Edward Dmytryk
Series
Language
English
Description
During WWII, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it icomes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny a criminal act or an act of courage to save...
Pub. Date
20uu
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman, who believes that she is the daughter of an adulterous affair between her father and a mulatto slave, is married to an idealistic young man in this drama set in the Civil War era South. With the war as background, the two young people must solve their problems and find a true meaning and purpose in their lives.
3) Mirage
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A New York accountant develops amnesia after a power outage and he tries to make sense of what is going on as people around him are being murdered.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Police are baffled by random killings of women; Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion takes on a powerful crime syndicate; plans to rob a casino as a hoax by a group of friends go awry when one of them takes it very seriously; two hit men must explain the disappearance of a heroin stash to their boss; a normally pragmatic hit man finds he has misgivings when his next job is to kill a woman who is about to give evidence against his boss.
6) The mountain
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
1956 motion picture release.
Language
English
Description
Retired mountain climber and guide Zachary Wheeler reluctantly helps his younger brother scale a treacherous mountain slope to reach the site of a recent plane crash. He puts aside their differences and agrees to help his inexperienced brother on an immoral looting mission. After reaching the crash site, they discover a lone survivor. Zachary starts caring for the injured young woman, while his brother would rather abandon her and make off with the...
8) Crossfire
Pub. Date
℗2005, ©1947.
Language
English
Description
A police captain (Young) methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier (Ryan) with a rabid hatred of Jews.
9) Gregory Peck
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An Oxford language professor is asked by Middle East Oil magnates to decipher a hieroglyphic and soon finds himself marked for murder; an accountant with amnesia asks a private investigator to help him determine his identity; Captain Josiah Newman deals with a lack of resources and difficult patients as he runs the neuropsychiatric ward of a military hospital in 1944; a sea captain faces danger when he falls in love with a woman running from her fiancé....
10) Murder, my sweet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.
11) The outlaws
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A collection of western rancher and outlaw films.
12) Murder, my sweet
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma.
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
A depiction of the wild life in Tinseltown's early days. A story about a ruthless tycoon who built a multi-million dollar empire. Includes a striptease performance atop a glittering chandelier that helped to break the Production Code.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Bataan: a small band of American soldiers attempts to destroy a strategic bridge during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1942.
Back to Bataan: following the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1942, stranded American soldiers organize an underground resistance movement.
17) Love affair
Series
Criterion collection volume 1114
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building--until the hand of fate...
18) Crossfire
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. 'Hate', Finlay says, 'is like a gun.' ... Edward Dmytryk...directs, draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood took aim at injustice ......
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