Albert Dekker
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
In an atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Snarling private detective Mike Hammer's decision one dark, lonely night to pick up a hitchhiking woman sends him down some terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, it's a film noir masterpiece and an essential piece of cold war paranoia. Featuring as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema.
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Language
English
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Description
Philip Green, a highly respected writer, is commissioned by a national magazine to write a series of pieces on anti-Semitism in America. Unsure how to approach the subject, Green ultimately decides to assume the role of a Jewish man and write the story from that view. As his story unfolds, Green begins to experience first hand the bigotry and hatred Jewish people face daily.
6) Wake Island
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault"--Container.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Magazine writer Schuyler 'Phil' Green, a widower who has just arrived with his mother and young son in New York, is assigned the task of writing an expose of anti-Semitism. As he searches for a new angle on the topic, he decides to pass as a Jew for several months, which causes no end of trouble for his ailing mother and young son. It also puts his new society girlfriend on the spot, since despite all her intellectual convictions, she cannot quite...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Description
A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. Along the way, he is told to back off by the Feds, a bomb is placed in his car, a friend is killed, and he himself is beaten, drugged, and held hostage.
10) Seven sinners
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Deported from every South Sea island on which she has ever performed, sexy saloon singer Bijou Blanche winds up in Boni Komba at the Seven Sinners Caf,̌ convincing the manager that she will break only hearts, not bar stools. Bijou soon charms a handsome Navy officer, who falls deeply in love with the woman his superiors refer to as a naval destroyer. When a spiteful admirer of Bijou's resorts to violence to keep the lovers apart, Bijou proves she...
11) Cass Timberlane
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Virginia Marshland is a vivacious young woman from the wrong side of the tracks, whose rebellious ways fascinate small town widowed judge Cass Timberlane. He's lonely enough to believe that his stuffy friends will accept her, and their marriage. But Virginia is too spirited by play the part of a dutiful society wife for long, and soon becomes tempted by a friend of Timberlane's, a man about town who seems to offer the sophistication and adventure...
12) Honky tonk
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Con artist Candy Johnson has been run out of town after town. Then he got wise. He went out and got a town of his own: Yellow Creek, Nevada. The title honkey tonk is the Square Deal Saloon, where Candy and poker-playing sidekick Sniper cut cards -- but not the liquor. The colorful townfolk include a Justice of the Peace who's good pals with John Barleycorn, a fiery do-gooder, a long-suffering dance hall girl and a law-unto-himself sheriff"--Container....
13) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself"--Container.
14) Lulu Belle
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lulu is singing in a cheap dive in Mississippi when she meets rising young attorney George. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu. When his money runs out, Lulu goes to work in a New Orleans club run by Mark. She tries to send George back to Mississippi, but in a fit of jealousy, George stabs a man Lulu was trying to have an affair with. He's sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry, who makes her a singing sensation...
15) Wake Island
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey falls in love with his patient, Allida Bederaux, the wife of wealthy businessman Nick Bederaux. Nick insists Allida is insane while she confides to Dr. Bailey that she and her son are in danger. Meanwhile, people around them mysteriously die. Who is telling the truth?
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.
Cult of the cobra: Vengeance is sworn against six American GI's after they witness a clandestine ceremony worshiping beautiful women who can change into serpents.
18) Among the living
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Paul Raden is a hopeless maniac. Twenty-five years ago, he suffered permanent brain damage trying to defend his mother from his brutal father. Paul's last memory, before descending into the shadows of insanity, was his mother₂s agonized scream. Locked away in secrecy ever since he escapes from his prison on the night of his father's funeral and stalks among the living. It's up to Paul's identical twin John to put a stop to his brother's vicious...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Like the rest of the world's landlubbers, Charles Stewart knew nothing of a sailer's life at sea. And, as the son of a very rich ship owner, he never should have. But, after being shanghaied into participating in sailing on one of his father's ships, the S.S. Pilgrim, he would soon discover for himself the ocean of brutality that was a sailor's lot in life during the 1840s. Sickened and ultimately swayed by a sea of daily floggings, beatings, and...
20) Strange cargo
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. "[A] gripping story that explores the lures of the flesh and the transcendence of the spirit"--Container.