All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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It helps to have one of history's greatest scoops as your factual inspiration, but journalism thrillers just don't get any better than All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are perfectly matched as (respectively) Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation into the Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon's eventual resignation. Their bestselling exposé was brilliantly adapted by screenwriter William Goldman, and director Alan Pakula crafted the film into one of the most intelligent and involving of the 1970s paranoid thrillers. Featuring Jason Robards in his Oscar-winning role as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, All the President's Men is the film against which all other journalism movies must be measured. --Jeff Shannon

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In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drive a U.S. President from office. Washington reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the story and stayed with it through doubts, denials and discouragement. All the President's Men is their story. Directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on the Woodward/Bernstein book, the film won four 1976 Academy Awards (Best Supporting Actor/Jason Robards, Adaptation Screenplay/William Goldman, Art Direction and Sound). It also explores a working newspaper, where the mission is to get the story and get it right.

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Audio Commentary:by Robert Redford
Theatrical Trailer
Documentaries:Telling Truth About Lies: The Making of All the Presidents Men Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men
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Featurette:5/27/1976 Dinah! with Jason Robards
Interviews:Out of the Shadows, the Man Who Was Deep Throat

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All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition).......2007-08-15

Excellent movie. Bought it as a gift for a film aficionado who loved it.

Gripping.......2007-07-13

Subtle and definitely most intriguing. Hoffman does it so well with his unyielding enthusiasm to find the truth but without a clue what the consequences will be. Redford is almost as focused in his role despite facing Hoffman's theories with skepticsim. This still begs the question, "Is the government that powerful and fearsome?"

All the President's Men.......2007-07-03

Though you never glimpse anyone playing Nixon, this Oscar-nominated film documents how the power of the press and determination of two young journalists brought down this president, who two years prior had won re-election by the widest margin in history. Faithfully adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book authored by these reporters, the movie is more exciting than fiction, and the starring triumvirate of Redford, Hoffman, and Robards merge seamlessly with their real-life counterparts.

Dogged persistence can move mountains.......2007-06-03

Two junior reporters at the Washington Post are assigned to cover what seems an innocuous story - a break in at the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington. Their credentials are not great: Robert Woodward has only been on the paper nine months, Carl Bernstein is on the verge of being fired for his sloppiness in completing stories in time for deadlines. Woodward (Redford) goes to cover the arraingment of the burglars and becomes suspicious when he discovers they seemed to obtain their own defence counsel without a phone call. And there is something odd about the way the men state their names to the judge. Woodward hunches down, brows knitted, notebook in hand and listens - 'Bernard Barker, anticommunist...' All the men turn out to have CIA ties. The Post's editors, Harry Rosenfeld and Howard Simon assign the dogged Woodward to pursue the story, teaming him up with Bernstein (Hoffman) who is a more intiutive reporter - a left field, lateral thinker with a charming gappy grin.

Together, through dogged persistence, they follow the story in the months up to the re-election of Nixon in a landslide in 1972. At that point their stories have created a big ripple in the political world - the ultimate outcome, of course, would be colossal.

All the Presidents Men is a great (perhaps the greatest) journalism movie. Back in the early 70s, there were no computers, emails, cellphones. Just manual typewriters, finger dial landlines, smoking in offices and checked shirts. Woodward and Bernstein search through reams of library records, check and double check names and sources. Woodward resorts to having his leads confirmed or denied by the mysterious 'deep throat' - a noir type figure, high up in the CIA, who lurkes in deserted garages at night. Eventually, they publish their stories, which are of course vigorously rebutted by White House officials. The stakes are huge - the reputation of the Washington Post, the lives of Woodward and Bernstein, the freedom of the press. Get it wrong, and the results are catastrophic. But get it right - pursue the story doggedly, expose the truth...

The effects are siesmic. The story of Woodward and Bernstein inspired legions of young journalists - watch this movie and find out why.

