Cornelia

Part of the versatile Lenox Accoutrements collection, Cornelia Cream dinnerware has a subdued, genteel air that adds daily elegance to the modern table. Unified to the other Accoutrements lines by ivory backgrounds, graceful shaping, and scalloped edges, the pattern features a broad taupe border inspired by floral tapestry. This is bound on this inside by a necklace-like accent and on the outside by understated antiquing on the rim. For a fully coordinated table, Cornelia Cream blends with Charlotte Green and Sweetbriar Rose pieces, as well as Accoutrements serving dishes and flatware. Like a lovely piece of antique upholstery, this Cornelia Cream dinner plate creates a pretty but quiet base for a table setting. Its tapestry border is broad and graceful, and the rim looks lightly tea-stained. A match for the Cornelia Cream salad plate and rimmed bowl, the piece measures 11 inches in diameter and is safe in both microwave and dishwasher. --Emily Bedard

Anna Griffin created the Cornelia Cream pattern for Lenox. That inspiration is evident in this dinner plate, whose border bears a subtle floral tapestry motif. And a tea-stained edge gives the plate an antiqued look. Also available in Charlotte Green and Sweetbriar Rose.

Erika Kohut, a middle aged piano teacher who has lived with her mother all of her life, develops an obsession for Walter Klemmer, her young student.

A circus talent scout is led on a merry chase when he tries to trap Mowgli, with the help of a hunter and snake charmer.

Rudyard Kipling himself couldn't have imagined scenes more stunning than the ones captured by the creators of The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo. The film, a live-action follow-up to Disney's 1994 Jungle Book feature, attaches itself to the loincloth of young wolf-raised Mowgli as he leads a gang of greedy grown-ups on a wild goose chase through the jungles of India, circa 1890. In the course of this breathless caper, a visual delicacy is cooked up. Eyes of all ages will be loath to wander from the screen as it shifts from one color-drenched, wildlife-rife scene to the next. The animals, more than the wilderness, are what give this film its Eden-like quality--Mowgli protectors Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, as well as wolves, tigers, a pack of prowling monkeys, and even exotic snakes of the deadly variety all mix and mingle to gorgeous effect. And that's not to give the tale unraveling all the while short shrift. Kipling, of course, never once spun a second-rate story, and this adaptation doesn't tinker with way-off ideas of its own. Bill Campbell is fully believable as an Indiana Jones-like circus scout, and Roddy McDowall is at his eccentric best as a cave-dwelling monkey commander. --Tammy La Gorce

One of the spookiest ghost stories ever put to film, The Uninvited is also one of the few classic haunted-house movies to treat the subject with respect and seriousness. Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey play a brother and sister who leave the city to live in a beautiful old house dramatically perched on a cliff overlooking the Cornish coast. As they discover some of the house's peculiarities--the unexplained chill that settles in certain rooms, the aroma of mimosas that wafts through the house, flowers that wilt when brought inside--they are told by local girl Gail Russell that the house is haunted, by the spirit of Russell's mother no less. The rationalist city folk first scoff at the idea but as Milland slowly falls in love with the frightened girl he investigates the legends and discovers some startling hidden truths. Donald Crisp costars as Russell's humorless, hard-bitten grandfather who forbids her visits to the house. Handsomely shot against the beautiful Cornish countryside, director Lewis Allen wisely suggests more than he shows and the uneasy tone and quietly restrained direction looks forward to such films as The Haunting and The Legend of Hell House. Though Allen ultimately reveals a suitably spine-tingling apparition, some of the film's best moments are chilling in their simplicity: nocturnal moans, slamming doors, and the dog's whimpering fear of the upstairs. --Sean Axmaker

Australia's breathtaking Victoria Alps set the backdrop for this spectacular epic saga. Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton, two of Australia's brightest film talents, star in a fast-paced, action-packed story of a stormy romance caught up in a violent feud between landowners. Acclaimed actor Brian Dennehy (LEGAL EAGLES, COCOON) gives a gripping performance as the powerful patriarch determined to keep them apart. Visually unforgettable and packed with rugged adventure and masterful stuntwork, RETURN TO SNOWY RIVER is a thrilling and memorable film!

A stormy romance caught up in a violent feud between landowners in Australia's Victoria Alps.