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Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Godfather was nominated for an additional eight Oscars. The brainchild of celebrated author Mario Puzo, the film is considered the crowning achievement of Francis Ford Coppola’s directing career. With intriguing depth, it provides audiences with a glimpse into the notorious underworld of warring New York crime families. As a result, The Godfather transformed a number of relatively unknown actors into Hollywood legends, among them being James Caan, Al Pacino, and Robert Duvall (all three of whom were nominated for Best Supporting Actor). In addition, Marlon Brando turns in, arguably, the most memorable performance of his career. Certainly among the top five films of all time, an excellent case could be made that The Godfather is the most perfect movie ever produced…
The film opens as “Don” Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) hosts his daughter’s wedding, where he actively entertains his friends and business associates. Vito’s favorite son Michael (Al Pacino) has come home from the war (World War II), and he’s determined to do something different with his life, and his ambitious plans don’t include joining the family business. An idealist at heart, the young Michael seduces his girlfriend Kay (Diane Keaton) with inspiring tales of the fine and upstanding things he will do with his life. Through the eyes of Michael, the audience learns of the family’s various business methods and the hierarchy of its system. Vito’s eldest son Sonny (James Caan) is the heir apparent to his father’s empire. Middle son Fredo (John Cazale) performs his part in the business, but few consider him a possible successor. Providing legal council to the family is Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), a long-time friend of the family who Michael treats as a brother.
Life is good for the Corleone family until the day Vito is approached by an opportunistic newcomer named Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo (Al Lettieri), an ambitious leader who aspires to become the number one distributor of illegal narcotics in New York. He asks for the Don’s blessing so he can expand his operations. But Vito sees a big difference between the traditional mafia activities of gambling and prostitution and the less-than-noble profession of selling drugs in schoolyards and family neighborhoods. The Don’s preference for placing family above all else creates a direct conflict with the changing landscape of his business world.
When competing crime families are more accommodating to Sollozzo’s business proposal, the enterprise sparks a deadly conflict between the crime families which quickly escalates into all-out war. Despite Vito’s attempts to put an end to the conflict in its early stages, his beloved firstborn, Sonny, becomes the target of gangland assassination. When an attempt is made on Vito’s life, Michael is drawn into the family business despite his reservations, and the overriding theme of “family first” comes to dominant his life in much the same way it’s dominated that of his father…
A dramatic story of family and change, of youthful idealism and the pragmatism of adulthood, The Godfather is the greatest mafia film ever produced, and perhaps as the best drama in all of cinema history. Al Pacino would soon follow up his masterful performance with The Godfather II, and countless other films in the decades since, forever cementing his place among the immortals Hollywood. As such, The Godfather is a film all movie lovers should see at least one. Widely heralded as one of the best written films in existence, it’s a definite “must-see” for any serious cinema aficionado…
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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Godfather (DVD).
Nominated for 17 Emmys, including one Golden Globe for Best TV Series - Drama, Little House On The Prairie is one of the most popular shows in television history. Based on the autobiographical series of “Little House” books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the show explores the inner-workings of a small town and family on the 19th Century American frontier. Director/Co-Executive Producer Michael Landon (of Bonanza and Highway to Heaven fame) also wrote one-third of the episodes (in addition to playing a lead role as the family’s father, Charles, when the actor originally cast for the part failed to show). Charles would go on to become one of the show’s most popular characters, and Little House On The Prairie would become an American favorite, boasting ten successful seasons to its credit…
Little House On The Prairie follows the lives of the Ingalls family as they settle on the banks of Plum Creek in the township of Walnut Grove, Kansas during the 1870’s. A true pioneer family, the story is seen through the eyes of the Ingalls’ middle-daughter, Laura (Melissa Gilbert), who experiences all the normal growing pains and emotions of a young girl growing up on the prairie. Carpenter Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and his former school teacher wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), head up a family of three that includes two additional daughters, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Carrie (Lindsay & Sidney Greenbush). The town also includes a loveable cast of supporting characters, such as Walnut Grove School teacher Eva Beadle (Charlotte Stewart), town doctor Hiram Baker (Kevin Hagen), pastor Robert Alden (Dabbs Greer), family friend Isaiah Edwards (Victor French), the wealthy Oleson family, and a host of other characters…
