Rage and Honor (DVD)
Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the streets.R"
Director: Terence H. Winkless
ACTORS: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton
Lucky Day (DVD)
After winning the lottery, Bill Regan is murdered. Nora Barkin (Amanda Donohoe, LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM), his best friend, becomes an amateur sleuth determined to find his killer. Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.NR"
Director: Penelope Buitenhuis
ACTORS: Amanda Donohoe, Tony Lo Bianco, Andrew Gillies, Gino Marrocco
Where the Day Takes You (DVD)
Stripped of sentimentality, this film visits homeless teens and young adults who survive on the margins of society. Living by begging, theft and prostitution, this loose-knit community forms an extended family. King (Dermot Mulroney) is the unofficial patriarch looking after the motley crew of addicts and runaways. He especially works hard to keep Greg (Sean Astin), a troubled boy, away from a local drug dealer. But all King`s street smarts are not enough to protect his friends from danger. Director Marc Rocco`s 1992 film features a dream cast of young actors before they were stars.R"
Director: Marc Rocco
ACTORS: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake
La Cosa Nostra: The Mafia - An Expose Vol. 3 (DVD)
Contains Vegas and Hoffa (includes a profile of the Luchese Family, biographies of Paul Vario, Vitorio Amuso, and Joe De Fede, as well as an in-depth biography of Bugsy Siegel).NR"
Mister Roberts (DVD) Premiere Collection The film represents Henry Fonda`s return to the screen after an absence of seven years, part of which was spent playing the eponymous officer in the immensely successful stage version of Thomas Heggen`s novel. As ca...
The film represents Henry Fonda`s return to the screen after an absence of seven years, part of which was spent playing the eponymous officer in the immensely successful stage version of Thomas Heggen`s novel. As cargo officer and second in command on a supply ship during World War II, the easygoing Lt. Doug Roberts is excluded from a much desired combat role while playing whipping boy to dyspeptic tyrant Captain Morion (James Cagney). Ensign Frank Pulver (Jack Lemmon), a brash yet cowardly wheeler-dealer, entertains Roberts with his elaborate pranks while the fatherly Doc (William Powell in his last screen appearance) offers advice. The young crew tries every available means of killing boredom, including eyeballing the nurses on a nearby island through a telescope, and Roberts does what he can to get them the R and R they badly need. The film had a troubled production history, mostly because of conflicts between Fonda, a friend of author Thomas Heggen`s, and Ford, who wished to make changes that Fonda disliked. Shortly after physically attacking Fonda, Ford suffered a ruptured gallbladder and was replaced by Mervyn LeRoy. Fonda is excellent, and Lemmon gives an inspired, Oscar-winning performance in a film that flows evenly from the comic to the tragic and stands among the best World War II films produced in the 1950s.
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Director: John Ford|Mervyn LeRoy
ACTORS: Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond
