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The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)
:Description: Academy Award winner Olivia De Havilland and Montgomery Clift light up the screen in this spellbinding, landmark drama. De Havilland is Catherine Sloper, an aristocratic young woman living under the scrutiny of her malevolent father. When a handsome but penniless suitor proposes, her father believes he could only be after her vast estate and threatens disinheritance. Can she be rich in love and money? Based on the stage version of Henry James' renowned novel Washington Square, this is the '****' (Leonard Maltin) winner of four Academy Awards, featuring an all-new, ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
:Description:Nominated* for eleven Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Picture, Judgment at Nuremberg is 'magnificent' (Los Angeles Times), 'continuously exciting' (The New Yorker) andboasts brilliant performances by an all-star cast. American judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of 'legalizing' Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career. *1961: Actor (Maximilian Schell, won); Actor (Spencer Tracy); Supporting Actor (Montgomery Clift); Supporting Actress ...
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Red River
:Description:One of the finest westerns ever made, this 'monumental, sweeping and powerful' masterpiece (Variety) features impassioned performances, stunning cinematography and adventure on a grand scale. Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift (in his screen debut), Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr., Red River is a hard-hitting, action-packed adventure that captures the grandeur, majestyand dangerof the wild American West.Wayne gives 'one of the best performances of his career' (Cinebooks) as Tom Dunson, a self-made cattle baron who'll do anything to protect his way of life. So when plummeting livestock values ...
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The Misfits
:Description:Expertly directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller, The Misfits is a probing, exciting drama (The Film Daily) of honesty, intensity and sheer poetic brilliance. Divorced and disillusioned, Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends a group of misfits, including an aging cowboy (Clark Gable), a heartbroken mechanic (Eli Wallach) and a worn-out rodeo rider (Montgomery Clift). Through their live-for-the-moment lifestyle, Roslyn experiences her first taste of freedom, exhilaration and passion. But when her innocent idealism clashes with their hard-edged practicality, Roslyn must risk ...
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From Here to Eternity
: :An award-winning drama about a close-knit army camp in hawaii before the attack on pearl harbor. Superb cast and performances by all netting 8 oscars including best picture. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/06/2007 Starring: Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Here's a model for adapting a novel into a movie. The bestseller by James Jones, a frank and hard-hitting look at military life, could not possibly be made into a film in 1953 without considerably altering its length and bold subject ...
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A Place in the Sun
: :Montgomery clift stars as a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite. Shelley winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens clifts professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear & desire clift is driven to a desperate act. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Montgomery Clift Shelley Winters Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Stevens essential video:George Stevens won an Oscar for his 1951 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy, though ...
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Suddenly, Last Summer
: :Tennessee williams yarn about a wealthy southern matriach her supposedly mad niece and a neurosurgeon. Special features: scene selections subtitles in englihs spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai photo montage vintage advertising talent files theatrical trailers production notes and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/27/2009 Starring: Katharine Hepburn Montgomery Clift Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:This black-and-white film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Southern gothic play is perhaps more famous for the rumored off-screen shenanigans of its stars than for its over-the-top repressed sexuality ...
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The Young Lions
: :A study of wwii involving two u.S. Soldiers & a nazi officer. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Marlon Brando Dean Martin Run time: 167 minutes :One of the most thoughtful films about World War II, this 1958 Edward Dmytryk (The Left Hand of God) drama, based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls 'a likable coward,' ...
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From Here to Eternity (Superbit Collection)
:Description:The Superbit titles utilize a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice of both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. These titles have been produced by a team of Sony Pictures Digital Studios video, sound and mastering engineers and comes housed in a special package complete with a 4 page booklet that contains technical information on the Superbit process. By reallocating space on the disc normally used for value-added content, Superbit DVDs can be encoded at double their normal bit rate while maintaining ...
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WWII 60th Anniversary Collection (The Guns of Navarone/From Here to Eternity/The Bridge on the River Kwai) (Includes Collectible Scrapbook)
: :Contains: the guns of navarone from here to eternity bridge on the river kwai fighting leathernecks and the fighting leathernecks of wwii. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/25/2005
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