Dr Seuss: The Cat in the Hat [DVD] [Standard]

Ten-disc set includes Top Gun (1986)Tom Cruise is Maverick; ace Navy fighter pilot, member of elite InchTop GunInch school with fellow fliers Iceman (Val Kilmer) and Goose (Anthony Edwards); goes against the rules and riles his boss (Tom Skerritt); falls for teacher Charlie (Kelly McGillis); wants to fly his way; exciting dogfight finale; blazing jets; beach volleyball; lots of rock 'n' roll. Co-stars Michael Ironside, John Stockwell, Tim Robbins; directed by Tony Scott. 109 min. C/Rtg PG Days Of Thunder (1990)Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a land-based Inchtop gunInch in this thrilling drama set against the danger-filled world of auto racing. Mentored by a veteran crew chief (Robert Duvall), Trickle romances a beautiful surgeon (Nicole Kidman) as he prepares to face a skilled and merciless rival (Cary Elwes) on the track at the Daytona 500. Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly, and Randy Quaid co-star. 107 min. C/Rtg PG-13 The Firm (1993)Riveting adaptation of John Grisham's best-seller stars Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young attorney recruited by a posh Memphis law firm. Soon, he and his wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), find their lives are in danger when they suspect shady maneuvers by Mitch's employers and uncover blackmail and ties to organized crime. With Gene Hackman, Holly Hunter, Gary Busey, and Ed Harris; directed by Sydney Pollack. 154 min. C/Rtg R Vanilla Sky (2001)Cameron Crowe's reworking of the 1997 Spanish film InchOpen Your EyesInch stars Tom Cruise as David Aames, a wealthy magazine who's attracted to a beautiful dancer (Penélope Cruz, who starred in the original). When a car accident caused by his obsessed ex-lover (Cameron Diaz) kills her and leaves his face disfigured, a shattered David seeks help from a police psychologist (Kurt Russell), as he becomes increasingly unable to discern reality from fantasy. With Jason Lee. 135 min. C/R

Josh Hartnett, Ewan MacGregor. Ridley Scott's gripping take on the worst-case-scenario mission in Somalia that cost the lives of 18 soldiers in 1993 and turned public opinion against the campaign. 2001/color/144 min/R.

Ten-disc set includes Rope (1948)Hitchcock's "filmed play experiment," shot in continuous 10-minute takes, follows two prep school friends who murder an ex-classmate for the "intellectual thrill" of it, then hide the body in their Manhattan apartment while hosting a dinner party. John Dall and Farley Granger are the killers, and James Stewart is their former teacher, who uncovers the crime. 81 min. C/Rtg PG The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)Alfred Hitchcock remade his own 1934 thriller of the same name into this exhilarating suspense classic. An American couple (James Stewart and Doris Day) vacationing in Morocco finds themselves mixed up in a complex and dangerous web of intrigue that involves kidnapping, blackmail, murder, a French intelligence agent, and a political assassination attempt. Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles co-star; features the Oscar-winning song "Que Sera, Sera" performed by Day. 120 min. C/Rtg PG Torn Curtain (1966)Alfred Hitchcock's espionage yarn stars Paul Newman as Michael Armstrong, an American physicist who plans to defect to East Germany and hand over important secrets to the communists. But Armstrong's scheme turns out to be more complicated when it's discovered he has a different plan that will place him, along with his secretary and fiancée (Julie Andrews), in danger. With Lila Kedrova, Ludwig Donath. 128 min. C/Rtg NR Topaz (1969)Based on the Leon Uris novel, this Alfred Hitchcock tale of Cold War intrigue stars John Forsythe as a CIA agent who teams with French spy Frederick Stafford to uncover Soviet activities in Cuba shortly before the 1962 missile crisis and finds a double agent is working against them. Karin Dor, Roscoe Lee Browne, John Vernon also star. 143 min. C/Rtg PG Frenzy (1972)As a serial rapist/strangler dubbed "the Necktie Killer" roams the streets of London, Dick Blaney (Jon Finch), an innocent man whose ex-wife was on