European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment billboards top 10 videocassette rentals 1 the godfather part til a Paramount Home video 2 Madonna truth or dare live Home video 3 dances with wolves Orion Home video 4 the doors live Home video 5 one Good cop Hollywood Home video 6 the hard Way Mca Universal Home video 7 switch Hob video 8 a kiss before dying Mca Universal Home video 9 the silence of the lambs Orion Home video 10 awakenings Ria Columbia pictures Home video the top 10 to shows in America Tor oct. 28-nov. 3, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x Tor first time showing is in parentheses 1 3 60 minutes lbs 2 1 Roseann 3 6 coach 4 4 cheers 5 12 unsolved mysteries 6 39 Gambler returns Luck of the draw part 1 7 8 Home improvement 8 2 Murphy Brown lbs 9 18 full House 10 10 murder she wrote lbs Tornar Bros. Kevin Costner Aims for High video ratings in Robin Hood Prince of 11 i it k i \ ii Wisby Jack e. Wilkinson United press International Robin Hood Prince of thieves. 1991. Warner Home video. Rated pg-i3. A rousing re telling of the legend of the Bandit of Sherwood Forest who robbed from the Rich and gave to the poor with Kevin Costner As the heroic vengeful Robin Hood. Escaping his turkish captors Robin returns from the crusades to discover his father slain his property seized by the Power mad sheriff of Nottingham. Robin is quickly branded an outlaw with a Price on his head fleeing to the forbidding Forest where he instills a Grubby band of outcasts with the will to fight Back. Costner unfortunately looks out of place most of the time As the great Champion of the Downtrodden. But while Costner plods along Alan Rickman turns out to be the real thief Here stealing the show As the gleefully evil sheriff alternately preening and snarling sliding at times into Broad parody. Stewing in frustration Over dissidents he makes like a gothic Grinch rasping a i May have to cancel this version has a number of new twists among them the addition of the Moor Azzem Morgan Freeman Robins Quot protector Quot who sets up a Side Issue of racial understanding 12th-Century style. There a no Prince John but there is a Little John though this time around he loses his famous bout with Robin by the River. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio co stars As maid Marian and there a a Surprise Cameo at the end. An entertaining at times witty High adventure yarn though it lacks the infectious enthusiasm of the Errol Flynn epic of the 1930s. Fantasia. 1941. Animated. Walt Disney Home video. Rated g. Walt Disney a extraordinary landmark classic film May be half a Century old but it still seems almost As fresh and innovative As the Day it came out 50 years ago. Now Sta Kenly restored from the original negative it makes its debut finally on Home video. Only for 50 Days. Its to be taken off the Market permanently and dismantled with segments integrated into fantasia continued projected for the mid-1990s. Disney intended initially to make a new version every year simply fantasia is imagination set to music animated creations acting out famous classical works eight sets of images running the Gamut of emotions from the cute romantics cavorting with Beethoven a pastoral symphony to the monstrous apparition overseeing the dead in Moussorgsky a a night on Bald Mountain. In the most famous sequence Mickey mouse tries to control a Bunch of rampaging water toting brooms in Dukas the sorcerer s apprentice. Add the cartoon merriment of toe dancing ostriches and a Hippo in a Tutu prancing about in poncho Ellis a dance of the hours Ballet. Music is by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia orchestra and a Good sound system is a huge plus. Stone cold. 1991. Ria Columbia pictures Home video. Rated r. Former football Star Brian Bosworth makes his feature film debut As John Stone a Tough undercover cop who infiltrates a renegade biker gang in this Bash and smash action drama. Once inside and fairly close to the maniac who runs the gang Lance Henrik sane learns they re plotting a paramilitary assault on the state Capitol to free a gang member sentenced to be executed. Naturally Stone takes Mem All on in the final rundown. Long on mindless violence Short on logic the film is primarily a showcase for the Boz who comes across As an imposing if emotionless figure. Hell be heard from the november video lineup has something for about every taste As evidenced by a Trio of releases this past week a drama. Guilty by suspicions la Robert Diniro a psychological thriller mortal thoughts with Demi Moore and a comedy what about Boswith Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Then came Ron Howard a acclaimed tribute to firefighters Bac draft with Kurt Russell heading the cast. Other november releases include v i. Warshawski with Kathleen Turner As a p.i., Hudson Hawk starring Bruce Willis out for Justice with Stephen Seagal Foj toy soldiers and soap dish the Sally Field whoops Goldberg Send up of soap operas. Something More for i love Lucy fans a music video. Chiba la music features Desi Arnez. Page 16a sunday n0vlmblr 10, 1991
