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Rating 5 Yee-haw! This 13-movie box set of western classics has galloped right to the top of my shortlist for DVD release of the year.

Silvio Berlusconi is acting like Hugh Hefner by lavishing Playboy-style party gifts on world leaders at the G8 summit.

There is so much to love about The Towering Inferno it's hard to know where to begin.

John Guillermin and Irwin Allen. Story: Architect Doug Roberts and Fireman Chief Michael O'Hallorhan battle a vicious high-rise fire that results from a burnt out circuit breaker - What begins with a simple spark becomes 165 minutes of highly flammable action and adventure that traps 300 party guests on the 135th floor in the ballroom plus some ...

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Director John Sturges was extremely fortunate in securing a near-perfect cast for this enduringly popular western reworking of the Japanese classic, Seven Samurai .

The wartime letters of a hero of The Great Escape are to be sold at auction next week.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Monaco watch, Tag Heuer last month released a slightly updated version of the original watch worn, and personally endorsed, by Steve McQueen who made it famous in the movie a Le Mansa .

A Movie A Week: THE GETAWAY Punch it, baby! Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next installment of A Movie A Week.

"Impact," a two-part mini-series beginning on Sunday on ABC, is about averting the end of the world in less time - 39 days - than the warranties expire on most food processors.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the first action movie stars of the 80s. Perhaps he was one of the first action movie stars, period.

Watches and memorabilia from the late Steve McQueen, the legendary actor who rose to fame during the 1960s in films such as Bullitt and The Great Escape , were among the pieces that inspired frantic bidding at Antiquorum's summer auction in New York City.

Every eyewear company has its celluloid moments. For Persol, the U.S. big-screen debut came in 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair," when Steve McQueen wore its PO 714 frame in the movie opener.

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Blog, blog against the dying of the light" Saturday, June 13, 2009 Thanks There's a great scene in The Great Escape where Steve McQueen is lying tangled in the barbed wire fence with his dying motorcycle, and he pats the cycle in gratitude for its attempt -- its at the 2:30 point of the video.

Two highly irregulars, in the very regular army! And this is the story of the million-dollar schemes they dared, the fabulous dolls and dates, they shared.

The watch Steve McQueen insisted on wearing in the film Le Mans has been reissued again to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

We all know about Highlands County's oranges, its large percentage of senior citizens and the 113 named lakes that dot the landscape.

If it's been made, Hollywood will remake it -- even good, modest thrillers such as 1974's The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three.

For many car and film enthusiasts, the late actor Steve McQueen was the ultimate rebel with a car.

The Thomas Crown Affair This stylish, suspenseful 1968 film about a rich Bostonian who gets a thrill robbing banks and his dangerous affair with the seductive bank investigator has been digitally remastered.