All-American hero John Wayne takes a crew of construction workers and turns them into one of WWII's toughest fighting forces in this action-packed war classic. But first he has to convince the army brass to let his civilians bear arms and then he's got to whip them into combat shape. Now Wayne is fighting for his life on a different battlefield when he's brought up on court-martial charges for leading his troops in an all-out assault against the Japanese. It's Wayne at his best playing the kind of rough-and-tumble man of honor that made him a legend and Hollywood's biggest star. An entertaining combination of strong supporting performances by Daniel O'Keefe and ravishing about-to-be superstar Susan Hayward.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold returns after a 27 year break! The hit animation series that was the hottest show on Childrens BBC Television in the 80's is now back! With the same team in charge of artisic and script supervision Jean Chalopin and Bernard Deyries. The series features a brand new orchestration of the original music with vocals by Crystal Petit. Join Esteban, Zia and Tao with some amazing new characters and follow their adventures as they travel to find new cities of gol...
The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.
From Executive Producers Taylor Sheridan (1883) and David Oyelowo (Selma) comes the untold story of the most legendary lawman in the Old West: Bass Reeves. LAWMEN: BASS REEVES follows the journey of Reeves (Oyelowo) and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as one of the first Black U.S. Deputy Marshals west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family. This release features over two hours of special features, including an exclusive interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas (Malcolm X, Hidden Figures).
Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, ageing cowboys and former Texas rangers, who organise a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge. The excellent cast also includes Robert Urich as cardsharp and former Ranger Jake Spoon, Anjelica Huston as McCrae's old flame Clara Allen, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, Diane Lane, Chris Cooper, DB Sweeney, Steve Buscemi, and even a small role for author Larry McMurtry. Australian director Simon Wincer shows a tremendous capacity for balancing sweeping drama and intimacy against the gorgeous landscape of the American Southwest, giving a grandly epic feel to the film despite its small-screen target and limited budget, and for forging memorable characters of even the smallest supporting parts. The heart of the drama belongs to McCrae and Call, memorably etched by Duvall and Jones as the last of the range romantics. In the age of revisionist Westerns, this excellent cattle-drive drama nicely maintains an old -fashioned feeling while still showing the dark side of the American West. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
When The Legends Die
When the infamous Dalton Boys fall out with the sharp shooting Belle Starr (Jane Russell), she decides to form her own outlaw gang and quickly becomes the scourge of the Oklahoma Territories with a big bounty on her beautiful head.Disguising herself as a widowed showgirl, she hides away at the Birdcage gambling parlour and saloon, intending to rob the place at the first opportunity. But what Belle hasn't reckoned on is falling in love with the saloon owner Tom Bradfield (George Brent) - or the Dalton Boys riding into town looking for revenge...
A Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin.
Rip Murdock (Bogart) and Johnny Drake (Prince) are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to resolve the mystery surrounding his death...
A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber or ""Flubber"" an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
'The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin' a celebrated classic for over forty years is an action - adventure series starring the legendary German Shepherd that countless generations have grown to know and love. Even today there is no programme on television that has had as long and as prosperous a career as Rin Tin Tin. It remains an exceptional blend of action excitement and warmth that continues to make it outstanding entertainment for the entire family as much as it did in the past. Episodes Comprise: 1. Meet Rin Tin Tin 2. Rin Tin Tin and the Flaming Forest 3. Rin Tin Tin and the Raging River 4. The Killer Cat 5. The Education of Corporal Rusty 6. Rin Tin Tin Outlaw 7. The Outcast for Fort Apache 8. Rin Tin Tin and the New Recruit 9. Blood Brothers 10. Rin Tin Tin and the Gold Bullion 11. Rin Tin Tin and the Shifting Sands 12. Rusty Plays Cupid 13. Rin Tin Tin and the Medicine Woman 14. Rin Tin Tin and the Babe in the Woods 15. Rin Tin Tin and the Eagle's Nest 16. Rusty Resigns from the Army 17. The Legacy of Sean O'Hara 18. Rin Tin Tin and the Barber of Seville 19. The Guilty One 20. Rin Tin Tin and the Magic Box 21. The Dead Man's Gold 22. The Ghost Town 23. The Bounty Hunters 24. Farewell to Fort Apache 25. The Lost Scotsman 26. The Lonesome Road 27. Rin Tin Tin and the Bugle Call 28. Rin Tin Tin Meets Shakespeare 29. Rin Tin Tin and the Wild Stallion 30. Rusty Volunteers 31. Rin Tin Tin and the Poor Little Rich Boy 32. The White Buffalo 33. Mr President 34. The Iron Horse 35. Higgins Rides Again 4 36. Boone's Wedding Day 37. Rusty Goes To Town 38. Star Witness 39. Last Chance 40. Christmas Story 41. Missing Heir 42. Rusty's Romance 43. Tin Soldier 44. Rin Tin Tin Meets O'Hara's Mother 45. The Third Rider 46. Rusty Surrender 47. Rainmaker 48. Scotsman's Gold
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 stars of the picture is the gorgeous three-strip Technicolor photography by George J.Folsey. The West has rarely looked more colorful.
