 | 1776
list: $19.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(17 April, 1991)
(202 reviews) 
Editorial Review: The hit Broadway musical by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards became the basis for this 1972 film about America's first congress and the nation's declaration of independence from Britain. Most of the original cast members are aboard, |
 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(06 January, 1998)
(56 reviews) 
Editorial Review: "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!" Those words from the opening song pretty much describe the menu in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a frantic adaptation of the stage musical by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. |
 | A Mighty Wind
list: $6.93 - our price: $6.93
by Warner Home Video
VHS Tape
(01 June, 2004)
(147 reviews)
Customer Review: Guest just keeps on going, and going, and going....: Christopher Guest first came to prominence in 1984, as an assistant and star in Rob Reiner's hilarious "This is Spinal Tap". |
 | A Song to Remember
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(23 January, 1996)
(9 reviews)
Editorial Review: The short life and passionate music of romantic composer Frédéric Chopin provide the foundations for this 1945 drama, which proved influential in its gaudy, undeniably watchable formula of historical exaggeration and shrewdly simplified motives for its principals.I |
 | A Star Is Born
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(05 February, 2002)
(30 reviews) 
Editorial Review: This film actually began with the idea of remaking A Star Is Born with the then-hot couple James Taylor and Carly Simon. Eventually, it evolved into this vanity production for Barbra Streisand, with Kris Kristofferson as the designated stud muffin. |
 | All the Mornings of the World (Tous les matins du monde)
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by Touchstone Video
VHS Tape
(10 September, 1996)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Gérard Depardieu plays a court composer at Versailles whose sense of artistic emptiness causes him to reflect upon his old music teacher (Jean-Pierre Marielle), a man who taught him more than music but whom he ultimately betrayed. |
 | An American in Paris
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by Warner Home Video
VHS Tape
(06 January, 1998)
(56 reviews)
Editorial Review: A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. |
 | Annie Get Your Gun (50th Anniversary Special Edition)
list: $9.94
by Warner Home Video
VHS Tape
(14 November, 2000)
(71 reviews)
Editorial Review: Never before available on home video and unseen on television since1973, the 1950 production of Annie Get Your Gun has achieved somewhat legendary status, most notably for who would inherit the role Ethel Merman had made famous on Broadway in 1946. |
 | Annie
list: $14.94 - our price: $13.74
by Columbia Tristar Hom
VHS Tape
(13 January, 2004)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: The Classic That Touched Us All: This movie is one that you can truly say has everything.The dialogue is fabulous. It defines the era well, |
 | Baby, Take a Bow
list: $9.98
by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(22 January, 2002)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: An entertaining film: A nice, interesting film. Story holds your interest. Shirley Temple fans will enjoy her personality in this film. |
 | Bathing Beauty
list: $19.99
by Turner Home Video
VHS Tape
(22 May, 1991)
(7 reviews)
Editorial Review: Esther Williams and Red Skelton star in this endearingly silly tale of two star-crossed lovers whose eventual reunion is not for a moment in doubt. Swimming teacher Caroline Brooks (Williams) and songwriter Steve Elliott (Skelton) are engaged and crazy in love. |
 | Because You're Mine
list: $19.99
by Turner Home Video
VHS Tape
(18 November, 1992)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: a very good movie: Mario Lanza is really good in this musical. It's entertaining and has lovely osngs like, "Because yOur Mine," and "The Lord's Prayer," beautifully. |
 | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition)
list: $22.99 - our price: $14.99
by Walt Disney Home Video
VHS Tape
(20 March, 2001)
(70 reviews)
Editorial Review: When a mail-order apprentice witch (Angela Lansbury) is saddled with three sibling refugees from London during World War II, the outlook is grim. But the kids soon discover her secret and sign on for adventure in the name of England. |
 | Bells Are Ringing
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(11 September, 2001)
(12 reviews)
Editorial Review: Judy Holliday's final film, Bells Are Ringing, is, fittingly enough, a tailor-made vehicle for her brassy talent. She'd won a Tony for the Broadway version of the show, playing an overly sympathetic telephone receptionist who gets involved in her customers' lives. |
 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(19 May, 1993)
(55 reviews)
Editorial Review: You either love Russ Meyer's garishly sexist movies about bodacious babes and priapic men or you find them utterly disgusting. The response to his work is that clear-cut. This film, which features a screenplay by critic Roger Ebert, |
 | Bitter Sweet
list: $19.99
by Turner Home Video
VHS Tape
(18 April, 1989)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: A TEPID, MEDIOCRE FILM...: This movie, while cinematically colorful, is a mediocre offering by the usually radiant singing duo, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. |
 | Bizet - Carmen / Maazel, Migenes, Domingo
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(31 July, 1991)
(58 reviews)
Customer Review: fantastic: This in one of the most delightful (in fact the most delightful) opera movies I have ever seen. The first amazing thing is that there are no cuts in the score. |
 | Blast!
