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Before movies talked, they clacked with swords, gonged with wedding bells and pulsed with perfectly matched orchestral accompaniment. The process that made it happen was Vitaphone, a sound-on-disk system that made its feature-film debut in this lavish 1926 classic. Starring in this swashbuckling tale of the world's most famed lover is the greatest actor of his day: John Barrymore. As Don Juan, he pursues his conquests with rakish abandon. But one glimpse of exquisite Adriana (Mary Astor) and...

John Barrymore ("Romeo and Juliet," "Dinner at Eight") stars as an 18th-century swashbuckling hero who escapes from a French prison ship and risks everything for the love of a worthless woman. Co-starring Barrymore's real-life love, Dolores Costello ("The Magnificent Ambersons"), and Warner Oland ("Charlie Chan" films). Based upon the classic novel,"Manon Lescaut", by Abbe Prevost.

Like his younger half-brother Charlie, Syd Chaplin was also a successful silent-film comedian and enjoyed a certain notoriety somewhat oversahdowed by his iconic sibling. Here he plays Old Bill, a World War I army private with the British Expeditionary Forces. The film derives its title from a beloved British cartoon strip, hopping from the comics to celluloid in a funny scene where a soldier stuck in a muddy foxhole complains and Old Bill replies in Cockney, "If you knows a better 'ole, go...

It roars. It belches smoke. It terrifies livestock and endangers bystanders. It's The First Auto in town, and it sparks a feud between a traditional father devoted to horses and his progressive son, enthralled by the new-fangled invention. This lively, humor-and-intrigue-laced Silent Era melodrama offers more than a heartfelt story of generational conflict. Darryl F. Zanuck's screenplay is also a fascinating story of the evolution of the automobile from an unreliable plaything to a necessity...

Galleon slaves strain against the oars warships blast cannonades of death and one of the great seafaring swashbucklers of the Silent Era (presented with added music) sails anew on DVD. Milton Sills, a stalwart silent-movie actor sure to be better known today if not for his untimely death, plays the gentleman pirate -- The Sea Hawk -- who escapes the treachery of a dastardly sea dog (Wallace Beery) and becomes the scourge of Spain's navy. Two-time Academy Award winner* Frank Lloyd helms the...

The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funny-side up when Steve Martin and Rick Moranis play mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith in this criminally comic caper. Vinnie's got smooth moves, a swank wardrobe and a mean dance step. His identity, home and lawn mower are new, but he's still the same: a guy with an eternal scam. That makes overseer Barney a guy with a huge headache. Costars Joan Cusack, Carol Kane, Melanie Mayron and William Hickey, director Herbert...

Mickey knows about marriage. He knows it won't work if one partner is happy and the other miserable. No, a successful marriage requires both to be miserable! Love is such sweet misery in the witty story of when basketball referee Mickey (Billy Crystal) met airline employee Ellen (Debra Winger). They fall head over croissants for each other in Paris, then reluctantly move on to pursue their careers, only to reunite passionately and make feverish domestic-bliss arrangements. Now the sticky part:...

Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery thriller posing a medical-ethics dilemma to...

Season Three explodes into action when Team Z discovers a secret zombie army living in Seattle! Major finds acceptance in this army, while Liv and Clive investigate the murder of a zombie family that could trigger an all-out zombie-versus-human apocalypse. Ravi's former boss investigates the Max Rager massacre, Blaine discovers that living as a human with no memory of his evil past is totally awesome, and one of Peyton's cases could lead to a nasty villain. After fine meals of newly deceased...

Season Four opens as a harsh truth lands on the shoulders of those who remain: Earth's nuclear reactors are melting and will soon set the atmosphere ablaze. Is anything left for our heroes to fight for? Can they find hope knowing the end is inevitable? Will they spend their days trying to survive? Or use their limited time to finally live? The stakes have never been higher. Alliances are shattering and fragile societies are on the brink of collapse. Civility has no place at the end of the...

What do a people-smuggler, a photogenic young schoolteacher, a missing teenager and a father/son pair have in common? Alas, their remains are the most reliable witnesses of how they died, and if they were murdered who killed them. Following grisly clues, Dr. Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) and her team of forensic pathologists delve into London's illegal immigrant community, a toxic media storm, families camped on a riverbank, a shocking car accident and international kidnapping. In a case gone...

Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin', croonin' and swoonin' On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories. "Try not to walk like a first baseman," Mama (Rosemary DeCamp) tells tomboy Marjorie (Day) as she prepares to date college man Bill (MacRae). The advice takes. The lovebirds hear wedding bells ahead, just as soon as Bill gets his...