The Philadelphia Story

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Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of Hepburn's career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star. --Jeff Shannon

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Katharine Hepburn reprises her triumphant Broadway role as a spoiled heir on the verge of marrying a snoot...but not if her ex-hubby (Cary Grant) and smitten reporter (James Stewart) can help it!

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The Philadelphia Story 1940 (Two-Disc Special Edition).......2007-08-25

Just about everything that blue-chip comedy should have - a witty , romantic script , the flavor of high-society elegance and a splendid cast of performers . . Sophiscated romatic comedy archieved its pinnacle in this timeless classic voted one of the topp 100 American Films all time by American Film Institute . Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) , Cary Grant (1904-1986) , James Stewart (1908-1997) star in the masterful comedy (directed by George Cukor 1899-1983) about a faultfinding bride-to-be sociate who gets her comeuppance. (Writer Donald Ogden Stewart 1894-1980 won the film's second Oscar for adapting Philip Barry's (1896-1949) play) . High Quality Transfer . Many Funny features .

hilarious............2007-08-22

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is the kind of screwball comedy that other screwball comedies aspire to be, though, rarely succeed. For starters, there is a tour de force cast made up of some of the most accomplished and well respected actors in the industry, who surged in popularity during the era that the film was released (Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart). Secondly, nothing is left unexamined in the story, which takes an honest look at the events leading up to the wedding day for the lead character, Tracy Lord (Hepburn) a spoiled socialite, who promptly threw her ex-husband out of the her home (Grant)--literally! Yet, it's the next occurance right afterwards that became one of the most well-recognized scenes from Katherine Hepburn's film repertoire. Grant's character promptly marches up to Tracy Lord and pushes her down, face first!
What's more, the reporter hot on the trail of Lord is falling in love with her.

This film is brilliant, funny and incomparable. What's more, time has been very kind to it and it doesn't seem dated at all. It'll leave you laughing.

The Philadelphia Story.......2007-06-25

George Cukor's pitch-perfect adaptation of Philip Barry's hit play marked a triumphant Hollywood comeback for Kate (having earlier been labeled "box-office poison" by exhibitors), and an Oscar-winning vehicle for up-and-coming star James Stewart, wonderful as a fish out of water in high society. Though overlooked by the Academy, Grant is every bit as good as the raffish C.K., while Hepburn shines in what may be her signature role. Don't miss Roland Young's hilarious turn as naughty Uncle Willie. Sly and sophisticated, this title stands as one of our finest screen comedies.

Tremendous Aplomb.......2007-06-01

No need to chronicle the miracle that this vehicle wrought in Kate Hepburn's career, sufficing to say that Howard Hughes bought the rights for her and she took it from success on Broadway to Hollywood gold with tremendous aplomb. She insisted on control of director (Cukor) and co-stars (Grant and Stewart) and her gambit paid big dividends. The rest is movie magic.

Hepburn portrays a Main Line divorcee on the eve of Wedding Number Two. Grant is Husband Number One and Stewart is the initially-under-cover reporter there to chronicle `An Intimate Day with a Society Bride' for "Spy" magazine. Hepburn's character is the one to watch as she grows from a distant goddess to a flesh and blood woman, but it is fair to say that one and all undergo some pretty rooty tooty transformations before The End.

Marvelous moments abound--it is playwright Philip Barry's masterpiece, after all. Favorites...

Hepburn and Virginia Weidler's send up of the Main Line drawl, complete with the lockjaw pose is dead on--people in Bryn Mawr and Chester County Horse Country still talk like that if you can believe it.

Droll moments include the witticisms about South Bend (Hepburn says vaguely, "It sounds like dancing, doesn't it?), about Duluth (Hepburn again: Duluth. That must be a lovely spot. It's west of here, isn't it?), of Stewart's friends ("Of whom you have many, I'm sure...").

And Weidler's over the top rendition of "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady".

The witty repartee holds throughout the film, and at one point, perhaps the key moment in the film, Barry gives Hepburn's character Tracy Lord the best line in this or any film, "The time to make up one's mind about someone is (pause) never."

The ending is one of the three or four ideal wedding endings in film, along with "The Graduate", "It Happened One Night" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral".

P. S. The play was remade as the musical "High Society" with Bing, Blue Eyes and soon-to-be Princess Grace, which is not half bad. But "The Philadelphia Story" is better, and among the best 20 films of all time.