Classic film from a classic era.......2007-05-27

Suspense filled scenes of drama. Unrelenting acts of confrontational dialogue. Contrasting images of a nation torn apart by scandal. These are all but a few of the elements brought upon an audience with the fortunate ability to witness this well paced political thriller adapted by screenwriter William Goldman from the now infamous expose of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. `All the Presidents Men', originally released in 1976, seems more like a `call to arms' for Americans disgruntled with the modern day political machine then it does with telling the ordinary story of two newspaper reporters supposedly on the edge of one of the greatest cover-ups our nation has ever seen.

Classic film actor Robert Redford stars as the pensive yet energetic Woodard, a man torn between getting a great story and fulfilling his moral obligation to the greater good of society. Bernstein, played diligently by a young looking Dustin Hoffman, drives the film at a steady pace deserving of an Oscar, only looking back to really contemplate his own indiscretions at the cost of bringing down the U.S. Presidency. As we now know through history's pages, the outcome of such endeavors accomplished by these tenacious Washington Post reporters would have drastic consequences on President Nixon and his untimely address to the American people to present his resignation from public office.

In the end `All the Presidents Men' could easily be one of the most rewarding instances of a mainstream news media outlet holding government officials accountable for the criminal actions of their leader. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the timing of such exposure for a nation ill-ridden with the dilemma of Vietnam and a seemingly problematic Foreign Policy, using our constitutional right of free speech in the press to unravel governmental conspiracies should always remain precedent. Woodward and Bernstein worked hard to find the truth, and I have to say...I agreed with every minute of it.

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Realistic Western about an Aging Cowboy's Last Chance at Love & Family
Will Penny
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WILL - (SHANE) - PENNY MEETS PALE RIDER
"That's enough Shorthorn"

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Starring: Charlton Heston , Joan Hackett , Donald Pleasence , Lee Majors , and Bruce Dern
Director: Tom Gries
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Realistic Western about an Aging Cowboy's Last Chance at Love & Family.......2007-09-13

Year of Release: 1968
Writer/Director: Tom Gries
Country: USA
Runtime: 1 Hour 50 minutes
Locations: Bishop & Inyo County, California

THE PLOT: Charleton Heston plays loner Will Penny, an aging cowboy who takes a winter job riding line on a vast ranch. He runs afoul of a family of psychotic rawhiders who leave him to die in the wilderness. Half-dead, he stumbles back to the line rider's cabin where he is nursed to health by a woman (Joan Hackett) and her boy who are wintering there en route to Oregon to meet her homesteading husband. Penny discovers love and a sense of family for the first time in his nigh fifty years of life.

"Will Penny" gives the viewer a good peek at what it must have really been like to be a cowboy out West in the late 1800s. Needless to say, the lifestyle is anything but glamorous.

Most everything works great here: locations, cast, story, writing, etc. with three exceptions: The score is boring & dated. In the 60s there were numerous great Western scores that stood the test of time ("Duel at Diablo," "Bandolero!," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "MacKenna's Gold" and "The Magnificent Seven," to name a few), but the score to "Penny" is a badly-aged dud. (Then again, it DOES fit the film's main theme).

Also, the villains are somewhat contrived. Donald Pleasence is impressive as the over-the-top psycho patriarch of the rawhiding family and Bruce Dern is always reliable as a villain, but -- I don't know -- this whole side plot just seems tacked on to supply action and menace to a story that might have been better without it.

The heart of the story is Penny's first-time discovery of love and a sense of family. It's implied in the story that he was an orphan as a child and simply fell into the loner cowboy lifestyle to survive. He has never known true love or had a real sense of family. Before meeting Joan Hackett's character, Catherine, his experiences with women were limited to shallow hook-ups with prostitutes.

Penny discovers he has a knack for fatherhood and likes it. The boy clearly looks up to him and loves him.

It's almost as if God sees Penny's true noble character through all the grime and gruff cowboy exterior and throws him a pot of gold in the form of the love of Catherine and her boy. Will he take advantage of this opportunity of happiness and fulfillment, despite the risks? Will he even recognize it as an opportunity?

