Movies

Has anyone seen the film “Inherit the wind”?

There are two versions of the film, the one in 1988 starred Kurt Douglas and Jason Robards. It’s based on the famous “Scopes Trial” in the 1920’s when a teacher in Tennessee was changed with breaking the law by teaching Evolution and not Creationism.

I’ve seen the older one, with Spencer Tracy, several times. It’s excellent though of course it is not precise history. If you want a good history, read Summer For The Gods by Edward Larsen.

In Which Hickey Monologues I (The Iceman Cometh – Act IV)

The Adventures of Huck Finn $2.79 Huckleberry Finn’s age has been scaled down in this 1993 Disney film in order to accommodate star Elijah Wood’s young years at the time. But that’s not the only concession Mark Twain’s great American novel must make to Disney revisionism. Wood’s Huck, as adapted for the screen by writer-director Stephen Sommers, is all rascal and only nominally a philosopher, which takes a lot of the soul out of …

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition) $6.29 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid may be the most beautiful and ambitious film that Sam Peckinpah ever made. The time is 1881. Powerful interests want New Mexico tamed for their brand of progress, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is commissioned to rid the territory of his old gunfighting comrades. He serves fair notice to William Bonney–Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson)–and his Fort Sumter cro…

Reading Rainbow: Man’s Best Friend (Martha Speaks & The Adventures of Taxi Dog) $2.19 Reading Rainbow is one of the longest running and best loved children’s series on PBS. Reading Rainbow is designed to inspire a love of reading and build lasting connections between children and books. As a half hour magazine-style series, Reading Rainbow mixes live action, music and illustrations. Reading Rainbows’ target audience is children 4-8 years old. Included in this collection is Mar…

You Can’t Take It With You [VHS] $9.99 Televised theater production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. Staged by Ellis Rabb, this is a faithful rendering of the famous play. Charming, zany and thoughtful, this is a superb version that shouldn’t be missed….

Mark Twain & Me [VHS] $9.99 …

Julius Caesar [VHS] $3.25 Charlton Heston stars as Julius Caesar – General, Statesman and Historian of Ancient Rome. A truly memorable mounting of Shakespeares’s great classic of honor and struggle for power in ancient Rome. A superb blend of eloquent language and star-bright performances….

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Laserdisc of A THOUSAND CLOWNS with Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels and Barry Gordon. 1965 Black & White Jason Robards recreates his Broadway role in this comedy drama….

Ken Burns: The Civil War (Commemorative Edition) $31.75 Producer/writer/director Ken Burns’ nine-episode opus, the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary that brought to life the most turbulent chapter in American history. Maps, drawings, vintage photographs, and narration featuring the words of those who went to war (and those who were left behind) are blended to recount the causes, conflicts and resolution of the War Between the States. Six-disc set incl…

A House Without a Christmas Tree (DVD) $9.4 This acclaimed 1972 telefilm is set in 1946 Nebraska, where a stern, withdrawn single father (Jason Robards), due to traumatic events in his past, refuses to allow his precocious young daughter (Lisa Lucas) to have a Christmas tree.