If you love your suspense richly textured and multi-layered, you can't do much better than master Alfred Hitchcock. Rear Window stars Jimmy Stewart as a photographer recovering from a broken leg. Bored to distraction, he begins to surreptitiously spy on his neighbours, delighting in their squabbles and affairs. But things take a grim turn when he sees what appears to be a murder. His imagination starts to soar and he devotes himself full time to photographing the clues to a possible homicide. Hitchcock's brilliant storytelling and cinematography are a unique experience and the acting is exceptional in this classic film. This DVD version contains production notes, an original documentary on the film, the entire script and lots of goodies for fans.

Sam Baldwin is a good father and a successful architect. But he's also a lonely widower. One night his precocious 8-year-old son Jonah calls a late-night radio talk show seeking a cure for his father's despondency. When Sam hesitantly takes the phone and discloses the story of his magic-filled marriage, he proves to be a deeply feeling and gentle man. His plight profoundly moves the program's sympathetic female listeners, and thousands of women write in offering to help him `recover' from his mournful insomnia. The recently betrothed Annie Reed is one of the many listeners touched by Sam's story. To complicate matters, she's afraid her upcoming marriage promises stability and security but no excitement. Although Annie's supposed to be driving to her future in-laws' house for the holidays, she knows that she's already fallen in love with Sam and is on the road to destiny.

When a psychotic U.S. general launches a preemptive strike against Russia, the American president must deal with gung-ho military brass, bureaucratic bumblers, a drunken Soviet premier, and a twisted German rocket scientist. Stanley Kubrick's black-comedy masterpiece is one of the funniest, most insightful films ever made. DR. STRANGELOVE was originally going to be a thriller, but Kubrick found the many elements of the story darkly funny; he told film critic Joseph Gelmis, "It occurred to me that I was approaching the project in the wrong way. The only way to tell the story was as a black comedy or, better, a nightmare comedy, where the things you laugh at most are really the heart of the paradoxical postures that make a nuclear war possible." Thus, Kubrick hired Terry Southern, author of THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (the film version of which starred Peter Sellers); Southern said, "[Kubrick] would talk about the mechanics of making [DR. STRANGELOVE] totally credible and convincing in terms of the fail safe aspect and then try to make that funny. And the way you make it funny, because the situation is absurd, is by dealing with it in terms of the dialogue and characters." When the film first got reviewed more credit was given to Southern than to Kubrick, who bought ad space in American papers claiming that Southern had nothing to do with the success of the film. After Southern wrote a letter to the New York Times explaining how the collaboration actually worked, the minibattle was settled.

One of the most popular movies of all time, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL tells the touching and often comical story of an alien creature, E.T., who is accidentally left behind on Earth. Elliott (Henry Thomas), a young boy from a single-parent home, befriends E.T. and tries to protect him from the adult world of NASA scientists who want to "examine" the alien. With the help of his younger sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and his older brother, Michael (Robert McNaugton), Elliott helps E.T. try to get back to his home.

A neurotic New York Jew is set up with a midwestern woman. He's a stand-up comedian, she an aspiring singer, and at first the cultural gap seems insurmountable. But despite their differences, they fall in love. As they get to know one another, they invariably attempt to change each other, causing friction and their eventual split. The film watches them try new relationships, as they reluctantly pull away from each other.

Filmed in Washington, DC, in Technicolor. Released theatrically in the USA April 1976. Initially released on video in 1986; but re-released February 1, 1989. Originally rated MPAA R, but re-rated MPAA PG after an appeal. Approximate budget $7.5 million. Title design by Dan Perri. Rated BBFC AA by the British Board of Film Classification.

"American Graffiti" was the second feature by George Lucas, the same director who would later go on to make the phenomenally successful "Star Wars" trilogy. It was produced by Lucas' friend, Francis Ford Coppola, at the time also an aspiring filmmaker. Although the cast is studded with actors who are considered stars today, at the time they were all relatively unknown. "American Graffiti" was one of the first films that firmly established the importance of a new breed of American (mostly film school educated) directors sometimes known as the Movie Brats. Also included in this school were Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jim McBride. Copyright 1973 Universal Pictures.

Film was originally rated R by the MPAA, but earned a PG on appeal. Co-produced by Punch. Shot in Technicolor and Panavision in New York. Film debut for actress Geena Davis.

Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando finest screen performances. Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the victim was killed by the oppressive labor union for squealing to a commission investigating misdoings. Terry intends to keep his mouth shut and his job safe. But when Edie, the dead man's beautiful sister, comes to town, he must choose between his allegiance to a corrupt union and his loyalty to Edie.

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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more -- personal happiness or countless lives hanging in the balance.

Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, Casablanca marks 60 years as a beloved favorite with a new digital transfer and so many bonuses that no matter how often you've seen it, this Deluxe 2-Disc DVD looks like yet another beginning of a beautiful friendship with an unforgettable classic.