Hal B. Wallis
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter.
3) Shoot out
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995, c1971
Language
English
Description
Clay Lomax is a tough-as-nails ex-felon out to avenge an injustice in the rugged 1890's Frontier Territory. His mission is put on hold when he finds himself the guardian of a beguiling six-year-old girl named Decky, a homeless urchin consigned to his care after the death of her mother. How can this gun-slinging outlaw tend to a helpless little girl when all of his wits are needed to guard against a trio of sadistic killers hot on his trail...killers...
Series
Language
English
Description
"A stranger is caught cheating in a game of five card stud in a Rincon, Colorado saloon in 1880. Van Morgan (Dean Martin) unsuccessfully tries to save the gambler's life as the other five players lynch the cheat. Meanwhile, a gold rush has brought a group of outsiders to Rincon, like gun-toting preacher Jonathan Rudd (Robert Mitchum) and Lily Langford (Inger Stevens), with her collection of beautiful lady "barbers." When two townspeople are murdered,...
8) Casablanca
Series
AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
"Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo ... whose only hope is Rick Blaine ... a cynical American...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John 'Doc' Holliday and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of Earp's brothers. This leads the men into the most devastating showdown in wild West history.
10) Now, voyager
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
11) Sergeant York
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
12) This is the Army
Publisher
Passion Productions
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Based on the stage presentation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier musical. In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiance until the war is over.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
14) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
19) True grit
Series
Language
English
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
20) High Sierra
Publisher
[Turner Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.