Best Picture Collection, DVD

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Gentleman's Agreement
1. Main Titles [1:11]
2. Phil Green Gets a New Assignment [5:21]
3. Phil Meets Kathy [7:54]
4. A Difficult Beginning [4:22]
5. Sudden Inspiration [6:13]
6. Phil Starts Seeing Life as a Jew [8:45]
7. Phil and Kathy Quarrel About His Plan [7:09]
8. Anti-Semitism at the Magazine [:47]
9. A Party and Another Quarrel [6:15]
10. Dave Goldman Comes to Town [6:36]
11. The Many Faces of Prejudice [:01]
12. Phil Finishes the Series [9:25]
13. Kathy Sees the Problem in a New Light [:02]
Disc #2 -- The French Connection
1. Main Titles [:02]
2. A Death in Marseilles [:14]
3. A Bust in Brooklyn [:40]
4. The Frenchman [:34]
5. A Table Full of Suspects [2:02]
6. The Tail [3:50]
7. Alain's New Partner [:50]
8. Sal & Angie [1:28]
9. Popeye's Here [4:57]
10. The Shipment [1:38]
11. Deveraux in New York [4:17]
12. A Good Cop [2:27]
13. The Car Auction [1:02]
14. The Wiretap [1:44]
15. Following Boca [3:39]
16. Tailing the Frenchman [3:22]
17. 89% Pure Junk [1:38]
18. Following Frog One [4:51]
19. A Meeting in Washington [1:37]
20. Off the Case [:58]
21. Sniper [3:27]
22. The Chase [2:03]
23. Face-to-Face [4:26]
24. The Brown Lincoln [3:04]
25. Tear it Apart [3:34]
26. 120 Pounds [:36]
27. No More Favors [3:01]
28. The Transaction [:52]
29. Surrounded [1:58]
30. Closing In [1:15]
31. The Last Shot [3:43]
32. Epilogue/End Titles [6:39]
Disc #3 -- All About Eve
1. Main Titles [1:05]
2. The Sarah Siddons Award [6:16]
3. Only Last October [2:22]
4. Meet Margo Channing [2:10]
5. How it Started [3:10]
6. What is Theater? [6:36]
7. At the Airport [3:13]
8. Eve Moves In [:27]
9. Midnight Caller [2:08]
10. Paranoiac Insecurity? [4:06]
11. Bill's Welcome Home Birthday Party [6:03]
12. The New Understudy [1:22]
13. A Breed Apart [4:01]
14. The Party's Over [8:00]
15. A Mass of Fire and Music [2:19]
16. Coming Unglued [3:02]
17. A Perfectly Harmless Joke [2:40]
18. Forward Pass [:07]
19. Addison's Review [3:31]
20. Lloyd's Idea? [3:34]
21. The Cub Room [9:26]
22. A Simple Exchange of Favors [1:03]
23. "What's So Funny?" [8:07]
24. Footsteps on the Ceiling [5:43]
25. Killer to Killer [:19]
26. A Night to Remember [4:08]
27. Phoebe [3:25]
28. End Titles [3:45]
Disc #4 -- The Sound of Music
1. Austrian Hills [1:11]
2. Prelude [1:06]
3. The Sound of Music [2:26]
4. Main Titles [2:38]
5. Salzburg 1938: Nonnberg Abbey Preludium: Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110), Morning Hymn (Rex Admirabilis) and Alleluia [:18]
6. Maria [3:17]
7. The Office of the Mother Abbess [3:26]
8. I Have Confidence [:22]
9. Villa Von Trapp [4:00]
10. The Captain [3:16]
11. Maria and the Children [:41]
12. Late For Dinner [1:38]
13. Rolf Gruber, Messenger Boy [5:14]
14. Liesl's Rendezvous [2:51]
15. Sixteen Going on Seventeen [2:24]
16. Maria's Bedroom [1:38]
17. My Favorite Things [2:15]
18. My Favorite Things Conclusion and Salzburg Montage [4:55]
19. Do-Re-Mi [1:35]
20. Returning From Vienna [4:12]
21. Baroness Elsa Schraeder [3:50]
22. A Telegram For Herr Detweiler [:12]
23. The Rowboat [3:12]
24. Maria Confronts the Captain [4:34]
25. The Sound of Music Reprise [1:22]
26. The Captain Apologizes [1:42]
27. The Lonely Goatherd [4:36]
28. Edelweiss [1:42]
29. The Party [1:53]
30. The Laendler [1:49]
31. So Long, Farewell [:52]
32. Maria and the Baroness [1:44]
33. Maria's Farewell [1:39]
34. Act I Finale [4:14]
35. Entr'Acte [1:51]
36. A New Mother [3:06]
37. The Children Visit the Abbey [2:11]
38. Maria's Revelation [3:11]
39. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [1:04]
40. My Favorite Things Reprise [3:37]
41. The Baroness Departs [1:59]
42. Maria and the Captain [1:16]
43. Something Good [:59]
44. Wedding Bells [:17]
45. Processional and Maria Reprise [2:05]
46. The Anschluss [5:14]
47. A Telegram From Berlin [:40]
48. The Flag of the Third Reich [1:54]
49. Maria and Liesl [2:47]
50. Sixteen Going on Seventeen Reprise [4:43]
51. Leaving the Villa [3:27]
52. The Salzburg Folk Festival: Do-Re-Mi Reprise [3:22]
53. Edelweiss Reprise [:22]
54. So Long, Farwell Reprise [4:19]
55. Max Announces the Winners [2:24]
56. "They're Gone!" [1:03]
57. Hiding at the Abbey [:45]
58. Discovered by Rolf [2:43]
59. Escape From Salzburg and Finale Ultimo: Climb Ev'ry Mountain Reprise [3:29]
60. End Titles [:37]
Disc #5 -- How Green Was My Valley
1. Main Titles [1:03]
2. The Valley in Happy Times [6:41]
3. The Village Gets a New Preacher [4:03]
4. Hard Times and a Strike [3:21]
5. Joy Returns to the Morgan Home [1:41]
6. Life in the Valley Begins to Change [5:27]
7. Anghaard Gets Married [6:54]
8. Huw Goes to School [3:24]
9. Huw Becomes a Miner [3:48]
10. Scandal and Tragedy Strike the Valley [5:55]