list: $19.98
by PBS Home Video
VHS Tape
(14 November, 2000)
(77 reviews)
Editorial Review: If your favorite part of a football game is when the marching band takes the field, then you're going to love Blast. Think of the most rousing, in-sync band that you ever saw, turn them way up, add cool costumes and a black-and-white checkered stage with colored spotlights, |
 | Blue Hawaii
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by Paramount Studio
VHS Tape
(07 January, 2003)
(27 reviews)
Editorial Review: Elvis Presley's seventh film was the first of his "Hawaii trilogy" (including Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style). While its story is daft--the King has just been released from his Army posting in Italy and returned to the islands, |
 | Brigadoon
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by Warner Home Video
VHS Tape
(06 January, 1998)
(40 reviews)
Editorial Review: Anything is possible in Brigadoon, the Lerner and Loewe musical put to celluloid in 1954 by director Vincente Minnelli: a village can reappear for only one day each century, and Gene Kelly can tap-dance on a dirt path. |
 | Brigadoon
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(08 August, 1994)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: awesome: I love this movie, mainly because I was in the musical. I would have given it 5 stars but it is relatively different from the stage version. |
 | Bright Eyes
list: $9.98
by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(17 April, 2001)
(17 reviews)
Customer Review: OUR FAVOURITE WAIF: This was the first movie actually crafted just for Shirley and the kids should find it a fun diversion, even today. |
 | Broadway's Lost Treasures
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by Acorn Media Publishing Inc.
VHS Tape
(28 October, 2003)
(20 reviews)
Customer Review: Wonderful Collection of Stellar Performances: We saw this on PBS and almost made an outrageous donation to obtain a DVD, then held out for its public release. |
 | Bugsy Malone
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by Paramount Studio
VHS Tape
(27 February, 1996)
(78 reviews)
Editorial Review: Writer-director Alan Parker's feature debut Bugsy Malone is a pastiche of American movies, a musical gangster comedy set in 1929, featuring prohibition, showgirls, and gang warfare, with references to everything from Some Like It Hot to The Godfather. |
 | By the Light of the Silvery Moon
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(23 April, 1996)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: An Old-Fashoined Love Story: I saw this movie for the first time when my music teacher lent it to me. It's more of a Christmas movie, |
 | Cabaret
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(19 September, 2000)
(89 reviews)
Customer Review: Life is a cabaret, old chum...: It's often been said about old musical movies that they went too far in the conceit of people "bursting out in song" during a scene. |
 | Camelot
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(03 June, 2003)
(45 reviews)
Editorial Review: Joshua Logan's 1967 film of the hit Broadway musical about the love triangle between King Arthur (Richard Harris), Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave), and Sir Lancelot (Franco Nero) is strong on star emphasis and weak on such fundamentals as story and sets. |
 | Camelot
list: $29.98
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(05 February, 1992)
(45 reviews)
Customer Review: Pure Emotion: Camelot made an impression on me over 30 years ago, and today, watching the remastered video, all the songs and lines come easily to me, |
 | Carousel
list: $12.98 - our price: $12.98
by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(20 May, 2003)
(35 reviews)
Editorial Review: Like its immediate predecessor, Oklahoma!, this 1956 screen musical boasted then state-of-the-art widescreen cinematography, stereophonic sound, a starring romantic duo with onscreen chemistry, and the Rodgers & |
 | Cat Ballou
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(29 January, 1992)
(22 reviews)
Editorial Review: Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. An altogether enjoyable comedy, the film is full of small surprises, big laughs, |
 | Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition)
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(06 January, 2004)
(436 reviews)
Customer Review: I love my kitty Cats!: I first saw Cats at my friends house, and I fell in love with it. I still do love it-- I watch it every single day, |
 | Center Stage
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(27 February, 2001)
(203 reviews)
Editorial Review: The primary appeal of dance movies is the dancing, with some added emphasis on the romance the art expresses. Center Stage wins on these counts, despite its reveling in overly familiar characters and formula plotting. |
 | Chicago
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by Buena Vista Home Vid
VHS Tape
(07 September, 2004)
(853 reviews)
Customer Review: One of the best movies EVER!: As a musical theater purist, I was concerned that a movie musical with 3 of Hollywoods A list stars would be a hinderance rather than a help in the "revival" of the genre. |
 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(02 November, 2004)
