Classic Films

Featuring a sparkling wide-screen digital transfer and commentary by Charlton Heston, this is the definitive edition of one of the biggest cinema blockbusters in history! With fascinating documentaries, original trailers, and highlights from the 1960 Academy Awards ceremony, this comprehensive set also includes the 1925 silent version with restored orchestral score and much more. Four DVDs.

When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi (Shirley Temple) goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather (Jean Hersholt), who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her granddad again. This Shirley Temple classic has never looked better! A patented coloring and remastering process makes her picture-perfect charm more vivid than ever! The restored Black-And-White Version is also included! Approx. 88 minutes.

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby (Derek Bond), and his mother and sister are cared for by his greedy uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwicke), who arranges for Nicholas to get a job at a notoriously brutal school for boys, Nicholas befriend and ill-treated student, Smike, and they soon flee the school and join a theatrical troop. Nicholas then tries to stop his Uncle Ralph from taking advantage of his sister. Based on Charles Dickens' classic. Black and White. Approx. 107 minutes.

Winner of six Academy Awards, The King and I contains some of the most lavish sets in Hollywood history and some of the world's best-loved songs, including "Getting To Know You," "I Whistle A Happy Tune," "Hello, Young Lovers," and "Shall We Dance?" Approx. 133 minutes.

The first movie ever filmed in CinemaScope, The Robe was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1953, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Richard Burton. Burton stars as Marcellus Gallio, the Roman centurian charged with overseeing the crucifixion. But when he wins Christ's robe in a gambling game at the foot of the cross, his life is forever changed. Its inspired story set to a spectacular score, and featuring an all-star cast, including Victor Mature and Jean Simmons, The Robe remains one of the screen's greatest biblical epics. In color, approx. 135 minutes.

Share the magical, heartwarming true-life story that has become the most popular family film of all time--Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or entertainment. This is the 40th Anniversary Edition. Approx. 175 minutes.

Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison portray two of the Renaissance's most colorful figures in this historical drama based on Irvin Stone's best-seller. When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, Michelangelo later destroys his own work and flees to Rome. Nominated for an Oscar for Cinematography and named one of the year's best films by the National Board of Review, The Agony and the Ecstasy is a fascinating dramatization of the battle of wills behind one of the world's artistic masterpieces.  Approx. 138 minutes.

It's turn-of-the-century Yonkers, New York, where an ambitious young widow with a penchant for matchmaking (Streisand), has an idea for the perfect match — tight-fisted, local merchant Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) and — herself! As she tries to win his heart, we're treated to one of the most musically entertaining, hilariously underhanded plots in film history. Directed by Gene Kelly, this Oscar winner for Best Sound, Music, Score and Art Direction/Set Decoration is among the world's most cherished films. Rated G. Approx. 148 minutes.

A Little Princess
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic, scrappy young Sarah Crewe must attend the evil Miss Minchin's Boarding School for Girls, while her adoring father is seeking his fortune in an Indian diamond mine. 44 minutes.

Curly the Littlest Puppy
When little Hayley Ardmore is forced to live with wicked Aunt Judith, her future seems pretty bleak, until Curly, the scrappy stray puppy, brings welcome warmth - and makes a daring and heroic rescue. 46 minutes.

Happy the Littlest Bunny
The littlest bunny in all of Corwall County, Happy and his mischievous friend, Chicky the Chipmunk, come up with a plan to outdo his nasty brothers, but the plan backfires, teaching everyone a lesson. 49 minutes.