[SPOILER ALERT!! THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH REVEALS THE ENDING!!]

Unfortunately, even though he's a good man (generally speaking), Penny has no faith in love or life in general, no doubt because of his past experiences. Catherine gently points out that love will find a way, but Will insists that love cannot survive the cold harsh realities of life and aging, in particular in the uncaring Western wilderness. Thus Penny walks away from what is likely his last chance at love, fatherhood and family. Although this ending is realistic (not all experiences in life end on a happy note), it's frankly a bit sad. According to the film love does NOT conquer all and the viewer is left feeling a tad deflated. It goes without saying that this is NOT a life & faith affirming film. One's last impression of Penny is that he's a pathetic loser who lacks the brains and oomph to throw caution to the wind and take advantage of a great opportunity for happiness.

[END SPOILER]

FINAL ANALYSIS: I detract 1 Star for the pizzazz-less score, the forced villain subplot and the ending. Otherwise this is a stellar picture. Highly recommended if it sounds like your cup of java.

Will Penny.......2007-07-02

Tom Gries's fabulous Western transcends various shoot-outs and intrigues to serve as both a touching love story and tale of self-discovery. Sensitive, perceptive script (by Gries) is brought to life by winning lead performances from Heston and Hackett, not to mention an inspired turn by Donald Pleasance as a Bible-thumping psychopath (with two equally demented sons, one played by Bruce Dern). Ben Johnson adds authentic flavoring as Will's no-nonsense boss. "Penny" rates as mandatory viewing for Western fans.

Adequate oater.......2007-06-08

What can one say about the west, a cowboy facing obstacles, a lady looking for just such a man and bloody action bringing the two together? Typical oater fare, but nonetheless a pleasant way to put aside for a brief time real life obstacles and bloody action. The conclusion was unexpected, which raised this movie from a 1 up to a 3.

WILL - (SHANE) - PENNY MEETS PALE RIDER .......2007-04-24

Director Tom Gries is mostly known for the two movies, Breakout and Breakheart Pass, he directed in 1975 for Charles Bronson at the peak of his career then. But this director, unlike the great majority of his contemporary colleagues of the end of the sixties, had the one in a lifetime opportunity to direct a script he had himself written and this movie was WILL PENNY, shot during the 1967-1968 winter.

If, during the projection of the film, the viewer inevitably thinks about George Stevens's Shane, WILL PENNY nevertheless lives its own life and offers scenes that linger in the head, at least mine, for quite a while. First of all, I must say that the scenes between Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett are so bashful and true that I had to make an effort to remember that I was watching a western, the male cinematographic genre in essence. Secondly, I was captivated by the performance of Donald Pleasence who, as Preacher Quint, fills the screen with his magnetism as soon as he appears. Look at him when he curses Will Penny after the death of his son Romulus or when he starts to dance alone in Penny's cabin, madness is literally pouring out of him. These are great moments of Cinema.

A DVD zone baby, it's cold outside.

"That's enough Shorthorn".......2006-12-21

Charlton Heston always seemed to bring a presence to a movie that made it dramatic and "Will Penny" is no exception. He is supported by many fine actors, many who gained fame in later years, actors like Lee Majors, Anthony Zerbe, Bruce Dern, etc. A man with no family who has lived a rugged life but in spite of it all still has a kind heart. The show begins on the last day of a cattle drive. After they're all paid they go their separate ways but Will gives up a chance to keep working so one of the other hands (Big Foot) can go to Kansas City to see his ailing Dad. Will ends up being a line rider for another outfit. He has lots of territory to cover and isn't expected to return till Spring. He finds that someone is occupying the line rider's shack (Joan Hackett and her young son). They were abandoned by their guide on the way to Oregon. He remembers her and she him from a bar/restaurant they were both in previously. He tells her she has to be gone when he gets back, he needs to inspect the layout of the land. He comes back a dying man, she nurses him back to health and a beautiful love story begins. I've left out a lot of major and minor details but the story is engrossing. What seems like a happy ending becomes more bittersweet but your imagination is left to ponder what may or may not happen in the future.