(121 reviews) 
Editorial Review: This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed but solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs--including the title tune--are quite hummable. |
 | Cinderella (The Wonderful World of Disney)
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by Walt Disney Home Video
VHS Tape
(04 June, 2002)
(124 reviews)
Editorial Review: More is not necessarily better. A glitzy Hollywood cast and a big budget did not improve the wonderful 1957 teleplay (or its equally charming 1964 remake) upon which this version is based. This is partly because Brandy, |
 | Coal Miner's Daughter
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(01 February, 2000)
(52 reviews)
Editorial Review: Sissy Spacek won a much-deserved Oscar for her lead in this entertaining biography of country-music legend Loretta Lynn. British director Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) brings fine texture to the Kentucky backwoods section of the film, |
 | Curly Top
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(28 August, 2001)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: This movie is a great film!: Curly (Shirley Temple ) and her sister Mary are secretly adopted by Mr. Jones. Curly adds joy to Mr. |
 | Daddy Long Legs
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(26 September, 1991)
(14 reviews)
Customer Review: Yes, there's an age difference, but....: Fred Astaire has never been a dirty old man-- at least not on screen!! Though he was indeed 56 years old here and Caron was 22 years old (and playing 18), |
 | Damn Yankees
list: $19.99
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(22 May, 1991)
(15 reviews)
Editorial Review: America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, |
 | Dancer in the Dark
list: $107.99 - our price: $107.99
by Warner Home Video
VHS Tape
(20 March, 2001)
(260 reviews)
Customer Review: Au contraire mon Frere!!...: I beg to differ with the opinion of the last reviewer! Dancer in the Dark is unlike most films you would see in regular "mainstream" cinema. |
 | Dancing Lady
list: $19.98
by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(22 May, 1991)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: Good Musical: I bought this movie to see the Three Stooges in a feature film. What I got was quite an entertaining movie. The Stooges appear several times in the film. |
 | Dirty Dancing
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by Vestron Video
VHS Tape
(15 January, 2002)
(225 reviews)
Editorial Review: As with Grease (1978) and Footloose (1984) before it,Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon that now plays more like camp.That very campiness, though, is part of its biggest charm. And if the dancing inthe movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards--or 1987's--itdoes take place in an era (the early '60s) when it would have. |
 | Easter Parade
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(02 May, 2000)
(33 reviews)
Customer Review: FOUR-STAR-MUSICAL HIT: Because of the broken legs of Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly, Ann Miller and Fred Astaire(out of a two-year retirement)starred with the great JUDY GARLAND in this musical. |
 | Evita
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by Disney Studios
VHS Tape
(02 April, 2002)
(168 reviews)
Customer Review: A great adaptation of the stage musical: Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tim Rice's musical telling of the life of Eva Peron successfully makes the leap from stage to screen. |
 | Fame
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(05 January, 1999)
(27 reviews)
Customer Review: Over 20 Years Later, And I Still Love It!: When I first saw Fame, I loved it. Although I was in the age range of the characters back then, |
 | Fantasia
list: $24.99
by Disney Studios
VHS Tape
(29 October, 1991)
(158 reviews)
Customer Review: Fantasia is Brilliant, But 3 Disk Set is Overrated: Walt Disney's 1942 FANTASIA was a groundbreaking film and remains a landmark to this day, |
 | Fiddler on the Roof
list: $14.95
by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(18 December, 2001)
(90 reviews)
Editorial Review: This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye (Topol), a milkman who is trying to keep his family's traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters. |
 | Fiddler on the Roof
list: $29.98
Director: Norman Jewison
VHS Tape
(10 December, 1992)
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 | Finian's Rainbow
list: $19.98
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(01 January, 2002)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: A funny thing happened to Finian's Rainbow in between its debut as a Broadway musical in 1947 and its appearance as a film in 1968. After 21 years, its theme of racial tension in the American South was no longer cutting edge, |
 | Flower Drum Song
list: $19.98
by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(07 February, 1991)
(31 reviews)
Editorial Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein made BIG musicals--sweeping song and dance numbers, elaboratestagings, sweet heroines, and love struck but confused heroes. Flower DrumSong has all these elements, so why is it so little known? |
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