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Shane
: :A former gunfighter has to strap on his guns one more time to defend homesteaders and a little boy. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Steven 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 ...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (Movie Only Edition)
:Description:'A magnificent film, handled with reverence, artistic appreciation and admirable restraint' (NewYork Daily News), this glorious epic is an inspiring, grand-scale recreation of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from His humble birth and teachings to His crucifixion and ultimate Resurrection. Lavishly produced at a cost of $20 millionan enormous amount for the timeand honored with five 1965 Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations*, this exceptional motion picture is exquisitely beautiful. Now fully restored to its original theatrical brilliance with intermission and overture, it is truly The Greatest Story Ever Told. *Cinematography (Color), Original ...
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Black Widow (Fox Film Noir)
: :Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/11/2008 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr :Ginger Rogers steals the show as a selfish, snide Broadway superstar in Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, preening, snooping, gossiping, and bestowing air kisses in equal abundance. This late-era (1954) color film noir is as delicious for its fabulous performances as for its dishy look at showbiz, fangs and all. Think of it as All About Eve with murder. Rogers is Carlotta Marin, a grande dame of the thea-tah, married, it would seem happily, to Brian Mullen (Reginald Gardiner). Discussing ...
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3:10 to Yuma (Special Edition)
: :This fine western opens with Van Heflin as a rancher whose family is suffering from the devastatingeffects of a long drought. Heflin needs $200 to build a well, then learns he can obtain the money as a reward for delivering Glenn Ford, a notorious outlaw now in the hands of the law, to the state prison in Yuma, Arizona. Though this will put Heflin in great personal danger, the peaceful man accepts the assignment, knowing what the money will mean to his family. Heflin and Ford hole up in a ...
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Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4 (Act of Violence / Mystery Street / Crime Wave / Decoy / Illegal / The Big Steal / They Live By Night / Side Street / Where Danger Lives / Tension)
:Description:Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier (Robert Ryan) shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be as director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal) guides a searing Act of Violence, 'the first postwar noir to take a challenging look at the ethics of men in combat' (Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir). Murder lives on Mystery Street. John Sturges (The Great ...
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Classic Film Noir 9 Movie Pack
: :Contains: too late for tears the man who cheated himself the stranger strange love of martha ivers the hitchhiker quicksand detour the scar and d.O.A. Studio: St Clair Ent Grp Inc Release Date: 01/11/2005 Rating: Nr
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The Three Musketeers
:Description:A classic tale set during the reign of Louis XIII. A young man joins the musketeers to foil an evil cardinal's plot to seize control of France.
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The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)
:Description:The Joan Crawford Collection features classics from the star whose career spanned more than 40 years. 'I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.' - Joan Crawford : The Joan Crawford Collection brings together a potent group of films from Crawford's career renaissance: her Warner Bros. run of the late 1940s, beginning with Mildred Pierce. Four of the titles are from that heated, noirish streak, including Crawford's 1945 Oscar-winning turn in Mildred, a great ...
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Barbara Stanwyck Collection
:Description:The Joan Crawford Collection features classics from the star whose career spanned more than 40 years. 'I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.' - Joan Crawford : The Joan Crawford Collection brings together a potent group of films from Crawford's career renaissance: her Warner Bros. run of the late 1940s, beginning with Mildred Pierce. Four of the titles are from that heated, noirish streak, including Crawford's 1945 Oscar-winning turn in Mildred, a great ...
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Battle Cry
:Description:Van Heflin, Aldo Ray and Tab Hunter in Raoul Walsh's hard-hitting-action epic of Marine Corps heroism in the WWII Pacific, based on Leon Uris' gritty best-seller. Year: 1955 DVD Features:Interactive MenusOther:Raoul Walsh profileScene AccessTheatrical Trailer :The most interesting--and entertaining--aspect of this long, episodic World War II drama is that it marked the debut of one Justus E. McQueen, who subsequently took the name of the good ol' Arkansas boy he played in the movie: L.Q. Jones. He's only one of eight or nine Marine recruits who divide the screen time with ...
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