Dean Jagger
5) Sister Kenny
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Language
English
Description
Could a simple country nurse possibly have found a treatment for polio when educated doctors have failed? This is the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse far out in the Australian bush, who follows her instincts to treat small children inflicted with the dreaded crippling disease.
Publisher
Bonzai Media Corporation
Edition
Widescreen; Special remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Billy Lo is a young kung fu movie star with a flourishing career and a promising future. As the leader of a syndicate known for its exploitation of entertainers, Dr. Land jumps at the chance to capitalize on Billy's celebrated status and that of his singer-girlfriend. Refusing to sign with Land, Billy's martial arts mastery is put to the test when he is brutally harassed by Land's men in an attempt to change his mind. In a stunning showdown, Billy...
Series
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
10) Western Union
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Double feature includes: The Cheyenne social club: saddle-weary Texans are surprised to find they've inherited a Wyoming brothel and must defend it against a gun-wielding gang. Firecreek: an outlaw preys on small towns, and a $2-a-month lawman must find the courage to stop him.
13) Elmer Gantry
Series
Publisher
United Artists Pictures
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.
14) Jumbo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The greatest show on earth comes to the screen in this circus epic set at the turn of the century. The story centers on Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante), his daughter Kitty (Doris Day), his long-suffering fiancee of fourteen years, Lulu (Martha Raye), and Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd), the spy who comes to steal Pop's circus and falls in love with Kitty. Includes lavish and colorful musical numbers featuring the songs of Rodgers and Hart. Doris Day delivers...
15) The proud rebel
Publisher
Reel Enterprises
Language
English
Description
Ladd is a Southerner on his way north in search of a doctor to cure his boy, who was rendered mute by the shock of seeing his mother killed in the Civil War. Along the way they find a new home on an Illinois farm run single-handed by de Havilland, and learn that violence does not always end after a war is over when she is victimized by a one-armed sheep herder and his two sons.
Series
Criterion collection volume 954
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge. When U.S. Marshal Griff Bonell (Barry Sullivan) and his...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Sierra: based on the novel by Stuart Hardy.
Sierra: Ring and his father Jeff live in a hidden valley in the mountains where they capture and tame wild horses. When Ring comes to the rescue of Riley Martin, a woman lawyer who has lost her way on the trail, it leads to a romance between them but also opens an investigation into Jeff's shadowy past and accusations of murder.
Ride clear of Diablo: When Clay O'Mara goes after rustlers who murdered his...
18) Dark city
Publisher
Olive Films
Language
English
Description
A desperate GI commits suicide after he gets taken by a grafter and his cronies. After being questioned by suspicious police chief they're told about the GI's mentally deranged brother looking for payback.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
HUCKLEBERRY FINN: After being kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck heads down the Mississippi with his buddy Jim and have many adventures. THE PROUD REBEL: After John Chandler's son goes mute following a tregedy, John searches for a doctor who can help him. Before he finds one, he and his family must work off a debt using their talented sheepdog, Lance. When a doctor is found, John has no money to pay for help for his son and must decide whether...