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1) Will success spoil Rock Hunter?

Series

Cinema classics collection

Pub. Date

2006.

Edition

[Widescreen].

Language

English

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Adman Rockwell P. Hunter must come up with a new idea to propel him one more rung up the corporate ladder in this satire on Madison Avenue, television and the cult of the movie star.

2) The sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Series

Cinema classics collection

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

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A comedy/Western about a refined English gentleman who became sheriff of the toughest town this side of Tombstone and the blonde saloon owner who taught him how.

3) The girl can't help it

Series

Cinema classics collection

Pub. Date

2006.

Edition

[Widescreen].

Language

English

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Jayne Mansfield plays a blonde who is being coached to become a nightclub singer by her racketeer boyfriend. To help her along, he hires a hungry talent agent to boost her career into the big time. Features music by Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Platters, Ray Anthony, Julie London, The Treniers, Abbey Lincoln and other rock 'n' roll stars.

4) The girl can't help it

Series

Criterion collection volume 1120

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

Formats

Blu-ray, DVD

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"In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive...

5) Illegal: The big steal

Series

Film noir classic collection double feature

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

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Illegal: Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution, but is too late. Scott resigns as a prosecutor and enters private practice. He draws the attention of mob kingpin Frank Garland. Scott represents one of Garland's stooges on a murder rap...