Richard Brooks
6) Lord Jim
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A disgraced 19th-century British sailor lives nobly among natives. From the Joseph Conrad novel.
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Chance Wayne returns to his southern home with faded, alcoholic movie star Alexandra Del Lago. He hopes to capitalize on her fame but is regarded by others as a cheap hustler who is not welcome back in town, especially by the father of his previous girlfriend.
8) Crossfire
Pub. Date
℗2005, ©1947.
Language
English
Description
A police captain (Young) methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier (Ryan) with a rabid hatred of Jews.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Aggie Hurley is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane is going to have a lavish wedding even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom must give up his dream of owning his own taxi to finance the extravaganza.
10) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
11) Bite the bullet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
12) Elmer Gantry
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives of investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devasting tragedy.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexe; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find...
16) Lord Jim
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on Joseph Conrad's classic tale of cowardice and redemption, the story of an idealistic Merchant Marine officer who disgraces himself when he abandons ship.
Series
Criterion collection volume 781
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hard-hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money. Based on the novel by Truman Capote.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a writer who returns to Paris and remembers the life he once led in the City of Lights. During the Liberation of Paris, at the close of World War II, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful rich girl. They marry and have a lovely daughter together. But life's harsh realities threaten to tear their love apart.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...
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