Things start innocent enough with decorated WWII soldiers Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) and Drake (William Prince) are brought back from Paris to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor respectively. Panicking before the pair reach Washington D.C., Drake runs from the train and leaves his old war buddy holding the bag at a loss to make sense of the situation.
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The last of the original Herbie movies takes the car to Brazil by way of Mexico where plans of having him race in the Brazil Grand Prêmio are derailed long before he or current owners Pete (Stephen W. Burns) and D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) ever make it to their destination. Onboard the cruise ship, Herbie befriends a young pickpocket (Joaquin Garay III) who stole not only Pete and D.J.’s wallets but also those of three crooked businessmen (John Vernon, Richard Jaeckel, and Alex Rocco) planning to steal gold from Inca ruins.
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to 1929 and Basil Rathbone on the case, but not yet as Sherlock Holmes. The Bishop Murder Case is an intriguing piece of film history with Rathbone taking on the role of S.S. Van Dine’s detective Philo Vance 10 years before he would first step into the shoes of the world’s most famous detective.
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Director Frank Oz‘s well-received toe-tappin’ big-screen adaptation of the 1982 off-Broadway musical (which itself was a reimaging of the original 1960 film) about loveable loser Seymour Krelborn’s (Rick Moranis) relationship to a carnivorous plant from outer space (voiced by Levi Stubbs) comes to 4K for the first time.
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Released 40 years ago, director Ivan Reitman‘s Legal Eagles is a little of everything. Part romance, part legal drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Reitman and screenwriters Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. throw basically everything into the blender. The result is an entertaining, if a bit tonally Frankensteinish, movie that never quite clicked with audiences or critics.
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