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All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Gripping
All the President's Men
Dogged persistence can move mountains
Classic film from a classic era

All the President's Men
Starring: Dustin Hoffman , Robert Redford , Jack Warden , Martin Balsam , and Hal Holbrook
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition).......2007-08-15

Excellent movie. Bought it as a gift for a film aficionado who loved it.

Gripping.......2007-07-13

All the President's Men.......2007-07-03

Dogged persistence can move mountains.......2007-06-03

Classic film from a classic era.......2007-05-27

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Silly, unsatisfying serial spoof
Heart's in the Right Place, But...
A great B-Grade Sci Fi flick!

Monarch of the Moon/Destination Mars
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Release Date: 2006-12-26

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MONARCH OF THE MOON This is the battle to end all battles-- pulse-pounding World War II ACTION and INTERGALACTIC INTRIGUE! Defending freedom and democracy is the incredible Yellow Jacket, Army fighter pilot turned winged SUPERHERO, now leading America's charge against Evil! He must battle the deliciously deadly DRAGON FLY and her JAPBOTS, outsmart an infamous Nazi SCIENTIST and destroy the demonic DOOMSDAY RAY! Then Yellow Jacket and his team make a STARTLING DISCOVERY and must launch themselves into SPACE where they confront the power-mad MONARCH OF THE MOON! From Dark Horse Entertainment (The Mask, Hellboy), this outrageous, special effects-loaded spoof of '40s and '50s serial films will keep you laughing through every eye-popping minute!

DESTINATION MARS

Sexy Martian women control the fate of Earth, sending a robot army marching through suburbia! With the human race soon facing imminent extinction, a Doomsday inventor builds a devastating new weapon of mass destruction, a bungling police officer gets sucked into a spaceship and a young couple is rudely interrupted on an intimate picnic. Laser guns are blazing in the thrilling final showdown between Earth and the mysterious Red Planet! From Dark Horse Entertainment (The Mask, Hellboy), Destination Mars! perfectly captures the B-movie flavor and fun of such 1950s sci-fi classics as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Forbidden Planet. Whether you're a sci-fi fan or if you just love to laugh, you've got to see Destination Mars!

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Silly, unsatisfying serial spoof.......2007-05-19

We watched the first episode of this last night; it's a new 6-episode serial that is s'posed to be an homage to 1940s serials.

It turns out that it's actually a Naked Gun-type spoof of serials (at least, it is based on the first episode) that has some impressive things in it, but which to me if it were an actual WWII serial would be one of the worst.

Blane Wheatley is the chain-smoking hero the Yellow Jacket, who can fly and control actual yellow jackets. Monica Himmelheber is his chain-smoking secretary/girlfriend, and she's the best thing in the episode (there's a running gag involving her being bonked on the noggin that is the only thing I found amusing here). Kimberly Page is the Dragonfly, a femme fatale Japanese agent who speaks like The Craw on Get Smart. There's a lot of references to "Japs" and "Krauts" and Y.J. has a professor-sidekick who is dull, which is supposed to be humorous.

The DVD comes with both color and B&W versions; oddly, they both look awful. The B&W looks like the color has simply been turned off, and the color looks like a B&W that's been colorized. Neither are satisfying, but after sampling both we chose the latter for episode one.

Heart's in the Right Place, But..........2007-03-28

First of all, I share the filmmakers' affection for this B-grade serials and they accomplish much of the 40s and 50s feel. You even have the option of watching "Monarch" in either black-and-white or "faux" color (a la the colorization processes of the late 80s). I like little authentic touches like the fact that bad guys never lose their fedoras, even in the middle of a raucous fight scene, or how the film is divided into chapters with each chapter summarizing what went on before.

