Arthur Kennedy
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
2) High Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Language
English
Description
Prohibition era gangster Roy Earle walks out of prison and into two unfamiliar worlds: the jitterbugging 1940s and the towering majesty of High Sierra. This fast-paced, heist-gone-wrong manhunt movie is also a fascinating study of a man time has passed by. Earle identifies more with the era's homeless Okies than the callow punks he leads on a disastrous hotel robbery. Then the teenager he loves rejects him and only Marie, a weary '30s survivor like...
4) Anzio
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead.
5) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
9) Elmer Gantry
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
12) Fantastic voyage
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from a blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced, along with their craft, to microscope size, and to enter the bloodstream to save him.
13) Nevada Smith
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Nevada Smith, a young man born during the 1890s California gold rush to a Native American mother and white father, finds his parents murdered by vicious killers and sets out to track them down.
15) The window
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
16) Air Force
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Flying Fortress Mary-Ann and its crew leave San Francisco for Honolulu on a routine training flight the day before Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Subsequently, the crew mans the Mary-Ann through action at Wake Island, the Philippines, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Australia. The B-17 seen in many of the scenes would later be lost in action with its crew over the Pacific.
17) Champion
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
19) Boomerang!
Series
Fox film noir volume 16
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a beloved priest is gunned down, the local police chief is under enormous pressure to find his murderer. When a massive manhunt produces a suspect, the state's attorney is determined to convict only if it is the right person despite political pressures.
20) Nevada Smith
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Nevada Smith is a rugged innocent boy born during the 1890s California gold rush to a Native American mother and white father. When he finds his parents murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down.