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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Taking pity on the girl, Margo takes Eve as her personal assistant. Before long, it becomes apparent that na�ve Eve is a Machiavellian conniver who cold-bloodedly uses Margo, her director Bill Sampson (Gary Merill), Lloyd's wife Karen (Celeste Holm), and waspish critic Addison De Witt (George Sanders) to rise to the top of the theatrical heap. Also appearing in All About Eve is Marilyn Monroe, introduced by Addison De Witt as "a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic art." This is but one of the hundreds of unforgettable lines penned by writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the most famous of which is Margo Channing's lip-sneering admonition, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." All About Eve received 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Taking pity on the girl, Margo takes Eve as her personal assistant. Before long, it becomes apparent that na�ve Eve is a Machiavellian conniver who cold-bloodedly uses Margo, her director Bill Sampson (Gary Merill), Lloyd's wife Karen (Celeste Holm), and waspish critic Addison De Witt (George Sanders) to rise to the top of the theatrical heap. Also appearing in All About Eve is Marilyn Monroe, introduced by Addison De Witt as "a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic art." This is but one of the hundreds of unforgettable lines penned by writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the most famous of which is Margo Channing's lip-sneering admonition, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." All About Eve received 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hal Erickson

All Movie Guide

Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman's Agreement stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting articles on the scourge of anti-Semitism. In order to glean his information first hand, Green decides to pose as a Jew. As the weeks go by, Green experiences all manner of prejudice, the most insidious being the subtle, "gentleman's agreement" form of bigotry wherein anti-Jewish sentiments are merely taken for granted. Green's pose takes a toll on his budding romance with Minify's niece Kathy (Dorothy McGuire), who comes to realize by her own example that even those who insist that they harbor no anti-Semitic feelings are also capable of prejudice. Watching from the sidelines is Green's lifelong Jewish friend Dave (John Garfield, in what may be his best performance), who despite his inherent rage over the iniquities of racism has learned to be philosophical about the failings of his fellow man -- but not to the extent that he's willing to give up the fight against blind hatred. Though warned by several Jewish film moguls that to produce the film would merely "make trouble," 20th Century-Fox chieftan Daryl F. Zanuck (who was not himself Jewish) saw the project through to its conclusion. The wisdom of Zanuck's decision was proven when Gentleman's Agreement not only made a fortune for Fox, but also won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Elia Kazan) and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm). Hal Erickson

