GIFT SETRun Time: 487Release Date: 2/2/2010NRProduct DescriptionSPLENDOR IN THE GRASS - Two teenagers (Natalie Wood and screen-debuting Warren Beatty) find their intense feelings for each other put them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of their 1920s Kansas town. Elia Kazan directs a poetic portrait of young love from an Oscar-winning William Inge screenplay. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON - May-December romance is in bloom when music student Audrey Hepburn and millionaire playboy Gary Cooper cross paths. Laughs Parisian settings champagne elegance director/co-writer Billy Wilder delivers them all in a souffl?-light comedy charmer also starring Maurice Chevalier. MOGAMBO - In the jungles of Kenya safari guide Clark Gable is attracted to two beautiful women: a tough out-of-work showgirl (Ava Gardner) and the prim wife (Grace Kelly) of his anthropologist boss. John Ford directs this on-location remake of Red Dust that captured Oscar nominations* for both ladies. NOW VOYAGER - A tender love story a taut psychological drama an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual transformation. Experience all three in this Bette Davis career milestone as she magically plays a spinster who defies her domineering mother to discover love heartbreak and eventual contentment.Amazon.comLove in the Afternoon
Fairy-tale Paris doesn't get more enchanting than Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon an ode to picnics on the grass and champagne at the Ritz. Audrey Hepburn (who had already made Sabrina with Wilder) is at her best as the inexperienced cellist with a fascination for millionaire American playboy Gary Cooper. Maurice Chevalier (who else?) is Hepburn's father?? a private detective with ample evidence of Cooper's crowded history of l'amour. Alongside the sheen of the romance is Wilder's unerring sense of craftsmanship; watch how inanimate objects such as a liquor tray?? a white carnation?? or the little dog in the suite next door are developed into sublime running gags. The age difference between the two leads has often been questioned?? but perhaps this is what gives the gossamer material the whiff of welcome melancholy. The final three minutes leave no doubt that Wilder hatched the best endings in Hollywood history. --Robert Horton
Mogambo
This remake of the 1932 Red Dust is famous for using the very same romantic leading man--21 years after the fact. But when that leading man is Clark Gable?? w