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Walter Huston
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama starring Walter Huston (The treasure of the Sierra Madre). Focusing on Lincoln's personal tragedies, as well as his great accomplishments, Griffith's film depicts the American icon with a sensitivity and grace rivaled only by John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Presented in cooperation with the National Archives and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this collection features four documentaries directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen) as part of his service as an officer in the Army Signal Corps. The documentaries are not simple propaganda, but reflect Huston's own changing attitudes toward war. Winning Your Wings (18:19 min) is a recruitment film for the U.S. Army Air...
4) Dragonwyck
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Gothic tale of a country girl who falls in love with and marries an eccentric, mean-spirited man.
5) The outlaw
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
c1943.
Language
English
Description
Loosely-based on the historic saga of the life and crimes of Billy the Kid, this film tells of Billy's meeting with Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett at a way station where they quarrel over a half-breed girl.
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Propaganda series originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort.
Prelude to war: Won a 1943 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and recounts the Japanese incursion into Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and the beginnings of the Nazi takeover in Eastern Europe.
The Nazis strike: This documents...
Publisher
Kit Parker Films
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
This version stars Walter Huston as Uncle Sam and is set in Honolulu on the day before the Japanese attack. On Sunday morning, December 7th, air squadrons appear, swooping down like flights of tiny locust. This film was banned by the U.S. government for nearly fifty years. An edited version of this film received an Academy Award for John Huston.
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, our hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as "All That Money Can Buy."
12) Dodsworth
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.
15) Edge of darkness
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
They're everyday citizens and extraordinary heroes. Flynn and Ann Sheridan rally Norwegians against the Nazi occupiers of their once-peaceful village.
16) Rain
Publisher
Roan Group
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Crawford is good as South Seas island trollop confronted by fire-and-brimstone preacher Huston.
17) Duel in the sun
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A woman taken into the home of a wealthy rancher becomes the subject of a tug-of-war between his two sons.
18) American madness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all in the same day.
Series
Griffith masterworks volume 2
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln: directed by D.W. Griffith, this Lincoln effort was one of the great talking films of the post-silent film era. These brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, his affair with Ann Rutledge, his courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. His presidency and the Civil War are followed in more detail, and the film concludes with the assassination.
The struggle: A departure from the historial...
20) Summer holiday
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
This film follows the early 1900s foibles of Richard, his best girl and several generations of Millers who live under the same roof; Dad and mom, a tippling uncle, a spinster aunt and more.