Brillance!.......2007-04-24

You cannot say enough good things about this movie!! Cary Grant was I think snubbed for the Oscar but Jimmy Stewart well deserved it too!! Dinah (the litttle sister) is hilarious! Katharine Hepburn of course shines and her presence is what makes the movie so fantastic!

Classic Comedies Collection (Bringing Up Baby / The Philadelphia Story Two-Disc Special Edition / Dinner at Eight / Libeled Lady / Stage Door / To Be or Not to Be)

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SHAME ON WARNER BROTHERS!
A wonderful collection of classic comedies
Big Belly laughs in every single movie
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Classic Comedies Collection (Bringing Up Baby / The Philadelphia Story Two-Disc Special Edition / Dinner at Eight / Libeled Lady / Stage Door / To Be or Not to Be)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn , Cary Grant , Charles Ruggles , Walter Catlett , and Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Howard Hawks , and George Cukor
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Release Date: 2005-03-01

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"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?

Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of Hepburn's career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star.

MGM originally promoted Dinner at Eight by touting the "all-star cast," but this is no run-of-the-mill omnibus picture. On the contrary, rather than cramming as many big names as possible into a lumbering vehicle, the movie's impeccably crafted script (by Edna Ferber and Herman J. Mankiewicz) and direction (by George Cukor) gave some immortal screen luminaries a chance to shine. For sheer bravery, John Barrymore's achingly poignant performance as Larry Renault, a washed-up matinee idol who has "outlived everything but his vanity," is unmatched. Barrymore's brother, Lionel, is equally touching as shipping magnate Oliver Jordan. Oliver vainly tries to save his family's century-old firm, at the same time hiding his financial and health troubles from his wife, Millicent, played to hysterical perfection by Billie Burke. The Great Depression is presented in microcosm as Millicent frets about throwing the ultimate society dinner, oblivious to the world tumbling down around her. She is forced to invite to her precious party such undesirables as crass financier Dan Packard ("He smells Oklahoma!"). Even worse in Millicent's eyes than Packard (Wallace Beery, doing an impressive steamroller imitation) is his social-climbing wife, Kitty (Jean Harlow, never funnier). Be sure to watch for Harlow's brief encounter with Marie Dressler, who brings an extraordinary winking wisdom to the role of aging star Carlotta Vance. As the two enter the dining room in the film's final scene, Harlow makes an offhand remark that elicits from Dressler one of the great screen double takes of all time. Like so much of Dinner at Eight, the moment is priceless.

Newspaper comedy doesn't seem like an MGM genre--ink-stained wretches don't go with Adrian gowns and white deco furniture--but Jack Conway, the designated bull in the Metro china shop (Boom Town, Too Hot to Handle) does what he can to bring some dash and flair to Libeled Lady's wildly complicated script. Spencer Tracy is the tough city editor who goes to some spectacular extremes when socialite Myrna Loy files a $5 million libel suit against his paper for calling her a notorious home-wrecker; he hires celebrated ladies' man William Powell to seduce Loy and asks his long-suffering fiancée, Jean Harlow, to marry Powell temporarily so she can play the wronged wife when Loy and Powell are discovered together. The couples crisscross, with frenetic and not entirely unpredictable results, but much of the pleasure here lies in seeing these iconic stars being so thoroughly themselves. The dialogue strains for champagne wit, but the movie's most memorable moment is pure, rotgut slapstick--Powell's bout with an unruly fly-fishing rod.

This one's all about the ladies. In Stage Door, an absolutely terrific 1937 gem, a Manhattan boardinghouse for aspiring actresses houses an amazing roster of golden-era performers--some of whom, like their characters, were just breaking in. It's hard to say who's in best form here: Katharine Hepburn in blueblood mode, Ginger Rogers streetwise, Andrea Leeds suffering, Lucille Ball and Ann Miller impossibly young, and Eve Arden being, well, splendidly Eve Ardenish. The sassy comedy and sober life lessons are wonderfully mixed by the underrated director Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey), who captures the brashness of '30s female chatter in a much pleasanter way than the more famous The Women. Hepburn's sublime attempts to wrestle with the line about calla lilies being in bloom will make you smile long after the movie's over.

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LAUGH OUT LOUD! FUNNY!!!!.......2007-06-09

Six of the all time great movies. Its a must for classic movie fans. You really get to see how good Jean Harlow was at comedy in "Dinner at Eight". Lets not forget Carole Lombard what a great comedian and actress she was in "To Be or Not To Be" her last film before she was killed in plane crash. Sometimes we forget how good they really were. They just don't make good movies like these anymore. I couldn't name you a good actor today with this much staying power. There will never be another Cary Grant, James Stewart, William Powell and Katherine Hepburn. You can watch these movies over and over. I know I will..

