potentate with hypnotic powers when they're LOST IN A HAREM. LAUREL AND HARDY DOUBLE FEATURE The army's loss is our gain. Rejected by Uncle Sam, the fellas become AIR RAID WARDENS. Soup and nuts. It's a comedy banquet when Stan and Ollie play household servants in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.Customer Reviews:
Mayron57.......2007-04-10
A nice way to round out a comedy collection..........2007-02-12
Kudos for putting these on DVD.......2007-01-26
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO A MUST; OTHERS OKAY.......2006-11-25
Rarely seen films of classic comics! NOT Public Domain junk........2006-11-10
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John Goldfarb Please Come Home [Import]
Starring: Peter Ustinov Director: J.Lee Thompson Manufacturer: Area 51 Imports ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Product Features:
ASIN: B000NYEXC4 |
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A former Notre Dame football star crash lands over a mythical Arabian country while on spy mission to the USSR. He is then forced by the football-obsessed king of that country to coach their football team and falls in love with an American reporter covering stories there.
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Ilsa Collection (She Wolf of the SS/Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks/The Wicked Warden)
Starring: Ilsa Collection Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001LJCRU Release Date: 2004-04-06 |
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"There's no room for a half-man outside these walls".......2007-03-10
What was I thnking.......2006-11-04
grindhouse classic.......2006-03-14
Ilsa's outrages, times three.......2005-08-26
Movie Review.......2005-07-07
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Emmanuelle 5
Starring: Monique Gabrielle , Crofton Hardester , Dana Burns Westburg , Bryan Shane , and Yaseen Khan Director: Walerian Borowczyk , and Steve Barnett (IV) Manufacturer: New Concorde ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: 6305731969 Release Date: 2000-12-03 |
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Walerian Borowczyk's erotic masterpiece!.......2006-06-17
softest-soft-core if that's possible.......2004-02-12
Those Were the Days..........2002-11-22
Emmanuelle 5 © was a particularly memorable naughty flick for me. The star, Monique Gabrielle, shows just about all she can-- in skin, that is, not acting ability-- as she cavorts through parts of mainland Europe and the Middle East in this little flesh-fest, and having her way with a few nerdy-yet-hunky guys (I've got the 'nerdy' part down, myself). Hey, you didn't think people watched this stuff for the Oscar-worthy performances, did'ja? Let's face it, the reason this baby was made is pretty plain: to grab the attention of the socially-inept heterosexual male demographic! Yep, it's all about the marketing, which I fell for just like that! I feel so dirty now...
Oh yeah, there's some silly excuse of a plot about a Middle Eastern Sheik who tries to make Emanuelle a prized addition to his harem, but that's neither here nor there...
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Emanuelle the best of its kind.......2002-04-16
not enough sex- and I am a woman!.......2001-10-04
This one seemed far too concerned with the safe sex concerns of the actors. It was Emanuelle- almost- reimbraces- secondary viginity.
Of the ones I have seen in this series, this one is the worst. I suggest you try Emanuelle 1 or 2! Enjoy!!
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Harem
Starring: Marie Gillain , Alex Descas , Lucia Bosé , Valeria Golino , and Malick Bowens Director: Ferzan Ozpetek Manufacturer: Strand Releasing ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008PBYZ Release Date: 2003-03-18 |
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promises unfufilled.......2006-07-09
Good movie.......2005-04-23
Good setting and intrigue. Too bad the DVD was faulty........2005-03-05
"The Sultan likes happy endings.".......2005-01-10
Fascinating storytelling.......2004-06-26
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Ilsa - Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Starring: Dyanne Thorne , Max Thayer , Jerry Delony , Uschi Digard , and Sharon Kelly Director: Don Edmonds Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: 6305808139 Release Date: 2000-07-11 |
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Despite the fact that Ilsa was killed at the conclusion of her notorious debut film, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, she returns (seemingly unaged) decades later as the strutting headmistress of a sadistic charm school for a power-mad sheik's harem of sex slaves. She masterminds a conspiracy to turn her trainees into veritable sex bombs--they explode upon orgasm--and auctions them off to her master's rivals. Meanwhile, a Henry Kissinger look-alike leads an investigation into the sheik's affairs with a couple of double agents, including one studly guy who tames Ilsa with his insatiable sexual prowess. Campier than the first film, it still offers its share of sick torture scenes and brutal violence (one man takes a hammer and chisel to a woman's bridgework to please her new master, who purrs, "I do not like the scrape of teeth"). Dyanne Thorne delivers an appropriately over-the-top performance, full of eye-rolling glares and German-inflected growling. Russ Meyer regular Haji and sex star Uschi Digard costar as harem slaves, and Tanya Boyd and Marilyn Join are delightfully memorable as Ilsa's well-oiled kung-fu-kicking Nubian sidekicks. Despite rumors to the contrary, Spalding Gray is not in this film and would surely appreciate it if people stopped saying he was. --Sean AxmakerCustomer Reviews:
That kooky Ilsa!.......2004-12-02
3 1/2 Stars.......2004-10-29
Shockingly entertaining .......2004-08-01
Fast forward review.......2003-06-07
Ilsa's back!.......2001-09-24
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Count Yorga, Vampire
Starring: Robert Quarry , Roger Perry , Michael Murphy , Michael Macready , and D.J. Anderson Director: Bob Kelljan Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005K3O8 Release Date: 2001-08-28 |
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The Dracula legend gets a suavely competent makeover in this 1970 bloodsucker, bringing vampirism to present-day Los Angeles with a harem of semi-clad females and the sharp casting of Robert Quarry in the title role. The film's original title (The Loves of Count Iorga, Vampire) is perhaps more fitting, since it's really about how Quarry--posing as a Bulgarian psychic medium--seduces his female clients into neck-bitten submission. The victims' abandoned boyfriends (including Michael Murphy, who costarred in M*A*S*H the same year) recruit a vampire-hunting doctor (Roger Perry) to track Yorga down (with wooden stakes made from a broomstick, no less), and the body count rises predictably. Dry performances and tepid dialogue don't help much, but the then-modern setting and intelligent plotting make Count Yorga worthy of its 1971 sequel. It's not as stylish as Christopher Lee's Hammer films, but it's certainly not anemic. --Jeff ShannonCustomer Reviews:
A Lot Better than the Average Vampire Movie.......2006-08-25
OUTDATED AND TOOTHLESS.......2005-06-25
Excellent Vampire film,one of the best!........2004-11-16
Not exactly Hammer, true, but still great.......2004-10-12
Cat Lovers Beware!.......2004-09-23