The Four Seasons

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Actually, this comedy is one of the more enjoyable films to examine midlife crisis in the 1980s. Written and directed by Alan Alda, it examines the effects of middle age on a group of married couples who are longtime friends. Each season they go away on a vacation together, but the dynamic gets skewed when one of the men dumps his wife for a younger woman. Though some may find the characters' self-satisfaction and upscale neuroses a shade cloying, they are more than matched by Alda's solid, often funny writing. The couple with the biggest laughs: the hilariously paired Jack Weston and Rita Moreno (although Alda and Carol Burnett also strike comic sparks). --Marshall Fine

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Four Seasons equals 4 stars!.......2007-07-11

This well written and well directed movie by Alan Alda is one not to miss.
The story centers around three middle aged professional couples who share their vacations together during each season. When one of the couple's marriage ends in divorce as the result of a mid-life crisis, the other two couples begin to doubt their security and stability in their own marriages. This all star cast comes across realistically and relatively new actress, Bess Armstrong, pulls her own weight(among some well seasoned actors) and comes across as sensitive and caring instead of just another pretty face. My only criticism is that some scenes seem to drag on as Alan Alda's character tries to "analayze" everything from sailboats to bruised knees. Besides that the acting is great and the music in the background is wonderful. Again a movie not to miss!

A little corny & dated, but still great!.......2007-06-28

I enjoyed this movie back in the 80's and enjoy it almost as much today. A light comedy that pertains to married friendships and what happens when one member of the circle of friends decides to get a divorce thereby threatening the remainder of the group, forcing them to examine their own lives and relationships. Directed by Alan Alda, with very strong performances by Jack Weston and Rita Moreno. Carol Burnett can get on your nerves but also gives an excellent performance.

A Very Funny Movie.......2007-04-05

I love this movie. It is so rare to see Alan Alda much less the remainder of this unique cast all together at one time. This is about a group of spouses/friends that takes four seasonal vacations together, each and every year. This year is different though and that is what makes this movie very special. A definite buy!

Alan Alda's Best !!.......2007-04-04

Surprise ! This is a good movie ! This Early 1980's Comedy - Drama follows three middle aged couples who take vacations in the Spring , Summer , Autumn and Winter. Along the way the couples meet up with Middle age , Marital and Parental struggles. This is by far the best film Alan Alda ever directed as he also writes the moderately funny and (occasionally hilarious) script. The paired couple of (Jack Weston) and (Rita Moreno) provide the best laughs through the picture. (Carol Burnett) is Alda's wife and is no more than just fair in her performance. (Bess Armstrong) is very good as the younger woman for whom (Len Cariou) leaves his wife (Sandy Dennis) of 21 years for. Also watch for Alan Alda's two real life daughters (Beatrice Alda , Elizabeth Alda) who actually appear in the film when the two girls are visited at college by the three couples during their Autumn vacation.

If you Love MASH..........2007-03-30

Alan Alda fans will love this movie. Alda haters, stay away. Alda is great in his role, as are Rita Moreno and an absolutely smokin' hot Bess Armstrong--and I mean en fuego. Carol Burnett is so-so. The story is great, and the script fast-paced. Alda wrote and directed.

Three couples vacation/spend long weekends together in each of the four seasons, accompanied by Vivaldi. When divorce strikes one of the couples, much self-examination, mutual analysis, mortality fears, etc. occur. Definitely a good movie. And did I mention Bess Armstrong is smokin' hot?

The Complete Musketeers (The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers)

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THE COMPLETE MUSKETEERS
The Complete Musketeers
The Complete Musketeers
Took me back in time

The Complete Musketeers (The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers)
Starring: Oliver Reed , Raquel Welch , Richard Chamberlain , Michael York , and Frank Finlay
Director: Richard Lester
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ASIN: B00006LPC5
Release Date: 2003-02-04

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Join the Musketeers D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), Porthos (Frank Finlay) and the stunning yet clumsy maiden Constance (Raquel Welch) as they battle for fortune, glory and vengeance against the devious Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston), Milady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) and Count de Rochefort (Christopher Lee). These are the two hit movies that redefined the rousing action and riotous comedy of the swashbuckler genre for a whole new generation. This is THE COMPLETE MUSKETEERS! Director Richard Lester (A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, HELP!) and producers Ilya & Alexandre Salkind (SUPERMAN) created an international sensation with these all-star adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' timeless tale. Both THE THREE MUSKETEERS and THE FOUR MUSKETEERS have now been completely restored from original vault elements and loaded with exclusive extras for the ultimate two-disc Musketeer collection!

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Action, Adventure and Classic.......2007-09-13

This is my favorite adaptation of this Duma's classic. The outstanding ensemble of actors were superb. The granduer of the palaces and commoness of all else were well portrayed. A country boy, bedazzled by the new world he has stepped into, yet his desire to do right, along with the mentoring of the mature musketeers, enables him to grow into the hero Dumas created. He is lauded by those he saved and respected by his enemies.
Would like to see the "Return of the Musketeers" release May 30, 2000 be put on DVD.

THE COMPLETE MUSKETEERS.......2007-09-10

AN EXCELLENT PRODUCT. THE PICTURE QUALITY IS GREAT,AND IT IS GOOD TO SEE THE
WHOLE STORY AS THE TITLE IS CALLED. IT IS THE BEST YOU CAN BUY OF THAT VINTAGE.
I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS FILM FOR FANS OF THE MUSKETEERS.
RANDALL : FROM AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

The Complete Musketeers.......2007-08-23

Awesome. How can you NOT like Oliver Reed at Athos?

Sadly, it doesn't have the third movie (and therefore not really complete, but what the heck?) and I've heard that it isn't on DVD yet.

If you love this time period, this is a great buy! Remember, this is the older version, not the new lousy one with Kiefer Sutherland and those nouveau Musketeers!

The Complete Musketeers.......2007-07-14

The dvd I ordered arrived very quickly, and in perfect condition. My husband was thrilled. Thank you.

Took me back in time.......2007-07-03

I loved these movies when they came out in the theater and I loved watching them on my DVD player at home. Always funny with fantastic sword fighting - much better than most of what we see today. No CGI fight garbage, just cool and realistic fights.

