Woman Rebels, A - DVD

Ludwig van Beethoven has, for over 200 years, reigned as one of music's most gifted geniuses. During the course of his career, he rebelled against Vienna's aristocracy, and the constraints and challenges placed on his talents. Just as he achieved success, his tragic loss of hearing threatened to destroy his career and to even destroy Beethoven himself. Then, as he retreated into a world of silence, he met a blind boy who helped change the course of music forever. Shot in and around beautiful Vienna and filled with Beethoven's immortal music, THE MAGNIFICENT REBEL is an engaging historical drama that hits all the right notes.

In one of the most influential performances in movie history, James Dean plays the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and still reverberate 50 years later. Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo were Academy Award nominees* for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark chosen as one of the all-time Top 100 American Film by the American F

In the tradition of its femmes-behind-bars forerunners, this remake of the Warner Bros. genre landmark Caged is reform-minded in its story and spiked with provocatively pitched elements (including a doozy of a catfight riot). "Secrets of the Cells! Innocents Thrown in with Female Bully-Boys!" shouted movie ads. Erica (Shirley Knight) is one of the innocents, pregnant and unjustly locked up for a five-year stint. She gives birth, her chi