Montgomery Clift
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
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Description
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
3) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cattle baron and his adopted son head the first drive over the Chisolm Trail when they cannot find a local market for their herd.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear...
5) The Misfits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
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Not Supplied
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Not Supplied
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English
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Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Publisher
MGM/UA Pictures
Pub. Date
[1997]
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.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
9) I confess
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself.
10) The young lions
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of World War II from the American and the German perspectives.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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.
Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mix of war movies and documentaries that detail great battles and campaigns. Stars like Sidney Poitier, Van Johnson, John Ireland, and Montgomery Clift bring the immediacy of conflict to life and celebrity narrators like Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, and Burgess Meredith helm classic documentaries that convey key military campaigns.
14) Red river
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990,1948]
Language
English
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
17) Red River
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
"One of the finest westerns made, this monumental, sweeping and powerful masterpiece features impassioned performances, stunning cinematography and adventure on a grand scale...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The desert rats: A small group of men hold off German Field Marshal Rommel's forces despite being outnumbered. Twelve o'clock high: A brigadier general takes over a struggling Air Force bomber group during World War II. Von Ryan's express: An escaped prisoner of war races for freedom with Nazi soldiers in hot pursuit. The young lions: A decent young German man ends up as a Nazi officer.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Man of the West: Trying to protect his fellow victims, an ex-outlaw rejoins his old gang when they hold up his train.
Red River: Thomas Dunson, a tyrannical Texas rancher, is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
Return of the Magnificent seven: The legendary Magnificent Seven head into Mexico to find a friend who has been kidnapped.