"Actor: Dan Duryea"

• Night Passage | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £7.44   |  Saving you £-2.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Thanks to ultracrisp Technirama photography of great mountainside and river gorge locations in Colorado, Night Passage is often terrific to look at; you can almost feel the autumn sun and brisk air. This should have been another classic Western pairing James Stewart with director Anthony Mann. But after choosing the locations, cast, and crew, and directing the precredit sequence, Mann abruptly resigned. He found Borden Chase's screenplay an "incoherent" rehash of relationships and setups from their previous films, nor was he encouraged by Stewart's determination to play the accordion and sing. Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner--Audie Murphy's "The Utica Kid"--escape. The two cross paths again in a ghost town where Dan Duryea, doing a zany version of his loony outlaw from Winchester '73, has holed up with his gang. Replacement director James Neilson, a newcomer destined for bland Disney servitude, fosters a lot of flatfooted standing-around.

• The Woman In The Window | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Woman In The Window

• The Flight Of The Phoenix | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £13.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a gripping tale of courage resourcefulness and determination the consequences of a plane crash strip bare the morals of the survivors. The pilot of the doomed aircraft Frank Towns (James Stewart) is an aviator of the old school used to seat-of-the-pants flying distrustful of new technology. With his navigator Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough) he is piloting a cargo-cum-passenger plane high above the Arabian desert when a powerful sandstorm rises from below. Trusting his instin

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £12.63   |  Saving you £-7.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Battle Hymn | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £8.61   |  Saving you £1.38 (16.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tormented for years by a sense of guilt after inadvertently bombing a German orphanage during World War Two Parson Dean Hess (Rock Hudson) leaves his pulpit and wife (Martha Hyer) to return to the Air Force as a training officer during the Korean War. Posted near the remote village of Yungsan in South Korea Col. Hess is tasked with instructing the inexperienced Korean pilots but his mission takes a personal twist when he stumbles upon an opportunity to help local orphans. Between his battle against an evil foe and his determination to save the children Hess may just find the redemption he so desperately seeks.

• Stranger On The Run | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wrongly accused of murder a drifter finds himself given a head-start by a megalomaniacal Sheriff before the lawman and his posse hunt the man down.

• Incident At Phantom Hill | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £10.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the dying weeks of the American Civil War a wagon train of United States Government gold was ambushed by a small Confederate force and hidden in the sands of Northwest Texas at Phantom Hill. Following the conclusion of the war Captain Martin (Robert Fuller) is assigned to the recovery of the fortune the location of which is known by just one man - convicted murderer and Rebel veteran Joe Barlow (Dan Duryea). The mission is made all the more dangerous as Phantom Hill lies in newly appointed Comanche Indian territory a hostile land for unwanted travellers. As word of the treasure spreads their hunt becomes a race for survival as well as for the gold.

• The David Niven Show | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The debonair actor presents 12 short dramas in this popular anthology series originally broadcast in the US, in 1959. British screen icon David Niven is best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days; as Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death; and as 'The Phantom' in The Pink Panther! In this popular anthology series, made in 1959 for a US audience, Niven introduces a new short dramatic film in each of 12 episodes, featuring thrillers and mysteri.

• Thunder Bay | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1946 ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Having finessed financing from a big oil company formerly penniless Steve and his partner Johnny are in business... and getting interested in shrimp-boat captain Rigaud's two lovely daughters. But opposition from the fishing community grows fast led by Stella Rigaud. Other hazards include sabotage a hurricane... and a treacherous board of directors.

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• The Hills Run Red | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £14.02   |  Saving you £-1.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At the end of the Civil War Confederate soldier Jerry Brewster (Thomas Hunter) is jailed for a heist engineered by his buddy Ken Seagall (Nando Gazzolo) who escapes with the loot and builds quite a fortune for himself. While suffering behind bars Brewster realizes he was double-crossed... and vows revenge! Upon his release five years later Brewster teams up with a stranger named Getz (Dan Duryea) to brawl and shoot his way through Seagall's henchmen and finally settle the score with his old partner-in-crime.

• Winchester 73 | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-4.57 (-45.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's the legendary James Stewart at his leading-man finest in this timeless western that set the standard for all that followed. Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his father's murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle the Winchester '73 as it passes among a diverse group of desperate characters including a crazed highwayman (Dan Duryea) an immoral gunrunner (John McIntire) a savage young Indian chief (Rock Hudson) and McAdam's own murderous brother (Stephen McNally). Featuring Shelley Winters as the rifle's only rival for McAdam's interest and Tony Curtis in one of his first screen performances the gripping tale of the men (and gun) who won the West is one of Stewart's most memorable films and one of the genre's most enduring classics.

• Winchester 73/Shenandoah/Bend In The River | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £10.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winchester 73It's the legendary James Stewart at his leading-man finest in this timeless western that set the standard for all that followed. Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his father's murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle the Winchester '73 as it passes among a diverse group of desperate characters including a crazed highwayman (Dan Duryea) an immoral gunrunner (John McIntire) a savage young Indian chief (Rock Hudson) and McAdam's own murderous brother (Stephen McNally). Featuring Shelley Winters as the rifle's only rival for McAdam's interest and Tony Curtis in one of his first screen performances the gripping tale of the men (and gun) who won the West is one of Stewart's most memorable films and one of the genre's most enduring classics.ShenandoahWith the integrity and depth of an epic Shenandoah tells the dramatic story of a man caught in a dilemma. James Stewart stars as a Virginia farmer during the Civil War.He refuses to support the Confederacy because he is opposed to slavery yet he will not support the Union because he is deeply opposed to war. When his son is taken prisoner Stewart goes to search for the boy. Seeing first-hand the horrors of war he is at last forced to take his stand.Bend of the River

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• The Little Foxes - Samuel Goldwyn Presents | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's the turn of the century in the deep South, and the Hubbard siblings are embroiled in their ownmoney-driven, power-hungry civil war. Most calculating of the group is Regina, who, along with her brothers, demands ownership of a cotton mill expected to yield millions. Proving that blood is not thicker than greed, the Hubbards will stop at nothing to push their unscrupulous deal through even ifit means destroying everyone around them! Oscar(r) winner* Bette Davis leads a perfectlybrilliant cast (The New York Times) in this major screen achievement (The New Yorker) that garnered nine Academy Award(r) nominations,** including Best Picture. 'splendid [and] timeless (Los Angeles Times), The Little Foxes is an enduring classic and a chilling indictment of corruption and greed. *1935: Actress, Dangerous; 1938: Actress, Jezebel **1941: Actress (Davis), Supporting Actress (Collinge), Supporting Actress (Wright), Directing, Art Directing, Editing, Score, Screenplay