Unfortunately, the film suffers from two fatal flaws: (1) There's simply no way to do on purpose what 1950's directors did by accident. You can't really laugh at the cheesy effects and stiff acting when you know they're doing it on purpose. It's like being told a joke when you know the punchline. It just doesn't work. This leads us to... (2) The film never resolves this in its own mind: Is this a parody or is it an homage? It's far too silly to be taken seriously as an homage (as, say, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"), yet it takes itself too seriously to be a parody (for example, those old serials NEVER killed off the comic relief, and this film kills off more than one). The result is a awkward hodgepodge of styles that distracts from the story, one that never has a consistent, fun feel. I give them points for trying, and I'd probably buy more Dark Horse films like this, but I hope they get a clearer vision in mind.

"Destination Mars" is another B-grade Martian invader flick, with human-looking, English-speaking Martians who turn dead Earth people into robots who set about destroying Earth. I don't want to give away too much about this film, except to say that it's modestly more successful in what it sets out to accomplish. I also recommend that you watch this film before "Monarch."

A great B-Grade Sci Fi flick!.......2007-02-04

The highest complement I can give a Sci Fi Film is to say that it reminds me of Saturday afternoons watching Creature Double Feature, and this one
fits the bill!

Controversial Classics, Vol. 2 - The Power of Media (All the President's Men / Network / Dog Day Afternoon) (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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The summit for movies for serious adults
YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Controversial Classics, Vol. 2 - The Power of Media (All the President's Men / Network / Dog Day Afternoon) (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman , Robert Redford , Jack Warden , Martin Balsam , and Hal Holbrook
Director: Alan J. Pakula , and Sidney Lumet
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Release Date: 2006-02-28

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Warner Home Video releases three of the most explosive films from the 1970's - All the President's Men, Network, and Dog Day Afternoon - all in one collection. This three title, six-disc giftset boasts the star power of Al Pacino, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, John Cazale and more, and tackling the media mania of American journalism and reality TV, thirty years later these films are just as exciting and relevant as they were when they were made. Bonus features include commentaries by Robert Redford and Sidney Lumet and new making-of documentaries.

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The summit for movies for serious adults.......2006-05-14

CONTROVERSIAL CLASSICS VOLUME 2: THE POWER OF MEDIA is one of the crown jewel disk boxed sets in my private DVD library. It includes three incendiary masterpieces from the golden age of the 1970's: DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975), NETWORK (1976), and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (also 1976). All three were Oscar contenders for Best Picture, and all three were winners for Screenplay.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON, directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Frank Pierson, is so far-fetched that it has to be true. On a hot summer afternoon in 1972 Brooklyn, a nobody named Sonny Wortzik (Oscar nominee Al Pacino) robs a bank to pay for his male lover's (Oscar nominee Chris Sarandon) sex change operation. What should have taken ten minutes ends up becoming an eight hour media event, complete with pizza delivery to the hostages. Lumet took over an entire block in Brooklyn, had the hostages in effect play themselves with improvised dialogue, and worked like an Army commander with a thousand or so extras and stunning second-unit helicopters. The movie has incredible vitality and conviction from Lumet, powerhouse editing by Dede Allen (another Oscar nominee), and another of the great Pacino performances. Bonuses include a vintage featurette on Lumet, brand-new audio commentary by Lumet, and a four-part 30th anniversary featurette. Plus a brand-new remastered print of a great film.

If you thought DOG DAY was looney tunes, get a load at Paddy Chayefsky's audacious Oscar-winning Original Screenplay for another great Sidney Lumet triumph: NETWORK (1976). It is a satire on network television, but so outlandish that virtually everything (except the ending-thank God) has taken place. An unbalanced man (Oscar winner Peter Finch) becomes a media folk hero with super ratings. Oscar winner Faye Dunawaty lives only for ratings-and even discusses them in bed with producer William Holden (at his very best and and an Oscar nominee). Beatrice Straight is electrifying as Holden's wife in one Oscar-winning scene. ("I'm your wife, damn it! And if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I ask is respect and allegiance...Are you in love with her? Then say it. SAY IT!") Then the question arises over what to do with Finch's Howard Beale character ("I'm as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!") when his ratings seriously fail. NETWORK is a brilliant satire that is almost reality thirty years later. And the direction, writing, and performances are all flawless. Bonuses here are huge: PRIVATE SCREENINGS: SIDNEY LUMET (2005) from Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, a vintage Paddy Chayefsky interview from "The Dinah Shore Show", a new 90 minute 30th anniversary filmmaking documentary, and a brand-new Lumet audio commentary. Figure on three nights for this baby.

