3 Classic Boris Karloff Films - Ape/ Doomed To Die/ Fatal Hour
3 Classic Boris Karloff Films - Ape/ Doomed To Die/ Fatal Hour
3 Classic Boris Karloff Films - Ape/ Doomed To Die/ Fatal Hour…
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Billy The Kid - Unmasked
Billy The Kid - Unmasked
Legend has it that in 1881 Sheriff Pat Garrett shot and killed ‘Billy the Kid’, a young man wanted for allegedly committing 21 murders, one for every year of his short life. But America’s most famous criminal left behind more folk tales than facts, including the question of whether he was really shot and killed at all. Armed with the latest forensic evidence, a team of experts reopens the case, revealing new twists to this remarkable story….
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Rancho Notorious
Rancho Notorious
An intriguing Western in which revenge-seeking Kennedy gets side-tracked by Dietrich in her outlaw hideout….
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Fighting Caravans
Fighting Caravans
FIGHTING CARAVANS, based on a Zane Grey novel, is one of the first big-budget Western films. Frontiersman Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) convinces a fellow traveller (Lili Damita) on a westbound caravan to pose as his wife to help disguise him. He then saves the caravan from an Indian attack–and falls in love, of course….
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Broken Trail
Broken Trail
Set in 1898, Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Ritter and Harte’s attempts to care for the girls are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd of horses while avoiding a group of bitter rivals intent on kidnapping the girls for their own purposes….
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The Cranes Are Flying
The Cranes Are Flying
Two young lovers are separated by the outbreak of war, each confronting personal upheaval and grief, trying to maintain the dream that someday they will be together again….
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My Darling Clementine
My Darling Clementine
In another of his classic Westerns, John Ford again reflects upon the advance of civilisation on the receding frontier, recounting the events leading up to and including the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As they drive their cattle toward California, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brothers, Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and young James (Don Garner), stop outside Tombstone, Arizona, where they refuse an offer for their stock made by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his son,…
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The Long Riders (Wide Screen)
The Long Riders (Wide Screen)
This violent Western follows four sets of brothers–the Youngers, the Jameses, the Millers, and the Fords–who band together for a crime spree across Missouri. Law enforcers, meanwhile, prove inept in their attempts to apprehend the renegade cowboys, who are busy arguing among themselves. Director Walter Hill’s film features four groups of real-life brothers–the Keaches, the Carradines, the Quaids, and the Guests….
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Lawman
Lawman
While in a neighbouring town, some drunken locals from Sheriff Maddox’ domain accidentally kill a man. So the stern, unbending Maddox (Burt Lancaster) goes there to arrest the missing men, a task that proves much harder than he expected, thanks to his rude and arrogant manner. The residents quickly view him as an enemy, and demand that he leave. As a result, town boss Vincent Bronson (Cobb) the fugitives boss, sends one henchman after another to kill Maddox. Michael Winner directs….
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cinema Reserve)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cinema Reserve)
A Japanese-American co-production, director Richard Fleischer (SOYLENT GREEN) and two Japanese directors put together this ultrarealistic account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor as presented from the perspectives of both nations, as diplomatic tensions rise between the two countries. While the Japanese military plans its attack on American military installations, the American forces nearly stumble into a much greater calamity due to a series of errors and mistakes. As the two sides plunge closer…
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Hell Is For Heroes (Wide Screen)
Hell Is For Heroes (Wide Screen)
A perfect example of what critic Manny Farber once described as ‘termite art’–that which burrows under and gets inside its subject rather than indulging in rhetoric–HELL IS FOR HEROES stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious G.I. John Reese. In the fall of 1944, he’s busted from staff sergeant back to private for drunkenness and is sent back to his former outfit, currently stationed near the Siegfried Line in Montigny. Reese’s bitterness about his demotion isolates him from the rest of the squad,…
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The Battle Of Midway
The Battle Of Midway
The Battle of Midway sounded its furious thunder in June 1942, just six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Midway interweaves the dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States. The all-star cast and breathtaking war footage convey the Battle of Midway with powerfiul reality and epic sweep….
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The Dirty Dozen - The Deadly Mission
The Dirty Dozen - The Deadly Mission
The Dirty Dozen are sent on a mission to destroy a German nerve gas manufacturing plant….
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Redhead From Wyoming
Redhead From Wyoming
The feisty proprietress of a saloon, torn between a promoter and the sheriff, finds out too late that the promoter has been using her to smuggle contraband beef. She and the sheriff struggle to set things right again in this 1870’s-set western….
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
In John Ford’s stark, melancholy swan song for the conventional frontier Western, aged Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns to the small town of Shinbone with his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), for the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphan (John Wayne), where he recounts for reporters his relationship with the man. His arrival in the town years earlier as a newly minted lawyer had been welcomed with a vicious beating by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), a flamboyant thug hired by powerful busin…
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Stalingrad
Stalingrad
This German film is a gritty, devastating retelling of the battle for Stalingrad during World War II, in which more than a million and a half soldiers lost their lives. Told from the point of view of the German soldiers, who were under orders to neither retreat nor surrender, this film realistically portrays the brutality of combat….
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ALL QUIET/WESTERN FRONT(1930) (DVD)
ALL QUIET/WESTERN FRONT(1930) (DVD)
ALL QUIET/WESTERN FRONT(1930) (DVD)…
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Rancho Deluxe
Rancho Deluxe
Off-beat comedy story of two modern day rustlers who are living off illegal pickings from a wealthy rancher. Tired of being victimised, the rancher hires a private eye to bring them to justice… But they have other ideas……
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Five Guns West
Five Guns West
A Confederate officer and four pardoned killers set out to ambush a stagecoach carrying a gold shipment, but things don’t go as planned….
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Death Rides A Horse
Death Rides A Horse
A man seeks revenge for the massacre of his family fifteen years before….
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