Lewis Milestone
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy to an insurance salesman, but not without a fight. The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The plot snowballs as Williams' friend Molly Malloy, the crooked mayor, and his mother get tied up in Walter's web.
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A woman kills her wealthy aunt in a row over the woman's boyfriend; another man protects the woman from prosecution in return for her agreement to marry him; eighteen years later the boyfriend returns and the woman openly renews her romance with him.
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a secret past and tormented by an uncertain future, two lonely people are drawn together in Paris during the last desperate days of freedom before WWII. A surgeon flees to Paris to escape the Nazis' growing power. After falling in love with an unemployed cabaret singer and finding her a job, he is deported when unable to produce his passport. Things come to a crisis when war is declared.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story. The "Doolittle Raiders" are put on trial in a Japanese civil court, not as P.O.W.s, but as criminals charged with murder. As this travesty of justice proceeds, the airmen realize that their only hope of avoiding execution is to reveal to their...
8) The red pony
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of conflict between a nine-year-old boy, his father and the family's hired man. The son works his way from despair to contentment with the aid of a small red pony.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Although this was director Lewis Milestone's only venture into the realm of noir, it remains a classic of the genre. THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS stars Barbara Stanwyck as the title character, a tough, spoiled, willful heiress married to the local D.A., Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), a weak-willed alcoholic. When old friend Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) suddenly returns to town after many years away, he approaches Walter to ask his help with the case...
10) Pork Chop Hill
Language
English
Description
Korean War film of a true tale of the desperate soldiers who finally take the top of Pork Chop Hill, only to find themselves surrounded by enemy forces.
11) Rain
Series
Publisher
Allied Artists
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On a South Seas island Sadie Thompson is confronted by an old-fashioned fire-and brimstone minister who tries to disguise his desire for her as a desire to save her soul.
13) Of mice and men
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
14) Edge of darkness
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven. That’s what police brass and Craven think, but that’s not what the investigation finds. With clue after clue and witness after witness, the search leads him into a shadowy realm where money and political intrigue intersect. If Craven wasn’t a target before, he – and anyone linked to his inquiry – now is. Mel Gibson stars in his first screen lead in eight years, making...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
For Bumper, life is just a bowl of cherries. Living in New York City's Central Park, the happy-go-lucky hobo king spends his time singing and enjoying himself without a care in the world. But when he rescues a beautiful amnesiac from a park lake, his cares suddenly increase. Not only has he fallen in love with the pretty blonde, but he has also discovered she's the missing sweetheart of Bumper's good buddy, the Mayor of New York.
Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A walk in the sun (1945): An isolated farmhouse in Italy is being held by the Nazis. A lone American battalion has orders to capture it ... at any cost. As they prepare to attack, each of the infantrymen reflects on whether he has what it takes to accomlish the mission - and live. -- We dive at dawn (1943): The exhausted crew of the British submarine, sea Tiger, must rally for one final, desperate mission: to sink the German battleship, Brandenburg....
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Patterns: When Fred Staples is recruited to work for a major corporation in New York he comes to realize that he was meant to replace an ailing executive. Will he choose the moral high road or seize the biggest opportunity of his life?
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: Ambition, desire, fear and obsession govern the life of socialite Martha Ivers. An old friend comes to town and threatens to expose Martha's past misdeeds.
Anna Karenina: Based...
20) Of mice and men
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of two migrant workers trying to realize their dreams of owning a ranch until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.