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.
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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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Actor’s and Sin
$12.99Some of legendary writer Ben Hecht’s best work comes to the screen in a two-in-one show business-themed comedy-drama that reveals what goes on when the greasepaint comes off. In “Actors Blood,” washed-up stage star Edward G. Robinson assembles all the suspects in the murder of his actress-daughter (Marsha Hunt); and in “Woman of Sin,” a Hollywood agent discovers to his chagrin that a highly sought-after script was written by a nine-year-old girl (Ben’s daughter, Jenny Hecht)!
1951|82 min|B&W|1.37:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Interview with Marsha Hunt by Joel Blumberg• Original Theatrical Trailer
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Pre-Code Double Feature – Hell Harbor/Jungle Bride
$12.99HELL 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
$14.99Shipwrecked 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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Positively No Refunds Double Feature – Cuban Rebel Girls/Untamed Women
$14.99CUBAN REBEL GIRLS: High on “Worst Films” lists but low on the résumé of legendary swashbuckler Errol Flynn, this no-budget semi-documentary provided the actor with his humiliating screen epitaph. Playing himself, he is seen working as a correspondent arriving in Cuba to interview Fidel Castro. Go over-the-mountains with over-the-hill Flynn and see troop skirmishes, a raid and sugar cane field fires–and get an eyeful of his 16-year-old “protégé” Beverly Aadland as the American girlfriend of a Cuban mercenary. I don’t think we’re in Sherwood Forest any more, Toto! 1952|66 mins|B&W|1.33:1|NR
UNTAMED WOMEN: When an Air Force plane goes down in mid-ocean, its captain (Mikel Conrad) and his three-man crew wash ashore on an uncharted island of fur-clad cuties (descended from the Druids) led by high priestess Sandra (Doris Merrick). Cult rites, a hostile tribe of Neanderthal men and (of course) mucho giant-lizard footage from One Million B.C. put this near the top of the list of “island of lost women” disaster pieces. 1952|B&W|1.33:1|NR
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