Tucker, Richard

Shirley Temple - America's Sweetheart Collection, Vol. 2 (Bright Eyes / Baby Take a Bow / Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)

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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 22-NOV-2005
Media Type: DVD

Baby Take a Bow

A classic convict-turned-good-guy story, this DVD rendition of the 1934 Baby Take a Bow has been nicely restored in its original black and white format as well as colored and remastered for a whole new look. Viewers choose whether to watch in color or black and white, but no matter which is chosen, Shirley Temple shines as the adorable Shirley Ellison, an ex-con's daughter who's full of sweetness, energy, and a touch of the mischievous. As Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and his prison pal Larry Scott (Ray Walker) try to earn an honest living and make a new life with the women they love (Claire Trevor and Dorothy Libaire), they're constantly harassed by private investigator Welch (Alan Dinehart) and are unwillingly dragged into a crime by a just-released convict Trigger Stone (Ralf Harolde). A comic and suspenseful game of hide-and-seek sweeps viewers along to the conclusion of the film, punctuated by Shirley's rooftop birthday party where she and her father perform the memorable vocal-tap duet "On Account-A I Love You." Though the plot is aimed at adult audiences and the film dated by various details like Shirley's unattended play on the sidewalk and the distinct lack of child-proofing in her home, Baby Take a Bow is a classic film that's appealing to modern audiences ages 6 and older. --Tami Horiuchi

Shirley's father is an ex-con trying hard to make an honest living by working as a chauffeur, But he runs into trouble when appears necklace disappears form his employer's home and the detective on the case decides he's guilty. Luckily, Shirley finds the pearls and winds up the case in short order. But not before she engages her father and the detective in the film's most enjoyable scene a hilarious game of hide and seek.

AMC Movies: James Cagney Classics

4 movies / 2 DVD's

1. Blood on the Sun (1945, 98 minutes) Also starring Sylvia Sidney
Nick Condon (Cagney) a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo, gets wind of Japanese plans to bomb the US. Fans will enjoy an exciting Judo sequence as Cagney avoids the clutches of interrogators who wish to dispose of him. Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

2. Time of Your Life (1948, 105 minutes) Also starring William Bendix
Cagney plays Joe 'T' in this whimsical film version of William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a rundown San Francisco waterfront bar, populated by a group of lovable characters.

3. Great Guy (1936, 75 minutes) Also starring Robert Gleckler
Corruption and violence have gnawed to the core of democratic society. Cagney, as pugnacious Johnny 'Red' Cave, uses his brains, fists and attitude to battle for truth and justice against crooked city politicians.

4. Something to Sing About (1937, 93 minutes) Also starring Evelyn Daw and William Frawley
In this musical comedy, Cagney, as New York band leader Terry Rooney, journeys to Hollywood looking for a big break. He gets married, and when the happy couple returns from a honeymoon, a movie contract is offered--if he remains single! Academy Award Nomination for Best Score.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers

Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial presented for the first time on DVD. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orbit and is headed straight toward the Earth. While Dr. Hans Zarkov works feverishly to finish a rocket ship of his own design, internationally renowned polo player and Yale graduate Flash Gordon is a passenger on a small plane where he meets fellow passenger Dale Arden. When a meteor storm destroys their aircraft, Flash and Dale bail out and land near Zarkov's ship. The great scientist enlists them to join him on his quest to save Earth, and the heroic trio blasts off into space to rendezvous with the runaway planet Mongo.

Painted Faces

A vaudeville star is murdered backstage and another performer is accused of the crime.

Bat Whispers

One of the truly oddball artifacts of the early talkie era, either a cockeyed fluke or a surrealist masterpiece. Producer-director Roland West had already done a silent film version of The Bat (1926), Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood's creaky stage melodrama about a fiendish criminal haunting a lonely Long Island mansion. The coming of sound cued a remake--now The Bat could whisper as well as skulk. And in a stroke of genius worthy of his mad mastermind, West added yet another dimension: The Bat Whispers would be one of a handful of 1930 features shot in widescreen, with a compositional emphasis on forced perspective and inky shadow play.

The plot is lunacy, but there are images here that seem to have escaped from the collective unconscious. Some of the miniature work, like a plunge down a skyscraper that then tilts and cuts "subliminally" into a real-life street scene, is easy to spot, yet chances are you'll find yourself enchanted all the same. And there's a chase during which the widescreen angles suddenly drop the floor right out from under one character, and you feel it in the pit of your stomach.

Like 1930's other pre-CinemaScope experiments , The Bat Whispers was shot in two versions--the 65mm Magnifilm production and one in the conventional "square" 35mm format. Deprived of the widescreen's radically unsettling asymmetry, West's movie became just another old-dark-house picture. You can see both on the DVD, and compare the standard version against the lustrous widescreen restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive (different cameramen, different setups, and occasionally different rhythm and action). On the other hand, why not just click on the real movie and prepare to go batty? --Richard T. Jameson

The Bat, a master criminal who dares the police to catch him, has been terrifying the city. A bank is robbed, and the home of the bank president becomes the center of mysterious happenings. Amidst thrills, chills and laughs, the stolen money is discovered, and the Bat's secret identity is revealed!

Richard Tucker in Opera and Song: Firestone

For more than thirty years, The Voice of Firestone brought the world's greatest artists into the homes of music lovers. Now, through a special arrangement with the New England Conservatory in Boston, Kultur is proud to make these rare telecasts available.

American tenor Richard Tucker was gifted with a bright, ringing tone, which he wedded to a technique so secure that in performance he could sing with the utmost abandon. Tucker died suddenly in 1975, just days before he was to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of his Metropolitan Opera debut. During those years, Tucker had sung nearly every important spinto and dramatic tenor role in the repertoire, combining his passionate emotionalism with scrupulous musicianship to create a great number of unforgettable portrays.

Selections:
Telecast of January 21, 1957:
Moyers: Song of Songs
Verdi: Celeste Aida (from Aida)
Herbert: Neapolitan Love Song from Princess Pat

Telecast of November 11, 1959:
Luters & Romberg: Medley from the Prince of Pilson and The Student Prince
Bizet: Flower Song from Carmen
Traditional: America the Beautiful
Young: Around the World in Eighty Days

Telecast of June 1, 1959:
Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba from I Pagliacci
Howard Barlow, Conductor

Telecast of March 3, 1963:
Verdi: Questa o quella from Rigoletto
Verdi: La donna e mobile from Rigoletto
Emerson Buckley, Conductor

The John Wayne Cliffhanger Collection

This exciting 5-DVD set of rip-roaring cliffhangers from the early 1930s features the legendary John Wayne in three complete serials: "Shadow of the Eagle" with the Duke playing a pilot on the trail of a kidnapped traveling fairground owner; "The Three Musketeers" a French Foreign Legion tale in which Wayne is framed for murder; and "Hurricane Express" in which Wayne hunts down a villain who has been blowing up trains.System Requirements:Running Time: 700 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 025493589092 Manufacturer No: PIP-DV5890

Beau Brummel

Starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor. John Barrymore stars in this 1924 silent film about a man who goes from rags to riches in the 18th century. He enjoys life at the top until he insults his good friend, the Prince of Wales, and is disgraced. His t

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