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The Original and Re-Make on a one DVD set!!!!
New 4-Disc DVD is a treasure of sight and sound...brilliant achievement...
This is no young man's action movie, but . . .
Ben-Hur
Ben Hur

Ben-Hur (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
Starring: Charlton Heston , Jack Hawkins , Haya Harareet , Stephen Boyd , and Hugh Griffith
Director: William Wyler , Christy Cabanne , and Charles Brabin
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ASIN: B0009UZG1O
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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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 Messala (Stephen Boyd)--is rich, detailed, and sensitively handled. Director William Wyler, who had been a junior assistant on MGM's original silent version back in 1925, never sacrifices the human focus of the story in favor of spectacle, and is aided immeasurably by Miklos Rozsa's majestic musical score, arguably the greatest ever written for a Hollywood picture. At four hours it's a long haul (especially given some of the portentous dialogue), but all in all, Ben-Hur is a great movie, best seen on the biggest screen possible. --Mark Walker

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The numbers speak volumes: 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and a staggering budget in its day the largest in movie history. Ben-Hur's creators made it the best, the greatest Biblical-era epic ever. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled slave galley, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. Heston's charismatic performance brought him the Best Actor Oscar; the winner as 1959's Best Picture with the legendary William Wyler earning his third Best Director trophy, the film won a total 11 Academy Awards -- a tally unequaled until 1997's Titanic set sail.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Film Historian T. Gene Hatcher with Scene Specific Comments from Charlton Heston
Documentaries:New Documentary: Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema - Current filmmakers such as Ridley Scott and George Lucas reflect on the importance and influence of the film 1994 Documentary: Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic Hosted by Christopher Plummer Directed by William Wyler - 1986 Emmy Award-nominated documentary featuring the last interview with Wyler before his death
Featurette:Ben-Hur: A Journey Through Pictures - New audiovisual recreation of the film via stills, storyboards, sketches, music and dialogue
Other:The 1925 Feature-length Silent Version of Ben-Hur with a stereophonic orchestral score by composer Carl Davis. Vintage Newsreels Gallery Highlights from the 1960 Academy Awards Ceremony Theatrical Trailer Gallery
Outtakes:Screen Tests: Leslie Nielsen and Cesare Danova Leslie Nielsen and Yale Wexler George Baker and William Russel Haya Harareet Hair and Make-up Tests

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The Original and Re-Make on a one DVD set!!!!.......2007-09-06

BEN-HUR The Four-Disc Collector's Edition

It is an ignominious fate that the Original Ben-Hur by which I mean the 1925 silent version has appeared as a bonus feature on the William Wyler's Ben-Hur Four-Disc Collector's Edition.

The 1925 Ben-Hur was a huge success. To this day it is still the most successful silent picture ever made. The sensational chariot race as with the William Wyler re-make was at the heart of the movie. It was the first time a Cinema audience had seen such awe-inspiring images. Such as four stallions and a speeding chariot racing directly over the top of a Camera sunk in the Arena track. The first the time a Camera followed a team of horses in close-up and at full gallop. So many film techniques that we take for granted in Action Cinema today were first born in this silent epic and they would be remembered.

William Wyler remembered them 34 years later.

William Wyler had been an assistant director on the 1925 Original. He had witnessed its staggering success and when the time came for a re-make he was just the man for the job. Maybe you balk at my use of the word re-make? But that is exactly what the William Wyler version was. The studio knew they had a product that worked and did not want to divert from that winning formula. If it ain't broke....!

The Arena built in Italy was a virtual replica of the one built in the silent version. They utilized the original construction drawings. They used some of the same moulds for various statues. They even had a complete chariot from the 1925 Original that had already proved itself on film. They had the original designs and drawings of virtually everything that had been constructed 34 years previously and they all worked.

On the Extras Disc there is a rather lame documentary called "The Epic that Changed Cinema" where filmmakers repetitively praise the 1959 re-make. A Production Designer expresses his amazement at the imagination it took to design the Arena specifically those gigantic statues at each end of it. Had he seen the Original 1925 Film he would have seen that the Arena and particularly the gigantic statues are all but the same.

None of this is touched upon in the two documentaries that are presented on the special features disc. Nothing is mentioned about the suppression of the Original Version by MGM in the run-up to the release of the William Wyler's Ben-Hur or it's eventual burial.

The 1925 Ben-Hur is a rather melodramatic and histrionic affair. Most of the performances are over the top and it has the feeling of recorded theatre rather than a movie but what lifts this film into the realms of a classic is simply the chariot race. It is as good as the William Wyler version if not better. It has more chariots!

It is a shame that the Silent Original does not have any bonus features. A documentary by Kevin Brownlow could have solved this shameful emission, as the man is responsible for it's restoration and survival. He is also one of the best documentary filmmakers out there. Just watch his Thames Television series called "Hollywood" about America's early film pioneers or "Unknown Chaplin" and you will see what I mean.

As for the William Wyler's re-make the same seems to apply. The chariot race is the highlight of the film. The race is remarkably similar in structure, blocking and interpretation as that of the Original. Most of the shots and camera positions are an exactly the same.

The rest of William Wyler's epic never really elevates above pure melodrama. The exceptional performance by Hugh Griffith lends the film a much-needed sense of intrigue but generally the film plays by the numbers. The weak latter half of the film almost feels as if you are watching Monty Python's "Life of Brian". The film uses all of the technologies available at the time to best effect. It is beautifully shot in Camera 65 by Robert L. Surtees. It has incredible matt paintings. The production design is romantic yet faultless. The Hollywoodised costumes are beautiful.

Gore Vidal is acknowledged to have written the first half of the film up until the chariot race. He is disgracefully not even credited. These early scenes are far superior to the latter plodding religious pontificating. In the first scenes between Ben-Hur and Messala, he has cleverly interwoven a homosexual love affair gone terribly wrong. It explains clearly Messala's brutal reaction. He also has a poke at the waning Un-American Committee by having Messala demand that Ben-Hur name names.

The problem with the films as a whole is the source material that they are based on. The Novel is melodramatic, shallow and episodic. Even the title is incorrect "A Story of the Christ". It might be the most read book other than the bible but it does not mean that it is any good. It is simply a compelling adventure yarn with Christ thrown in and as with the films the best part is the chariot race.

