THE COBWEB (1955)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047944/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004KO1HG8/
http://www.wbshop.com/Cobweb–The/100018 … lt,pd.html

DVD Studio: Warner Archive Collection
DVD Release Date: January 18, 2011

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Principal Cast: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer

Description
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Step inside ôthe Castle,ö a large private psychiatric facility. Here,
Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) devotes night and day to his
profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife (Gloria
Grahame). A colleague (Charles Boyer) with a fondness for booze and a
pretty face seeks to comfort the wife. Now add Lauren Bacall, Lillian
Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant and subplots of love,
life and derangement and you have the entanglements of The Cobweb.
Some critics gleefully skewered the filmÆs labored storyline about
patient involvement in the choice of library draperies, but pay no
heed. With its top cast and Vincente MinnelliÆs command of color and
melodrama, this film is popcorn for fans of soaps.

Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 6.65 Gb –– Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (main feature): 134 minutes
Type: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 | Anamorphic
Sound (main feature): English DD2.0
Subtitles: none

Disc Features
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# Trailer.

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a.b.dvd.classics

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POIL DE CAROTTE (1932) / THE RED HEAD (1932)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023345/
User Rating: 7.3/10   173 votes

http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B000EZ7USG/

http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Poil_de_carotte_rev.html

DVD Studio: TF1 Video

DVD Release Date: May 18, 2006

Director: Julien Duvivier

Description
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The story itself is simple: a young boy is the odd one out. His parents are much older; his mother unmercifully picks on him, favoring his near–adult siblings, while his long–suffering father has withdrawn into the small pleasures of hunting and meeting with friends. Really, it's a sort of Cinderella: the wicked step–mother (only it's his real mother), the vain pampered older siblings, his having to work and slave for them, wearing tattered hand–me–downs.

Bullied by his matriarchal mother, abused by his siblings, ignored by his father, Poil de CarotteÆs childhood is as miserable as it could be.  An illegitimate child, he is the main reason for the enmity which exists between his parents, who continue to live together just to keep up appearances. In the end, Poil de CarotteÆs suffering becomes more than he can bear.

Drawing heavily on the poignant novel by Jules Renard on which it is based, Poil de carotte is an appealing film which has stood the test of time mainly because of the quality of its acting performances and its inherent humanity.

Neither of the film's two stars survived the war. Harry Baur died in 1943, following imprisonment and torture by the Gestapo; and little Robert Lynen (Poil) was executed as a Resistance fighter in 1944.

Format: PAL

DVD Size: 4.73 GB –– Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 88 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

Sound (main feature): French DD1.0

Subtitles: optional English

DISC FEATURES:

# none.

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ANNI DIFFICILI (1948) / DIFFICULT YEARS (1948)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040100/
User Rating: 7.0/10   19 votes

http://film–dvd.35mm.it/briguglio–film–2–dvd–dvd–9.html

DVD Studio: Medusa Home Entertainment

Director: Luigi Zampa

Description
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The Difficult Years is another uncompromising neorealist exercise by Italian filmmaker Luigi Zampa. The title refers to the years that Italy spent under the thumb of fascism. It is Zampa's thesis that the majority of Italian citizens preferred to ignore Mussolini's trampling of human rights and his ever–increasing megalomania, so long as they were left in peace. Umberto Spadaro stars as Aldo Piscitello, an utterly apolitical government clerk who joins the Fascist Party to maintain his job security and keep his wife happy. After the war, the hapless Aldo is accused of being a fanatical follower of fascism. Though innocent of this charge, he is certainly guilty of not speaking up when it would have done the most good.

Format: PAL

DVD Size: 7.60 GB –– Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 110 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non–Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): Italian mono

Subtitles: optional English | Italian | French | German

DISC FEATURES (all with subs):

# Di nuovo "Anni difficili": documentary by Tatti Sanguineti.
# Brancati and censorship.
# Film restoration.
# "Briguglio Film": Pietro Briguglio interview.
# Trailer.

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