![]() | Controversial Classics Collection (Advise and Consent / The Americanization of Emily / Bad Day at Black Rock / Blackboard Jungle / A Face in the Crowd / Fury / I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
Buy new: $66.49 / Used from: $54.50 Looks at some controversial movies from the precode era into the 1960's.
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![]() | Controversial Classics, Vol. 2 - The Power of Media (All the President's Men / Network / Dog Day Afternoon) (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $36.99 Three 1970's era controversial classic films.
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![]() | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $9.75 A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor's prize runner.
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![]() | Lolita
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.50 Not included in the new Stanley Kubrick set, this 2-disc edition will be available separately. A middle-aged professor marries a widow to be near her teen-aged daughter to whom he is wildly attracted.
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![]() | Performance
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.22 An East End thug is involved in an unfortunate incident involving a rival, and escapes to a house in Notting Hill. His refuge is owned by a reclusive rock singer eager for new experiences to assuage his boredom. Gradually the fugitive is assimilated into the community to the extent that his identity begins to undergo some radical changes.
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![]() | Harold and Maude
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $9.85 Not a WHV property, but a great controversial classic of the early 70's. The tale of an unlikely romance between death-obsessed 19-year-old Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral and Maude's example urges him to "reach out" and grab life as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality.
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![]() | O Lucky Man! (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $11.47 Follows the moral journey of an initially smiling coffee salesman (Malcolm McDowell) as he has his ideals smashed one by one. McDowell was himself a coffee salesman as a young man, and the whole film is from an original idea and script of his very own.
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![]() | Payday
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.99 Rip Torn sings his own songs and gives an indelible performance as Maury, a less-than-first-rank country singer whose fame rises in contrast to the depths to which his soul will sink in satisfying his hedonistic urges. He pushes his entourage to the limit and puts the women around him at odds with each other.
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![]() | Deliverance (Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $2.66 Four urban friends' canoeing weekend turns into a horrifying test of survival as they are forced to leave behind the rules of civilization.
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![]() | Steelyard Blues
Buy used from: $3.68 Alan Myerson directs Fonda as Iris, a good-natured hooker whose clientele includes a Whos Who of City Hall. Free-spirited parolee Jesse Veldini (Sutherland), is itching to resume his career as a demolition derby driver. Veldinis return could ruin the reelection campaign of his ambitious DA brother (Howard Hesseman) so steps are taken to make the ex-jailbird toe the line.
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![]() | The Ritz (1976) [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.63 Due out January 2008. No link to DVD yet.
As a Cleveland sanitation company owner reasons, this New York all-male bathhouse is ideal for hiding from his murderous brother-in-law. One of the first movies in which gay people don't feel obligated to apologize for their behavior. Plus, this movie is just plain hilarious.
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![]() | Straight Time
Buy used from: $29.98 After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, its a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent.
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![]() | Cruising (Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $11.19 Set against the gay S & M subculture of the late 70s, Al Pacino is an undercover cop who infiltrates New York Citys leather bar scene, and whose identity and relationships are hauntingly affected by his assignment.
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![]() | Prince of the City (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.98 The first thing a cop learns is that he cant trust nobody but his partners, detective Danny Ciello tells an asst. D.A. I sleep with my wife but I live with my partners. I will never give them up. From Robert Daleys riveting book about NYC police corruption investigations, director/co-writer Sidney Lumets film portrays a squad that pays a terrible price when one in its ranks does just that.
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![]() | The Butcher Boy
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.69 Tale of a childhood in which escapism is the only choice and where a kinship with violence is not very far behind.
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