New 4-Disc DVD is a treasure of sight and sound...brilliant achievement..........2007-07-29

'Ben-Hur' is such a great film, it's a pleasure to report that the newly restored Wide Screen 4-Disc DVD version (which includes the 1925 silent screen film with Ramon Novarro) is right on the mark. The color has been restored to its original brilliance with every scene clearly in focus and the soundtrack gives full range to Miklos Rozsa's impressive score. More than ever, Rozsa's score seems to have an energy and force of its own, underlining all the drama inherent in a story of this kind. And Charlton Heston's work in the title role is sheer perfection. He captures the character so completely that he IS Ben-Hur.

Not often does such an epic have human characters that are not dwarfed by all the spectacle. The characters are all fully-dimensional human beings--particularly the two antagonists (Judah Ben-Hur and Messala), once great friends but now divided by political loyalties. Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd are outstanding in the leads (Boyd should definitely have won an Oscar as Messala for his chilling death scene alone!).

All the other important roles are flawlessly cast. The chariot race is the most explosive and breathtaking seventeen minutes ever given to such a spectacular event--and all of the stunts look perfectly real. It's hard to believe that none of the stunts ended with more than minor injuries.

The final scene, which follows soon after the chariot race, with Ben-Hur returning home and slowly climbing the steps to find that his mother and sister have been cured, still gives me goose bumps when I see it. As does the poignant scene in the leper colony where he insists on seeing their cave dwelling. Both scenes are strongly bolstered by Miklos Rozsa's brilliant score.

Fully deserved all the awards it won. Should be released theatrically to show folks that even in 1959, Hollywood had all the technical skill to bring something like this off--with spectacular results! But in the meantime, this newly restored DVD is a keeper.

This is no young man's action movie, but . . ........2007-07-25

It is obvious from the acting, camera work, and overall epic quality of this film, why it won 11 Oscars. This movie is a true classic.

That said my wife thinks it is slow and boring and so do most of my friends, however I think it is one of the greatest films ever made.

From the life of a prince to a galley slave our star Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is taken from his home in Israel and travels across the known world. He is despised and beaten by some and praised and honored by others along this forced journey. He meets everyone from Caesar to Jesus Christ along his path back to home where he must defeat his arch enemy and once best friend. He loses everything he has at one point, but at the end he receives a gift beyond any tangible possession that exists.

I wish I had the words to give this movie justice.

Ben-Hur.......2007-07-23

For those who enjoy the grandeur of a cast of thousands and the drama of movies when movies were movies set back in time in history, Ben Hur will fill the bill, A truly magnifient movie and as you watch the movie you begin to realize all the preparation it took to make it happen. Like othe movies such as Doctor Zhivago, Ben Hur had a main character and has an historical theme about that period of time.The music is exquisite to say the least. I recommend Ben Hur because movies like this are not produced anymore. In 1959 there were no computers to enhance the scenes and to help make many of the scenes easier to pull off. Charlton Heston was the right person for the part, a strong character in the making who portrayed Ben Hur as a lie-like character.

Ben Hur .......2007-07-13

I think it was a fantastic Movie that brings back memorable times when I was a youth. It opens my understanding to recollect the Lord's awesome nature.

The Brady Bunch - The Complete Fourth Season

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I would give it 6 stars
Awesome
Great back then and great now!
Good Clean Family Fun!
Another good season despite the Brady kids growing older

The Brady Bunch - The Complete Fourth Season
Starring: Robert Reed
Director: Robert Reed , Norman Abbott (II) , Jack Arnold , Peter Baldwin , and Allen Baron
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B000B5XOUM
Release Date: 2005-11-01

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THE BRADY BUNCH is a half-hour comedy series that follows the misadventures of a family united when single mother Carol (Florence Henderson) finds love and marriage with single father Mike Brady (Robert Reed). The Brady's tackle typical family issues such as sibling rivalry, misunderstandings, and growing up, in a way that brought innocence and charm to the series.

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Running Time 581 Mins

Format: DVD MOVIE

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The Bradys just keep on movin', keep on groovin', keep on doin' it right. By season four the Brady Bunch crew had got the magical formula down and was churning out one groovy television classic after another. Not only is season four the best of the later seasons, including the memorable performance by the Brady band "The Silver Platters," but the episodes included in this run almost read as a "Brady best-of" list. If there is a hall of fame for three part television episodes, this season's opener would easily be among the top five. The "Bradys Abroad" formula seemed to be so successful after season four's two-part opening trip to the Grand Canyon, the gang was able to pack it up and head to Hawaii. The Hawaii trip has it all; a family trip to the USS Arizona, Greg's Surf contest, a family Luau, the mysterious tiki idol, and guest appearances by b-horror staple Vincent Price and Hawaiian idol Don Ho. After the tropical vacation it's back to school. In order to fit in, Marcia the freshman signs up for every after-school activity on campus including the elitist "Boosters." Greg's love life gets complex when he discovers his girlfriend and sister are both in competition for the coveted head cheerleading spot, and he is the judge! Love strikes Marcia too, who falls in love with her dreamy dentist, only to be crushed by Jan's news that he is married with children. Never one to rest on the rebound, Marcia lands a date with Doug the campus hero only to have her heart ripped out once again when the boys break her nose with an errant flying football. Then there's Peter who has to play Benedict Arnold in the school play and is suddenly on the receiving end of his peers' snide remarks calling him a traitor. And in the classic season finale Greg and Marcia battle it out to see who gets to move out of the kids' bedroom and into their own space in the attic. Corny, yet cool, dated, yet timeless, vanilla as is comes, but still mesmerizing, The Brady Bunch - The Complete Fourth Season is the season that most people will identify as quintessential Brady. --Rob Bracco

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I would give it 6 stars.......2007-05-20

I bought this after repeated requests and nagging by my six year old daughter. She had caught a Brady Bunch marathon on TV about a year ago, and has wanted the video ever since. She loves it, and insisted I give it 6 stars. I watched the original episodes as a kid, and never missed a week! My only regret is that I should have purchased the entire set of all seasons, as now we watch "reruns"! I plan to buy the movie, which I have seen , and which is hillarious.

