Robert Mitchum
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Among the stately homes of England lives British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet. One such tourist is wealthy Texan Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum), who sets his sights upon Victor's lovely wife, Hilary (Deborah Kerr). In his efforts to win back his wife's attention, Victor presses his former girlfriend Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons) into service. Nominated for Best Motion Picture...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
As a small time hood Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. *"A good, tough unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." - Vincent Canby, **The New York Times*** *"...give him [Robert Mitchum] a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is...
5) Scrooged
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humor-perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver...
7) El Dorado
Publisher
Paramount
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
A sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Every year Scranton High School's 1957 champion basketball team reunites to relive the glory and reinvent the myths. At their twenty-fourth reunion the coach is rallying his boys. Friendship and betrayal, success and failure, past and present--the dreams and realities of the game of life are explored in a moving experience.
9) Gung ho!
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Language
English
Description
A dynamic documentary-like war movie highlighting the heroism of Colonel Evan Carlson's marine raiders. Taking us from the grueling and intense training to the attack and successful destruction of superior Japanese forces on Makin Island.
10) The sundowners
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A married couple in Australia find themselves at odds when the wife wants to settle down on a farm of their own, but the husband finds settling down more than his untethered spirit can bear.
12) Ryan's daughter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Second-disc special edition ; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
13) Out of the Past
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
A tough private eye is caught in a complex web of love, money and murder when he is hired to find a hood's homicidal girlfriend and falls in love with her.
14) 5 card stud
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Language
English
Description
Someone is stalking the members of a lynching party in Colorado during the 1880's. Things lead to a violent shootout when only two members remain.
15) Undercurrent
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
The unsuspecting wife of a power hungry husband, who is driven to madness and murder, must desperately attempt to unravel the cause.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
17) The winds of war
Publisher
Paramount
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
The first two years of WWII, before U.S. involvement, as seen through the eyes of a naval commander stationed at Pearl Harbor.
19) Anzio
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
" ... After landing with Allied troops in 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 ..."
20) Midway
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States.