Best Actor Collection: DVD Review (2008)

A varied mix of five excellent performances in five Academy Award-winning films.

Included are 1928’s “In Old Arizona,” with Warner Baxter as The Cisco Kid; 1956’s “The King and I,” in which Yul Brynner took a shine to Deborah Kerr, danced her off her feat--and won an Oscar for his trouble; and 1970’s “Patton,” which finds George C. Scott becoming the infamous general so seamlessly, he never shook his association with the role.

Also in the set is 1973’s “Harry and Tonto,” with Art Carney winning the Oscar for portraying the retired teacher Harry Coombes, and quite a different movie is found in “Wall Street,” which teaches us other lessons about life.

Through the vehicle of Michael Douglas' cold, Oscar-winning performance, we recall that greed might have had a good time of it in the late ‘80s, but just look where it’s gotten us now.

Grade: A-