Awesome .......2007-04-10

I love this set of dvds it was one of my favorite shows and to be able to own the episodes is nice .

Great back then and great now!.......2006-11-05

I loved Brady Bunch as a kid, and now my kids love it! Season 4 is great, our whole family loved it (especially our 7 year old twins). It was fun to watch a show I used to watch when I was young, and now share it with my kids! I highly recommend all the Brady bunch seasons!

Good Clean Family Fun!.......2006-03-28

I grew up watching the Brady Bunch and have spent years watching reruns. I never grow tired of the majority of them and I am now almost 45 years old. My kids like the Hawaii episodes and especially Greg Gets Grounded and The Subject is Noses. The stories are simple, but entertaining--sometimes even laugh out loud funny. It's nice to see kids who are respectful to their parents and not into any major trouble. People say this isn't real life, but I grew up in the 70's and life was pretty simple-- even in my less than perfect family.

The best thing? Your kids can watch because the content is clean!

Another good season despite the Brady kids growing older.......2006-03-06

The fourth season was another good season, though they had a difficult time in the writing. Happens when shows approach their fourth year. Sometimes, it's difficult to write something about the kids getting older, because it's hard to see what it's like in real life. Greg moved into his own room in the attic, having his own independence. And the sibling rivalries of the girls calmed down a bit. Greg's brothers had freedom in their room. And Mike and Carol had their situations too--I still remember one show that included them that was so funny! Somehow the age of the show was beginning to show, as I watched the reruns of the 1972 and 1973 shows in 1980 or so.

The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Fourth Season

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THe Dukes of Hazzard
Entertainment at its best
The pinnacle of Hazzard!
The best season.
The Apex

The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Fourth Season
Director: Hy Averback , Jack Starrett , Gabrielle Beaumont , Don McDougall , and Dick Moder
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ASIN: B0009S4IM4
Release Date: 2005-08-02

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The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Fourth Season finds the redneck comedy down to a fine science almost comforting in its predictability. Cousins Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) still raise hell with the General Lee in rural Hazzard County (and still have no visible means of financial support). Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) is still the picture of wildflower innocence despite her tomboyish temper and barely legal short-shorts. Uncle Jesse Duke (Denver Pyle) still basks in righteous anger at longtime enemy (and fellow former moonshiner) Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg (Sorrell Booke), the latter an unrepentant schemer for whom every living thing seems an obstacle in his quest for vast (and unethically acquired) wealth. As sure as the sun rises every day, any scene involving Boss Hogg and the idiotic Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best) will be played for maximum slapstick-cartoonish energy, all the better if dimwitted Deputy Cletus (Rick Hurst) becomes entangled in their shtick.

Season highlights include "Mrs. Daisy Hogg," with guest star Jonathan Frakes--destined to play Commander William T. Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation (please note that Dukes' executive producer is one Paul R. Picard)--as a counterfeiter who falls for, and thus endangers, poor Daisy. "Double Dukes" finds Boss Hogg hiring two thugs to disguise themselves as Bo and Luke, but the real fun with this episode is a recent commentary track (optionally chosen via special features) with Wopat, Schneider, and Bach kidding around and reminiscing like naughty siblings. "Diamonds in the Rough," directed by James Best, concerns out-of-town gangsters searching for stolen diamonds stuffed in a Bugs Bunny toy that made its way from the Dukes' hands to Boss Hogg's Cadillac to Roscoe's hound. "Ten Million Dollar Sheriff" is a two-parter in which Roscoe inherits a load of money, and--for a time--becomes a kingpin even more dangerous than Boss Hogg. Comedian Jeff Altman makes a comeback as master-of-disguise villain Hughie Hogg, who implements grand plans to eliminate the Dukes and salt-of-the-earth tow truck driver Cooter Davenport (Ben Jones). Sprinkled throughout the season are musical performances by Buck Owens, Mickey Gilley, and other country artists. --Tom Keogh

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The down-home craziness continues with the Duke boys on DVD in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Fourth Season! Following the phenomenal success of the TV franchise on DVD, Season Four's release will precede the much-anticipated theatrical release staring Jessica Simpson, Johnny Knoxville and Sean Scott Williams. All roads lead to fun in this 27-episode, 9-disc collector's set, with special features including an inside look at the series with John Schneider, Cathering Bach, Tom Wopat and Creator Gy Waldron!

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Audio Commentary
Documentary
Featurette
Interviews

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THe Dukes of Hazzard.......2007-05-03

In the fourth season The Dukes are In trouble when Daisy goes head over heels for a hogg and Boss ain't happy. When the dukes are testing out their engine a plane comes by and pop comes out a doll but after that the Dukes are chased around by some bad guys they never knew that the doll has hot diamonds in it.

Entertainment at its best.......2007-03-10

Like all the other seasons of "The Dukes of Hazzard" this one is just pure entertainment at its best.These lovable characters with their exiting adventures,that awesome car and the humour make this TV show to something very special.It's a must see.
I only hope that the two reunion movies will also be released on DVD very soon,because I just can't get enough of "The Dukes of Hazzard".
A tip for all people who loves the show as much as I do:If you really are a fan of the original TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard" than go and watch John 'Bo Duke` Schneider`s new movie "Collier & Co - Hot Pursuit" which is currently running in a couple of cinemas for only a short time.It's not called "The Dukes" but it has humour,an awesome '69 Dodge Charger,really hot car stuff,brain and heart and it's entertainment at its best.You'll love it!!!

The pinnacle of Hazzard!.......2007-02-24

What goes up must come down. Regardless of Bo and Luke's departure following this season, season 5 would've been somewhat of a downward spiral. Anyhow, this was the absolute peak in terms of slapstick, characters perfecting their roles, etc. The episode of "Million Dollar Sheriff Coltrane" is my favorite episode of all time. I was in elementary school 25 years ago watching the 81'-82' season on friday nights and I still stand firm on this season being the best of all 7.Even the "villains" were the most convincing of all the seasons even though you knew the boys would prevail at the end. Some of the 4 seasons have episodes you watch for friday night nostalgia once more on dvd and then bypass, however, I can't think of one "filler/subpar" episode in season 4. Season 2 had several clunkers w/o Rosco and season 3 had a couple "below standard" shows as well. For new fans out there...buy season 1 first for character evolution and familiarity...then, jump to season 4 for the BEST overall episodes. Then go to season 3 and then 2.

