Hal B. Wallis
1) True Grit
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
5) G.I. blues
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays an Oklahoma singer who gets out of the army and wants to open a club.
6) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
8) Shoot out
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Clay Lomax is a tough-as-nails ex-felon out to avenge an injustice in the rugged 1890s Frontier Territory. He finds himself the guardian of a beguiling six-year-old girl named Decky Ortega, a homeless urchin consigned to his care after the death of her mother, while trying to evade a trio of sadistic killers hot on his trail, killers sent by the double-crossing ex-partner Lomax has sworn to find.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning materpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Mary Queen of Scots: The battle between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England comes alive in this epic film.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Three-disc special ed. ; standard version.
Language
English
Description
In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. In Satan met a lady, Sam Spade is now PI Ted Shane,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Language
English
Description
A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter.
14) High Sierra
Publisher
[Turner Entertainment]
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
15) Now, voyager
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
18) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
19) Virginia City
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.
20) Sergeant York
Language
English
Description
Torn between religious pacifism and patriotism, Alvin York of Tennessee went on to become World War I's most acclaimed hero, capturing 132 German soldiers during the Battle of Argonne.