SHAME ON WARNER BROTHERS!.......2007-05-05

Shame on Warner Brothers for calling this collection a COMEDY Collection. And the other reviewers - where's your candor? Yes, Philadelphia Story is a classic comedy. But DINNER AT EIGHT, which has a few (a very few) funny moments, is, in fact a very dark story involving suicide, hateful marriages and people at the end of their means; with no particular redeeming quality. STAGE DOOR, it had funny moments, yes, but always with a very sad, dark suicide looming. TO BE OR NOT, this is like a skit, a joke, being stretched out to an hour and a half. LIBELED LADY was funny, but hardly a CLASSIC. BRINGING UP BABY is screwball comedy, but we all know that this was NEVER considered a CLASSIC. My recommendation (now that I feel bad I spent so much based on the other reviewers) - buy the films you know individually. One at a time. PHILADELPHIA STORY is a MUST HAVE.
Then you can laugh at the rest of us for buying movies we'll never watch.

A wonderful collection of classic comedies.......2007-03-20

I just recently finished watching all of the movies in this boxed set, and I couldn't be happier with it. Warner's has been going boxed set crazy over the past couple of years, boxing up into collections just about every movie in their vaults. Some collections are good, and some not so good, but this one is excellent. Three of the movies are well known, and the other three are less known. Probably the best known film is "The Philadelphia Story" that got Katharine Hepburn out of her "box office poison" era for good and won James Stewart his only Best Actor Oscar - about two or three Oscars shy of what he should have had in my opinion.

"Dinner at Eight" is a 1933 ensemble comedy using the "Grand Hotel Formula" that had won that film the Best Picture Oscar the year before. It is a comedy revolving around a group of people preparing to go to a dinner party and shows how their lives strangely intertwine beyond even their awareness. Remarkably, I don't think it even got nominated for an Oscar, but it has held up well over time and has one of the best last lines of any movie ever. As everyone is planning to go into dinner Jean Harlow is telling Marie Dressler how she has been reading that machinery has been taking over everything and soon they would all be replaced by machines. Marie Dressler looks Jean Harlow up and down as only she could do and says "My dear I don't think you need to ever worry about that."

"Bringing Up Baby" has Katharine Hepburn playing a scatter-brained young lady who gets Cary Grant involved in her inane plot to transport a tame leopard her brother sent her to her country estate. The film moves at such a fast clip with so much going on that it seems exhausting, but it is great entertainment. This film actually didn't catch on that much until years later.

"Libeled Lady" was the pleasant surprise of the bunch. I had never seen it before but it was quite funny. It all revolves around a false rumor about a young lady that gets reported as truth in a New York paper. The paper faces a libel suit and financial ruin if a way is not found to set up the "libeled lady" so that she appears to be in a genuine scandal, thus lessening the paper's chances of losing in court. This film has some great physical comedy from William Powell of all people.

"To Be Or Not To Be" is a comedy set in World War II Poland and involves an attempt by the occupied Poles to stop a spy from getting to German headquarters with the names of members of the resistance. It pairs Carole Lombard with Jack Benny, but strangely enough the combination does work.

"Stage Door" is a very good film about a group of women living in a boarding house all trying to make it on Broadway. I'm not sure what it is doing in a set of comic movies, though. It is actually more of a melodrama than a comedy, though it has some very witty banter between the struggling actresses at their rooming house and a great performance by Adolphe Menjou as a sophisticated cad, which is a part he played so well in several films of the 1930's.

There are bonus discs included with "Bringing Up Baby" and "The Philadelphia Story". "The Philadelphia Story" includes a feature on Katharine Hepburn's life and career, and "Bringing Up Baby" has a second disc that has a similar tribute to Cary Grant. There are also features included on the directors of these two films. My advice is to buy this set. It's a tremendous value and will give you many hours of entertainment.

Big Belly laughs in every single movie.......2006-06-17

I defy you to find a modern day movie where the wise cracks are funnier than any thing you'll find in each and every one of these 70 year plus old movies! Most of the dialogue was spoken at Tommy Gun blast speed, with every word clearly enunciated - a feat in itself! All the men are mostly in suits or tuxes, and the women wear the most beautiful outfits, created by the top designers in the world at the time. Visually, these movies are a feast for the eyes. It also helps that most of the actors and actresses were considered the most handsome and beautiful at the time. Hey - I can get ugly at home! The quality is also excellent considering how old these movies are. I'm an old-movie buff and I remember browsing the TV guide when I was a teenager and then setting my clock to get up at 3am to catch one of these movies whenever they were on. They still hold up and now I can watch them whenever I want and I am grateful. This is a must-have if you like a good story line, clever dialogue and honest laughs.

