"Three of the 20th century's greatest cinematic spectacles, 1939's Gone with the Wind, 1959's Ben-Hur and 1965's Doctor Zhivago, are collected here in one irresistible box set. Long before computers turned every crowd scene and every grandiose backdrop into a pixellated virtual construct, these movies did it all for real. Nothing can substitute for their authentic sense of what really makes an epic: strong characters, emotionally involvi ..."
"A movie's lasting value can often be measured by its influence in the years and decades following its original release, and on that basis Run Silent, Run Deep is certainly a classic of sorts. It remains one of the seminal World War II submarine pictures, and its intelligent script and tautly executed action are clearly echoed in such later submarine dramas as Das Boot and especially Crimson Tide, which borrows liberally from this ..."
"Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "walls of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a line down th ..."
"Gone with the Wind is a sprawling mosaic of a picture, one of the best-loved and most successful in movie history, but also one of the most frustrating. Wonderfully epic in scope, the decline and fall of the antebellum South as seen through the eyes of feisty, independent and wilful heroine Scarlett O'Hara makes the first half of the picture an absolutely riveting spectacle. From the aristocratic old world of Tara to the horrors of Atla ..."
"Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (DVD)Academy Award winner Clark Gable stars as the first mate who leads his ship's exploited and abused crew in the Mutiny on the Bounty.The South Pacific, 1789. On the far side of the Earth from their home inEngland, the crew of the H.M.S. Bounty suffers under the sadisticleadership of its captain, William Bligh (Academy Award winner CharlesLaughton). Months from its return to port, the ship's first mate,Fle ..."
"A history of Hollywood films and musicals produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, featuring excerpts from many beloved classics.Genre: DocumentaryRating: GRelease Date: 12-OCT-2004Media Type: DVD"
"Ben-Hur Ben-Hur scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards® in 1959 and, unlike some later rivals, richly deserved every single one. This is epic filmmaking on a scale that had not been seen before and is unlikely ever to be seen again. But it's not just running time or a cast of thousands that makes an epic, it's the subject matter, and here the subject--Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) and his estrangement from old Roman pal Mes ..."
"Voici l'un des films les plus célèbres de John Huston. L'un de ses plus personnels, aussi. Et par la même occasion, l'un des plus mythiques de l'histoire du cinéma. Imaginez : réunir Marilyn Monroe et Clark Gable, alors au bout du rouleau, ravagés par la fatigue, les échecs et la maladie ; adjoignez-leur Montgomery Clift, au bord du gouffre et traversé par des pulsions suicidaires ; faites-les tourner dans les grands espaces du Nevada, ..."
"The highlight of Mutiny on the Bounty is undoubtedly Charles Laughton's bracingly evil performance as Captain Bligh, a man so mean that he insists on having a dead sailor flogged. Bligh pushes his men beyond physical endurance, slashes their rations for his own profit, and drastically cuts down their frolicking time with scantily clad Tahitians. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for arrives: first mate Fletcher Christian (Cl ..."
"David O. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic, the sec ..."
"Bis Titanic galt er als der größte Liebesfilm aller Zeiten. Vom Winde verweht, die Adaption des gleichnamigen Bestsellers von Margaret Mitchell, erzählt die tragische Liebesgeschichte von Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) und Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), eingebettet in die Wirren des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Von Tara, einer Südstaatenplantage, zieht Scarlett nach Atlanta. Sie ist bereits Kriegswitwe, als sie nach langem und beharrlichen ..."
"The highlight of Mutiny on the Bounty is undoubtedly Charles Laughton's bracingly evil performance as Captain Bligh, a man so mean that he insists on having a dead sailor flogged. Bligh pushes his men beyond physical endurance, slashes their rations for his own profit, and drastically cuts down their frolicking time with scantily clad Tahitians. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for arrives: first mate Fletcher Christian (Cl ..."
"Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "walls of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a line down th ..."
"Here are three great World War II documentaries, featuring three of Hollywood's greatest stars who joined the military during World War II. "Wings Up" is first, and Clark Gable is a recruiter, pushing America's young men to become flying officers. Officer candidates include actors Gilbert Roland and Robert Preston. Next is "Winning Your Wings" in which a very young Jimmy Stewart (already an Army pilot in 1942) asks you to become a pilot ..."