Sylvia Sidney

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Sabotage review by from Reading.

Great Hitchcock!!! 11 March 2005
...loved. A gripping script, fine performances, including one American film star: Sylvia Sidney who has a naturalistic acting style. The true star of the film is Alfred Hitch... Read customer review

The Trail Of Lonesome Pine review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England

A Real Find 27 September 2009
...justice and civil law is discussed in a wonderful scene between Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and a sherrif whom MacMurray wants to prosecute a crime, while in another scene... Read customer review

Beetlejuice - Blu-ray (1988)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin
Director: Tim Burton
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In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the '..read more »

74% from 2,241 members

Beetlejuice on DVD (1988)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin
Director: Tim Burton
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In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the '..read more »

70% from 21,305 members

Raid On Entebbe on DVD (1977)
Starring: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto
Director: Irvin Kershner
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Gripping story of the rescue by an Israeli task force of the crew and passengers of an airliner hijacked to Uganda's Entebbe Airport, where they were held hostage by Idi Amin.

60% from 294 members

Snowbeast on DVD (1977)
Starring: Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan
Director: Herb Wallerstein
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A Colorado ski resort is terrorised by an angry bigfoot, with several skiers being eaten. Everyone believes it to be a bear, but when it invades the town, it soon becomes clear that it is something far more ominous.

37% from 178 members

Death at Love House (1976)
Starring: Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
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Donna and Joel Gregory are busy researching a book about highly-revered and long-dead Hollywood film goddess Lorna Love. They decide to visit Lorna's estate, where they stay while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Things get sticky when Joel, whose father had had a passionate affair with Lorna, ..read more »

16% from 5 members
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Starring: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney
Director: Gilbert Cates
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American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an outwardly-happy but inwardly-empty and tedious existence in the post-war U.S. He is an eye doctor, successful in his work, but unfulfilled spiritually and emotionally. He and his wife Rita ..read more »

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Blood On The Sun on DVD (1945)
Starring: James Cagney, Wallace Ford, Robert Armstrong
Director: Frank Lloyd
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BLOOD ON THE SUN stars James Cagney as Nick Condon, an American newspaper editor working in Japan between World War I and World War II. While investigating the double murder of a fellow reporter and his wife, Condon discovers the insidious Tanaka Plan, which plainly states the Japanese aims of ..read more »

53% from 180 members

Dead End on DVD (1937)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
Director: William Wyler
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The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.

60% from 240 members

You Only Live Once (1937)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane
Director: Fritz Lang
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Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney play ill-fated lovers in Fritz Lang's fatalistic psychological thriller, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE. The film opens as Joan (Sidney), a secretary in the public defender's office, excitedly awaits the release of her thrice-convicted criminal lover Eddie (Fonda). The two try to ..read more »

64% from 387 members
Not currently released

Sabotage (1936)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Desmond Tester, John Loder
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife Sylvia Sidney doesn't suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she's picked up enough second-hand information about her husband's activities to arouse the interest of government agent (..read more »

62% from 634 members
Not available for rental

The Trail Of Lonesome Pine on DVD (1936)
Starring: Spanky McFarland, Henry Fonda, Fuzzy Knight
Director: Henry Hathaway
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This adaptation of John Fox Jr.'s novel was the first feature to be shot outdoors in Technicolor. It tells the tale of a railroad engineer who inadvertently fans the flames of an ancient family feud when he arrives to build a line through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Academy Award Nominations: Best ..read more »

54% from 20 members

Fury (1936)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, George Walcott
Director: Fritz Lang
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When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.

82% from 7 members
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Alfred Hitchcock - The British Years
Starring: Miles Mander, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Celebrated for his suspense-packed thrillers, macabre plots and endings with a twist, Alfred Hitchcock, born in London's East End in 1899, is one of cinema's greatest auteurs. He directed over 60 films throughout his career and this unique box set contains ten of his most significant pre-war ..read more »

70% from 16 members
Not available for rental

Beetlejuice - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Beetlejuice - 3.5 stars
Raid On Entebbe - 3.0 stars
Snowbeast - 2.0 stars
Death at Love House - 1.0 stars

Beetlejuice - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Beetlejuice - 3.5 stars
You Only Live Once - 3.0 stars
Sabotage - 3.0 stars
Raid On Entebbe - 3.0 stars

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Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Frank Lloyd - 2 times - show films
Fritz Lang - 2 times - show films
Herb Wallerstein - 2 times - show films