Stanley Kramer
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. As graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
4) On the beach
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Series
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
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...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Sensational film about the Spanish War of Independence (1810). After Napoleon's invasion of Spain, a group of guerillas (led by Frank Sinatra) attempt to transport what was in those days the biggest cannon in the world, across Spain to Avila, where they intend to counterattack against the French army headquartered there. But a British Navy captain (Cary Grant) is trying to locate the cannon for the British to use against Napoleon. Adding romance to...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittoria is the wine-loving town's leader. Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town. The town turns to Bombolini when they want to hide over a million bottles of wine from the Nazi army.
10) High noon
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1961
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in France in 1640, Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beautiful Roxanne. She, however, loves another man - Christian, who is quite handsome himself. Cyrano, being his chivalrous self, sets up an innocent deception with Christian, which unfortunately yields tragic results!
13) High noon
Series
Language
English
Description
A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 692
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find buried treasure. The most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by an all-star cast.
15) Inherit the Wind
Author
Language
English
Description
Spencer Tracy and Frederic March go head-to-head as opposing attorneys in this blistering courtroom drama about the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" where a Tennessee teacher must defend himself for teaching Darwinism.
17) Inherit the wind
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clash over a teacher's right to teach evolution in the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial."
18) The men
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A war veteran paralyzed in combat returns home and finds he will never walk again, bitterly refusing to see his fiancé. She must force him to confront reality and break his physical and emotional confinement. When feeling starts to return to his legs, it could be his last hope, or final downfall.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Cyrano de Bergerac: The story of Cyrano, the tragic wit renowned for his nose and unrequited love for the beautiful Roxanne. The son of Monte Cristo: Under cover of night, aristocratic dandy Edmond Dantes, Jr. transforms himself into The Torch, a masked avenger who rallies the Balkan countryside against evil Count Gurko.
20) High noon / produced by Stanley Kramer ; screenplay by Carl Foreman ; directed by Fred Zinnemann
Series
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Will Kane is a marshal who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of killers out for revenge. Engaged in the fight of his lifetime, Kane stands to lose everything when the clock strikes noon, his friends, his honor, and his Quaker bride.