The best season........2007-02-04

Season 4 is the best in my opinion. Every season had a few cheesy and stupid episodes, but almost all of them here are great. And it has deputy Cletus Hogg instead of Enos. I always thought Cletus was more comical of the two.

The Apex.......2006-04-02

This the the Apex of the Dukes of Hazzard TV series. They reach perfection as the charecters are finally perfected and the show reachers its stride. Also this the last season of musical guest stars (with only one that I know of in the last three seasons) and there are quite a few, even a Johnny paycheck who looks like he has no idea where he is at or that he should be singing.
By the last episode of this season the charecters are all that they ever will be or could be. The conversation between Roscoe and Boss when they are stuffing stolen cerdit cards in the door of Roscoe's patrol car says it all. After this season it still a good show, but it's still a downhill ride from here. A great season!

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The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers
A beautiful up-to-date film
Beautifully Restored

The Four Feathers
Starring: John Clements , Ralph Richardson , C. Aubrey Smith , June Duprez , and Allan Jeayes
Director: Zoltan Korda
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ASIN: B00079ZACM
Release Date: 2005-04-19

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Some movies you just have to love. Oh, they may be well, even beautifully, made; wonderfully cast and stirringly acted; uplifting in theme and noble in motive. That's fine. In fact, that's great. For that, you admire them. But you love them because they are perfect distillations of a mood, of a moment in the history of filmmaking, of a breed of imagination that, like the best of fairy tales, transcends the tides of taste and empire, and certainly of political correctness.

Consider The Four Feathers, produced in England in 1939, at Alexander Korda's London Films studios, where a family of Hungarian expatriates aspired to exalt their newly adopted country, its history and traditions, and also to out-Hollywood Hollywood. With this film, they realized both ambitions, in spades.

A.E.W. Mason's novel of stiff-upper-lip honor and valor had already been filmed three times (and at least that many remakes have followed, superfluously). This is the only version that matters. On the eve of the British army's departure to reconquer the Sudan, a young lieutenant descended from a long line of military heroes resigns his commission and is tendered a white feather--the symbol of cowardice--by each of three brother officers. From his fiancée's plume he plucks a fourth, then fades out of their lives... to embark, a year later, on a private quest that will carry him down continents and through unimaginable sacrifice to hard-won redemption.

John Clements (who never had much of a film career) is excellent as the tormented Harry Faversham. But it's Ralph Richardson, as Harry's romantic rival John Durrance (wonderful names!), you'll cherish--he and that spitting image of the Duke of Wellington, C. Aubrey Smith, whose blustery recollections of the Crimean War strike a satiric yet affectionate keynote. Directed by one Korda brother, Zoltan--who shot spectacular sequences in the Sudan--and exquisitely designed by another, Vincent, The Four Feathers is a Technicolor milestone, and its music score is an early triumph by one of the Kordas's legion of Hungarian-expatriate helpmates, Miklos Rosza. --Richard T. Jameson

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great movie.......2007-09-03

sorry to say that the vhs movie did not work in 3 of my machines. The tracking was off. Had to ship back to vendor.

The Four Feathers.......2007-05-14

A fairly good version, although rather stilted in execution. The best of the remakes is the Alexander Korda production starring Anthony Steele and re-titled, "Storm Over the Nile", which, unfortunately, is not available. RH

The Four Feathers.......2006-03-15

Without doubt a film far before its time! Excellent in alll departments, particularly the crowd scenes and the battle charges! A difficult time for British interests in the Middle East durung that period.
John Clements played his part with care, understanding, and an outstandingly gifted portrayal of a so called coward turned hero!
Ralph Richardson also showed us his acting skills with a great performance of a somewhat naive but highly patriotic British military Officer. King and country before anything.

Marvellous scenes in pre-second world war Britain together with the post-Kitchener era in the Sudan!

This film should have won the Accademy Award for that year 1939

A beautiful up-to-date film.......2006-02-01

Many a time I saw the cover of this DVD; the faces of the 3 leading characters, notably the stunning beauty of June Duprez, and the rich colour of the film shots somehow misled me to think this as a modern movie.

Finally I watched this 1939 classic - a breathtakingly beautiful film, both in terms of the cinematography and the natural flow of the plot. The combat scenes were real and visually capturing - they would not pale compared with its modern counterparts.

To top it all, the story was simple and enchanting. Four feathers were given to Harry Faversham for his apparent cowardice to withdraw, in the last minute, from his regiment which was set to battle in Egypt. To prove his own worth, he would go to Egypt, disguise himself and did courageous deeds to these 4 people so that they would take the feathers back and reinstate his reputation and courage. This is a story about noble characters, not only for Harry but also for his fellow officers.

What follows were as exciting as it was captivating. I like the ending most - the one courageous deed he did for his wife (the graceful June Duprez) proved to be the perfect comic twist for this otherwise heavy film. Highly recommend it!

Beautifully Restored.......2006-02-01

The quality of the print is outstanding. With apologies to Heath Ledger and the rest of the remake crew, this one is the definitive version of the story. You just can't get good stories out of C. Aubrey Smith these days! ;-}

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four for texas
Loved It!
Good but not great.
RAT PACK GOES WEST. . .
4 For Texas 1963

4 for Texas
Starring: Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Anita Ekberg , Ursula Andress , and Charles Bronson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Rat Pack buddies Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were prized for their ability to appear relaxed on camera, but in 4 for Texas they're nearly asleep. It must have looked good on paper: reuniting the crooners and teaming them with two international sex symbols in a jokey Western under the guidance of topnotch director Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly). Ursula Andress, as a riverboat owner who hooks up with Dino, unleashes her bedroom purr to great effect, but formidable Anita Ekberg had a bad year in 1963 (she also got stuck in Bob Hope's immortal Call Me Bwana). A tasty roster of character actors is wasted, although Charles Bronson and Victor Buono are amusing as unsavory citizens of 1870s Galveston. Even the Three Stooges, in their Curly Joe configuration, wander through. After a terrific opening sequence in the desert, establishing Frank and Dean's rivalry, this one quickly goes south. --Robert Horton

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four for texas.......2006-11-04

great movie very funny, all top naned actors and actresses made this
comedy most enjoyable.

