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Rio Bravo
: essential video:When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ('Take 'em to Missouri! Yeeee-hah!'), Rio Bravo is on a much more modest scale. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne), ...
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Caine Mutiny
: essential video:Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his ...
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Inherit the Wind
: essential video:Two of the juiciest roles in the American theater fall at the feet of Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, and both men make a meal of it. Inherit the Wind, based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, that galvanizing legal drama of the 1920s. When a young Tennessee teacher is prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school, he receives unwanted public attention as well as the legal advice of a giant. Tracy plays ...
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Onionhead
:Description:A Coast Guard cook wreaks havoc aboard a ship.
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Man With the Gun (1955)
: :The same year he delivered one of the indelible performances in American movies--the cracked preacher in The Night of the Hunter--Robert Mitchum played another stranger who comes to town bringing death. In 1955's Man with the Gun, however, Mitchum's on the side of good, even if his actions are viewed through a somewhat ambiguous lens. Clint Tollinger is known throughout the West as a 'town tamer,' the badass you call in when outlaws get the upper hand in a place. The good citizens of Sheridan City are terrified of a local cattle baron, ...
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Eric
: :About a mother of a young athlete who is stricken with leukemia. In three short years, he must experience all the love, anger and victory that time will allow. Eric's courageousness brings him a maturity seldom achieved by one so young. It's an incredible life story that touches everyone's sensibilities... as it will surely touch yours.
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Manhunt for Claude Dallas
: :About a mother of a young athlete who is stricken with leukemia. In three short years, he must experience all the love, anger and victory that time will allow. Eric's courageousness brings him a maturity seldom achieved by one so young. It's an incredible life story that touches everyone's sensibilities... as it will surely touch yours.
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Comanche Station
: :'Seems like we been over this before.' This line from Comanche Station evokes not only an unspoken mutual history the two primary antagonists share, but also the fact that director Budd Boetticher and screenwriter Burt Kennedy's 'Ranown cycle' of classic Westerns represents both the distillation of the Western genre and a droll running commentary upon it. In the six remarkable journey Westerns running from Seven Men from Now in 1956 through this 1960 gem, Randolph Scott is always the hero, a man of few words bearing a legacy of almost unendurable pain and ...
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Burning Hills
: :'Seems like we been over this before.' This line from Comanche Station evokes not only an unspoken mutual history the two primary antagonists share, but also the fact that director Budd Boetticher and screenwriter Burt Kennedy's 'Ranown cycle' of classic Westerns represents both the distillation of the Western genre and a droll running commentary upon it. In the six remarkable journey Westerns running from Seven Men from Now in 1956 through this 1960 gem, Randolph Scott is always the hero, a man of few words bearing a legacy of almost unendurable pain and ...
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Merrill's Marauders
:Description:Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka 'Merrill's Marauders', behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point. :The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrill’s Marauders, touting its depiction of 'World War II’s most fabulous jungle fighters… (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do,' makes director Samuel Fuller’s 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but it’s considerably more than that. The year is 1944; the U.S. Army’s ...
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