 | On Approval
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $18.26 Aristocratic high manners and delightful selfishness.
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 | Crackerjack
Thirties theft, and star Tom Walls sounds just like Noel Coward.
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 | The Last of Sheila
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.33 Murder and more murder, written by Steven Sondheim and Anthony Perkins.
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 | Steambath (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $13.48 God is a bath attendent in this funny, sharp play by Bruce Jay Friedman.
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 | Dead Again
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.48 Flashbacks and psychology in a Hitchcockian film made very much his own by director Kenneth Branagh.
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 | Grosse Pointe Blank
Buy used from: $3.99 A hit man and romance meet at a school reunion, with John Cusack and Minnie Driver.
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 | Titus
Buy used from: $4.52 Julie Traymor's cinematic feast, complete with murder, rape, mutilation...and two meat pies.
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 | Scandal in Paris
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $33.05 A sophisticated thief becomes police chief in Paris. George Sanders is mannered, cool and excellent.
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 | Love Me Tonight
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.00 Delightful romantic froth was never better, and watch how Rodgers & Hart's "Isn't It Romantic" is handled.
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 | The Old Dark House
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $10.25 A dark and stormy night, played for frights and fun. "Have a potato."
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 | Trouble in Paradise - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $22.97 An absolute classic of style, sophistication, grace and wit.
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 | Swing Time
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.93 Swing Time or Top Hat? The slight difference is in the dances. Swing Time's are sophisticated perfection.
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 | Vogues of 1938
Buy used from: $46.95 A little dated, perhaps, but a wonderful look at high fashion and romance, with the wonderful Weire Brothers and a gorgeous, blond Joan Bennett.
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 | The Son of Monte Cristo
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.61 Great nonsense, with Louis Hayward as a fop when he's not being a swashbuckler and George Sanders as a smart, ruthless villain who just may actually love the princess.
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 | Nine Queens
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $8.72 A clever con game that requires your attention.
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 | Shanghai Triad
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $7.25 Murderous and beautiful-looking triad crime in Shanghai during the Thirties.
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 | Ridicule
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.96 France before the revolution, when words could destroy careers at court.
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 | Theater Of Blood/MadHouse (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.76 If high camp combined with murders based on Shakespeare qualifies as style, Theater of Blood is high style, indeed.
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