Best of the lot is producer-director Alan Pakula's ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (also 1976), with an Oscar-winning screenplay by William Goldman. Both of them together make the saga of Watergate, the fall of President Richard Nixon, both understandable and gripping. Our heroes are WASHINGTON POST reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman). A huge and wonderful supporting cast includes Oscar-winner Jason Robards as editor Ben Bradlee, Oscar nominee Jane Alexander as The Bookkeeper with some secrets, and Hal Holbrook as the enigmatic Deep Throat who is only glimpsed in shadowy night parking garages. Realism and actual locales help this one a lot. Bonuses on this masterpiece, that should have won Picture and Direction Oscars, include audio commentary by co-producer Robert Redford, a new filmmaking documentary, a documentary on who Deep Throat really was now that we know, a documentary on how Woodward and Bernstein cracked the case, a vintage filmmaking documentary, a vintage chat with Robards on DINAH!, and a gallery of theatrical trailers for other movies in this vein from the late Alan J. Pakula.

CONTROVERSIAL CLASSICS VOLUME 2: THE POWER OF MEDIA will keep you out of trouble for as long as nine nights (!), three per movie if you watch all the bonuses, so only rent it this one boxed set the week you order from Netflicks. It sells on Amazon.com for about $55. It is a sobering lament for an era when movies could be brilliantly written dramas about the media for intellectual adults. DOG DAY AFTERNOON, NETWORK, and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN are masterpieces in a stupendous boxed set that I cannot recommend highly enough if you have a huge block of time for them. Consider buying them and spending two weeks doing all of the extras and the lenngthy movies leisurely.

YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-01-30

All three of these movies were among the greatest social commentaries of 1970s. They were quintessential in showing us how America lost its innocence; from the corruption in our government to the bastardization of the media to our adoration of scandal. I suppose Sidney Lumet's "Serpico" should have been included in this set too, as that film was the first to record the depth of corruption in the police force, but I have to admit, "Dog Day Afternoon" is a lot more entertaining! All three of these movies are scintillating entertainment on an intellectual scale that Hollywood rarely measures up to anymore. But these films are also great and important in how they foretold the pathetic state that our media is in now (including the lack of investigative journalism in our current printed press). In fact, "All The President's Men" is as politically relevant as ever - the similarities with this administration are very interesting! And WOW! -- all the extras on these discs look phenomenal!! I'm glad I hadn't bought the earlier 'no extras' releases of these films. If you've already bought them buy this set anyway - you know you're gonna watch them hundreds of times!

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Baby Snatcher
Starring: Rober Bearde , David Duchovny , Penny Fuller , Gretchen Grant , and Veronica Hamel
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Release Date: 2006-11-16

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One woman's passion becomes her greatest torment when having nothing to lose becomes everything in this true story. Bionica Hudson longs for children and is overjoyed when she discovers that she is pregnant. But her happiness turns to desperation when she loses the child early in pregnancy and fears that without a child she may lose her husband too. The lives of 2 women collide when Bioica, desperate to replace the child she lost fakes her pregnancy and abducts Sophie to pass on as her own.

Road to Perdition/The Legend of Bagger Vance

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Road to Perdition/The Legend of Bagger Vance
Starring: Will Smith , Matt Damon , Charlize Theron , Bruce McGill , and Joel Gretsch
Director: Robert Redford , and Sam Mendes
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Monarch of the Moon
Starring: Brent Moss , Blane Wheatley , Will MacMillan , Kimberly Page , and Penny Drake
Director: Richard Lowry
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IT DON'T MEAN A THING, IF YOU AIN'T GOT THAT SWING...

