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Good-bye, My Lady
:Description:Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan star in the simple-and simply charming-story of a Mississippi swamp boy's discovery of an unusual dog who steals his heart, based on James Street's novel. Year: 1956 Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
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In Harm's Way
: essential video:Otto Preminger's sprawling World War II drama packs a lot into its 165 minutes, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor (which Preminger re-creates in amazing detail) and ending a couple of years later with America's return to the South Pacific in force. John Wayne and Kirk Douglas star as a career naval captain and his self-pitying commander in the peacetime navy who are thrust into battle when Pearl Harbor is bombed while they are on maneuvers. Minutes into WWII, they are already scapegoated and demoted by the embarrassed military brass. ...
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Shane
: essential video:Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American mythmaking, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the 'sod-busters.' While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur, in the last screen performance of a marvelous career). Though the showdowns are exciting, and the story simple but involving, what most people will remember about this movie ...
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Member of the Wedding
: essential video:Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American mythmaking, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the 'sod-busters.' While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur, in the last screen performance of a marvelous career). Though the showdowns are exciting, and the story simple but involving, what most people will remember about this movie ...
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Hud (1963)
: essential video:Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother--Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud's dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as things fall apart. And guess who's going to land on his ...
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The Deserter (aka 'Ride to Glory')
: essential video:Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother--Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud's dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as things fall apart. And guess who's going to land on his ...
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Shane (Original Paramount Home Video Release)
: :Director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made SHANE one of the timeless classics of American cinema. Based on Jack Shaeffer's novel, the story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun. In fighting the last, decisive battle, Shane sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody and atmospheric, the film is enhanced by the intense performances of its splendid cast.
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Classic Westerns Collection (3pc)
: :A trio of boots-and-saddles biggies in one little box. In Shane, George Stevens's film about the archetypal outsider, Alan Ladd stars as a gunfighter who befriends a family of settlers battling the ranching interests. Watch for Jack Palance as the snakiest gunslinger ever. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is one of the better retellings of the story of the Earps and the Clantons; though a shade stodgy, it features a pair of strong performances by Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and particularly Kirk Douglas as the consumptive Doc Holliday. John Ford's The Man ...
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Hud
: essential video:Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother--Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud's dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as things fall apart. And guess who's going to land on his ...
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All Fall Down
: :All Fall Down is a memorable movie that never quite turns into a really good one. Its roots are in the American theater of the 1950s--in particular, William Inge's heavy-breathing contemplations of heartland family life--and the overemphatic school of live-TV drama that peaked in Playhouse 90. Director John Frankenheimer made his bones on Playhouse 90 (where producer John Houseman also worked), and though the early scenes in Key West show him relishing sunlight and a larger canvas, he's in his native element working out inventive ways to create tension in the deep-focus interiors ...
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