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Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis
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David & Fatima
(2008)
Starring: Cameron Van Hoy, Danielle Pollack, Martin Landau
Director: Alain Zaloum
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Jerusalem: A city of contrasts and conflicts, where Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims all mix but seldom mingle. This is where David, a young Israeli Jew, and Fatima, a beautiful Palestinian Muslim girl, meet and fall in love. But in a volatile land that is steeped in tradition and soaked in ..read more »
 
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The Celluloid Closet
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis
Director: Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
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Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly -- and more importantly, implicitly -- with gay and lesbian themes.
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Insignificance
(1985)
Starring: Will Sampson, Gary Busey, Tony Curtis
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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Nicholas Roeg's widely acclaimed drama set in the '50s and featuring fictional likenesses of four of the decade's most recognisable icons. The film is largely a theoretical conversation between Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio, though no names are ever mentioned. A ..read more »
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Rich And Powerful
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Carol Lynley, Chuck Connors, Tony Curtis
Director: James Polakof
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Big business, double dealing and serial infidelity are the order of the day in this tale of everyday corruption in an ultra-rich Californian beach community. Ernie Stoddard (Tony Curtis) is a millionaire real estate developer presently engaged in setting up a crooked plan to build a new casino. Sam ..read more »
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The Mirror Crack'd
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis
Director: Guy Hamilton
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Excitement runs high when the feuding film stars Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) arrive in the sleepy English village of St Mary Mead, ready to begin work on a movie about Elizabeth I and Lady Jane Grey. But the experience quickly turns sour when an innocent bystander ..read more »
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The Manitou
(1978)
Starring: Jon Cedar, Burgess Meredith, Tony Curtis
Director: William Girdler
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Horror starring Tony Curtis and Burgess Meredith. Karen (Susan Strasberg) seeks medical attention when she discovers a tumour growing on her back. When the doctors begin to suspect that there is a living creature inside the tumour, and when Karen kills herself after being plagued by strange voices ..read more »
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
(1978)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Hayley
Director: John Berry
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In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
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Sextette
(1978)
Starring: Dom DeLuise, Alice Cooper, Mae West
Director: Ken Hughes
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Marlo Manners (Mae West), a legendary movie star arrives at a hotel on her honeymoon with her sixth husband. Both are desperate to consummate the marriage but events make this very difficult - ex-husbands, TV and newspaper reporters, a gymnastics team, secret agents and a group of diplomats all get ..read more »
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Theresa Russell, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and ..read more »
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The Count of Monte Cristo
(1975)
Starring: Christopher Guard, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan
Director: David Greene
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In this made for television adaptation, Richard Chamberlain plays Edmond Dantes, an innocent man who is falsely accused of helping the exiled Napoleon, and imprisoned on an island. After 15 harsh years, he makes his escape and proceeds to take revenge on the people who framed him. With Trevor ..read more »
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The Persuaders
(9 discs)
(1971)
Starring: Laurence Naismith, Tony Curtis, Roger Moore
Director: Gerald Mayer, Sidney Hayers, Pet
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Although it only aired for one season (1971-1972), television series The Persuaders! holds a permanent place in the pantheon of cult classics. In addition to its distinguished TV pedigree--producer Robert S. Baker (The Saint), screenwriters Terry Nation (Doctor Who) and Brian Clemens (The Avengers)-..read more »
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The American West Of John Ford
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Tony Curtis, James Stewart, John Wayne
Director: John Ford
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Tony Curtis presents this homage to John Ford, 'the guy who made westerns', originally made in 1971 and hosted by John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Ford reminisces about his friendship with Wyatt Earp, and clips from films such as 'Stagecoach', 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance', 'Fort ..read more »
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The Boston Strangler
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Sally Kellerman, Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis
Director: Richard Fleischer
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The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true story of self-confessed mass murderer Albert DeSalvo. Adapted by Edward Anhalt from the book by Gerold Frank, the film covers the years 1962 to 1964, during which time a dozen ..read more »
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Rosemary's Baby
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, John Cassavetes, Tony Curtis
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
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Cult TV Legends
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Roger Moore, Tony Curtis
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Four episodes from cult TV shows from the late 60's and early 70's. Episodes Include: Danger Man - Koroshi (Season Four, 1969) Patrick McGoohan is John Drake, special security agent. One of only two episodes made in colour, the plot follows Drake infiltrating a mysterious cult.
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Boeing Boeing
(1965)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis
Director: John Rich
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Handsome bachelor Bernard Lawrence is juggling three sexy stewardesses. He accomplishes this by wining and dining them according to their airline schedules, which also keeps them from finding out about one another. But unfortunately, two things are threatening to end Bernard's merry-go-round of ..read more »
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The Great Race
(1965)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis
Director: Blake Edwards
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Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as archrivals The Great Leslie and Professor Fate in this madcap, round-the-world adventure comedy. The enemies are determined to win a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris. Also competing is the beautiful suffragette Maggie Dubois (Natalie Wood).
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The List of Adrian Messenger
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter
Director: John Huston
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Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the list, the deaths become more recent ..read more »
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Captain Newman, MD
(1963)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson
Director: David Miller
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Dr. Josiah Newman (Gregory Peck) runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) to work in his ward. Leibowitz's scheming & humor quickly turns life inside the ward upside down. Newman, ..read more »
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Taras Bulba
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Brad Dexter, Sam Wanamaker, Guy Rolfe
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school. At this ..read more »
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The Outsider
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott
Director: Delbert Mann
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A hero to everybody but himself Tony Curtis stars as a hero of Iwo Jima struggling with the pain of survival.
A shy 17-year-old Pima Indian, Ira Hamilton Hayes, shocks his parents when he enlists in the army during World War II.
While most of his white companions ignore him, Ira strikes up a ..read more »
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Who Was That Lady?