The Legend of Bagger Vance [Region 2]
Starring: Will Smith , Matt Damon , Charlize Theron , Bruce McGill , and Joel Gretsch
Director: Robert Redford
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IT DON'T MEAN A THING, IF YOU AIN'T GOT THAT SWING..........2006-04-24

This is a feel good movie, about a young World War I veteran and former golf pro, Randolph Junah (Matt Damon), from Savannah, Georgia, who is inveigled by his former girlfriend (Charlize Theron) to come out of obscurity and retirement to participate in a golf tournament with two legendary golfers, so that she can save her now deceased father's beautiful golf resort, from those salivating to buy it out from under her, during the great depression.

Initially, Junah refuses, and the reason for the refusal is that he simply has lost his swing. A Deus Ex Machina now enters in the guise of Bagger Vance, charmingly played by Will Smith. Vance simply appears one night while Junah is out on his lawn trying out his swing. Vance persuades him to enter the tournament and offers to be his caddy. A deal is struck.

Junah enters the golf tournament, and as it progresses he gets better. He delves more deeply into himself under the gentle encouragement of Bagger Vance in order to find his "authentic" swing and, ultimately, finds a lot more. This movie does for golf, what "Field of Dreams" did for baseball.

The movie is narrated by Jack Lemmon who, as a young boy (J. Michael Moncrief) during the tournament, saw Junah transform himself under the guidance of Bagger Vance. It is the on screen Jack Lemmon who is summoned by Bagger Vance into the sunset at the end of the film. Just who was Bagger Vance? I say he was the proverbial guardian angel. Viewers, however, will differ on just who they think Bagger Vance really was.

The flaw in the movie is that it is like a Hallmark Card movie in that it sugarcoats everything and paints the past in a somewhat unrealistic manner. Here, a diverse population is depicted as mingling together in a most collegial fashion. Quite frankly, I doubt that in reality African-Americans found life with Southern Whites to be quite so collegial as depicted in the film. Then again, this is not a movie about race relations, but rather a movie about that which was lost and is now found. A sort of "Amazing Grace" theme.

Still, this is an entertaining film that is, in reality, a fable for grownups. It is well worth watching.

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What A Find!
SUNSET IN THE WEST
Sunset in the West

Sunset In the West
Starring: Roy Rogers , Trigger , Estelita Rodriguez , Penny Edwards , and Gordon Jones
Director: William Witney
Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000094J97
Release Date: 1969-12-31

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What A Find!.......2005-03-30

This is a fantastic discovery for Roy Rogers fans! To my knowledge, this makes 11 out of the 19 Roy Rogers movies that were originally made in TrueColor that are still available in color. I think this would be a good "colorization" project...to restore the rest of these movies to their original "glorious color". And as for those who are against colorization, they can't say that these movies were intended to be in black and white. Black and white just doesn't do justice to the Golden Palomino,Trigger,or to those colorful western outfits that Roy
and the rest of the gang wore in those movies. Let's hope they
put out a dvd version of this movie real soon.

SUNSET IN THE WEST.......2001-10-09

THIS IS A GREAT FILM. GOOD STORY, BUT WHAT I WAS MOST INTRIGUE
WITH WAS THE FACT THAT AFTER MANY YEARS, A COLOR VERSION WAS
FOUND.
I WISH ALL OF THE FILMS THAT ROY MADE IN "TRUCOLR" WERE ALSO
FOUND. THE COLOR QUALITY IS EXCELLENT, AS IS THE AUDIO AND PICTURE CLARITY.

Sunset in the West.......2000-02-10

Despite the listing on the box as a B&W film, it is actually in Trucolor. Thus, this is the first release of Sunset in the West in full color. Visual and sound qualities of this video are excellent with very good color qualities. This is a full length version with a running time of 67 minutes. Sunset in the West is the 17th out of a total of 19 released by Republic in Trucolor. Highly recommended for Roy Rogers' fans.

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