The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (BD)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (BD)The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin

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provided by Angie Dickinson as the terrorist's sinuous moll and Neville Brand as his benny-addled henchman

Twenty-eight-year-old Ronald Reagan portrays the idealistic junior D

French bombshell Martine Carol makes her English-language feature-film debut as Tracy

so he enrolls as a freshman to straighten him out

But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario

It's 1936 Paris and every femme with a de rigueur sense of high fashion wears the creations of Maison Picot

big production numbers and fabulous '50s couture in scintillating CinemaScope

In this world of secrets and betrayals

he learns of a conspiracy against Young

Then the downed men realize they're drifting toward the supposed location of that fabled isle

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