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DVD Hellcats of the Navy
As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ("hellcat") commander in the Pacific during World War II; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) "Mr. Right." They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his executive officer (Arthur Franz) reads nasty personal motives. This is a B movie all the way: drab supporting cast, script and direction that can't even get the cliches right, and bland studio footage of the actors intercut with speckly stock action shots and blatant miniatures exploding. Any contemporaneous episode of the syndicated TV series The Silent Service got more sense of excitement and wartime pressure aboard a submarine. Now if only the DVD had included that classic Saturday Night Live takeoff with Ron Reagan Jr. time-traveling back to the Hellcats set to spark the romance between dad (Randy Quaid) and mom (Terry Sweeney).... --Richard T. Jameson
Is it a horrible movie? I have seen much much worse than this. Does it merit 5-star ratings? You have got to be kidding me. If not for the fact that the stars went on to become President & First Lady, nobody would remember this movie any more than the countless number of B movies that were being churned out at this time.
It is interesting from the standpoint of Ronald Reagan's movie career, which was rapidly drawing to a close. Movies like this are indicative of an actor whose film offers were become less & less frequent and desirable, and it explains in part why Ronald Reagan would shortly thereafter leave Hollywood behind once & for all.
Do you want to kill a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon? You could do worse, for sure. But let's be real and recognize this movie for the unremarkable work that it is.
Excellent, nothing bad!
Excellent movie with nothing dirty in it. A good WWII movie. Good acting by both Ronald and Nancy Reagan and the others.
Excellent WWII submarine movie! Good action sequences.
This movie addresses the issue of what it takes to be a good wartime commander. Exciting enemy encounters, good account of a few social interaction between the swabbies and their families. It's an excellent movie despite public ridicule of former President Ronald Reagan's acting (His real-life wife is in it too). It leaves you with a sense that you have learned something, especially after watching it a second time.
Law and Order is a solid, entertaining western that showcases Ronald Reagan as a leading man. Reagan gives an almost John Wayne-esque performance (you could almost call him John Wayne Light in this one). Reagan is tough, but very likeable in the role and shows the charisma that would help him in his political life just a decade later.
The story itself is something of a re-working of the Earps VS the Clantons, and it even starts in Tombstone. Reagan is Frame Johnson, tough, no-nonsense Marshall of Tombstone. He decides to retire to a nearby town to start a ranch and marry his girl, but he finds the town run by another rancher and soon Frame and his brothers are in conflict with that rancher and his family. There is plenty of good western action, and a solid story in Law and Order.
Diverting western about cattle stampeding and land-grabbing in Montana where a local land owner is in cahoots with renegade Blackfeet Indians to kill and drive off white settlers who want to build homes and raise cattle and who pays off the hostiles with rifles and whiskey. Barbara Stanwyck is a tough-as-nails Texas woman who aims to take her rightful place where she and her father filed a legal land claim but are thwarted at every turn by greedy rancher McCord. Colorados, a college-educated Indian who wants peace and prosperity for the Blackfeet, gives aid and comfort to Sierra Nevada Jones after her cattle have been run off, incurring the wrath of a warlike sub-chief of a band of hostile Blackfeet. A lovely Indian maiden, jealous of the attentions paid to the red-haired white woman by... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck - Ronald Reagan Director(s): Allan Dwan DVD Release Date: Released the 12 February 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This two DVD set is excellent. It is short, but does justice to a Great President. The first DVD covers his movie career, and the second covers his political career. Outstanding summaries. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ronald Reagan DVD Release Date: Released the 11 May 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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'Tennessee's Partner' is a terrific saga based on the novel by the famous Western author Bret Harte. Beautifully produced by RKO studios in 1955, and filmed in gorgeous Technicolor, this film stars the underated actor John Payne, as the shrewd, but honest card expert Tennessee. He has no friends in the entire town except for his dance hall girlfriend played by Rhonda Fleming, whose flaming red hair is spectacular in color! Tennessee walks into an ambush and is nearly murdered by a loser player,when his life is saved by a cowpoke who wanders into town. He even calls himself Cowpoke and he is a complete straight-shooting arrow, played wonderfully by Ronald Reagan! Reagan becomes Tennesee's pal and partner, and Tennessee returns the favor by preventing Cowpoke from marrying an... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Allan Dwan DVD Release Date: Released the 12 February 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered uses interviews with Reagan's family, cabinet members, and political peers (including Mikhail Gorbachev) to paint a personal portrait as much as a political one. Home movies and photographs give clues into his difficult childhood and young adulthood, while a vast body of archival footage captures his film and television career (including commercials, in which he pitched appliances with the same smooth style he would later apply to the Republican agenda) and his political rise from governor of California to president of the United States. The program argues that Reagan was more than a handsome face mouthing the words of others, but also concedes that he led with big ideas (Communism must be destroyed, taxes must be cut) and had little... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 25 March 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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