All Movie Guide

One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows, the Mother Superior (Peggy Wood) sends her off to be governess for the children of the widowed Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Arriving at the Trapp home, Maria discovers that her new boss is cold and aloof, and his seven children virtual automatons-at least, whenever the Captain is around. Otherwise, the kids are holy terrors, as evidenced by the fact that Maria is the latest in a long line of governesses. But Maria soon ingratiates herself with the children, especially oldest daughter Liesl (Charmian Carr), who is in love with teenaged messenger boy Rolf. As Maria herself begins to fall in love with the Captain, she rushes back to the Abbey so as not to complicate his impending marriage to a glamorous baroness (Eleanor Parker). But the children insist that Maria return, the Baroness steps out of the picture, and Maria and the Captain confirm their love in the song "Something Good." Unhappily, they return home from their honeymoon shortly after the Nazis march into Austria. Already, swastikas have been hung on the Von Trapp ancestral home, and Liesl's boyfriend Rolf has been indoctrinated in the "glories" of the Third Reich. The biggest blow occurs when Von Trapp is called back to active duty in the service of the Fuhrer. The Captain wants nothing to do with Nazism, and he begins making plans to take himself and his family out of Austria. Hal Erickson

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The gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama The French Connection earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Ernest Tidyman), and Best Actor (Gene Hackman). Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his partner, Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider), are New York City police detectives on narcotics detail, trying to track down the source of heroin from Europe into the United States. Suave Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) is the French drug kingpin who provides a large percentage of New York City's dope, and Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi) is a hired killer and Charnier's right-hand man. Acting on a hunch, Popeye and Buddy start tailing Sal Boca (Tony Lo Bianco) and his wife, Angie (Arlene Faber), who live pretty high for a couple whose corner store brings in about 7,000 dollars a year. It turns out Popeye's suspicions are right -- Sal and Angie are the New York agents for Charnier, who will be smuggling 32 million dollars' worth of heroin into the city in a car shipped over from France. The French Connection broke plenty of new ground for screen thrillers; Popeye Doyle was a highly unusual "hero," an often violent, racist, and mean-spirited cop whose dedication to his job fell just short of dangerous obsession. The film's high point, a high-speed car chase with Popeye tailing an elevated train, was one of the most viscerally exciting screen moments of its day and set the stage for dozens of action sequences to follow. And the film's grimy realism (and downbeat ending) was a big change from the buff-and-shine gloss and good-guys-always-win heroics of most police dramas that preceded it. The French Connection was inspired by a true story, and Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, Popeye and Buddy's real life counterparts, both have small roles in the film. A sequel followed four years later. Mark Deming

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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining family, as told through the eyes of its youngest child Huw (Roddy McDowall). Over the years, the family struggles to survive through unionization, strikes, and child abuse. As they do so, their hometown and its culture begins to slowly decline. Donald Crisp portrays Gwilym, the patriarch of the Morgan household, who dreams of a better life for young Huw. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley won five Academy Awards in 1941, including Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Crisp), Best Art Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Picture (beating Citizen Kane). The book was later adapted into a 1975 BBC miniseries. Matthew Tobey

UPC: 024543490715
Source: 20TH CENTURY FOX
Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1), Theatre Wide-Screen (1.85.1)
Presentation: B&W, Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Language: English, Fran�ais, Espa�ol
Subtitles: English, Espa�ol
Time: 8:35:00
Sales Rank: 13,234

