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<p>Illicit sex. Glorified vice. Crime that pays. You can't do that said the film industry's Production Code. But in the pre-Code era, Hollywood could -- and did -- with lots of classic style. On Disc 1 of this set of five pre-Code sizzlers, Norma...

<p>The Middle's seventh season sees each member of the Heck family breaking out of their comfort zones. Oldest son Axl (Charlie McDermott) begins his junior year, and the business major starts thinking seriously about his future. Daughter Sue (Eden Sher) starts her first year...

<p>Cowboy Jim Kane's bank loan is due. So is his next alimony payment. And the Appaloosas he brought in from Mexico have been slapped into quarantine. What Jim needs is some Pocket Money. Academy Award winners* Paul Newman and Lee Marvin star in this...

<p>A hard-hitting action thriller about a renegade cop who'll do whatever it takes to get the job done. When $3 million disappears during a drug bust, undercover cop Terry McCain (Thomas Ian Griffith) is pitted against a sadistic mob boss. After McCain's partner is...

<p>In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to "Look at the pictures," while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism -- and ignited a culture...

<p>The West has been won and lawman James Flagg was there to help win it. But it's now the early 1900s and time, like a horseless carriage chugging ahead of a saddled palomino, has passed Flagg by. He's one of the last of a...

<p>To paraphrase the peripatetic producer of these Technicolor travelogues, it is with this third volume that we reluctantly say farewell to the "voice of the globe," James A. FitzPatrick. Spanning the years 1940 to 1953, these shorts, produced for MGM, provide poignant and picturesque...

<p>Edmond O'Brien stars as defense attorney Sam Benedict in this riveting legal drama based on the true-life experiences of renowned San Francisco trial lawyer Jacob W. Ehrlich (who served as the series' legal consultant). Richard Rust and Joan Tompkins costar as legal associate Hank...

<p>Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years, unapologetically pursuing love, family and career, experiencing extreme tragedy and tremendous success side by side. In this HBO Documentary...

<p>In colonial Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie (Rock Hudson) and Kimani (Sidney Poitier) have maintained their deep friendship despite differences in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau uprising convulses their magnificent homeland. And the men discover that even the strongest...

<p>In 1866, new fighting units are formed within the U.S. Cavalry: the courageous 9th and 10th regiments. Plains Indians call them Buffalo Soldiers because of the bison coats they wear in winter. History, judging from the regiments' list of Medal of Honor winners, calls...

<p>The roughest of Alaska's oil-rig roughnecks, Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal, also making his directorial debut) specializes in fighting oil-well fires. Yet he faces an even more incendiary battle against renegade Aegis Oil president Michael Jennings (Michael Caine). Aegis has put profits over environmental safety....

<p>He's broad shoulders, hooded eyes and laconic wit: the cool male. She's voluptuous curves, lushly lipsticked mouth and sardonic comebacks: the incendiary female. They're Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, dead-on talented and drop-dead gorgeous stars who brought out the best in each other in...

<p>Family Matters' final season ups the ante with a multicharacter tour-de-farce from series star Jaleel White, while completing Laura (Kellie S. Williams) and Eddie (Darius McCrary) Winslow's journeys to maturity. It's wedding bells as Laura accepts -- but with dueling proposals from Steve (Jaleel...

<p>It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? A classic of suspense directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) and written for the screen by Rod Serling (The...

<p>After 10 years apart, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reteam in their final film pairing, cleverly written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and smoothly directed by Charles Walters. The story, per many sources, mirrors real-life creative tensions the two shared. Astaire plays driven...

<p>From Mike Figgis, the Academy Award -nominated director of Leaving Las Vegas, comes an erotically charged love story that explores the passion and betrayal of a one night stand. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) has it all: a happy marriage, children and a successful career....

<p>When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which three million Cambodians would die in the "killing fields." The Killing Fields is an epic story of friendship and survival produced...

<p>As soon as 1956's Rock Around the Clock sounded the opening notes of the first-ever rock 'n' roll movie, others were sure to follow. Did they ever: 1956 and 1957 boogie-woogied, doo-wopped and shimmy-shaked with, among others, Jailhouse Rock, Shake, Rattle and Rock and...

<p>Sutter Cane (Jurgen Prochnow, The Seventh Sign) is the best-selling author whose newest novel is literally driving readers insane. When he inexplicably vanishes, his publisher (Academy Award winner Charlton Heston*) sends special investigator John Trent (Sam Neill, Jurassic Park, Dead Calm) to track him...

<p>A railroad crossing. A stranded car. A beautiful blonde -- unconscious. Moody scientist Jim Grayam (Jeff Hunter) rescues the lovely Lorrie (Anne Francis), only to learn that she's his boss' wife! She wants out of the marriage, but her cruel, controlling husband Cort (Dana...

<p>In an era when James Stewart had his Winchester '73, Gary Cooper took aim at the box office with a Springfield Rifle, the film that followed his Academy Award -winning* performance in High Noon. Few actors personified the West like the Montana-born screen legend....

<p>Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's his job to become what he isn't -- even a thief and convict -- to convince the group he infiltrates that he's one of them. And it's his job to get through it all...

<p>Private eye Lew Harper is in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air. Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years...

Land, a family, a future. They're "dreams fried up, short order" for Blayde Hollister (Gary Cooper). Rightly or wrongly, this ex-Confederate from Georgia has waged his own war to settle past injustices. Now he's a wanted man. And he can feel the law closing...

