Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbour. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets involving sexual attraction and repression illegitimacy rape gossip intolerance and class snobbery. No wonder Allison had moved to a quiet place like New York...
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A young American soldier tragically injured by a landmine on the last day of the Great War in 1918 lies in a hospital bed. A quadruple amputee without the use of his eyes ears or mouth yet remaining conscious and still able to reason he tries to communicate to his doctors his wish that he be put on show as a demonstration of the full horrors of war... Starring Donald Sutherland and Timothy Bottoms 'Johnny Got His Gun' was winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festiva
War Has Plunged Army Soldier Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) Into An Unending Nightmare. Hit By An Artillery Shell In World War I, Joe Has Suffered Injuries That Have All But Erased His Humanity: He'S Lost His Sight, Speech, Hearing And Sense Of Smell. But He Still Has The Ability To Think And Remember, Which, In The End, May Be More A Curse Than A Blessing. Trapped In His Body, Joe Realizes There'S Only One Way Out Of His Misery: Death. Can He Get A Sympathetic Nurse To Help Him? Hollywood Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo Directed Just One Film In His Career, Johnny Got His Gun. Trumbo'S 1971 Adaptation Of His 1939 Novel Has Long Been Considered One Of The Most Powerful Anti-War Movies Ever Produced.New Audio Commentary By Cinema Author & Critic Matthew Asprey Gear Dalton Trumbo: Rebel In Hollywood DocumentaryInterview With Actor Timothy BottomsBehind-The-Scenes Footage (With Commentary By Timothy Bottoms And Director Of Photography Jules Brenner)1940 Radio Adaptation Starring James Cagney (Audio Only)Original Theatrical TrailerLimited Edition Slipcase On The First 2000 Copies With Unique Artwork.
Bloody Mama is another shameless unforgettable midnight movie classic directed by the legendary Roger Corman. Written by Robert Thom (Death Race 2000 All The Fine Young Cannibals) it stars Hollywood veteran Shelly Winters (Alfie The Poseidon Adventure) along with cult favourites Bruce Dern (Silent Running Rebel Rousers) Scatman Crothers (The Shining Hong Kong Phooey) and an early performance from superstar Robert DeNiro (Mean Streets Taxi Driver). It's depression era America and the infamous Ma Baker and her hillbilly brood of demented psychopathic sons are trailblazing through the Midwest making Bonnie and Clyde look like Richard and Judy. Rape murder kidnapping robbery drug abuse and incest are amongst their twisted family values. They're an unstoppable gang of lethal trash inhabiting a dark dangerous world of sordid crime and limitless depravity. But with the F.B.I on their trail their sadistic reign is about to end in an explosive massacre. Always entertaining relentlessly shocking and somewhat unsettling the true story of Bloody Mama is one of Roger Corman's most notorious creations.
Here is a bonafide discovery in the Rhapsody collection an almost unseen indie fiction film and one of the first dramatic films ever to truly capture the trials and tribulations of the black jazz musician in white America. The movie's plot is loosely based around the last few years in the life of bebop genius Charlie 'Bird' Parker.
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