This box set contains three MGM films starring 'The Duke'. The Alamo: In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican Army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him General Sam Huston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders Colonel William Travis to defend a small mission on the Mexican's route at all costs. Travis' small troop is swelled by groups accompanying Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett but as the situation becomes ever more desperate Travis makes it clear that there will be no shame if they leave while they can. Red River: Tom Dunson builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth. Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead. But on the way new information and Dunson's tyrannical ways cause Matthew to take the herd away from Dunson and head to a new railhead in Kansas. Dunson swearing vengeance pursues. The Horse Soldiers: A Union Calvary outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail / supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The scret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to ensure her silence. The Union officers each have different reason for wanting to be on the mission.
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.
Ricky Tomlinson and Phil Daniels star in this dark new British comedy about two neighbours whose disagreements soon escalate.
Includes the following classic 10 Westerns! 1. The Alamo (dir. John Wayne, 1960) 2. Apache (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954) 3. The Big Country (dir. William Wyler, 1958) 4. A Fistful Of Dynamite (dir. Sergio Leone, 1971) 5. The Kentuckian (dir. Burt Lancaster, 1955) 6. Posse (dir. Mario Van Peebles, 1993) 7. Red River (dir. Howard Hawks, 1948) 8. The Scalphunters (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1968) 9. Vera Cruz (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954) 10. Wild Bill (dir. Walter Hill, 1995)
All The Kings Men (Dir. Robert Rossen): Broderick Crawford stands out in this fine drama about the rise and fall of a corrupt southern governor who promises his way to power. Crawford portrays Willie Stark who once he is elected finds that his vanity and power lust prove to be his downfall. The film is based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren which in turn was based largely on the story of Louisiana legend Huey Long. From Here To Eternity (Dir. Fred Zinnemann): Director Fred Zinnemann's 1953 Oscar-winning best picture 'From Here To Eternity' is a powerful portrait of a peacetime military camp stationed in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. Montgomery Clift is superlative in the major role of Robert Prewitt while Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying Academy Award-winning (1953 Best Supporting Actor) performance as Clift's buddy. Deborah Kerr's love scene in the Hawaiian surf with Burt Lancaster is enshrined as one of the most famous moments in cinema history. To Kill A Mockingbird: Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him - except Peck the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children. Harvey (Dir. Henry Koster): James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisible six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister Veta determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man begins to plot to keep Elwood's lunacy from interfering.
Tracklist: 1. The Christians - What's In A Word 2. Aswad - Don't Turn Around 3. Pulp - Common People 4. Robert Palmer - Every Kinda People 5. Tricky - Money Greedy 6. Womack And Womack - Teardrops 7. Will Downing - A Love Supreme 8. PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie 9. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 10. Free - All Right Now 11. Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary 12. The Orb - Toxygene 13. The Christians - Harvest For The World 14. Stereo MC's - Connected 15. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
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An unusual 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 go on to make Gunfight At O.K. Corral Apache and The Unforgiven among others. Vengeance Valley emphasises character development and the solid cast meets the challenge. Robert Walker plays Burt's foster brother. Joanne Dru John Ireland Ted de Corsia Hugh O'Brien and Glenn Strange lend support. One of the real s
Owen Daybright has taken the rap for his boyhood pal Les Strobie all his life. Now the foreman on Strobie's ranch he is even willing to accept paternity of Strobie's illegitimate child. Daybright continues to make life easy for his friend partly from high motives - to protect Strobie's wife - and partly from habit. He even dodges bullets and doesn't give his friend up for the heel he is until Strobie negotiates to make off with his father's cattle. An unusual adult Western for its
One Eyed Jacks is a classic western in which Marlon Brando ('Rio') stars with Karl Malden ('Dad Longworth') as two bank robbers on the run from the Federales in Mexico They are pinned down and only one can get away to get fresh horses for their escape. Dad is the one to go but greed gets the best of him. He takes off with the money and leaves Rio to be captured and sent to a Mexican Jail for 5 long years. When he escapes he goes looking for Dad finally finding him in Monterey California where 'Dad' is now a tough Sheriff and has a beautiful step-daughter Louisa. The action and the romance heat up as Rio is bent on revenge and falls for the beautiful Louisa. A remarkably strong cast feature in a 'Cain and Abel' plot redefined with Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright who has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble (Ray Collins). When Stroble's natural son Lee (Robert Walker) fathers an illegitimate child he tried to shift the responsibility and wrath of the vengeance-seeking brothers of the baby's mother (Sally Forrest) on to Owen whilst Joanne Dru co-stars as Lee's long-suffering wife Jen who harbors a secret yen for Owen.
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself
Even tempered Owen Daybright (Lancaster) spends his life covering up for his good-for-nothing brother Lee protecting the rascal from his fathers wrath. After getting a young woman pregnant Lee shifts the blame to Owen. He even encourages the girls brother to get revenge hoping that Owen out of the picture he'll become sole heir to his fathers farm. That's as much as any man can take...and Owen decides that now is the time to settle the score.
Two classic westerns on one disc! Santa Fe Trail: Hollywood journeyman par excellence Michael Curtiz directs this historical Western which tells the stories of confederate soldier Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and General George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan) as they fight abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey). Vengeance Valley: An unusual adult Western for its time Vengeance Valley (1951) gave Burt Lancaster his first Western role. His athletic prowess made him
The Alcatraz Concert The Greatest Rapper On Earth Most Famous Hits Tracklistings: 1. Introduction 2. Naughty by Naughty - Greatest Hits Medley incl. Uptown Anthem & O.P.P. 3. Total & Missy Elliot - What About Us 4. Dru Hill - We're Not Making Love No More 5. 3rd Storee - Party Tonight 6. Too Short - Life s Too Short 7. Mack 10 - Back Yard Boogie 8. Rashaan Paterson - So Fine 9. Changing Faces - G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T. 10. Curtis Blow - These Are The Breaks 11. John B - They Don't Know 12. Premiere - I'll Always Be There 13. Immature - Give Up The Ghosts 14. Aztian - Underground Death 15. Da Brat - Give It 2 You 16. K-Ci & Jo-Jo - You Bring Me Up 17. Mac Call & D Knowledge - Rise Up 18. Usher - You Make Me Wanna 19. Run DMC - Greatest Hit's Medley a) Peter Piper b) Rock Box c) Sucker MC's 20. 4 Some Love - Breaking Out 21. No Name - Over And Out (End Credits) Format: DVD, Video Studio/Label: Planet Song DVD-Erscheinungstermin/Released: 2003 Laufzeit/Running Time: ca. 53 Min. Bild/Picture Format: 4:3 PAL - Color Ton/Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Sprache/Language: English Ländercode/Regional Code: 0 - All Regions Bestell-Nr./Catalog#: 8514 FSK/Rated: Freigegeben ohne Altersbeschränkung / Without Age Limitation EAN/UPC: 5055137185149
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