Jennifer Jones won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her screen debut in this true story. A young French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous sees a vision of a ""beautiful lady"" near her home in Lourdes in 1858. Based on the novel of the same name by Franz Werfel The Song Of Bernadette explores Bernadette's trials and tribulations from her impoverished family to her difficulties at school to the derision her visions bring upon her and at last to her affliction with bone-marrow c
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth star in this classic drama directed by Howard Hawks. As the San Luis ship docks into the port of Barranca to deliver supplies, cabaret singer Bonnie Lee (Arthur) seizes the opportunity to take a look around. While exploring the town she meets a group of American pilots who risk their lives on a daily basis to fly cargo planes over the Andes. As Bonnie gets to know pilot Geoff (Grant) and sparks between them fly, Geoff faces the difficult decision of whether to commit to his new love, giving up his one passion in life: his job.
Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German POW camp during World War II--a setting that was later borrowed for the American TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humour to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation he must deal with in his own crafty way. Holden, who had delivered a brilliant performance for Wilder in Sunset Blvd., won the 1953 Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17. Very much his equal, however, is Otto Preminger, an accomplished director himself, who plays the strict, sneering camp commandant. --Robert Horton
This intense drama is based on the true story of Danny Balint, a former Yeshiva student whose love/hate relationship with God led him to become a neo Nazi skinhead.
Made at the very end of the silent era, Pandora's Box is one of the last flowerings of German cinema's greatest decade. It also marked the highpoint of two careers: Austrian director GW Pabst and American actress Louise Brooks. A merge of two linked plays by the decadent German playwright Frank Wedekind, it's the story of Lulu, the archetypal femme fatale (the same plays served as source for Alban Berg's masterly 1935 opera). At once sensual and innocent, a force of uninhibited sexuality, Lulu brings ruin on all her lovers both male and female, and ultimately upon herself. Hollywood never knew what to do with Brooks who, with her fierce intelligence and her open delight in sex, refused to play the coy flappers then in fashion. In Pabst, whose genius, she wrote, "lay in getting to the heart of a person", she found the director she needed, and he brought out her a screen persona with a depth of eroticism that's still breathtaking to see. The film features some of the finest German acting talent of the period--Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer--but it's Brooks' luminous performance that rivets the eye and makes her a great screen icon. Though the action is nominally set in the late-19th century--Lulu ends up in a shadowy London where she encounters Jack the Ripper--Pandora's Box breathes the gamey air of the Weimar Republic, vividly captured by Günther Krampf's pungent photography. This release runs well over two hours and includes, for the first time in decades, over 30 minutes of cut footage, restoring the film to something very close to Pabst's original masterpiece. On the DVD: Pandora's Box on DVD is a clean, crisp transfer in the classic 4:3 ratio, and the mono soundtrack brings out all the detail of Peer Rubens' Kurt Weill-inflected score, stylishly performed by the Kontraste Ensemble. Dialogue intertitles can be read in either English or German. We also get an outstanding 60-minute documentary, Looking for Lulu, about Brooks' life and career: warmly narrated by Shirley MacLaine, it features excerpts from an interview with Brooks from 1976. --Philip Kemp
The Emperor Waltz (Dir. Billy Wilder 1948): A rare musical comedy for Wilder it stars Bing Crosby as Virgil H. Smith a phonograph salesman plying his wares in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. Believing that if he's able to sell a phonograph to Emperor Franz Joseph I the rest of Austria will soon follow his example Virgil attempts to gain access to the man. After he's refused admission to the palace by guards who believe the phonograph to be a bomb he meets Countess Johan
A collection of classic Shirley Temple films! Heidi (1937) When her aunt tires of caring for her orphan Heidi is taken into the Swiss mountains to live with her gruff grandfather (Jean Hersholt) a hermit who comes to adore her. But the aunt returns to steal Heidi away selling her to a family whose invalid daughter (Marcia Mae Jones) needs a companion. Bullied by an evil governess (Mary Nash) Heidi still charms the entire household and never stops trying to returnito her
Available for the first time on DVD! Thrilling As Love Born Amid A Thousand Fabulous Adventures! A tale of adventure and excitement directed by Howard Hawks. The story focuses on a pilot who delivers mail to remote locations by plane. But when a showgirl sets her sights on him he discovers that some women can be more dangerous than flying solo over the Andes...
The captivating Claudette Colbert stars as the frustrated wife of struggling engineer Joel McCrea. In a seemingly amicable agreement Colbert hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train to Florida Colbert hides out in a sleeping car where she meets unbeknownst to her one of the world's richest men (Rudy Vallee) who is relentless in his attempt to romance her. Upon their arrival in Palm Beach Colbert is met by her husband who has come to claim her back only to find that Vallee's man-crazy sister (Mary Astor) is after him! The foursome's story unfolds through intensely humorous dialogue flirtatious situations and a splendid soundtrack.
Adventure is their call crab is their prey and a one hundred million dollar plunder is their reward! In the far northern reaches of the planet a rare breed of extreme fishermen hunt the Bering Sea. Adventure is their call crab is their prey and a one hundred million dollar plunder is their reward. Series 7 of Deadliest Catch opens with footage of the crews holding an informal memorial for Captain Phil Harris before the start of the King crab season. In this season the Kodiak the Time Bandit the Northwestern the Wizard and the Cornelia Marie (now under Captain Derrick Ray) are joined by two new boats: the Seabrooke (Captain Scott Campbell Jr.) and the Ramblin' Rose (Captain Elliot Neese). Then in Series 8 two skippers square off in a high stakes rivalry and the mysterious collapse of a deckhand summons a daring rescue at sea as an already vicious king crab season gets underway. A depleted fishery triggers restrictions that force captains to take huge gambles on remote and volatile fishing grounds to the far north while a violent arctic hurricane forecasters call 'The Storm of the Century' descends on the Bering Sea. Those brave enough to stay behind and fish the risky waters are subject to some of the best crab fishing the region has ever known.
