- To
See These Movies
- THE INVISIBLE
MAN
- 1933/B&W/71 MIN.
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- H.G.
Wells'
classic is brought to life in this gripping movie
milestone that
- features
revolutionary special effects and the first screen
performance
- by Claude
Rains
as a scientist whose experiments with invisibility drive
- him mad. Starring
Gloria Stuart,James Cameron's "Titanic" star.
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- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
- 1943/COLOR/93
MIN.
-
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- Directed by Arthur Lubin.Claude Rains and Nelson Eddy star in this spectacular retelling
of the immortal horror tale. A hideously disfigured
composer in the Paris Opera House seeks murderous revenge through the
catacombs of Paris
- in this lavish color remake.
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- THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
- 1952/COLOR/85
MIN.
-
- H.G. Wells' chilling novel of
a Martian
invasion of Earth becomes even more frightening in
this 1952 film adaptation,
one of the greatest sci-fi movies of
- all time. An Oscar winner for Best Special Effects, The War of the
Worlds delivers eye-popping thrills, laser-hot action and
unrelenting,
- edge-of-your-seat
suspense.
- No one who has
seen the film's depiction of the swan-shaped Martian
machines ticking and hissing menacingly as they cut their
path of destruction - will
- ever forget
their ominous impact!
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- THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
- 1957/B&W/81
MIN.
-
Grant Williams and April Kent in one of
the best science fiction films of the 1950's.The potential
horrors of everyday life are shown when an ordinary businessman
finds himself shrinking to minuscule size.
- SEND ME NO FLOWERS
- 1964/COLOR/100
MIN.
-
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- Doris Day and Rock Hudson are a happily married couple in
this stylish
- domestic farce. The Norman Jewison-directed comedy casts Hudson as
- an incurable hypochondriac who
believes he has only a few weeks
- to live and he tries to find a
new husband for his wife.
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- GREASE
- 1978/COLOR/110
MIN.
-
- John Travolta solidified his
position as the most versatile and magnetic screen
presence of the decade in this film version of the smash
hit play Grease. Recording star Olivia Newton-John made her American
film debut as Sandy, Travolta's naive love interest. The
impressive supporting cast reads like
- a "who's
who" in this quintessential Fifties musical. Grease is not just
- a nostalgic
look at a simpler decade-it's an energetic and exciting
- musical homage
to the age of rock'n'roll!
-
- AIRPLANE!
- 1980/COLOR/88 MIN.
-
- The persons and events in this
film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece
- of off-the-wall comedy,
Airlpane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter
- pilot forced to take over the
controls of an airliner when the flight
- crew succumbs to food
poisoning: Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/
- stewardess/ co-pilot; and a
cast of all-stars including Robert Stack,
- Lloyd Bridges,
Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
- and more. Their hilarious high
jinks spoof airplane disaster flicks,
- religious zealots, television
commercials, romantic love...the list
- whirls by in rapid succession.
And the story races from one
- moment of zany fun to the
next.
-
- AIRPLANE II THE SEQUEL
- 1982/COLOR/84 MIN.
-
-
- There's a mad bomber on board,
the first lunar shuttle is about to
- self-destruct, the engines are
not working, and -worst of all- the
- flight crew discovers they are
completely out of coffee! It's the
- high flying lunacy of
Airplane!
- All over again as Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty fly totally out of
- the ozone to recreate their
hilarious original roles. The crew of
- crazies includes Peter Graves, Lloyd
Bridges, William Shatner,
- Chad Everett,
Sonny Bono, Raymond Burr
and many others.
- Can Hays save the day again -
without caffeine?
- Fasten your seatbelts for a
ride you'll never
- forget - "Airplane II:
The Sequel."
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- BREWSTER'S
MILLIONS
- 1985/COLOR/101
MIN.
-
-
- Could you spend $30 million
dollars in 30 days and have nothing to show for it?
That's exactly what Richard Pryor and John Candy have to accomplish
- to inherit $300 million in
this hilarious comedy.
- BACK TO THE FUTURE
- 1985/COLOR/116
MIN.
-
-
- Steven
Spielberg presents an
irresistible comic fantasy that accelerates
- beyond the time barrier. Michael J. Fox is a typical 1980's teenager
accidentally sent back to 1955 in a "time
machine".
- During his trip back in time,
he makes certain his teenage parents
- to-be fall in love so he can
get back to the future.
-
- THE MONEY PIT
- 1986/COLOR/91
MIN.
-
- Steven
Spielberg presents this
gag-filled comedy directed by Richard Benjamin which literally brings the house
down on Tom
Hanks and Shelley Long,
- a couple who find the home of
their dreams is actually a house of
- money- eating horrors.
- RAINMAN
- 1988/COLOR/127
MIN.
-
- Winner of 4
Academy Awards -- Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actor
- and
Best Original Screenplay -- Barry Levinson's Rain Man
is a
- modern
cinematic classic.
- Boasting
"dazzling tour-de-force performances by Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman" (Rex
Reed, At The Movies), this heartwarming story of the
power
- of
love is "fascinating, touching and full of smart
surprises"
- (Newsweek).
-
- SCROOGED
- 1988/COLOR/101
MIN.
-
- High-spirited
high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time
warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Cross, who has made
the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom
- to TV network
president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has
- a sadistic
sense of humor - perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge.
- Before the
night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York
cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into
pratfalls and, finally,
- a ghoulish,
seven-foot headless messenger from the future.
-
- THE NAKED GUN
- 1988/COLOR/85
MIN.
-
- Those
screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars
- as Police
Squad's own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin,
who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate
Queen Elizabeth.
- Priscilla
Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed beaver, two baseball
teams
- and an odd
assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow
- the
laugh-o-meter to smithereens.
- BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II
- 1989/COLOR/108
MIN.
-
-
- Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reprise their roles as Marty McFly
- and Doc Brown in this dazzling
new adventure from executive producer
- Steven Spielberg and director Robert Zemeckis.
-
- INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
- 1989/COLOR/126 MIN.
-
- If you think keeping up with
one Jones is exciting, try keeping up with two
- of them! Harrison Ford dons his rumpled fedora for the
third time as
- Indiana Jones, and Sean Connery joins the thrill-a-minute fun as
Indy's
- feisty dad. Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and
George Lucas make sure
- this father-son duo never lack
for adventure. The Joneses set out
- to find the
mystically-empowered Holy Grail and encounter so
- many spectacular pursuits and
narrow escapes that
- Indiana Jones And The Last
Crusade is more than
- the culmination of Indy's
exploits.
- It's "the greatest
adventure in film history"
- (Jack Garner, Gannett News
Service).
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