Ralph Richardson
41) Midas run
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John Pedley, a retired British Secret Service agent, recruits writer Mike Warden and devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo carrying a government shipment of $15,000,000 in gold.
42) O lucky man!
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Armed with ambition and a work ethic, coffee salesman hits the road and finds that desire alone can't bring wealth and status. Bonus features include commentary, new feature-length career profile, and vintage featurette.
43) Rollerball
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"Rollerball (1975) posits a dystopian future (2018!) in which war has been replaced by the titular game, a gladiatorial spectacle of violence that helps keep the global populace entertained and anesthetized. Director Norman Jewison and writer William Harrison further give us an athletic champion, Jonathan E (the great James Caan), whose individual expertise defeats the worldwide corporate leadership's design: to emphasize the futility of individual...
44) Q planes
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The mysterious disappearance of new fighter bombers on their test flights sends Major Hammond of Scotland Yard on the trail of spies, murderers and suspicious women.
45) Rollerball
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The year is 2018. There are no wars. There is no crime. There is only....the Game. In a world where ruthless corporations reign supreme, this vicious and barbaric "sport" is the only outlet for the pent-up anger and frustrations of the masses. Tuned to their televisions, the people watch "Rollerball": a brutal mutation of football, motocross, and hockey. Jonathan E. is the champion player a man too talented for his good. The Corporation has taken...
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Criterion collection volume 583
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With cannon fire igniting the North African skies, the British cavalry charges into battle to capture the strategic city of Khartoum. In the midst of the devastating carnage, a horrified officer resigns from his post. But he soon finds his shame is greater than his fear, and he returns to save his honor - and the friends he betrayed - at any cost.
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The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
49) Anna Karenina
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In Tolstoy's story of family passions in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks everything when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
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Alice in Wonderland: This early 1915 silent version of the Lewis Carroll story is considered the first version near to the novel. Creatures are costumed actors and the absence of dialogue creates a surreal, dreamlike quality.
Alice's adventures in Cartoonland: Two shorts from an animated film series directed and produced by Walt Disney himself. Includes drawings some historians think may have influenced the evolution of Mickey and other iconic cartoon...
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"With cannon fire igniting the North African skies, the British cavalry charges into battle to capture the strategic city of Khartoum. In the midst of the devastating carnage, a horrified officer resigns from his post. But he soon finds his shame is greater than his fear, and he returns to save his honor--and the friends he betrayed--at any cost"--Container.
55) Richard III
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Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...
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Tales from the crypt: When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimely, and unavoidable deaths.
Vault of horror: Five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground. Trapped...
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Criterion collection volume 583
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An adaptation of A.E.W. Masons classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empire's exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Korda's legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow officers.
60) Richard III
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Criterion collection volume 213
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Richard, Duke of Gloucester through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.