Eric Portman
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Series
Language
English
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All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An attack across the English Channel on Stuttgart spells disaster for six airplane crewmembers. On the return flight, they are forced to bail out under heavy anti-aircraft fire, winding up stranded in German-occupied Holland. Aided by some Dutch children and an underground network, they avoid a German patrol and are able to reach the coast and return to Britain.
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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A walk in the sun (1945): An isolated farmhouse in Italy is being held by the Nazis. A lone American battalion has orders to capture it ... at any cost. As they prepare to attack, each of the infantrymen reflects on whether he has what it takes to accomlish the mission - and live. -- We dive at dawn (1943): The exhausted crew of the British submarine, sea Tiger, must rally for one final, desperate mission: to sink the German battleship, Brandenburg....
Series
Criterion collection volume 376
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the voice-over proclaims, the 49th parallel is the only undefended frontier in the world. The parallel is the goal of a small group of Nazis, survivors of a U-boat that has been spotted and sunk in Hudson Bay, deep in Canadian waters. The United States is not yet at war with Germany, and if Corporal Hirth and his six crew members can reach it, they can be repatriated to Germany with no fuss. But their trek across Canada becomes a fierce struggle...
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