This is nice to have on hand.......2006-03-10

Sometimes my life, like so many others, gets a little overwhelming. These are perfect for when you need a 2 hr. break from reality. Make the popcorn, pull the shades, pop one of these in and totally escape. And it's cheaper than therapy. :-)

The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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The Philadelphia Story 1940 (Two-Disc Special Edition)
hilarious.....
The Philadelphia Story
Tremendous Aplomb
Brillance!

The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Cary Grant , Katharine Hepburn , James Stewart , Ruth Hussey , and John Howard
Director: George Cukor , Basil Wrangell , and David Heeley
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The Philadelphia Story 1940 (Two-Disc Special Edition).......2007-08-25

hilarious............2007-08-22

The Philadelphia Story.......2007-06-25

Tremendous Aplomb.......2007-06-01

Brillance!.......2007-04-24

SONG OF LOVE with Katharine Hepburn (Sonata de Amor) (High Quality Import Edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America)

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SONG OF LOVE with Katharine Hepburn (Sonata de Amor) (High Quality Import Edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America)

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Brand new, factory sealed, fully licensed DVD manufactured in Brazil. NTSC format. Playable on any North American DVD player. High quality full screen black and white image. Original English dialog with optional subtitles in Portuguese. Portuguese subtitles can be easily turned off. The following review appears in Amazon for the VHS edition: "Song of Love is poignant and tender with excellent acting and story. Katharine Hepburn makes the character Clara Schumann believable (as with all Hepburn's roles). The story is true to life and is funny and touching at the same time. This not an action movie, however, but it is a great love story. My being a musician, the music was great, but maybe I'm a little partial to Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. This movie sticks to the facts of Clara Schumann's life. It introduced me to two fantastic women, Katharine Hepburn and Clara Schumann. It remains one of my all-time favorites (I have seen it five times). If you're going to buy Song of Love, go for it."

ABC News Nightline The Doctor and the Reverend (Part 1 & 2 of Seville's story) (2 DVD set)

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ABC News Nightline The Doctor and the Reverend (Part 1 & 2 of Seville's story) (2 DVD set)

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Release Date: 2007-05-14

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In the most dangerous, drug infested city streets stagger the addicts who are so lost in drugs that it is hard to imagine how they might ever get out. And so many never do. ABC News met some of those people 10 years ago when they visited a North Philadelphia neighborhood, riddled by drugs and crime, known as the Badlands. It was as hopeless a neighborhood, as hopeless a group of people, as you might ever meet. One of the unforgettable men ABC News met in the Badlands was Seville, a nickname Merrill Jackson acquired as a car thief. He was also known as "The Doctor," because he ran a drug house where he sold drugs and helped addicts find veins. Seville was probably the last person you would have expected to clean up his act. But with the help of Reverend Joann Muller, a suburban mother of five, Seville is clean and sober. And he is a powerful expert witness on what life is like deep inside addiction. Part One. Merrill "Seville" Jackson was a drug dealing heroin addict running a shooting gallery in the Badlands of North Philadelphia. Reverend Joann Muller was a suburban mother of five, dedicated to making a difference in the world, somehow. Seville, who earned his nickname from a predilection for stealing Cadillacs, was also known in those days as "the doctor," because he sold drugs and helped long-time addicts like himself find a vein to inject drugs, even when those veins were collapsing. Seville and Rev. Muller explain how Seville kicked his habit after 37 years of drug addiction. Part Two.

NFL: Team Highlights - Broad Street Brotherhood: The Story of the 2002 Philadelphia Eagles

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An Eagles season worth remembering

NFL: Team Highlights - Broad Street Brotherhood: The Story of the 2002 Philadelphia Eagles
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22:00 Mins
Recaps the 2002 season and previews 2003 season.
Catch great action, plays and excitement from 2002
The story of the season unfolds before your eyes
Includes the amazing storytelling of NFL Films.