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Gentleman's Agreement
1. Main Titles [1:11]
2. Phil Green Gets a New Assignment [5:21]
3. Phil Meets Kathy [7:54]
4. A Difficult Beginning [4:22]
5. Sudden Inspiration [6:13]
6. Phil Starts Seeing Life as a Jew [8:45]
7. Phil and Kathy Quarrel About His Plan [7:09]
8. Anti-Semitism at the Magazine [:47]
9. A Party and Another Quarrel [6:15]
10. Dave Goldman Comes to Town [6:36]
11. The Many Faces of Prejudice [:01]
12. Phil Finishes the Series [9:25]
13. Kathy Sees the Problem in a New Light [:02]
Disc #2 -- The French Connection
1. Main Titles [:02]
2. A Death in Marseilles [:14]
3. A Bust in Brooklyn [:40]
4. The Frenchman [:34]
5. A Table Full of Suspects [2:02]
6. The Tail [3:50]
7. Alain's New Partner [:50]
8. Sal & Angie [1:28]
9. Popeye's Here [4:57]
10. The Shipment [1:38]
11. Deveraux in New York [4:17]
12. A Good Cop [2:27]
13. The Car Auction [1:02]
14. The Wiretap [1:44]
15. Following Boca [3:39]
16. Tailing the Frenchman [3:22]
17. 89% Pure Junk [1:38]
18. Following Frog One [4:51]
19. A Meeting in Washington [1:37]
20. Off the Case [:58]
21. Sniper [3:27]
22. The Chase [2:03]
23. Face-to-Face [4:26]
24. The Brown Lincoln [3:04]
25. Tear it Apart [3:34]
26. 120 Pounds [:36]
27. No More Favors [3:01]
28. The Transaction [:52]
29. Surrounded [1:58]
30. Closing In [1:15]
31. The Last Shot [3:43]
32. Epilogue/End Titles [6:39]
Disc #3 -- All About Eve
1. Main Titles [1:05]
2. The Sarah Siddons Award [6:16]
3. Only Last October [2:22]
4. Meet Margo Channing [2:10]
5. How it Started [3:10]
6. What is Theater? [6:36]
7. At the Airport [3:13]
8. Eve Moves In [:27]
9. Midnight Caller [2:08]
10. Paranoiac Insecurity? [4:06]
11. Bill's Welcome Home Birthday Party [6:03]
12. The New Understudy [1:22]
13. A Breed Apart [4:01]
14. The Party's Over [8:00]
15. A Mass of Fire and Music [2:19]
16. Coming Unglued [3:02]
17. A Perfectly Harmless Joke [2:40]
18. Forward Pass [:07]
19. Addison's Review [3:31]
20. Lloyd's Idea? [3:34]
21. The Cub Room [9:26]
22. A Simple Exchange of Favors [1:03]
23. "What's So Funny?" [8:07]
24. Footsteps on the Ceiling [5:43]
25. Killer to Killer [:19]
26. A Night to Remember [4:08]
27. Phoebe [3:25]
28. End Titles [3:45]
Disc #4 -- The Sound of Music
1. Austrian Hills [1:11]
2. Prelude [1:06]
3. The Sound of Music [2:26]
4. Main Titles [2:38]
5. Salzburg 1938: Nonnberg Abbey Preludium: Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110), Morning Hymn (Rex Admirabilis) and Alleluia [:18]
6. Maria [3:17]
7. The Office of the Mother Abbess [3:26]
8. I Have Confidence [:22]
9. Villa Von Trapp [4:00]
10. The Captain [3:16]
11. Maria and the Children [:41]
12. Late For Dinner [1:38]
13. Rolf Gruber, Messenger Boy [5:14]
14. Liesl's Rendezvous [2:51]
15. Sixteen Going on Seventeen [2:24]
16. Maria's Bedroom [1:38]
17. My Favorite Things [2:15]
18. My Favorite Things Conclusion and Salzburg Montage [4:55]
19. Do-Re-Mi [1:35]
20. Returning From Vienna [4:12]
21. Baroness Elsa Schraeder [3:50]
22. A Telegram For Herr Detweiler [:12]
23. The Rowboat [3:12]
24. Maria Confronts the Captain [4:34]
25. The Sound of Music Reprise [1:22]
26. The Captain Apologizes [1:42]
27. The Lonely Goatherd [4:36]
28. Edelweiss [1:42]
29. The Party [1:53]
30. The Laendler [1:49]
31. So Long, Farewell [:52]
32. Maria and the Baroness [1:44]
33. Maria's Farewell [1:39]
34. Act I Finale [4:14]
35. Entr'Acte [1:51]
36. A New Mother [3:06]
37. The Children Visit the Abbey [2:11]
38. Maria's Revelation [3:11]
39. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [1:04]
40. My Favorite Things Reprise [3:37]
41. The Baroness Departs [1:59]
42. Maria and the Captain [1:16]
43. Something Good [:59]
44. Wedding Bells [:17]
45. Processional and Maria Reprise [2:05]
46. The Anschluss [5:14]
47. A Telegram From Berlin [:40]
48. The Flag of the Third Reich [1:54]
49. Maria and Liesl [2:47]
50. Sixteen Going on Seventeen Reprise [4:43]
51. Leaving the Villa [3:27]
52. The Salzburg Folk Festival: Do-Re-Mi Reprise [3:22]
53. Edelweiss Reprise [:22]
54. So Long, Farwell Reprise [4:19]
55. Max Announces the Winners [2:24]
56. "They're Gone!" [1:03]
57. Hiding at the Abbey [:45]
58. Discovered by Rolf [2:43]
59. Escape From Salzburg and Finale Ultimo: Climb Ev'ry Mountain Reprise [3:29]
60. End Titles [:37]
Disc #5 -- How Green Was My Valley
1. Main Titles [1:03]
2. The Valley in Happy Times [6:41]
3. The Village Gets a New Preacher [4:03]
4. Hard Times and a Strike [3:21]
5. Joy Returns to the Morgan Home [1:41]
6. Life in the Valley Begins to Change [5:27]
7. Anghaard Gets Married [6:54]
8. Huw Goes to School [3:24]
9. Huw Becomes a Miner [3:48]
10. Scandal and Tragedy Strike the Valley [5:55]

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