Loved It!.......2006-09-24

I just watched this movie earlier today and I really loved it. I think this was a thousand times better than the last Sinatra film I saw-that crapola flick "The Manchurian Candidate." The scenes between him and Dean Martin are a riot. Speaking of that, there's a moment in the film's climax where The King of Cool and The Prince of Cool are fighting each other and I couldn't stop giggling. Boy I tell you, that fight scene was more enjoyable than Ol' Blue Eyes fighting Henry Silva in "The Manchurian Candidate" (talk about a mismatch in that one). Also, what can you say about Ursula Andress? How about one of the most sexy foreign actresses in cinema history? Also, Anita Ekberg co-stars (hard to believe this was the same woman who was in the fountain in "La Dolce Vita") as Sinatra's love interest and in a brillant move, Charles Bronson as the gunfighter who tries to nab Frank and Dean (this came in-between the westerns he was in like THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST). As that weren't enough The Three Stooges and Arthur Godfrey have walk-on roles. The film was directed by Robert Aldrich; and it was the follow-up to what I think is his signature film-"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" As what the description to this DVD says at the end to best sum up this movie: 'You will have a blast.'

Good but not great........2006-08-07

I guess I expected more out of this movie but I confess I was mildly disappointed in it. At first, the movie seems to be having a hard time making up its mind whether to be a comedy or a drama and the resulting mish mash is a bit unsettling. Still, it was a great cast; Dean Martin was particularly adept at westerns, much more so than Frank Sinatra, who pretty much plays Frank Sinatra in this one. It is fun to see the two of them compete for the ladies, in this case, Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress. The bad guys are well represented by Victor Buono and Charles Bronson. A fun movie but not particularly memorable.

RAT PACK GOES WEST. . . .......2006-04-21

This one has always been a guilty pleasure: the two head Rat Packers, Frank and Dino, bust it and themselves up in the Old West. Director Robert Aldrich (who also co-wrote the screenplay) keeps the tone light, although he and Sinatra reportedly did not get along. It wouldn't be surprising, because this movie is packed with Frank's friends, so what originally was to be more of an Aldrich film veered into more of an OCEAN'S ELEVEN. That said, however, it ain't a bad movie! The whole cast is great, from Victor Buono and Charles Bronson as the baddies to Ursula Andress and Anita Ekberg who, of course, are madly and subserviently in love with our leads, to the entire cast of character actors. Many familiar faces appear, such as Ellen Corby, Fritz Feld, Jack Elam, Richard Jaeckel, Wesley Addy, Arthur Godfrey, Grady Sutton and, yes, the Three Stooges! Special mention has to be made of the always welcome Mount Rushmore of Mike Mazurki as Sinatra's number one henchman and, on the opposite side, the delightful and energetic Nick Dennis and the erudite and elegant Edric Connor as Dean's sidekicks. Another special mention: Nelson Riddle's score. Appropriate, light, bouncy, with great little leitmotifs for the characters (you'll definitely notice some future Batman touches in here). One thing to be aware of: this ain't no PC movie. The women, although fairly well realized as characters, fawn a LOT over Frank and Dean, mainly Frank. It's kind of an adolescent fantasy in that regard. 4 FOR TEXAS is a whole lotta fun from start to finish, and no one takes their roles seriously except for Charles Bronson, who realized that the movie needed one really, really bad guy to act as an anchor for the rest. Maybe the production had its problems, but it came out just fine. Everyone has a rollicking good time, and so will you. Not much in the way of extras on the DVD: an eight-minute "Behind the Scenes" featurette and a trailer, but the Technicolor still looks great. If you're looking for drama, look elsewhere. But, if you're looking for a pleasant evening's entertainment, try 4 FOR TEXAS.

4 For Texas 1963.......2006-04-12

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and Dean Martin (1917-1995) play wily Business rivals in this wild West lark og gambling and romance . It?s 4 for Texas as the two sars joined by Busty Swedish Anita Ekberg (1931- ) (measurements: 40-22-36 in 1950) and Ursula Andress (1936- ) , vie for oneupmanship at the card tables of 1870s Galverston .The cards hold a lot more fun when the film?s many talented co-stars join in . The three stonges turn up in a trademark slapstick sketch . Preening Victor Buono (1938-1982) is the most deviius , double-crossing villain this side Snidely Whiplash . And Charles Bronson (1921-2003) is rattlesnake-mean gunslinger with a nasty habit of absorbing more lead than he dishes out . At center stagecoach shootout to final riverboat melee , pals Sinatra and Martin clearly have a blast , So will you . High Quality digital transfer .

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A great trip back to a younger age
Hootenanny Captures Brief Camelot Moments
Played out by '64? - no way
Essential Time Capsule
Indispensable for folk fans and nostalgia

The Best Of Hootenanny
Starring: The Chad Mitchell Trio , Jack Linkletter , The Limeliters , The New Christy Minstrels , and The Serendipity Singers
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ASIN: B000KRNCYO
Release Date: 2007-01-16

