The Oscars 70' Collection - 5-DVD Set ( Shaft / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / The Sunshine Boys / The Goodbye Girl / Death on the Nile ) ( Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie / Neil Simon's The Sun shine Boys )

The Oscars 70' Collection - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Shaft / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / The Sunshine Boys / The Goodbye Girl / Death on the Nile
Alternate Title: Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie / Neil Simon's The Sun shine Boys
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
David Donatello Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
540 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 - 1978 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Gordon Parks
Luis Bunuel
Herbert Ross
John Guillermin

Written By:
Ernest Tidyman
John D.F. Black
Luis Bunuel
Jean-Claude Carrière
Neil Simon
Anthony Shaffer

Actors:
Richard Roundtree ..... John Shaft
Moses Gunn ..... Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi ..... Vic Androzzi
Christopher St. John ..... Ben Buford
Gwenn Mitchell ..... Ellie Moore
Lawrence Pressman ..... Tom Hannon
Victor Arnold ..... Charlie
Sherri Brewer ..... Marcy
Rex Robbins ..... Rollie
Camille Yarbrough ..... Dina Greene
Margaret Warncke ..... Linda
Joseph Leon ..... Byron Leibowitz
Arnold Johnson ..... Cul
Dominic Barto ..... Patsy
George Strus ..... Carmen
Fernando Rey ..... Don Rafael Acosta
Paul Frankeur ..... M. Thevenot
Delphine Seyrig ..... Simone Thévenot
Bulle Ogier ..... Florence
Stéphane Audran ..... Alice Sénéchal
Jean-Pierre Cassel ..... Henri Sénéchal
Julien Bertheau ..... Mgr Dufour
Milena Vukotic ..... Ines
Maria Gabriella Maione ..... Guerilla
Claude Piéplu ..... Colonel
Muni ..... Peasant
Pierre Maguelon ..... Sgt de police
François Maistre ..... Delecluze
Michel Piccoli ..... Ministre
Ellen Bahl
Walter Matthau ..... Willy Clark
George Burns ..... Al Lewis
Richard Benjamin ..... Ben Clark
Lee Meredith ..... Nurse in Sketch (Miss McIntosh)
Carol Arthur ..... Mrs. Doris Green, Al's Daughter
Rosetta LeNoire ..... Odessa, Willy's nurse
F. Murray Abraham ..... Mechanic
Howard Hesseman ..... Mr. Walsh, Commerical Director
James Cranna ..... Mr. Schaeffer, TV Director
Ron Rifkin ..... T.V. Floor Manager
Jennifer Lee ..... Helen Clark
Fritz Feld ..... Mr. Gilbert, Man at Audition
Jack Bernardi ..... Man at Audition
Garn Stephens ..... Eddie, the Stage Manager
Santos Morales ..... Desk Clerk
Richard Dreyfuss ..... Elliot Garfield
Marsha Mason ..... Paula McFadden
Quinn Cummings ..... Lucy McFadden
Paul Benedict ..... Mark
Barbara Rhoades ..... Donna
Theresa Merritt ..... Mrs. Crosby
Michael Shawn ..... Ronnie
Patricia Pearcy ..... Rhonda
Gene Castle ..... Assistant Choreographer
Daniel Levans ..... Dance Instructor
Marilyn Sokol ..... Linda
Anita Dangler ..... Mrs. Morganweiss
Victoria Boothby ..... Mrs. Bodine
Robert Costanzo ..... Liquor Store Salesman
Pancho González ..... Mugger
Peter Ustinov ..... Hercule Poirot
Jane Birkin ..... Louise Bourget
Lois Chiles ..... Linnet Ridgeway
Bette Davis ..... Mrs. Van Schuyler
Mia Farrow ..... Jacqueline De Bellefort
Jon Finch ..... Mr. Ferguson
Olivia Hussey ..... Rosalie Otterbourne
I.S. Johar ..... Manager Of The Karnak
George Kennedy ..... Andrew Pennington
Angela Lansbury ..... Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
Simon MacCorkindale ..... Simon Doyle
David Niven ..... Colonel Race
Maggie Smith ..... Miss Bowers
Jack Warden ..... Dr. Bessner
Harry Andrews ..... Barnstaple

Synopsis:

Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

The Sunshine Boys (1975)
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.

The Goodbye Girl (1977)
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Death on the Nile (1978)
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?

Shaft (1971)
John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.

The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a popular vaudeville comedy team called Lewis and Clark, also known as The Sunshine Boys. After forty-three years as a team, they parted company over eleven years prior on not too friendly terms as Willy wanted to continue his career whereas Al wanted to retire. They have not spoken since. Willy's nephew, Ben - a talent agent - has been trying to find acting jobs for his uncle since with little success as Willy's age and declining ability is showing. But a lucrative opportunity comes up when one of the major networks is producing and airing a special on the history of comedy, and want The Sunshine Boys to appear. Ben has to try and convince the comedy team to reunite for just this one gig. Ben has to try and manage the individual quirks and personalities of each of The Sunshine Boys while putting on a good face to the network that there is harmony within The Sunshine Boys comedy team. Ben also has to manage the lives of two men in the twilight of their lives.

The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Ex-Broadway chorus dancer Paula McFadden lives with her eight year old precocious daughter, Lucy, and Paula's lover, actor Tony De Forrest. Paula has solely been playing 'wife' and mother ever since she got married to Lucy's father. Paula comes home one day to find that Tony has left her. Not only will Paula have to start working again (as Tony was the household breadwinner), the only thing she knows being dancing, but she may have to look for another apartment. Unknown to Paula, Tony, whose name was on the apartment lease, has sublet it to Elliot Garfield, an actor from out of town who has come to New York to appear as the lead in an off off Broadway production of Richard III. Paula will not give up the apartment without a fight - she figures possession is nine tenths of the law - but an equally tenacious Elliot figures the law is on his side and he does have a key. So pragmatic Paula figures the easiest thing to do is to share the apartment with Elliot. Paula doesn't much like Elliot, solely because of what he represents to her, and thus Paula tries to make his life as miserable as she can there in hopes that he will leave. However Elliot and Lucy get along famously. As Paula and Elliot try to co-habitate, they each have their own professional problems, Paula's being that she is woefully out of shape to be a dancer, and Elliot's being that he doesn't see eye to eye with his Richard III director, who wants to take the production in a whole different and unconventional direction. As each tries to earn a living, they find that they are falling for each other. But Paula, a two time loser in love, is hesitant to get into a relationship with Elliot, who she sees will ultimately leave her like all the others have before.

Death on the Nile (1978)
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.

Shaft (1971)
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.

The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Lewis and Clark were famous comedians during the vaudeville era; off-stage, though, they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years. Ben, Willy Clark's nephew, is the producer of a variety show that wants to feature a reunion of the classic duo. How will Ben convince the crotchety old comedians to put aside their differences before the big show?

The Goodbye Girl (1977)
A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. The second surprise comes in the form of another actor who has sublet the apartment from her boyfriend (who did not mention the pair of females who would be in residence). After some negotiation the two decide to share the apartment even though she has vowed to stay away from actors.

Death on the Nile (1978)
Hercule Poirot's holiday trip on a paddle steamer up the Nile becomes a murder investigation when Linnet Ridgeway, reputedly the richest girl in the world, is murdered. Almost all the other passengers bore grudges against her, so Poirot is not surprised by the murder.

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