The Red Badge of Courage (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
The Red Badge of Courage (DVD)
John Huston`s classic film adaptation of the 1895 novel by Stephen Crane about a young man`s first experience in war. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War the film ponders the feelings of anxiety and finally outright fear in a boy preparing for battle. Henry (Audie Murphy) loses his illusions of heroism during his first skirmish, and just prior to engaging the enemy for the second time, he deserts the field of combat and enters an idyllic world of the forest. Witnessing his friend`s death and receiving an accidental wound from a retreating soldier, Henry comes to terms with realities of warfare.NR"
Director: John Huston
ACTORS: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Arthur Hunnicutt, John Dierkes, Royal Dano
Slightly Scarlet (DVD) Widescreen Edition Allan Dwan takes on hard-boiled master James M. Cain in a film starring Arlene Dahl as Dorothy Lyons, a red-headed nymphomaniac looking for trouble. Hoping to smear Frank Jansen (Kent Taylor), the reform candidate fo...
Allan Dwan takes on hard-boiled master James M. Cain in a film starring Arlene Dahl as Dorothy Lyons, a red-headed nymphomaniac looking for trouble. Hoping to smear Frank Jansen (Kent Taylor), the reform candidate for mayor in his city, crime syndicate boss Sol Caspar (Ted de Corsia) sends his top lieutenant Ben Grace (John Payne) to look into the private life of Jansen`s secretary, June Lyons (Rhonda Fleming). He finds not only that she`s involved with her boss, but that her sister Dorothy, a kleptomaniac who gets around, has just been released from prison. When Caspar murders a newspaper publisher who had supported Jansen, Ben, who is angling for Caspar`s slot, supplies evidence of Caspar`s involvement in the crime to June, and convinces her to accept his help in electing Jansen, making her believe he`s now on the side of law and order. Meanwhile, Caspar is forced to flee and Ben takes over his job. Ben and June soon become involved, but their romance goes sour when Arlene, always in search of new friends, makes a move on the racketeer. Dahl gives one of her most unusual performances in the tight little noir, which features superb photography by John Alton.
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Director: Allan Dwan
ACTORS: Rhonda Fleming, John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor, Ted De Corsia
Burn Up Excess Vol. 3: Under the Gun (DVD)
BURN UP EXCESS picks up where its predecessor BURN-UP W!, left off, once again following the misadventures of the elite SWAT team known as Team Warrior. These episodes find the girls up against a group of killer drag queens who have their sights set on stealing some new beauty technology that can render the user either beautiful or invisible. Later, when Team Warrior is assigned to help transport a top-secret tank across the globe, an unexpected attack leaves Rio alone with the precious cargo in the middle of the desert.NR"
The Lost Son (DVD) Widescreen A moral battle ensues when private detective Xavier Lombard (French actor Daniel Auteuil from JEAN DE FLORETTE) is hired by a wealthy family to find their son who has disappeared. The trail Lombard follows leads him to the s...
A moral battle ensues when private detective Xavier Lombard (French actor Daniel Auteuil from JEAN DE FLORETTE) is hired by a wealthy family to find their son who has disappeared. The trail Lombard follows leads him to the seamy outskirts of society that are unseen by such wealthy families, and ultimately to a hideout where he finds many strange things except for the boy. When Lombard discovers that the boy is caught up in dangerous circles, he must delve into a morally corrupt world in order to find the boy. Also starring Nastassia Kinski and Katrin Kartlidge (BREAKING THE WAVES).
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Director: Chris Menges
ACTORS: Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge, Bruce Greenwood
Out of the Ashes (DVD)
Christine Lahti stars in this harrowing made-for-cable film based on the real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II. Perl`s story is told in flashback as she sits before an immigration panel in the U.S. seeking American citizenship after the war. Facing her inquisitors` accusations of collaborating with the Nazis because of her work as camp doctor, Perl is forced to relive her horrifying experiences and the difficult moral choices she had to make in order to survive.R"
Director: Joseph Sargent
ACTORS: Christine Lahti, Bruce Davison, Richard Crenna, Beau Bridges, Jonathan Cake
