Brock Peters
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Collector's ed. ; widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
2) Major Dundee
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Edition
Extended version.
Language
English
Description
A Union major late in the Civil War takes it upon himself to punish a band of Apaches who murdered a ranch family and fled into Mexico. Being short of troops he uses Confederate prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals to accomplish his goal.
4) The locket
Language
English
Description
The story of a wise woman who teaches a troubled young man an invaluable lesson about not giving up easily in the quest for both real love and a fulfilling life.
Publisher
Warner Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen letterbox edition.
Language
English
Description
21st century New York is teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent green. As police detective Thorn investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous...
Series
Publisher
Kino Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister, searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity, and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial.
Publisher
Mti Home Video
Language
English
Description
On the road to Lake Tahoe, a stressed out young executive meets a woman who forever changes his life. Shot in the spectacular Sierra Nevada Mountains, "The Last Place on Earth" is funny, moving film and about food, passion, love and a one-eared dog.
Edition
Widescreen letterbox ed.
Language
English
Description
Mother lode: It's Silas McGee's gold. He just hasn't found it yet, although he's searched for his mother lode for more than 30 years in the remote high country of British Columbia. Strangers with a similar bent for gold had best stay away: folks like that may never come out of McGee's mine alive.
Soylent Green: Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens,...