Howard Hawks
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
El Dorado: Set in post-Civil War Texas, this film is about an alcoholic sheriff who fights greedy cattlemen and empire builders as he tries almost single-handedly to tame the West.
Hatari: Big game hunters in Africa use ropes and cameras to to capture animals for zoos and circuses. Hatari means danger in Swahili.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
World-weary Harry Morgan is not about to help the Free French. But he and his sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Since WWII is raging all around them, business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay, they are forced to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the French resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to...
Series
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Penny serenade: A couple tries to hold their marriage together as they experience troubles while trying to start a family and a new business.
5) Rio Lobo
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
6) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cattle baron and his adopted son head the first drive over the Chisolm Trail when they cannot find a local market for their herd.
7) El Dorado
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic sheriff fights greedy cattlemen and empire builders as he tries almost single-handedly to tame the West. He is aided by an old friend turned gunfighter who comes to town.
8) Rio Bravo
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner Nathan Burdette. Nathan assembles a force of hired guns to...
9) Ball of fire
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
10) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
11) Bringing up Baby
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts).
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
13) Sergeant York
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
15) Hatari!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa capture big game for zoos and circus attractions.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder; A man wrongfully accused of his wife's murder escapes from prison to find the real killer; A man visits the widow and father of an old war buddy in a Florida island hotel and finds that an infamous gangster has moved in and taken over the place; An American fisherman becomes involved with a beautiful young drifter and a French freedom fighter on Martinique.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.
19) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of organized crime's control of the city of Chicago during prohibition and the ruthless drive of Tony Carmonte (Muni) to become the city's top gangster.