BUtterfield 8
by Daniel Mann
from Warner Home Video
"I was the slut of all time!" declares Elizabeth Taylor in the role for which she won her first Academy Award®. Taylor plays Gloria, a model of loose morals who discovers a last chance at love and redemption when she spends a week with Weston Ligget (Laurence Harvey), a man who married into money and hates himself for it. They fall in love, but before they can find happiness they have to overcome their own worst natures. BUtterfield 8 (named after Gloria's answering service) is a big boozy melodrama, full of gorgeous clothes, catty comments, and emotional showdowns--but along the way it plumbs some genuine sadness. No one can be simultaneously overblown and utterly sincere like Elizabeth Taylor; the movie is mired in the morality of the time, but her performance makes Gloria's mixture of grief and anger seem immediate and genuine. --Bret Fetzer
The Disorderly Orderly
by Frank Tashlin
from Paramount
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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-OCT-2004
Media Type: DVD
The hugely successful collaboration between Jerry Lewis and director Frank Tashlin (including Artists and Models and The Geisha Boy) came to an end with this knockabout hospital comedy, which contains a raft of Tashlin's patented sight gags. Jerry plays an orderly with a strange fixation on a depressed patient (Susan Oliver), but the point of the movie is watching Lewis wrestle with laundry bags or contorting with agony as he empathizes with the intestinal maladies of patients. This is one of Lewis's funniest movies for babbling, too ("Oh, friction--burning"). Meanwhile, Tashlin brings his cartoon sensibility to freestanding bits, such as the montage of wind chimes that ends with a skeleton chattering in the breeze, or the inordinately loud crunch of an apple in a hospital quiet zone. All in all, a good laugh-per-minute ratio in the slapstick realm. Plus Sammy Davis Jr. sings the title song, a weirdly Rat Packish number. --Robert Horton
The Gene Krupa Story
by Don Weis
from Sony Pictures
Black Brigade
by George McCowan
from Westlake Entertainment
BLACK BRIGADE (DVD MOVIE)
Ginger in the Morning
by Gordon Wiles (II)
from St Clair Vision
Guns of Diablo 16x9 Version
by Boris Sagal
from AFA Entertainment
Butterfield 8/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Richard Brooks
from Warner Home Video
Ginger In The Morning
by Gordon Wiles
from Miracle Pictures
A salesman is enamored of a young hitchhiker whom he picks up on the road. They are immediately swept up in emotions, and they actually fall hard for each other, At one point, she also falls for his drunken friend. Sissy Spaceck is remarkable in one of her best early roles.
Carter's Army / Black Brigade (1970)
by George McCowan
from Reel Classic Films
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