Series 3 of the Emmy Award-winning Deadliest Catch follows the legendary captains and crew of five crab-fishing vessels on the Bering Sea doing one of the deadliest and most lucrative jobs in the world. The brave men endure subzero arctic weather 60-mph winds and turbulent seas with waves the size of four-story buildings all on three to four hours of sleep each night - if they're lucky. Then in Series 4 Captain Sig Hansen a 30-year veteran of the sea and a third generation fisherman matches his skills against his old rivals Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie and the Hillstrand family of the Time Bandit plus a new challenger. Captain Keith Colburn of the Wizard. The Hillstrand family is reunited as Captain Johnathan's son Scott joins the Time Bandit crew. The fleet then push hundreds of miles out to sea and fish four hundred feet deep in search of the prized crustaceans. Follow the captains and their crew as they are pushed to their limits of mental and physical endurance.
A treacherous stretch of the Bering Sea provides some nail-biting entertainment in this show from the Discovery Channel. Deadliest Catch follows eight fishing boats as they head out into the water to take advantage of the October Opilio crab fishing season and the January king crab season. The fierce nature of the Bering Sea brings much drama to the show as returning contestants Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern and Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie go into battle with newcomer Blake Painter of the Maverick. The tension on board each boat rises to breaking point as the bold crews try to land the biggest haul making for compelling viewing as this complete collection of episodes from the third series unfolds.
Head back to the brutal Bering sea for more crab-catching mayhem! The seas are rougher the stakes are higher and the intensity has never been stronger as the Emmy Award-winning series Deadliest Catch returns for a fifth season. Captains Sig Hansen Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand Phil Harris and Keith Colburn are all back for another season of crab fishing but storms - personal natural and financial - are brewing. In this season the show also lives up to its name as the tragedy of the Katmai unfolds sending ripples through the fishing community of Dutch Harbor. Then Series 6 of Deadliest Catch once again takes viewers deep into the heart of the Bering Sea with five skippers and their crews for two of the toughest fishing seasons in the world. Northwestern Captain Sig Hansen a 30-year veteran and a third generation fisherman matches skills against his old rivals Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie the Hillstrand brothers of the Time Bandit and Captain Keith Colburn of the Wizard. This season sees a fracture in the Bering Sea brotherhood as old allies become mortal enemies when fishing turns personal. While some skippers rage against each other another fights a lone battle to stay alive. And before this season is through terrible tragedy will alter two young lives forever.
Father's Little Dividend: Reprising his role from the 1950 release 'Father Of The Bride' Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father Stanley Banks who is still recovering from the effects of giving up his ""little girl"" Kay to Buckley Dunstan played by Don Taylor. Upon hearing the news that the newlyweds are expecting Tracy opposes the new arrival feeling the stresses of middle ag
Shirley Temple in a role that seems custom-made for her portrays the spirited young heroine of the popular children's novel giving her rich emotional depth and infinite charm. When her Aunt tires of caring for her orphan Heidi is taken into the Swiss mountains to live with her gruff Grandfather (Jean Hersholt) a hermit who comes to adore her. But the Aunt returns to steal Heidi away selling her to a family whose invalid daughter (Marcia Mae Jones) needs a companion. Bullied by an evil governess (Mary Nash) Heidi still charms the entire household and never stops trying to return to her beloved Grandfather.
Nothing Sacred (1937) in which Carole Lombard co-stars with Frederic March is one of her most delightful movie outings and her only feature in colour. The hilarious screenplay by Ben Hecht and James H. Street has her cast as Hazel Flagg a small town girl who mistakenly believes that she is dying of radium poisoning. March plays a newspaper reporter who in the best tradition of yellow journalism talks his editor into bringing her to New York for one last fling. The faultless direc
The Robin Hood Of Modern CrimeThat was how The Saint was often promoted to entice readers, and it's a theme that his creator Leslie Charteris returns to a number of times in his books and stories. It was the publication of The Saint In New York in 1935 that made Charteris an international name.The film rights were sold even before publication and - despite some problem with the American censors over its violent content - became a hit picture for RKO in 1938. Charteris wanted Ronald Colman, Cary Grant or Douglas Fairbanks Jr for the role of Simon Templar. Instead, after Louis Hayward premiered the character, the much-respected George Sanders took on the role in four of the films, with Hugh Sinclair taking the lead in The Saint's Vacation and The Saint Meets The Tiger.The Saint In New York:Simon Templar, The Saint, is brought to New York. His search for the identity of the Big Fellow takes him through many dangerous situations.
A treacherous stretch of the Bering Sea provides some nail-biting entertainment in this show from the Discovery Channel. Deadliest Catch follows eight fishing boats as they head out into the water to take advantage of the October Opilio crab fishing season and the January king crab season. The fierce nature of the Bering Sea brings much drama to the show as returning contestants Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern and Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie go into battle with newcomer Blake Painter of the Maverick. The tension on board each boat rises to breaking point as the bold crews try to land the biggest haul making for compelling viewing as this complete collection of episodes from the third series unfolds.
Marie Galante: (1934 88 min. B&W) Movie newcomer Ketti Gallian plays Marie Galante kidnapped by a drunken sea captain and left stranded in the Yucatan. While working as a cafe singer hoping to pay for her ticket out of the Panama Canal she meets American detective Crawbett (Spencer Tracy) the only person who believes her abduction story. In a series of twists and turns the two find themselves caught in the middle of an unexpected adventure including espionage and a plan
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