ASIN: B0000AGWDS
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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NFL Team Highlights: Philadelphia Eagles recaps the 2002 season that was, with an eye toward the upcoming 2003 season. Catch the great action, plays and excitement from 2002. Watch the story of the season unfold before your eyes, as told through the amazing storytelling ability that only NFL Films can deliver. Reference ID:TC01-DVD-0946

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An Eagles season worth remembering.......2003-11-13

Sure, it was possibly the biggest let-down in Philadelphia's great sports history when the final game of the 2002 season ended for the Eagles. However, the rollercoaster of extreme-ups and downs made it a season worth remembering by any standards. This DVD manages to take every main point of the season and pack it into a 25 minute video.

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Good screen adaptation of the play.......2006-09-03

Tracy Lords is getting married again. This time to a man who worked his way to the top instead of starting there. Dexter her first husband invites himself to the wedding and the wedding preparations. Also inviting their selves with a little blackmail to the wedding is a writer, and photographer, from a magazine of dubious reputation.

Throw in a philandering father and a friendly uncle. We watch as they go through the motions and emotions of courting and re-evaluating their lives.

This is basically a comedy and yes it has all the actors and writers to make this a piece of cinematic art. However you will find it is just fun to watch.

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Docurama Film Festival III
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ASIN: B000MKXF2I
Release Date: 2007-03-27

1940s Classics 7-Pack (Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / The Philadelphia Story / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Big Sleep / Now, Voyager / Citizen Kane)

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Best of the best
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1940s Classics 7-Pack (Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / The Philadelphia Story / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Big Sleep / Now, Voyager / Citizen Kane)
Starring: Louis V. Arco , Ingrid Bergman , Humphrey Bogart , Curt Bois , and Marcel Dalio
Director: Michael Curtiz
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ASIN: B000068GS3
Release Date: 2002-06-04

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This 7-DVD set includes Casablanca (Special Edition), The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition), The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Big Sleep (1946), Now, Voyager, and Citizen Kane.

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Interesting combination.......2005-01-21

I bought these separately before the package was made. I am not normally a fan of packaging unless it is a series or some other theme. However there is not a clinker in the bunch. I suggest you look at the individual reviews. However for those that are in a hurry:

Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman - Two people fall in love during war France as the Nazis are invading. They meet again in Casablanca the last outpost on the way to freedom. There is mystery, intrigue subterfuge and the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

The Maltese Falcon: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor - Sam Spade (Bogart) is accused of murdering his partner, murdering a suspect, and down right sneakiness. He is trying to find out why everyone is looking for the black bird. In the process he falls in love with Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor). Will they find the thing that dreams are made of?
A remake of the 1931 version.

The Philadelphia Story: Socialites Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn - A 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story. C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and Tracy Samantha Lord (Katherine Hepburn) get divorced. Now Tracy is going to marry George Kittredge, who worked his way up the corporate latter to the top of a mine. C. K. brings people from Spy magazine to cover the event. The fun begins as every one has second thoughts. And Wicked Uncle Willie is available.

Arsenic and Old Lace: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre - A Halloween tale. A critic of marriage gets married, and then he finds out that insanity runs in the family as two branches of the family compare body counts. This really is a comedy. They could not get Boris Karloff; however Raymond Massey does just as well. And don't forget Dr. Einstein (auch der lieber).

The Big Sleep: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall - A 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Private-eye Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is hired to keep an eye on Carmen (Martha Vickers), youngest daughter of General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), and you guessed it falls in love with older sister. Lots of sub plots. "You go too far, Marlowe."

Now, Voyager: Betty Davis, Paul Henreid - Based on the novel by Olivia Higgins Prouty. I think one of the shockers for me was when Charlotte Vale was forced to remove her eye glasses to find she did not need them. "Don't ask for the moon--we have the stars"

Citizen Kane: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton - A story is based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Because of its popularity as an art film many people have trouble just watching it as the story. Watch it to find out what is meant by Rosebud.

Best of the best.......2002-10-13

These are some of the best of the best movies ever made.

I don't have money to burn..........2002-09-13

Personally I didn't need all the movies in here, but I bought it anyway... Listen to me... buy just the movies you want, seperatly.

Can't understand these sets.......2002-07-16

I can't understand why anyone would purchase a set like this. If you buy all the included DVD's individually, not only will you still get free shipping, but it's actually [$$] cheaper. I think these movies are some of the best ever committed to celluloid, I encourage every motion picture fan to own these films, but I just think it's silly to purchase them in this way.

The Women / The Philadelphia Story (Two-Pack)

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The Women / The Philadelphia Story (Two-Pack)
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