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- The Count of Monte Cristo Box Set (Mini-Series) (1999) VHS - (NTSC Format - USA & Canada)
- The Count of Monte Cristo Collection (Mini-Series) (1999) DVD - (Region 1 - USA & Canada)
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti
Memories of past adaptations of the Alexandre Dumas novel inevitably hover over this four-part French miniseries, originally broadcast on American cable television in 1999. It's hard, for instance, to top the 1934 feature starring Robert Donat as Edmond Dantès, the sea captain who is framed and unjustifiably imprisoned in 1815 for nearly two decades. Similarly, anyone who saw Richard Chamberlain essay the same role in a memorable 1975 TV movie may remember just how exciting that program was. Yet this lengthy costume adventure starring Gérard Depardieu as the vengeful Dantès, despite a rocky beginning, is absolutely mesmerizing in its own way. Rich in detail and overlapping subplots, strikingly handsome in art direction without getting ostentatious, this particular Count comes to life after Dantès escapes his lengthy incarceration in solitary confinement. Fans of the story know what comes next: Dantès makes his way to an uninhabited island off Italy, where he locates a vast treasure he has heard about. His sudden, phenomenal wealth gives him the means to reward allies, punish enemies, and become an architect of events without anyone knowing who's behind them. While Dantès's mind is bent on destroying those who betrayed him, his deeper nature causes him to perform a vast amount of good as well. Depardieu's big, beefy, clean-shaven self is not exactly the right fit, initially, for a character supposedly subsisting on thin soup for 18 years. He quickly assumes the central role with one of his most knowing and subtle performances, ingeniously painting Dantès as a man who has exchanged one sort of prison for another, the latter his own hatred. The sharp, engaging screenplay is by Didier Decoin (The Chambermaid on the Titanic), and the production is directed with flashes of bold inventiveness by Josée Dayan, a prominent European television director.
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- Erik The Viking (1989) - VHS - (PAL Format - Europe)
Starring Terry Jones, John Cleese
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
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- Pirates (1986) - VHS - (NTSC Format - USA & Canada)
Starring Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas
Roman Polanski's homage/parody to the swashbuckling adventure films of the 1930s and 1940s, with Walter Matthau as the peg-legged pirate captain who, along with his handsome sidekick, is captured by the captain of a Spanish galleon.
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- Popeye (1980) - VHS - (NTSC Format - USA & Canada)
Starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall
The comic strip and cartoon hero, Popeye, comes to life in Robert Altman's film adaptation of the adventures of the Spinach munchin' sailor. But Altman's shenanigans transpire before Popeye declares his love for Olive and discovered his affinity for Spinach. After he's thrown from his ship during a storm, Popeye finds refuge in a quaint seaside town. There he rents a room from the Oyls and meets their daughter Olive. She is engaged to Captain Bluto, a bully and ruffian who is in charge of collecting taxes for the mysterious Commandant. Popeye, who was orphaned at an early age, is now searching for his missing father. What he doesn't realize is that the shipwreck has brought him unexpectedly close to his final destination.
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- Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger (1977) - VHS - (PAL Format - Europe)
Starring Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour
Sinbad must deliver a prince transformed into a monkey to the lands of the Ademaspai to restore him to his human form in time for his coronation. On the way he must contend with the evil witch Zenobia, her son and their magic, and several nasty-looking Ray Harryhausen beasties.
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