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Canterville Ghost$14.90One brave act and the spell is broken! The specter of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted Canterville Castle for 300 years, ever since he was walled up alive for cowardice. A daring deed by a kinsman will free his spirit. Unfortunately, the Cantervilles are a timorous lot and Simon is out of luck. Then World War II GIs are billeted at the castle and among them is Canterville descendent Cuffy Williams.
Topkapi$8.12Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov. A fast-moving comedy about a bumbling group of robbers who hatch a plot to steal an emerald-covered dagger from Turkey's Topkapi museum. 1964/color/122 min/NR/widescreen.Director Jules Dassin (Night and the City, The Naked City) fashioned this breezy and intricate 1964 thriller with a sly comic bent, and it enjoyed international popularity and became an influence for other high-toned European caper films.
Rififi (The Criterion Collection)$19.79After making such American noir classics as The Naked City and Brute Force, blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious heist in the City of Lights. At once naturalistic and expressionistic, this melange of suspense, brutality, and dark humor was an international hit and earned Dassin the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Phaedra (MGM Limited Edition Collection)$17.34The wife of a Greek shipping tycoon has a love affair with her stepson.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.
The John Wayne Film Collection (Without Reservations /$13.57The six films in this collection are all new to DVD: Allegheny Uprising, Big Jim McLain, Reunion In France, Trouble Along The Way, Tycoon, and Without Reservations.Pilgrim, let's talk. John Wayne starred in something like 150 feature films, and the most loyal Duke devotee cannot insist that all of them were U.S. Grade A, even if the man himself never stinted. So what we have in this boxed set--now that the classics have been corralled in previous collections--is a mixed bag.
Never on Sunday$11.73Nominated* for five Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Actress, Director and Original Screenplay, and featuring the OscarÂ(r)-winning* song "Never on Sunday," this "racy, arty comedy"(The Hollywood Reporter) is as intoxicating as fine Greek wine.

Reunion in France$3.91(1942) Directed by Jules Dassin. WWII romantic adventure with Wayne playing a downed American aviator hidden by Frenchwoman Joan Crawford.The lone pairing of Joan Crawford and John Wayne is reason enough for being curious about Reunion in France, a flagrantly preposterous World War II melodrama with a surprisingly distinguished roster of contributors--from producer Joseph L.
Naked City Criterion Collection$27.38Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff. Based on fact, this influential Oscar-winning thriller follows a procedural manhunt through the Big Apple after a young woman is found brutally murdered in her bathtub. 1948/b&w/96 min/NR/fullscreen."Ladies and gentlemen, the motion picture you are about to see is called The Naked City." With a helicopter shot slowly closing in on Manhattan, producer Mark Hellinger's staccato narration introduces the film ("It was not photographed in a studio .
The Law (La loi)$8.02Pigeons and vagabonds populate the town square of Porto Manacore, the seedy Italian fishing village perched above the Adriatic where passion and power are equally corrupt. Overlooking the immoral hoi polloi from his baroque apartment on high is the town's wealthy patriarch Don Cesare (Pierre Brasseur, anticipating Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone). Lusted after by the men of the town is his gorgeous housekeeper, Mariette (Gina Lollobrigida), the resident whipping girl to the Don's other female caretakers.