Anne of Avonlea continues the story of Anne Shirley (Kim Braden) the heroine of Anne of Green Gables as she begins her job as a schoolteacher and faces a whole new set of challenges... The acclaimed BBC mini-series and sequel to Anne of Green Gables is based on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. New adventures lie in store as a bright and ambitious Anne prepares to begin teaching in the local school and joins Diana Barry Gilbert Blythe Charlie Sloan Fred Wright and their other former schoolmates on the newly formed Village Improvement Society in Avonlea. Life at Green Gables takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of two new orphans and so it seems the end of Anne's dreams of attending college. Will she have to learn what she can of life and love in Avonlea or are there yet more conflicts and changes in store as she leaves her girlhood days behind? Coinciding with the centenary of the first publication of the novel Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea is released on DVD for the first from 2nd June 2008 and features all 6 delightful episodes of the mini-series.
Killer`s Moon is Britain`s answer to I Spit on Your Grave..... only nastier! Produced in the late seventies it mixes lurid scenes of rape with dollops of ultra-violence and Clockwork Orange Droog style menace. Its story follows four drugged-up mad-man who have escaped from the local asylum and seek refuge in a remote hotel where a class of stranded school-girls are staying. This is a true video nasty and is amazingly co-written by award winning author Fay Weldon. Remastered and released on Blu-ray for the first time.
A group of college graduates are invited to a remote estate to participate in what they believe to be an innocent murder mystery game. The evening begins as a fun night of scary stunts fake blood featuring a mysterious man in a creepy mask. But soon the body count becomes reality as one of the players turns into a violent killer. Now they are playing a far more realistic game a game to stay alive!
In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union.
Elvis: Films That Rock contains three of the King's early screen efforts: Love Me Tender (1956), Flaming Star (1960) and Wild in the Country (1961). It's pointless to suggest that they aren't among Elvis's best movies (you'll have to look elsewhere for King Creole and Jailhouse Rock, which probably are), partly because any fan's going to want them all anyway, but also because all three are interesting in their different ways. Love Me Tender, made in black and white in 1956, was Presley's first stab at acting, and this story of a family split by the American Civil War--one brother goes off to fight, the other doesn't--sees him short on screentime and being upstaged by pretty much everyone else. That said, it was a reasonably brave move for Presley to begin his movie career by dealing with this kind of subject matter, however sentimentalised. Four years later, Flaming Star took the steer by the horns with Presley portraying a young man of mixed parentage caught up in the ethnic conflict between Native Americans and the white race. Again, a brave choice of subject; this was a landmark movie insofar as it showed Presley certainly had enough acting ability to create a credible parallel career along the lines of, say, Sinatra. It wasn't to be, though, as even then his talents were being manipulated by others, which is why all his later movies--even the best ones--were little more than advertisements for his records. Wild in the Country, from the following year, saw Presley as a young tearaway who finds redemption in his talent for writing. It's pure melodrama, but the moralising is kept under control. This is a nice little collection, all in all, and an essential for any fan. On the DVD: Elvis: Films That Rock presents the three pictures in positively radiant transfers, which are absolutely gunge-free and make the very best of the beautifully stylised lighting and cinematography of the period, while the classic Cinemascope presentations translate perfectly into widescreen. Special features include trailers for all three movies. --Roger Thomas
'Mommie Dearest' is the outrageous and controversial story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and her struggle with the dual roles of fading actress and tormented mother. The public Crawford was strong-willed glamorous and admirable but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford the woman desperate to be a mother adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in the movie industry. The rage the debilitating strain and the terrifying descent in
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