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Although there are other styles represented among the more than 90 tracks in this three-disc set, The Best of Hootenanny is mostly about folk music. And while folkie superstars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and the Kingston Trio are absent, there are lots of famous names on hand (Judy Collins, Carly Simon, the New Christy Minstrels, Hoyt Axton, the Limelighters), not to mention a host of genre-defining songs ("Green, Green," "If I Had a Hammer," "Five Hundred Miles," "Michael Row the Boat Ashore"… even "Kumbayah," the summer camp moment that's become a new millennium cliché). Problem is, time has not been very kind to folk. No matter how good the performances may be, and some are excellent, this is music that is very much of its time (the early 1960s); nuance-free, with its pure and earnest tales of lusty men and their ramblin' ways, it virtually parodies itself these days--especially in the wake of A Mighty Wind, Christopher Guest's spot-on film satire. Little wonder that the TV show itself was off the air by September, '64, plowed under by the Beatles and other rockers who made folk sound quaint and unfashionable (an exception here would be Ian & Sylvia Tyson's powerful and rocking "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well"). It's the offerings from other genres that still sound great. A duo called Joe & Eddie bring a febrile, foot-stomping gospel vibe to "Jerry," as do the amazing Marion Williams & Stars of Faith to "Packin' Up." The Dillards, Flatt & Scruggs (with banjo virtuoso Earl Scruggs), and Richard & Jim, another obscure duo, play some scorching bluegrass; Johnny Cash (whose two tunes include "Busted," most closely associated with Ray Charles) and the Carter Family represent traditional country music, and jazz flutist Herbie Mann's Latin-inflected "Harlem Nocturne" is a highlight. All the clips, including comedy bits by Woody Allen, Louis Nye, Bill Cosby, and John F. Kennedy impersonator Vaughn Meader, were preserved on kinescope (recordings made by filming the picture from a TV monitor), so neither video nor audio is great. The set contains no bonus features. --Sam Graham

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For the first-time on home video, a deluxe 3-DVD set of the hit ABC show that started the '60s!

In the pre-Beatlemania days of April 1963, a weekly folk music concert called Hootenanny found its way onto the American television airwaves. Originating from various college campuses, the show featured artists that were thriving on the coffee house and college circuit, like Judy Collins, Trini Lopez, Jimmie Rodgers, the Chad Mitchell Trio, the Brothers Four and Bob Gibson.

Hosted by Jack Linkletter (the son of TV legend Art Linkletter), Hootenanny was also a showcase for young comedians, including Bill Cosby and Woody Allen. And Hootenanny, not limiting itself to folk artists, also featured gospel, jazz and country performers, including Clara Ward, the Carter Family, Marion Williams, Herbie Mann, Hoyt Axton, Eddy Arnold, Flatt & Scruggs and Johnny Cash--all usually performing in the folk idiom, or something close to it.

A few young future rock performers also made early appearances on Hootenanny. Look for John Phillips, who would later go on to form The Mamas and the Papas, as a member of the Journeymen. Carly Simon performs as one half of the Simon Sisters and Barry McGuire, who would soon have a number one hit with Eve Of Destruction, can be seen with the New Christy Minstrels.

By 1964 the Beatles had arrived in America, essentially ending the folk music craze that had started only a few years before. Hootenanny would soon be replaced by Shindig! All of the videotapes of Hootenanny are lost--most likely erased and recycled during a time when no one imagined folk music would matter again. But fortunately the shows were preserved on kinescopes, films made from a television monitor. These kinescopes of Hootenanny form a musical time capsule of the short-lived era in American popular music--in between Elvis Presley and The Beatles--when folk music was all the rage.

More than 80 songs including: Froggie Went A-Courtin', He Was A Friend Of Mine, Midnight Special, C.C. Rider, Cottonfields, Turn Turn Turn, If I Had A Hammer, Wayfarin' Stranger, Wimoweh and Ole Blue

With performances by:
Eddy Arnold, Hoyt Axton, Leon Bibb, Theodore Bikel, The Brothers Four, Bud & Travis, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Clara Ward Gospel Singers, Judy Collins, The Coventry Singers, Dian & The Greenbriar Boys, The Dillards, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Bob Gibson, Ian & Sylvia, Joe & Eddie, The Journeymen, The Limeliters, Trini Lopez, Miriam Makeba, Herbie Mann, The New Christy Minstrels, Richard & Jim, Jimmie Rodgers, The Rooftop Singers, The Serendipity Singers, Mike Settle, The Simon Sisters, The Tarriers, The Travelers Three, Doc Watson, Josh White, Jr., Beverly White, Marion Williams

And comedy by:
Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Vaughn Meader, Louis Nye, Jackie Vernon

Customer Reviews:

A great trip back to a younger age.......2007-09-10

I was so excited to see this offering that I wasted no time in ordering it and in playing it once received. I loved Hootenanny and having graduated from high school in the early 60's it was almost a part of a rite of passage. Imagine my amazement and that of my husband when his picture showed up on the screen. Oh my!! Talk about a return trip. Even though these discs are all in black and white as the show was it is still as refreshing and exciting as it was then - and maybe even better than it would be in color. Everyone was young and life was exciting and the future looked so great - it is good to be reminded.

Hootenanny Captures Brief Camelot Moments.......2007-07-23

In the Spring of 1963, when ABC was the upstart ugly stepsister (read: FOX network) of broadcast TV, its programming heads would try anything to garner ratings away from venerable NBC and CBS, all to try to get their meager affiliate base off of UHF channels. Someone very groovy and cool decided it would be a good idea to try to introduce middle America to the powerful music and satiric humor of the growing civil rights and anti-war movements. The result was the remarkable but short-lived show called "Hootenanny." It survived almost two years.

I loved it, even at eleven, and even not catching all of the clever allusions and biting ironies of the lyrics and stand-up patter. And I can say to this day, Hootenanny helped me define the boundaries of my worldview, proving once and for all that music and comedy can save the world.

What was "Hootenanny"? The airing of live, spontaneous, in-the-round concerts from college campuses, featuring wily, winsome protest songs, acoustic virtuosos on banjo and guitar and on the harmonica (think: before the British invasion and before the dominance of amplified sound), reviving as well as reliving traditional American folk ballads and Negro spirituals drawn from underground railroad days, all the while demonstrating fearlessness in tweaking the establishment through topical humor.

What prompts this reverential reverie? The fact that somebody very groovy and cool at The Shout! Factory saw fit to resurrect the silvery kinescopes of this inimitable 60s show and sell them as a 3 DVD "greatest hits" set. This is pre-videotape, mind you, so the residue of their rescue efforts is grainy, rough cut (remember, this was live TV), and monophonic. But gloriously black and white and improbably moving.

Hosted by All-American, cardigan-sweatered, perpetually smiling Jack Linkletter, the son of then ubiquitously famous TV personality and host, Art Linkletter, Hootenanny featured his intrusively earnest voiceovers introducing the proverbial, now stereotyped, "singer-slash-sensitive-slash-songwriter" artists and duos and trios and quartets on campuses from coast to coast. Hootenanny focused ABC's minor key audience unabashedly on youth (as "collegiate") culture and conscience, an antidote to the "graying of America" prophesied by many dour social prophets in the post WWII era.