The Little House On The Prairie (Season 3) DVD features a number of dramatic episodes including the season premiere “The Collection” in which Reverend Alden gets sick prior to collecting donations from the township. Ex-con Caleb Hodgekiss (Johnny Cash) takes the Reverend in and volunteers to collect the donations himself. He initially plans to keep them for himself, but has a change of heart in the end… Other notable episodes from Season 3 include “Fred” in which Laura obtains a billy goat named Fred who eats the family crops (and when she tries to give him away, it results in a series of hilarious antics), and “The Music Box” in which Laura steals one of Nellie Oleson’s music boxes…
Below is a list of episodes included on the Little House On The Prairie (Season 3) DVD:
Episode 46 (The Collection) Air Date: 09-27-1976
Episode 47 (I’ll Ride the Wind) Air Date: 10-04-1976
Episode 48 (The Race) Air Date: 10-11-1976
Episode 49 (Bunny) Air Date: 10-18-1976
Episode 50 (The Monster of Walnut Grove) Air Date: 11-01-1976
Episode 51 (Journey in the Spring: Part 1) Air Date: 11-15-1976
Episode 52 (Journey in the Spring: Part 2) Air Date: 11-22-1976
Episode 53 (Fred) Air Date: 11-29-1976
Episode 54 (The Bully Boys) Air Date: 12-06-1976
Episode 55 (The Hunters) Air Date: 12-20-1976
Episode 56 (Blizzard) Air Date: 01-03-1977
Episode 57 (Quarantine) Air Date: 01-10-1977
Episode 58 (Little Girl Lost) Air Date: 01-17-1977
Episode 59 (Little Women) Air Date: 01-24-1977
Episode 60 (Injun Kid) Air Date: 01-31-1977
Episode 61 (To Live With Fear: Part 1) Air Date: 02-14-1977
Episode 62 (To Live With Fear: Part 2) Air Date: 02-21-1977
Episode 63 (The Wisdom of Solomon) Air Date: 03-07-1977
Episode 64 (The Music Box) Air Date: 03-14-1977
Episode 65 (The Election) Air Date: 03-21-1977
Episode 66 (Gold Country) Air Date: 04-04-1977
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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Little House On The Prairie (Season 3) DVD.
In the 1980s, Eddie Murphy manufactured a string of Hollywood blockbusters culminated in his 1988 comedy Coming To America. As far comedies go, this one’s as good as it gets. Clever and witty, its hilarity only grows with time. Unlike most modern day comedies, it doesn’t rely on outlandish physical humor, fart jokes, or other toilet bowl humor for laughs. Instead, it creates a somewhat realistic plotline ripe with one-liners, eccentric characters, and perfect comedic delivery on the part of its cast. Headlined by Murphy, audiences will enjoy an all-star cast that includes such faces as Arsenio Hall, Louie Anderson, Samuel L. Jackson, and many others. Inevitably, any objective viewer would have to rate Coming To America as one of the top five comedies of the decade…
The film follows the life of Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy), heir to the royal throne of Zumunda, who, upon reaching the preordained age of marriage, is introduced to a woman bred from birth to be his wife. But, much to the chagrin of his father, King Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones), Akeem raises an objection. After discussing the matter, the king agrees to delay the marriage while Akeem takes a trip abroad to “sow his wild oats”.
Desperate to avoid his arranged marriage and hoping to marry a woman he loves, Prince Akeem reveals his intentions to his servant, Semmi (Arsenio Hall). Semmi agrees to travel abroad and assist Akeem in finding a wife who can be respected for her intelligence as well as her beauty. Spinning a globe, Akeem’s finger lands on the world’s perfect destination for finding a queen - Queens, New York.
In Queens, Akeem and Semmi settle into a rundown ghetto apartment complex and set out to find as many women as possible. When their search is fruitless, an older man suggests they go to church and meet some “good girls”. It’s here that Akeem’s eye falls on Lisa McDowell (Shari Headley), daughter of Cleo McDowell (John Amos), founder of Queens’ most popular fast food establishment McDowell’s (which bares an uncanny resemblance to McDonald’s). Unfortunately, Lisa is dating Darryl Jenks, heir to his father’s hair supply business and the most eligible bachelor in town according to Cleo and Lisa’s sister Patrice (Allison Dean).
In an effort to get closer to Lisa, Akeem accepts a job at McDowell’s where fellow employee Maurice (Louie Anderson) fills him in on the bright future beheld by a McDowell’s employee. Forcing Semmi to work alongside him, Akeem and Semmi help foil a gunman (Samuel L. Jackson) who attempts to hold up the store. As Lisa and Akeem develop a relationship, her father voices his disapproval, viewing Akeem as nothing but a poor immigrant with no future.
When Semmi telegraphs King Joffer for more money, it prompts the King and his entourage to personally visit New York City in search of Akeem. Cleo does a complete one-eighty when he’s informed of Akeem’s identity, but King Joffer is insistent on his son’s arranged marriage…
An ingenious and utterly entertaining comedy, Coming To America ranks highly as one of Eddie Murphy’s best films, if not his best ever. Only Beverly Hills Cop and 48 Hours come close to dethroning Prince Akeem and his search for a worthy bride, but neither is quite on the same level with this film and its never-ending parade of hilarity. If you love to laugh, you can’t go wrong with Coming To America, one of the best comedies of the 1980s decade…
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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Coming To America (DVD).
