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 The Steve McQueen Collection (The Great Escape / Junior Bonner / The Magnificent Seven / The Thomas Crown Affair) $39.98 Actor Steve McQueen was a man of a few words and plenty of action...Whether it be horses, motorcycles or a dune buggy, he takes the film goer for the thrill ride that they never will forget The four in this collection (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Junior Bonner) highlight McQueen as action star. In the Magnificent Seven, MCQueen is one of seven gunslingers (Others include Yul Brenner, Brad Dexter, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, and James Colburn) who protect a small town from bandits Lead by Eli Wallach In The Great Escape, McQueen plays the Coller King. He is part of a POW Camp in Germany who work out an escape plan. In the cass are the acting talents of Charles Bronson, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Colburn and David McCallum. Great Motorcycles stunts are part this film. In the film Junior Bonner, This film is a tribute to the rodeo and its cowboys. McQueen plays the title character. There is a cat and mouse game between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair. This stylist caper mystery plays out in the jet setters playground and trapping of the 1960's. All these films are well made and still holds up today. If you like these four films, seek out more McQueen stuff like The Essential Steve McQueen Collection (Bullitt Two-Disc Special Edition / The Getaway Deluxe Edition / The Cincinnati Kid / Papillon / Tom Horn / Never So Few) for more action and thrills or Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season One Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD  The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World $15.00 This book provides unique insights into some of the most important scientific and artistic accomplishments in the Western world from the 1930s to the present. kati Marton offers key information about the men who did so much to change our world, information new to me even though I thought I knew a great deal about each of the emigres portrayed here. She recreates brilliantly the world of "Mitteleurope," now lost forever. If this book doesn't help you understand and appreciate genius, nothing will!  The Great Escapes of WWII $14.95 The History Channel generally offers good productions on WWII subjects, and this DVD is no different. It is entertaining and accurate, and well worth the price of admission. |
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