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Simon Oakland
Director: George Sidney
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Classic comedy starring real-life husband and wife, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as David and Ann Wilson. David is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to his old friend, a television writer, Michael Haney (Dean ..read more »
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Spartacus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the ..read more »
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Spartacus - Blu-ray
(1960)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's star-studded, historical epic concerns the efforts of the slave-gladiator Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) to lead the slaves of the Roman Empire in a rebellion against their masters. The ranks quickly swell as the slave army makes its way across Italy towards the coast. But the despotic ..read more »
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Some Like It Hot - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Mike Mazurki, Billy Gray
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder directs this critically acclaimed classic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. In February 1929, unemployed musicians Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) go on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by gangsters led by the ruthless Spats ..read more »
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Operation Petticoat
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis
Director: Blake Edwards
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Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) is skipper of the U.S.S. Sea Tiger, a submarine forced out to sea by an enemy air attack. He is less than impressed by his newly-arrived junior officer, Lieutenant Nick Holden (Tony Curtis), who nevertheless manages to scavenge the spare parts and supplies needed to keep ..read more »
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Some Like It Hot
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Mike Mazurki, Billy Gray
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's classic Oscar nominated comedy. In February 1929, unemployed musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) go on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by gangsters, the duo are forced to disguise themselves as women and join Sweet Sue's all-girl band ..read more »
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The Vikings
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would ..read more »
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The Perfect Furlough
(1958)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
Director: Blake Edwards
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To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men: three weeks in Paris with their favorite pin-up queen, Sandra Roca. Since "winner" Paul Hodges is a tireless Don ..read more »
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Kings Go Forth
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Karl Swenson, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana
Director: Delmer Daves
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A war drama starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. In World War II France, Corporal Britt Harris (Curtis) is assigned to work alongside the war-weary Sgt. Loggins (Sinatra). They both share a passion for the beautiful Monique Blair (Woods), but when they find out that she is racially ..read more »
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The Defiant Ones
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: King Donovan, Lawrence Dobkin, Tony Curtis
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
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Sweet Smell of Success
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Martin Milner, Burt Lancaster, Sam Levene
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is a New York press agent caught up in a complex relationship with the powerful newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster). Falco needs to get his showbiz clients placed in the newspapers, and hangs around Hunsecker hoping to garner a mention in his column. ..read more »
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Trapeze
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Thomas Gomez, Sid James, Tony Curtis
Director: Carol Reed
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air somersault. Tony Curtis co-stars as an aspiring aerialist who coerces Lancaster into teaching ..read more »
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Black Shield Of Falworth - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: David Farrar, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis
Director: Rudolph Mate
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Set in medieval period England, BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH is the story of Myles Falworth, (Curtis) a peasant raised without ever knowing who his real father was. He goes to Mackworth castle to become a knight and regain his birthright. There he falls hopelessly in love with the Mackworth's daughter ..read more »
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Black Shield Of Falworth
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Janet Leigh, Barbara Rush, Tony Curtis
Director: Rudolph Mate
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Medieval epic full of swashbuckling heroics and romance. Tony Curtis plays a dashing young knight trying to defend the British throne and win the heart of a fair maiden. Myles (Curtis) is a headstrong young peasant who sets out to find out the identity of his father. He travels to the majestic ..read more »
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Houdini
(1953)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Torin Thatcher, Stefan Schnabel
Director: George Marshall
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Tony Curtis stars as the great Houdini, the struggling circus performer who emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist. From his beginnings as a 'wild man' carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, 'Houdini' ..read more »
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Flesh And Fury
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jan Sterling, Tony Curtis, Wallace Ford
Director: Joseph Pevney
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Tony Curtis stars as a deaf boxer fought over by two women in this drama directed by Joseph Pevney. As his career gathers speed, deaf fighter Paul Callan (Curtis) comes to the attention of gold-digging Sonya Bartow (Jan Sterling), who foresees a wealthy future. But when society reporter Ann Hollis (..read more »
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Meet Danny Wilson
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Alex Nicol, Shelley Winters
Director: Joseph Pevney
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Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted, but quick tempered, up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils, "Easy Street" isn't so easy for Danny to find. One night, by ..read more »
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Winchester 73
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Charles Drake, James Stewart, Will Geer
Director: Anthony Mann
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Dodge City, 1873. Cowboy Lin McAdam (James Stewart) wins a Winchester rifle in a shooting competition, only for it to be stolen by his opponent, his arch-enemy Dutch Henry Mann (Stephen McNally). McAdam sets off in pursuit of his adversary, determined to settle a feud that dates back many years.
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Hardball
on DVD
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Tony Curtis, Lisa Howard
Director: George Erschbamer
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Sequel to 'Bounty Hunters', reuniting Michael Dudikoff and Lisa Howard. Incompatible fugitive recovery agents, the flighty Jersey Bellini (Dudikoff) and his more serious-minded female partner, B.B. (Howard), have, for the last time, ticked off mobster Wald (Tony Curtis) by apprehending his rather ..read more »
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Sparky's Magic Piano
Starring: Mel Blanc, Vincent Price, Josh Rodine
Director: Lee Mishkin
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Sparky is an eight-year-old boy who hates to practice the piano. One day, the piano speaks to Sparky and tells him that if he pretends to play, then it will provide the music. Sparky is hailed as a child prodigy and he and his piano go on a large concert tour. However, the youngster becomes spoiled ..read more »
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Roger Moore - A Matter Of Class
on DVD
Starring: Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Tony Curtis
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Documentary profile of actor Roger Moore. The film chronicles Moore's life and work from his working-class South London background to his Hollywood stardom and beyond, and features contributions from colleagues and friends including Gregory Peck, Michael Caine and Tony Curtis as well as from Moore ..read more »
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