Vengeance Valley gave Oscar winner and triple Oscar nominee Burt Lancaster his first Western role. In this classic tale of feuding brothers set against a stunning big country backdrop Lancaster cut his teeth in the genre before going on to make the much loved Gunfight At The Ok Corral Apach and The Unforgiven amongst others. Based on the book by Luke Short even-tempered Owen Daybright (Lancaster) is the adopted son of rancher Arch Strobie. All his life Owen has covered up for his good-for-nothing brother Lee. But Lee goes to far when he gets a young woman pregnant and blames Owen. When he even encourages the girl's brothers to take revenge Owen decides that it is time to settle the score. Co-starring fellow Oscar nominee John Ireland Robert Walker as Owen's father and Joanna Dru
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
In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful a film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle storyline inventive cinematography brilliant ensemble acting and direction by Welles the story of Charles Foster Kane is a fascinating portrait of America's love of power and materialism and the corruption it sometimes fosters. Like all great films Citizen Kane is a memorable fusion of cinematic art and marvellous entertainment.
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