Take the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, add a dash of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and a lot more rum. Shake well and you'll have something resembling Dead Man's Chest, a bombastic sequel that's enjoyable as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film opens with the interrupted wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), both of whom are arrested for aiding in the escape of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the first film. Their freedom can only be obtained by getting Captain Jack's compass, which is linked to a key that's linked to a chest belonging to Davy Jones, an undead pirate with a tentacle face and in possession of a lot of people's souls. If you're already confused, don't worry--plot is definitely not the... Learn More
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The definitive screen adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the 1961 production of The Innocents remains one of the most effective ghost stories ever filmed. Originally promoted as the first truly "adult" chiller of the big screen (a marginally valid claim considering the release of Psycho a year earlier), the film arrived at a time when the thematic depth of James's story could finally be addressed without the compromise of reductive discretion. And while the Freudian anxiety that fuels the story may seem tame by today's standards, the psychological horrors that comprise the story's "dark secret" are given full expression in a film that brilliantly clouds the boundary between tragic reality and frightful imagination.
Ray Bradbury adapted his own novel for Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jack Clayton's beautiful rendering of the turn-of-the-century fantasy of a mysterious carnival that literally blows into a small town to taunt and tempt the inhabitants. Jonathan Pryce (Brazil), the handsome but demonic proprietor of Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, preys upon the vanities, the delusions, and the regrets of the townspeople by granting their wishes at the expense of their souls. Jason Robards, as the meek librarian Charles Halloway, becomes his unlikely nemesis when his son Will, with his best friend Jim Nightshade (a deliciously dark name in its own right), discovers the secret of Dark's nightmarish carnival. When they become hunted by Dark's minions (including Pam Grier as the beautiful and... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Jack Clayton DVD Release Date: Released the 03 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, puts costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. It's certainly a handsome try, and perhaps no movie could capture The Great Gatsby in its entirety. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he lost. And Sam Waterston is perfect as the narrator, Nick, who brings the dream girl Daisy Buchanan back to Gatsby. No, the problem seems to be that director Jack Clayton fell in love with the flapper dresses and the party scenes and the Jazz Age tunes, ending up with a Classics Illustrated version of a great book rather than a fresh, organic take on the text. While Redford grows more quietly... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Robert Redford - Mia Farrow Director(s): Jack Clayton DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Simone Signoret won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of an unhappily married woman who, clutching at a last chance at happiness, falls head over heals in love with a fiery, social climbing schemer from the North Country. It really is an astounding performance - sensitive, sensual, and eloquent and also heartbreaking in its emotional ferocity.
Indeed, Room At The Top is a ferocious film, full of angry, dissolute people who are still shell-shocked, benumbed, and staggering from world War 11. Post war British society was in tatters, poverty was rife, and the upper classes were desperately trying to hang into life of pre-war privilege. Out of this bitter realization, emerged a generation of broken, angry young men who stepped out into a world that no longer had unlimited... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Simone Signoret - Laurence Harvey Director(s): Jack Clayton DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Ray Bradbury has created aparable that asks WHEN do desires become obsessions and HOW do dreamsbecome nightmares? The story is told from the viewpoint of two young boys, Will and Jim...blood brother "doubles"...whose guileless curiosity allows a "creepy" Halloween adventure to become an allegorical exploration on the nature of TEMPTATION. Jason Robards plays the common man struggling to be a good man and a good father. Jonathan Price plays Mr. Dark, the devil incarnate, who offers illusory gifts of beauty, wealth and fame to prospective "victims" willing to trade life and salvation for meretricious glamour. Mr. Dark's "bread & circuses" PANDEMONIUM (from John Milton's "Paradise Lost")CARNIVAL becomes a restless way-station of despair for souls who must... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Jack Clayton DVD Release Date: Released the 21 September 1999 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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