Verdugo, Elena

The Best of Abbott & Costello, Vol. 2 (Hit the Ice / In Society / Here Come the Co-Eds / The Naughty Nineties / Little Giant / The Time of Their Lives / Buck Privates Come Home / The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap)

By popular demand, the legendary Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are back in eight brand-new-to-DVD comedy classics! Still one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business, their films continue to generate new legions of fans around the world.

Now some of their greatest gags and most stellar skits, including the complete version of their signature routine "Who's on First?", are available in this side-splitting collection. It's the boys at their very best and illustrates why Bud and Lou rightly deserve their place among the brightest stars of the silver screen!

Hit the Ice (1943)
Bud and Lou hit the slopes at the Sun Valley Resort after getting mixed up with gangsters.

In Society (1944)
The boys find themselves in hot water after a plumbing job goes wrong at a high society bash.

Here Come the Co-Eds (1945)
Bud and Lou head to campus and attempt to save Bixby College from closing down.

The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Set aboard the River Queen showboat, Bud and Lou perform their legendary "Who's on First?" routine.

Little Giant (1946)
Lou plays a little man with big dreams...and ends up selling vacuum cleaners!

The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Mistaken as a traitor, Lou's ghost is trapped in Danbury Mansion until his innocence is proven.

Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Bud and Lou return to civilian life and get involved in midget car racing in the sequel to Buck Privates!

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Accused of murder, Lou is forced to take care of a widow and her children on a farm.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand's ineffably romantic play about the big-nosed soldier and swordsman with a poet's soul looks stagey in this 1950 film adaptation. But, thanks to a heartfelt performance by Jose Ferrer (who won an Oscar for the role), the beauty of Rostand's words shines through. Ferrer plays Cyrano, who is in love with the beautiful Roxanne but is unable to tell her so for fear that she will reject him because of his extremely prominent nose. In a heart-breaking turn, she confesses her love to him--but it is love for another man, a soldier under his command named Christian. Christian, however, is a good-hearted but tongue-tied youngster, and so the older Cyrano woos Roxanne vicariously by supplying Christian with his own words of love, most famously in a balcony scene in which Cyrano speaks for himself while pretending to be Christian. Ferrer is tender, tough, and funny and single-handedly pulls this film to near-greatness. --Marshall Fine

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man / House of Frankenstein

Cyrano de Bergerac / The Son of Monte Cristo

"Cyrano de Bergerac" (1950, 107 min.) - The classic story of Cyrano, the tragic wit renowned for his nose and unrequited love for the beautiful Roxanne. Jose Ferrer won an Academy Award for his protrayal of the title role. "The Son of Monte Cristo" (194

The Moon and Sixpence

Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to make some sense of Strickland's creative ways.

To the Shores of Tripoli

If it weren't so clearly a product of the precise moment when the U.S. had just suffered the Japanese sneak attacks of December 1941, To the Shores of Tripoli might easily be mistaken for the definitive parody of World War II Hollywood jingoism by a latter-day satirical troupe--say, the SCTV gang. Smartass child of privilege John Payne is sent to Marine boot camp to learn about responsibility and being a team player. Although shot on location at San Diego, the sunny Technicolor training exercises look more like a musical-comedy summer stock company working out. Drillmaster Randolph Scott and fiery-haired nurse Maureen O'Hara love Payne in spite of his myriad obnoxious qualities, and he does have the right stuff, as he demonstrates at the drop of a hat--and the rest of his civilian clothes--the minute he hears about Pearl Harbor over the radio. The finale, a troopship embarkation turned full-scale production number, has to be seen to be disbelieved. --Richard T. Jameson

Darryl F. Zanuck's production about a playboy who joins the Marines and discovers selfless valor. John Payne and Maureen O'Hara star.

The Moon and Sixpence

Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to make some sense of Strickland's creative ways.

GENE AUTRY: BIG SOMBRERO

Gene Autry heads South of the Border in his biggest rodeo of thrills with a fiesta of melody and a jamboree of romance all in vivid Cinecolor! Gene rocks all Mexico as he saves a Latin spitfire with Western gunfire and hits the trail of bandits to fight for the right of rancheros to live on their traditional rancho. Outlaws fear him and senoritas cheer him when Gene and his famous horse Champion brave a landslide cattle stampede and storms of bullets!System Requirements:Running Time: 78 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 014381346725 Manufacturer No: ID3467UQDVD

Cyrano De Bergerac

Edmond Rostand's ineffably romantic play about the big-nosed soldier and swordsman with a poet's soul looks stagey in this 1950 film adaptation. But, thanks to a heartfelt performance by Jose Ferrer (who won an Oscar for the role), the beauty of Rostand's words shines through. Ferrer plays Cyrano, who is in love with the beautiful Roxanne but is unable to tell her so for fear that she will reject him because of his extremely prominent nose. In a heart-breaking turn, she confesses her love to him--but it is love for another man, a soldier under his command named Christian. Christian, however, is a good-hearted but tongue-tied youngster, and so the older Cyrano woos Roxanne vicariously by supplying Christian with his own words of love, most famously in a balcony scene in which Cyrano speaks for himself while pretending to be Christian. Ferrer is tender, tough, and funny and single-handedly pulls this film to near-greatness. --Marshall Fine

The beloved Nineteenth Century tale of romance and swashbuckling comes to the screen in this lavish production from producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind). A charismatic poet and swordsman with a large nose, Cyrano (Jose Ferrer) reluctantly aids another in the pursuit of his one true love, the ravishing Roxane; the result is pure fun and excitement! Winner of the 1950 Best Actor Academy Award®: José Ferrer and mastered from Original 35mm Nitrate Fine Grain.

Great Literature on Film 4 Movie Pack

Cyrano De Bergerac Fabulous Hero! Famous Nose! The Most Loved of All Love Stories! He was the three musketeers in one and one lover in a million! It was France 1640: Cyrano the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurdly large nose hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxanne: she in turn confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception with tragic results. This film was later made into the popular film "Roxanne" starring Steve Martin. Cyrano De Bergerac is a classic to say the least!Runtime: 107 minutesOf Human BondageThe Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise. . . and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again. Abandoning artistic ambitions sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. Theirs is a love that won't soon be forgotten. A tale of love loss and forgiveness at all costs. "Of Human Bondage" is a classic piece of American film history and stars film greats Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.Runtime: 83 minutes: Last of the Belles The "The Last of the Belles" is a semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the Army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. "Belles" is a story within a story. Fitzgerald (Richard Chamberlain) and his wife Zelda (Blythe Danner) have returned form Europe. Through high living he is deeply in debt while his wife Zelda has distanced herself becoming obsessed with being a ballerina even though she is 30 years old and never had a dance lesson which indeed was true of the real Zelda. Fitzgerald is out of ideas for new stories and spends the empty hours carousing. Finally the seed of an idea for a story begins to emerge. The film then alternates between Fitzgerald's life and his story of young soldiers from the north at a training camp in the south during World War I and the southern belles they court. David Huffman and Susan Sar