En route to Normandy an American and a British officer reminisce about their romances with the same woman.
Despite her parents' disapproval Brianne is determined to marry Clay. At first the marriage is a success but gradually Clay becomes more and more physically and emotionally abusive to his family. One night in a bar a man tries to chat up Brianne and Clay shoots him dead. To try and deceive the authorities Brianne admits to shooting the man by accident. This plan misfires and the couple are both imprisoned for life. When Brianne's father dies Brianne is faced with the possibility of losing custody of their only child Lily. Is her love for Clay strong enough?.. Based on a true story.
In the film that began her legendary career Jean Harlow stars in this romantic comedy directed by Academy Award winner Frank Capra (Best Director: It Happened One Night 1935; Mr. Deed Goes To Town 1937; You Can't Take It With You 1939). Written to showcase her talent looks and charm 'Platinum Blonde' is a glorious spoof of the newspaper business in New York City during the Depression; Ann Schuyler (Harlow) a wealthy socialite meets reporter 'Stew' Smith (Robert Williams) a
The great love story of the Great War.Hollywood once again looks back at the undeniably compelling story of D-Day, this time through the device of two officers facing the coming battle, one American and one British, recalling their love for the same woman.
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman her father a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
A World War II double-bill comes to DVD with the pairing of The Young Lions (1958) and D-Day the Sixth of June (1956). Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions is one of the most thoughtful films about the War. Based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, it tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls "a likable coward", Clift is intense as a Jewish GI, and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi re-evaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom Keogh D-Day the Sixth of June is a misleading title for a very tame wartime romance with barely 10 minutes of combat in the last reel. What we mostly get is a year's worth of flashbacks depicting the reluctant, London-based affair of a married US staff officer (Robert Taylor) and a British Red Cross worker (Dana Wynter) whose commando suitor (Richard Todd) is fighting in Africa. To be sure, the emotional desperation and embattled decency of good people in time of war is as worthy of film treatment as any military campaign, and the script works pre-invasion Anglo-American tensions into the story. But the CinemaScope production is utterly formulaic, with leaden direction by Henry Koster. Wynter's porcelain beauty apparently didn't permit changes of expression, and Taylor looks about 15 years past his prime. --Richard T Jameson
West of the Pecos (1945): Robert Mitchum stars in this well plotted exciting Zane Grey Western. Thurston Hall and his daughter Barbara Hale are accosted by robbers en route to their Texas ranch from Chicago. This is only the start of their troubles as they encounter hold-ups horse stampedes and outlaws. Hiring Robert Mitchum and his sidekick to run their ranch leads to further problems because of Mitchum's checkered past. Plot twists and Suspense highlight this old west cla
Species (Dir. Roger Donaldson 1995): Men cannot resist her. Mankind may not survive her! When a creature geneticaly engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence escapes from observation scientist Xavier Fitch (Kingsley) assembles an elite team of experts to track it down. The crew - a government assassin (Madsen) an empath (Whitaker) a biologist (Helgenberger) and an anthropologist (Molina) - combines their expertise and traces their prey to Los Angeles. The
Jake Baxter takes a job as a repoman with hopes of living the quiet life. Plans go sour when he's whipped into supersonic action involving a vicious crime lord a mob of angry car owners a sadistic porno ring and lastly a brutal illegal and very lethal car race known throughout L.A.'s underworld as the 'Slam Track.'
Ensemble drama from acclaimed director Robert Altman centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Neve Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.
This is one of the first American martial arts movies and features some gripping action with James Cagney doing his own stunts for which he trained intensively with Ken Kuniyuki a fifth degree judo master before shooting. This is Cagney at his best.
This great DVD collection contains the following titles: 1. Attack! (dir. Robert Aldrich 1956) 2. 633 Squadron (dir. Walter Grauman 1964) 3. The Bridge At Remagen (dir. John Guillermin 1969) 4. A Bridge Too Far (dir. Richard Attenborough 1977) 5. The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges 1963) 6. Hart's War (dir. Gregory Hoblit 2002) 7. Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone 1986) 8. Windtalkers (dir. John Woo 2002) 9. The Dogs Of War (dir. John Irvin 1981) 10. Under Fire (dir. Roger Spottiswoode 1983)
A light-hearted series all about growing up focusing on Lizzie Miranda and their friends.
Coach Carter (Dir. Thomas Carter 2005): Inspired by a true story Samuel L. Jackson and Ashanti star in this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach (Jackson) who received high praise - and staunch criticism - for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performance... Shaft (Dir. John Singleton 2000): Crooked cops on the take small-time drug lords sleazy informers and sadistic rich kids ready to kill: for police detective John
Meet Lizzie McGuire. She is so thirteen years old with all the worries every thirteen-year-old has. How can I be more popular in school? Can I be seen wearing this or will it be a total social disaster? How do I stop my mother humiliating and embarrassing me? Am I turning into a geek? Join Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her cartoon alter ego for an hilarious look at life on the edge - of teen years... Episodes include: Misadventures In Babysitting Election I Do I Don't Bad Girl McGui
The guest cast list for The X-Files: The Truth runs almost to the first commercial break, suggesting how many plot strands this season-and-series finale needs to make room for, with many old characters (including ghostly appearances for the dead ones) popping up. Mulder (David Duchovny), teasingly absent for the final season, is suddenly back, accused of murdering a super-soldier who isn't supposed to be able to die. He faces a military tribunal, defended by AD Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), as guest stars trot out testimony that fills the double-length episode with explanations recapping nine years of confusion as creator Chris Carter tries to spatchcock his impromptu conspiracy theories into a real plot. Last-season regulars Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish are shunted aside as Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder get to dodge a last-scene explosion and wind up in a pretty silly clinch-with-philosophy in the face of vaguely imminent apocalypse. Seriously, if the franchise is to continue on the big screen, how about ditching the embarrassing alien conspiracy mess and doing a monster story? On the DVD: The X-Files: The Truth comes to disc with a lovely widescreen transfer, a 13-minute "Reflections on the Truth" featurette that, though it hits the self-congratulation button a couple too many times, has a little more meat than the puff pieces included on previous releases, and a bonus episode ("William") that is unfortunately another of the maudlin ones, this time resolving the plotline about Scully's super-baby. --Kim Newman
The Master Blackmailer is a two-hour 1991 Granada TV adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, which for the most part sticks close to the details of the original. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) takes on the reputed king of all blackmailers, Milverton (Robert Hardy), who has made a fortune extorting money from the famous and the blue-blooded and who routinely ruins others' lives when not pleased. Unable to talk Milverton into turning over letters belonging to Lady Eva Brackenwell, Holmes decides to steal them, going undercover as a plumber and even romancing Milverton's housemaid, Agatha (Sophie Thompson), to gain better access in the house. (The ethical Watson, played by Edward Hardwicke, is upset to hear of Holmes's deception of an innocent woman.) The story builds to a surprisingly violent finale, but the real hook is Brett's performance as the disguised detective and the startling suggestion that Holmes's close contact with Agatha truly moved the bachelor sleuth. --Tom Keogh
Meet Lizzie McGuire. She is so thirteen years old with all the worries every thirteen-year-old has. How can I be more popular in school? Can I be seen wearing this or will it be a total social disaster? How do I stop my mother humiliating and embarrassing me? Am I turning into a geek? Join Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her cartoon alter ego for an hilarious look at life on the edge - of teen years... Episodes include: Come Fly WIth Me Random Acts Of Miranda Lizzie's Niughtmare Night
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