Silver Screen Icons: Best Picture Winners (DVD Set) [DVD] [Standard]

Fourteen-disc set includes Wings (1927)Thrilling aerial combat scenes highlight director William Wellman's silent WWI saga, winner of the first Best Picture Academy Award. Richard Arlen and Charles InchBuddyInch Rogers are small-town best friends, in love with the same girl, who enlist in the Army Air Corps to fight in Europe. Clara Bow is a France-based ambulance driver from back home, and Gary Cooper-in an early role-plays a cocky cadet. 144 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg NR My Fair Lady (1964)George Bernard Shaw's play InchPygmalion,Inch about the wondrous transformation of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a refined woman of society by linguist Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), was combined with such unforgettable Lerner and Loewe songs as InchI Could Have Danced All Night,Inch InchOn the Street Where You Live,Inch and InchWouldn't It Be Loverly,Inch and the result was this winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Co-stars Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway. 172 min. C/Rtg G The Godfather (1972)Director Francis Ford Coppola's landmark adaptation of Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of Mafia life in 1940s New York earned Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor. Marlon Brando stars as aging mob boss Don Vito Corleone, who weighs the appointment of a rightful successor to head his Inchfamily businessInch from among his three sons hot-headed first-born son Sonny (James Caan), weak-minded Fredo (John Cazale), and college-educated war hero Michael (Al Pacino). With Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Richard Castellano 177 min. C/Rtg R Terms Of Endearment (1983)Follow the lives and loves of a mother and daughter over the years, and the special bond they share, in this poignant comedy-drama, based on Larry McMurtry's novel, that garnered five Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Act

Six-disc set includes Girls Can Play (1937)A young reporter (Charles Quigley) looking for a human interest angle thought he'd found it when he followed the lady (Julie Bishop) he'd been flirting with to her women's softball team. Turns out, however that the squad's InchdruggistInch sponsor (John Gallaudet) has a criminal agenda, and he's not above sacrificing his catcher girlfriend (Rita Hayworth) to achieve it. 59 min. BW/Rtg NR Special Inspector (1938)A cut-throat ring of smugglers are waylaying Canadian fur shippers and selling their precious cargo for big bucks in the States. A determined customs agent (Charles Quigley) pools his resources with the sister (Rita Hayworth) of one of the slain truckers in order to close the trap on the pernicious pelt pilferers. 54 min. BW/Rtg NR Music In My Heart (1940)Crooner Robert Gregory (Tony Martin), facing imminent deportation, runs into singer Patricia O'Malley (Rita Hayworth, in her first musical), who's about to marry a dull-as-dishwater millionaire. Before long, they're singing and romancing together in this tuneful comedy that also features Alan Mowbray. 70 min. BW/Rtg NR The Lady In Question (1940)After helping to acquit an accused killer (Rita Hayworth), a sympathetic juror (Brian Aherne) offers the scandalized woman a position in his shop under an assumed name. When his son (Glenn Ford) begins to fall for her, though, the conflicted merchant is faced with telling all about her past. 80 min. BW/Rtg NR Angels Over Broadway (1940)Times Square hustler Bill O'Brien (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) thought that the big spender (John Qualen) he'd been eyeing would be the perfect sucker to drag to a high-stakes poker game. However, when O'Brien's taxi dancer girlfriend (Rita Hayworth) and a sodden playwright (Thomas Mitchell) discover the would-be mark is a suicidal embezzler, they conspire to end his money troubles, in this mem

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