<p>Peter Potamus premiered in syndication courtesy of the masters of funny animals, Hanna-Barbera. Accompanied by his monkey sidekick, So-So, Peter Potamus crisscrosses the globe (and history!) in his preferred mode of travel, a magical flying balloon. Always ready to land and lend a hand,...

<p>Everything Is Copy - Nora Ephron: Scripted and Unscripted profiles the life of Nora Ephron, the writer/director who was known for her acerbic wit and whose films include such cultural touchstones as Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle. Written and directed...

<p>Cameron Diaz (Charlie Angels, The Mask) is Nathalie, a ravishing-but-ditzy young wife planning an idyllic vacation off the coast of Maine with her new husband, George (Harvey Keitel, Pulp Fiction). Unfortunately, Nathalie is also the object of desire for the only other people on...

<p>If you were a famed mystery playwright with a devastating string of recent flops, what would you do for a can't-miss thriller script? Beg for it? Pay for it? Kill for it? Get snared in Deathtrap, the fiendishly funny film version of Ira Levin's...

<p>With the debut of The Kwicky Koala Show, the animation masters at Hanna-Barbera returned to a format that they perfected in the studio's early days -- the short-format, funny-animal anthology show. Fast, silly and flippant, The Kwicky Koala Show features three six-minute shows depicting...

<p>In this riotous and rollicking six-film collection, the comedy team supreme, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, serves up laughs galore, with extra sides of ribald, whimsy and romance. And occasional dance. Furthermore, this collection offers up the pair's twin solo outings, 1931's Too Many...

<p>Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in...

<p>Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort -- $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect...

<p>Would-be ghosts. UFO voyagers. A chicken that pecks out "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano -- blindfolded! They're the kind of stories that keep the National Mirror in the nation's shopping carts. And they're the kind of stories that make the tabloid's reporters think they've...

<p>It's the rags-to-riches story of Danny, a talented cat whose lifelong goal of movie stardom is sidetracked when he discovers that only humans get the good roles in Hollywood. On the big screen, animals can bark, meow or moo, but cats don't dance. With...

<p>Based on the wildly popular comic book character from DC Comics, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight --...

<p>Concieved as a follow-up to the 1939 western Dodge City, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart and Randolph Scott face off over a fortune in gold bound for the Confederacy from Virginia City.During the United States' Civil War, Union officer Captain Kerry Bradford (Flynn) escapes from...

<p>Rustlers have taken Clay Hardin's (Errol Flynn) cattle and holed up in San Antonio. So Clay does what any cowboy worth his salt has got to do: strap on his sidearm, ride into town and settle the score. Despite his Tasmanian roots and elegant...

<p>It's 1865 and Robert E. Lee, in a last-ditch bid to turn the tide of war, wants the West. Lafe Barstow's task is to get it. He leads a band of Confederates to California to enlist insurrectionists. But another war roils the West. Marauding...

<p>The star who brought frontier justice to Dodge City and San Antonio heads for the wide open spaces of Montana in this adventure saga about a bitter range war. Errol Flynn plays an Australian transplant looking to buy grazing land. But the cattle-raising locals...

Urbania, Ohio is home to the O'Shea brothers, Danny (Rick Moranis) and Kevin (Ed O'Neill). Ex-football star Kevin's name is on the town water tower. The phonebook is about the only place you'll find Danny's name. Year after year, his brother's successes loom over...

<p>Are you tourist or traveler? Kit (Debra Winger) and Port Moresby (John Malkovich) find the distinction important. A tourist wants the comforts of home. A traveler seeks adventure. Kit and Port are travelers, drawn by desire and destiny to the Sahara in an attempt...

<p>Ladyhawke is an enchanting tale of a beauty (Michelle Pfeiffer), a knight (Rutger Hauer) -- and a pickpocket known as the Mouse (Matthew Broderick). Once the knight and the lady were lovers. Now the curse of an evil bishop (John Wood) keeps them "always...

<p>Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is a rube, a schmo, a grade-A ding-dong -- just what Hudsucker Industries wants in a president! With him at the top, the stock will hit bottom and the fat cats on the board can take over. But Norville (Tim...

<p>Behind every great MAN, there's a great big nerd? Tough guy Samuel L. Jackson (Coach Carter) teams with funnyman Eugene Levy (the American Pie films) "to huge comic effect" (Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter) as the most mismatched partners of all time in this...

<p>Atten-hut, dudes. Fall in with the cadets of Sheldon R. Weinberg Military Academy, where the new arrivals have decided that anything goes. So the first things to go are the rules. In the tradition of Stripes and Police Academy, Up the Academy deploys film-debuting...

<p>Director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) delivers a provocative mix of drama and musical theater in this acclaimed movie that won 2000 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture and Best Actress honors (for lead actress Bjork). Rural factory worker Selma (Bjork) is a single...

<p>What's more fun than a wrestling fan who drives a pump-it-and-dump-it sewage truck and sucks up the sweet air of World Championship Wresting glory at night? Two wrestling fans -- Gordie and Sean! David Arquette is Gordie and Scott Caan is Sean this laugh-slammin'...

<p>She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and then she was no more. Jazzman Danny Parker's wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. Now the heartbroken Danny is on the skids, lost among the derelict tweakers of L.A....

<p>From mailroom to boardroom -- and all the laughs in between. Future Academy Award winner* Halle Berry joins Tommy Davidson and Joseph C. Phillips in getting down to the business of hilarity, in a romantic comedy where the best things in life are free....