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Gilligan's Island: The Complete First Season (DVD)

Gilligan’s Island season 1

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Gilligan’s Island season 1 (DVD)

Gilligan’s Island season 1 – Most critics lambasted Gilligan’s Island as low-brow humor.  Most people, however, merely watched it and laughed until their sides ached.  I loved it then and now, and recommend it highly.  This DVD setcontains the first season’s 36 episodes, containing some of the funniest scenes ever to grace the television screen.  The slapstick interaction between the Skipper(played brilliantly by Alan Hale Jr.) and Gilligan (by the late, lamented Bob Denver) rank with the great comedy teams – a modern day Laurel and Hardy.  The Skipper and Gilligan are clowns in the classic sense, and hilarious because of it.  The rest of the cast fit that description as well. And the interactions between any of them are well worth watching.  If I had to pick a favorite episode, I couldn’t; they’re all that good, with so many classic scenes, it’s hard to choose.

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Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

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Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks, starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter

I recently re-watched Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks courtesy of BBC-TV.  I’m glad to say that it reminded me why I fell in love with this TV series. It’s well-written, well-acted, with intelligent themes that make the audience think about the questions raised. If you could go back in time and prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler – would you?

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Sudden Fear

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Sudden Fear (1952) starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame

In this rediscovered masterpiece of film noir, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright who marries a mediocre actor (Jack Palance) with a troubling secret. She soon discovers that he not only married her for money but that he plans to murder her with the help of his lover (Gloria Grahame). Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actress (Crawford), Best Supporting Actor (Palance) and Best Black & White Cinematography (Charles Lang Jr.), this taut thriller also features a score by Elmer Bernstein that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

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The Howling

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The Howling (1980), starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Elisabeth Brooks, John Carradine, Robert Picardo

The Howling – A shaken TV newswoman finds a doctor’s retreat crawling with werewolves. Directed by Joe Dante.

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Squirm

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Squirm (1976), Reviewed by: The Masked Reviewer

 In Squirm, when a storm knocks down the power lines in the small town of Fly Creek, the worms are mysteriously mutated. Apparently when a worm mutates they hunger for human flesh.  Meanwhile Geri Sanders is waiting for Mick her boyfriend from the city to arrive. Roger not so subtly flirts with Geri, she thinks he’s a good friend. Her sister, and mother find it funny. Long story short Mick arrives in Fly Creek and discovers a human skeleton. The sheriff investigates the crime scene only to find no skeleton. His hatred for poor Mick begins. As more bodies are found more worms appear. Can our heroes stop the murderous worms?

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Delirious

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Delirious (1991) starring John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Dylan Baker

Synopsis of Delirious 

 In short, Delirious deals with the head writer of a soap opera (John Candy) who gets knocked on the head and imagines that he’s in his soap opera. He further imagines that he can change the behavior of the people there by his writing. In real life, he has a crush on the self-absorbed leading lady. He learns that she isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. But possibly someone else is …

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High Noon

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High Noon (1952) starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Ian MacDonald

High Noon – starring Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly. Cooper won an Academy Award for his role as the aging lawman who stands alone to defend his town from hardened outlaws.

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Bird of Paradise [Joel McCrea]

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Bird of Paradise (1932), starring Joel McCrea, Dolores del Río

Bird of Paradise – Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea. A wealthy playboy falls for a stunning Polynesian princess when his yacht crashes into a coral reef. But each must overcome the prejudices and traditions of their own kind that threaten to pull them apart.

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1984

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1984 (1984) starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton

This is the movie version of George Orwell’s classic novel “1984”.  It deals with a totalitarian society of the future in which no one can escape observation and detection. Well done version true to the book.

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