The Outlaw (Dir. Howard Hughes 1943): Jane Russell plays a busty siren who steals the heart of Billy the Kid in this Howard Hughes/Howard Hawks-directed story which centres on the rivalrous tentative friendships between Billy Doc Holiday and Pat Garrett. Vengeance Valley (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1941): An unusually adult Western for its time Vengeance Valley (1951) gave Burt Lancaster his first Western role. His athletic prowess made him perfect for the genre and he'd
When three cowhands John T. (John Clark Gable) B.D. (James Brolin Catch Me If You Can Westworld Traffic) and July (Richard Roundtree Brick Shaft) are offered a magnificent Sorrel stallion in exchange for one of their mangy cowponies they are naturally suspicious. It all becomes clear however when it appears the stallion is wild and vicious and unable to be ridden by anyone other than John T. who names him Jim. Dubbed Bad Jim by his bruised and battered companions the horse inexorably leads the trio into a life of crime. From simple cowhands they become most-wanted outlaws in the West. Bank robbing and killing become the norm for these once pure and honest cowboys ever since they became tainted by Bad Jim. But will they realize the cause of their problems before it's too late? Written and directed by Clyde Ware.
With the centennial of the invention of Motion Pictures comes a program with all the laughs that can be crammed into 100 minutes of non-stop merriment. Journey on a rip-roaring trip through the world of cinema comedy with the funniest moments in the history of Hollywood from the slapstick of the silents through the screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s to the hi-jinks of Hollywood's most recent comedies. All the great movie comics are here from the great comic actors of the past to the laughmakers of today. Here are profiles of favorite comedy stars plus revealing looks at some of the 'forgotton' comics of the silent and talkie era. From past greats such as Laurel & Hardy The Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton through to modern day stars as Eddie Murphy Leslie Nielsen and Jim Carrey. Enjoy rare early movie comedy behind the scenes footage foreign film fun mockumentaries musical comedies and the unintentional hilarity of movies like Reefer Madness. 100 stars provide hundreds of laughs for a century's worth of a fun-filled film feast. This is one comedy kaleidoscope you'll watch again and again!
14 films in a 5 DVD set : a rip roarin' roundup of frontier features spanning seven decades of western action from early classics such as The Great Train Robbery Hell's Hinges and The Vanishing American to later greats including The Painted Desert Santa Fe Trail The Outlaw and One-Eyed Jacks. Watch legendary stars such as John Wayne Errol Flynn Gary Cooper Clark Gable and Marlon Brando just to name a few! The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Red Man's View (1909) Hell's Hinges (1916) The Vanishing American (1925) Fighting Caravans (1931) The Painted Desert (1931) The Desert Trail (1935) Trouble in Texas (1937) Santa Fe Trail (1940) Arizona Bound (1941) The Outlaw (1943) Abilene Town (1946) Daniel Boone Trail Blazer (1956) One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Out of a cloud of dust and across the silver screen...the American West came to life in the movies. From the very beginning audiences came to love the 'old West' even though the movies did not always represent the 'real west'. Cowboys and Indians good guys and bad guys - it was and remains one of the most popular film genres ever even though the heyday of the Western has long passed. This is the story of the early western movie pioneers. Among those featured John Wayne Tom Mix Randolph Scott Gary Cooper Clarke Gable and many many more! Features chapter points for easy scene selection.
Rauol Walsh's humorous western stars Clark Gable as fugitive Dan Kehoe, who is hiding out in a small ghost town where the only remaining inhabitants are the female members of the notorious outlaw McDade family: matriarch Ma MacDade (Jo Van Fleet) and the four young wives (played by Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane) of Mrs McDade's gunslinging sons, three of whom have been reported dead. The fourth son is expected to return home at any moment with the spoils of a recent stagecoach robbery, but as no one knows which of the four sons is still alive, all four wives turn their attention to the bemused Kehoe - and he in turn responds to their advances, hoping to get a share of the gold.
Filmed at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona The Painted Desert follows the lives of two feuding cowboys J. Farrell MacDonald and William Farnum who clash over who will raise an orphaned boy they find at a deserted waterhole. Farnum takes the boy whom he names Bill but several years later the feud continues this time over water their adjacent ranches share. Tension escalates until the grown Bill played by William Boyd must choose between his adoptive father Farnum
Produced by Robert Altman and George W George this highly acclaimed biography tells the story of an American legend. An unhurried look through the photo album of a hidden young stranger one has grown curious about. It has besides that special fascination of any good documentary peeking at humans in spontaneous action - the almost revelatory sight of people one sees every day but never as clearly as through the camera. The Bells of Cockaigne : An additional film originally airing
Some Like It Hot (Dir. Billy Wilder 1959): Nominated for 6 Academy Awards and winner for costumes Some Like It Hot is the quintessential madcap farce from legendary director Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond. With dazzling performances by Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis and a memorably comic turn by Marilyn Monroe Some Like It Hot is not only one of Wilder's funniest satires but is one of the greatest of all film comedies. When Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry accidentally witness a gangland shoting they quickly board a southbound train to Florida disguised as Josephine and Daphne the two newest - and homeliest - members of an all-girl jazz band. their cover is perfect... until a lovelorn singer falls for ""Josephine"" an ancient playboy falls for ""Daphne"" and a mob boss who refuses to fall for their hoax wants them put on ice for good! The Misfits (Dir. John Huston 1961): A down-on-her-luck divorced woman meets and falls for a disenchanted outcast cowboy who earns his living by capturing wild mustangs. When she witnesses this cruel spectacle she teams up with a jaded rodeo performer in an attempt to free the horses. Last screen appearance for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe who was married to playwright Arthur Miller during the course of the filming.
5 Disc Set. Includes the following: Santa Fe Trail Bells Of San Angelo Whistling Pines One Eyed Jacks The Painted Desert.
David O. Selznick’s production of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winner Gone With The Wind is “the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking ”( Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight) . And in Maltin’s view “it looks better than it has in years.” This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and its immortal characters Scarlett (Vivian Leigh) Rhett (Clark Gable) Ashley (Leslie Howard) Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) populate as epic story of enduring appeal across generations. Judged by many to be the greatest movie of all time Gone With The Wind is an extremely exciting DVD release!
8 Disc box set with over 27 hours of the best western films such as: Billy The Kid Returns Days Of Jesse James Young Bill Hickok and Hurricane Express...
Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard and Ms. de Havilland star in Gone with the Wind which for more than a half century has thrilled audiences with its eternal love affair -- set in the South against the backdrop of the Civil War -- between handsome Rhett Butler (Gable) and his sassy headstrong heroine Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh). With each new generation Gone with the Wind continues to grow in popularity as new audiences and fans discover and embrace the David O. Selznick production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
The Outlaw:The Outlaw is a fascinating Western with a determindly off-beat story about Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid coming to conflict over Holliday's stolen horse and the voluptuous halfbreed played by Jane Russell. The script is often disarmingly tongue in cheek, and there is a weird eroticism to the film.;
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