Indeed, Hootenanny arrived near the end of Camelot (the JFK years), an era of high optimism ("a man on the moon before the end of the decade!"); my aging junior high in Akron, OH even got into the act, albeit a little too late to be hip, even by Akron standards. Without Hootenanny, nobody could possibly grasp the magnificent mimicry of Christopher Guest's A Mighty Wind, nor should they try. Hootenanny was somewhat the tv equivalent of a one-hit wonder: imagine- a live concert every Saturday (or, after a ratings drop, Tuesday), holding up a savage mirror to docile, peace-time Americans to reveal their seething racism and militarism? Preposterous!

The cavalcade of quality, legendary performers-before-they-were-stars who appeared on Hootenanny is astonishing and includes the following: Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Carly Simon, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Jimmie Rodgers, Miriam Makeba, Barry McGuire (New Christy Minstrels lead singer), John Philips (late of the Mamas and the Papas), and Trini Lopez. What they sung is the soundtrack for most socially conscious grown-ups of the era: If I Had a Hammer, Marching to Pretoria, Kumbayah, Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, Turn, Turn, Turn, and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.

Here, on network TV, are Ian and Sylvia, the great Canadian duo, singing "Jesus met the woman at the well," free of cynicism, and The Chad Mitchell Trio mocking the radical right-wing "John Birch Society" in an eponymous song that cost ABC some sponsors no doubt. There is something wonderfully archaic yet oddly contemporary about these three discs that commend themselves to the wistful and melancholy among us babyboomer romantics who had their own, unique "summer of love" four years before Sgt. Pepper.

Besides the music, the first episodes capture the spectacle of what campus audiences in 1963 looked like: amazingly "clean-cut" boys and well-coiffed "coeds" fill the bleachers and the deck chairs around the stage, unashamed to "sing along" and "clap their hands" when instructed to do so. Most of them, maybe all of them, do.

But then, this is before the "day the music died" (when Jack Kennedy is shot in Dallas), and before the Birmingham church bombing that killed the four little girls. And it's certainly before the ordeal of Viet Nam grows to its alienating peak.

The Best of Hootenanny lets us look through the window panes of history to help us glimpse a time when entertainment could also be edifying, TV could nearly be epoch-making, and deeply-felt lyrics could be more than merely electrifying, even though it was all quite unplugged.

Originally appearing in The Pseudobook Review. This is reproduced here with permission.

Played out by '64? - no way.......2007-05-22

I can't agree with the above product detail: the only thing that hasn't transcended time in the production and content of these discs is that it appears that there are next to no minorities in the audience, though the mix of ethnic groups on stage, or in the spotlight, is inevitable. Even at that early stage in the Civil Rights era, *talent* often found a way.
"Hootenany" was to Folk Music what "Shindig" was to Rock & Roll/Rock and both shows lasted two years. Both were superbly energetic showcases of styles and featured well-known and upcoming stars.
Some viewers might be surprised by the appearance of the new, intellectual stand-up comedians who found a place in the proceedings: Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Louis Nye, a Steve Allen exponent, who nonetheless transcended the Tonight Show slickness with a very funny, though overlong, character bit; Jackie Vernon, the poker-faced precursor of Rodney D., had some good stuff, too. Nothing to knock you over, but enough to get an affirmative nod from Lenny Bruce. The best is Vaughn Meader, in his Classic JFK imitation and insightful (apparently) unrehearsed answers to questions from the audience.
The eclectic list is too long to recite, so let's say highlights are the segments with Marion Williams, Ian And Sylvia, The Rooftop Singers (sorry, no "Walk Right In"), Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash (at the early end of performance decline which would work itself out in a few years), the Simon Sisters, Doc Watson...
Although we are watching kinescopes, the original technical direction is actually much better than what we have today - the hyperactive cameras spend 95% of the time on the performers, unlike this 1963-64 program where the happy, appreciative, and studious attendees make it an *experience*.

Essential Time Capsule.......2007-05-17

Although the kinescopes are grainy and the sound suspect, the material itself is an essential link between the rock and roll explosion of the late 1950s and the British Invasion of 1964. Like Dylan's autobiographical book and DVD, these performances illuminate the short reign of Folk Music as Pop Music. And the Vaughn Meader comedic performance as JFK, well, as Lenny Bruce said, "Poor Vaughn Meader".

Indispensable for folk fans and nostalgia.......2007-04-05

This is one of those shows that should be on DVD because it has become a cultural relic of the Kennedy years when there was a folk music boon. Where else can you see a very young Vaughn Meader, Judy Collins, Woody Allen, and the Chad Mitchell trio in one show? It was innocent, squeaky clean, and brought back a lot of memories. This captures a unique moment when middle class america was discovering its own folk music tradition and relishing it. Not great entertainment but a wonderfully nostalgic peek back in time. Some will be bored by this; others will think that they ar ein heaven.

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Good Effort but not Best in Class

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Starring: Colin Firth , Irène Jacob , Christopher Lawford , Stephen Marcus , and Mike Binder
Director: Mike Binder
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
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ASIN: B0006A9INE
Release Date: 2004-12-07

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Good Effort but not Best in Class.......2006-04-23

... This movie is also known as Londinium (which by the way is the name of the book a character writes).

This was a pretty predictable movie. Not one that I would classify as a Romantic Comedy. Maybe better classified as a Drama gone wrong??

Colin Firth was delightful, as always. However, Mariel Hemingway was not.

Colin plays a TV producer of one of the hottest shows in Britain who is married to the shows star (Mariel Hemingway). A TV writer is acquired from America. He of course lusts after the Star. Much predictableness ensues as The Star and the Writer set out to put their respective partners in a situation where adultery can occur.

We end with the one couple committed to each other and the other going their separate ways.

I'd give this movie a "C". Good effort but not top of the class!

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Starring: Jack Nicholson , Georgianna Carter , Robert Bean , Carol Bigby , and John Bologni
Director: Harvey Berman , Leslie H. Martinson , and Richard Harbinger
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