Neville Brand
Author
Language
English
Description
Disgruntled ex-cop Tim Foster (Preston Foster) masterminds a foolproof, million-dollar bank robbery. But he is also planning to double-cross his accomplices and frame an innocent ex-G.I. for the crime - hapless truck driver Joe Rolfe (John Payne). Now, to set things right, Rolfe must prove his innocence and hunt down the real thugs, all while falling in love...with Foster's daughter (Coleen Gray)!
Series
Criterion collection volume 704
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
Appalling living conditions in a high security penitentiary lead to a prisoner riot when nothing is done.
3) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
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Language
English
Description
In Kansas City Confidential, four robbers hold up an armored truck, getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck delivery driver who is accused of involvement in the heist, sets out to discover who set him up and to exact revenge. He follows a trail that leads him to a web of hired killers and corrupt police in Mexico. Kansas City Confidential was the source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir...
Author
Language
English
Description
The past—and the future—close in on a reformed gunslinger. Like Alan Ladd’s Shane, Gregory Peck’s The Gunfighter and Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, The Lonely Man belongs to that saddlebag full of Westerns about a gunslinger to coming to terms with his infamous past and uncertain future. Jack Palance stars as Jacob Wade, a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so does...
7) The Tin Star
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Language
English
Description
A rugged bounty hunter. A tenderfoot sheriff. Unlikely partners in the Old West. Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins headline The Tin Star, a tough-minded character-driven western nominated for an Oscar. for its story and screenplay. Perkins plays Ben Owens, a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long... and who won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda, bringing to his role the presence and plain speaking that made...