CHALLENGE OF THE GOBOTS: THE SERIES, VOLUME ONE (1985) They're mighty robots and mighty vehicles are back at last! Cy-Kill! Leader-1! Cop-Tur! Turbo! Crasher! Scooter! The noble Guardian GoBots and the nefarious Renegade GoBots continue the war begun in The Battle for GoBotron (see Challenge of the GoBots: The Original Mini-Series) across time and space in their epic 60 episode series that comes to you factory fresh and newly remastered - from the original film elements! With Earth as their chosen staging ground, the Renegades deploy Earth's worst such as the deranged Dr. Braxis (voiced by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Rene Auberjonois) in their quest to conquer Earth and GoBotron, so it's a good thing the Guardians have Matt, Nick and AJ of UNECOM on their side! This 30-Episode, Three-Disc set collects the first half of the series and finds the amazing, metamorphosing cyborgs taking their fight to Ancient Rome, lost Atlantis and back to GoBotron in a series of adventures that will leave you shouting for âMOARâ!
Sweet Sixties Sinsations
THE BIGGEST BUNDLE OF THEM ALL (1968) Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner and Edward G. Robinson top a too-cool cast in this late Sixties, swinging caper comedy. When a crew of amateur, criminal ex-pats nab a retired Mafia overlord (neorealist auteur and actor Vittorio De Sica) they think they've hit the jackpot. Sadly, the former don's credit is worse than theirs, so they join forces to pull off The Professor's (Robinson, naturally) dream heist of a great train robbery. But the leader of the criminals (Wagner) has an acute Achilles Heel - he's head over heels ga-ga about his real gone lady friend (Welch). Also stars Godfrey Cambridge. 16x9 Widescreen
MORE THAN A MIRACLE (1967) Omar Shariff is the Prince and Sophia Loren is the Peasant in this satiric, profane, earthy and sacred take on fairy tales that puts a bit of sin into Cinderella. Ill-tempered Prince Rodrigo is highly resistant to the idea of matrimony, contrary to the best efforts of his Queen Mother (A still-captivating Dolores del Rio). Fleeing her and her seven proposed princesses on horseback, Rodrigo, thanks to some magical intervention, encounters proud, stunning peasant girl, Isabella.
But the stars are crossed against the temperamental pair and it will take the combined magic of witches and monks, as well as some dishwashing skills deluxe, for Isabella to become the belle of the ball and the mistress of Rodrigo's heart. Produced by Carlo Ponti. 16x9 Widescreen
LADY L (1966) Peter Ustinov directs Sophia Loren in this light-hearted look at sex from the far side of life. The titular Lady L - Lady Louise Lendale (Loren) - is an elegant, elderly Corsican, celebrating her 80th birthday in high style at a castle in Yorkshire while recounting her romantic misadventures and conquests in her rise from laundress to Lady to Sir Percy (Cecil Parker), her biographer. Among the lads she loves are Armand (Paul Newman), a thief and an anarchist, and Lord Lendale (David Niven), a suave aristocrat. Carlo Ponti produces and Ustinov appears as the princely target of Armand's revolutionary ambitions. 16x9 Widescreen Welcome Back (In Print), Warner Bros.
THE SUNSHINE BOYS (1975) Classic screen adaptation of the Neil Simon favorite about a querulous pair of vaudevillians reuniting for a TV special. Herbert Ross directs the perfectly cast pair of Walter Matthau and George Burns, while Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, and Carol Arthur lend superb support.
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (1981) Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective) pens this surreal, satirical song and dance number about a daydreaming music sheet salesman (Steve Martin), peddling musical flights of fancy during the Great Depression. Jessica Harper plays the spouse who doesn't understand, Bernadette Peters plays the schoolteacher who offers succor.
ALICE ADAMS (1935) Booth Tarkinton's (Penrod and Sam) Pulitzer prize-winning novel gets its second cinema adaptation courtesy of director George Stevens with leads Katherine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray. Hepburn's performance as the desperate social climber Alice is a highlight in a storied career full of them.
SUMMER OF '42 (1971) Tender, post Pearl Harbor coming of age tale about the "terrible trio" of Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie (Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser and Oliver Conant) spending a New England summer together while the nation goes to war. Hermie's obsession, the seven years his senior, Dorothy (Jennifer O'Neill) takes surprising turn when her husband heads to war.
Directed by Robert Mulligan.
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