King and Country
In this stirring anti-war film set during WWI, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) is assigned to defend a lowly private (Tom Courtenay) at his court martial.
In this stirring anti-war film set during WWI, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer (Dick Bogarde) is assigned to defend a lowly private (Tom Courtenay) at his court martial. The private has been accused of desertion during battle. The lawyer, Captain Hargreaves is convinced this young man should be executed. However, as the trial progresses and the strain of three horrible years endured at the Allied front is revealed, the more he is compelled to spare the youth from a firing squad.
1964 | 86 min | B&W | Optional English Subtitles | 1.66:1/16×9 | Dolby Digital | All Region | NR
Reviews:
“∗∗∗1/2 Vivid anti-war treatise beautifully acted by strong supporting cast.” – Leonard Maltin
“… outstanding performances… deserving of attention.” – Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News
“… deadly tones of realism… A Shocker!” – Judith Crist, New York Herald Tribune
“Too important and too rewarding a film to be missed” – Guardian
Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtney, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, Peter Copley
Directed byJoseph Losey
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Pre-Code Double Feature – Hell Harbor/Jungle Bride
HELL HARBOR: A Caribbean island harbor is the exquisite backdrop for treachery and romance as Anita (Lupe Velez), a descendant of the infamous Morgan the Pirate, gets in the middle of a dispute between her father Harry (Gibson Gowland), who has killed a man, and grimy pearl trader Horngold (Jean Hersholt), who witnessed the crime and demands Anita’s hand (and more) in marriage in exchange for his silence!
TWO VERSIONS: Both contain the pre-code footage | 84 mins. Limited release version. Transferred from the only known 35mm nitrate print; quality fair. | 64 mins. Subsequent, and widest-release version; trimmed to improve pacing. Transferred from a mint 35mm nitrate print. (Originally released in a 90 min. version of which only the sound track survives) 1930|64/84 min|B&W|1.37:1|NR
JUNGLE BRIDE: Two women and two men are shipwrecked on an island off the African coast, and take up housekeeping and other forms of dilly-dally in this definite pre-code film. Charles Starrett (pre-Durango Kid) has his way with Anita Page, or is it the other way around? Trailer | 1933|61 min|B&W|1.37:1|NR
Added: Original Theatrical Trailer
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Island of Desire
Shipwrecked on an uninhabited South Seas atoll, a Canadian nurse (Linda Darnell) and a young Marine (Tab Hunter) initially clash but, as the weeks turn into months, begin to see each other through different eyes and give in to their natural impulses. But when an RAF flyer (Donald Gray) crashes on the island, the tropical love story is complicated by that familiar bit of romantic geometry, the Eternal Triangle. 1952|93 min|Color|1.33:1|NR
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Fabulous Journey to the Center of the Earth
Also known as: Journey To The Center Of The Earth and Where Time Began
Hamburg: Professor Lidenbrock buys a manuscript from a strange old man, which describes a wonderful journey to the center of the earth. He shows it to his niece Glauben and her fiancé, Axel, and the three of them decide to start the voyage at once. In Iceland, Professor Fredrikson, and a guide, Hans, join the expedition. They soon find the entry of the earth’s center into an inactive volcano. But following an underground storm and earthquake, they fall in a deep crevice. While exploring their new surroundings, they meet a mysterious character who offers them help. In his company they discover wonderful things such as an underground sea, a forest of gigantic mushrooms, giant sea serpents, dinosaurs and a King Kong-type gorilla… They come upon a beautiful underground city, but their new guide then reveals his real motives and tries to kill them all in an explosion. An earthquake then starts, propelling the adventurers to the surface through a volcano… will they make their way back to Hamburg? Filmed in Spain. 1975|90 min|Color|NR
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Silent Discoveries Double Feature
AFTER SIX DAYS: Touted at the time as a “$3,000,000 Entertainment for the Hundred Millions,” this Old Testament spectacle delivered what it promised…”from the creation of Adam and Eve to the parting of the Red Sea.” The advertising claimed it was filmed over a period of five years at the “Exact Locations of Biblical History.” Little is known about the actual production which has puzzled film scholars given its international box-office success. This edition was made from the only complete copy known to exist, a mint 16mm print of the 1929 7-reel sound reissue. 1920|62 minutes|B&W|1.33:1|NR
YESTERDAY AND TODAY: Veteran funnyman George Jessel is our host and narrator for this light-hearted look-back at the early and often humorously primitive days of motion pictures circa pre-1910. The majority of film sequences benefit from not having much exposure, if any, since their original release, and most are featured in longer excerpts unlike the usual compilations of this type. Among other errors, practically every film was misidentified! Those, and other errors, are corrected on a supplemental commentary track produced and narrated by film historian Richard M. Roberts. 1953|57 min*|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: 1946 Trailer of an aborted reissue of After Six Days; Commentary for Yesterday And Today by film historian Richard M. Roberts
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