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- Action and adventure cinema / edited by Yvonne Tasker. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. (Main Stack PN1995.9.A3.A28 2004) Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004001612.html
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Miscellaneous Adventures and Adventurers
- Adventures of Felix (Drôle de Félix) (France, 2000)
- Directors, Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Charly Sergue, Maurice Benichou. This French comedy-drama features Felix, an unemployed, gay Frenchman of Arab descent, who has a series of adventures during a trek through the French countryside. The film examines the familiar theme of a man's search for his identity. Felix is forced to confront the anger he feels toward his father for abandoning him, and the fear and shame he feels, living as an outsider in a predominantly straight, Caucasian world. 95 min. DVD 1706
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- The African Queen (1951)
- Directed by John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel. Thrown together at the outset of World War I, the spinster sister of a British missionary and the derelict captain of the launch, the African Queen, determine to pilot the boat down an uncharted river in an effort to destroy a German gunboat which prevents invasion by British forces. Filmed in Africa. Academy Award winner, 1951, for Best Actor (Bogart). Based on the novel by C.S. Forester. 105 min. 999:2045Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Arabian Nights(1942)
- Directed by John Rawlins. Cast: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu.
Lavish epic of brother fighting brother to win political power and the love of a woman, mesmerizing Scheherazade, the fiery dancing girl who will prove to be one man's downfall and another's greatest reward. 87 min. DVD 8210
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- Barbary Coast (1935)
- Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven, Brian Donlevy.
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east to find her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco's Barbary Coast of the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. But when she goes after him, her ruthless gambling boss follows her with intent to harm Carmichael. 90 min. DVD X20
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- Beowulf(2007)
- Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Cast: Ray Winstone, Robin Wright Penn, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Brendan Gleeson, Alison Lohman, Angelina Jolie.
In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The animation is the talking point of this movie, a landmark in computer imagery. 114 min. DVD 9555
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- Black Robe (Canada / Australia, 1991)
- Directed by Bruce Beresford. Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo Cardinal, Frank Wilson, Billy Two Rivers. In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile Indians. 101 min. 999:1328Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
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- Blood and Sand
(1941)- Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar, William Montague, Vicente Gomez, George Reeves. Juan is the naive son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to see his own happiness and success crumble. 125 min. DVD 8307
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- Directed by Jack Conway. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr. In search of black-gold fortunes, two men will dream, scheme and team up to become rich. But then things between the friends get rough, as one man steals the love of a woman from the other. 119 min. DVD 5732Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Mexico / USA, 1974)
- Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernandez. A violent story of a down-and-out piano player in search of the severed head of a gigolo for which there is a million dollar bounty. 112 min. DVD 5096
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- Bruce Lee Collection [for other martial arts films, see Chinese Films/Hong Kong]
- The Big Boss (Tang shan da xiong) (Hong Kong, 2004)
- Directed by Directed by Wei Lo. Cast: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Nora Miao. Having made a vow never to fight again, a factory worker named Cheng (Lee) does his best to put up with an abusive boss. But when Cheng's beautiful cousin is kidnapped by company thugs, he is forced to take matters into his own hands--and fists--to save her. The first starring role of legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee. Dubbed into English; soundtracks also in Cantonese and Mandarin with traditional and simplied Chinese and English subtitles; Closed captioned. 100 min. DVD 6853
Credits and Other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Chinese Connection (Fist of Fury) (Jing wu men ) (Hong Kong, 1972)- Directed by Lo Wei, featuring Bruce Lee. In this action-packed Bruce Lee classic Kung fu student Chen, upon learning of the murder of his revered kung fu instructor, travels to Shanghai searching for the gang responsible and ends up facing some of his most dangerous opponents. 107 min. DVD 1222; Uncut & restored version is DVD 1692 (102 min.)
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseFist of Fury (Jing wu men) (Hong Kong, 1972)- Directed by Lo Wei, featuring Bruce Lee. In this action-packed Bruce Lee classic Kung fu student Chen, upon learning of the murder of his revered kung fu instructor, travels to Shanghai searching for the gang responsible and ends up facing some of his most dangerous opponents. 107 min. DVD 1222; Uncut & restored version is DVD 1692 (102 min.)
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseGame of Death (Hong Kong / USA, 1978)- Directed by Robert Clouse. Cast: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp, Hugh O'Brian, Chuck Norris. Billy Lo (Bruce Lee), is a young kung fu movie star with a flourishing career and a promising future. As the leader of a syndicate known for its exploitation of entertainers, Dr. Land jumps at the chance to capitalize on Billy's celebrated status and that of his singer-girlfriend. Refusing to sign with Land, Billy's martial arts mastery is put to the test when he is brutally harassed by Land's men in an attempt to change his mind. In a stunning showdown, Billy goes one-on-one with a villainous stream of deadly kung fu fighters in a final bid for his freedom. (Bruce Lee's last film work, he died during production of the film) 100 min. DVD 6855
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseGame of Death II (Hong Kong / USA, 1981)- Directed by Robert Clouse. Cast:Bruce Lee, Tong Lung, Roy Chiao, Wong Ching Lei. In this dark tale of revenge, Bruce Lee "returns" as Billy Lo, whose best friend Chin Ku dies of a sudden illness. But suspicion of foul play arises when a gang tries to steal Ku's coffin at the funeral using a helicopter. When Lo's younger brother Bobby Lo hears about the incident, he leaves his Buddhist master to investigate the truth. His trail soon leads him to the Castle of Death, the last place Chin Ku was seen alive. There, he meets and befriends an unlikely ally--a cruel and merciless martial arts expert who is also the tower's master. But when the master dies under mysterious circumstance, Lo ends up dueling with someone far more terrifying. Created post-humously using Bruce Lee fight scenes originally filmed for Game of Death (1978) 96 min. DVD 6856
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseWay of the Dragon (Meng long guojiang) (Hong Kong, 1971)- Directed by Directed by Wei Lo. Cast: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao. In this high-kicking martial arts thriller, a young man (Bruce Lee) is called to Rome to help a family friend whose restaurant is being targeted by local gangsters. Used to getting their own way, these ruthless men make the mistake of underestimating the young man's ingenuity. When they are unable to get rid of him, they call in an international martial arts champion (Chuck Norris), creating the ultimate clash of kung fu masters in the ancient city's majestic coliseum. Dubbed into English; soundtracks also in Cantonese and Mandarin with traditional and simplied Chinese and English subtitles; Closed captioned. 99 min. DVD 6854
Credits and Other information from the Internet Movie Database - Directed by Directed by Wei Lo. Cast: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Nora Miao. Having made a vow never to fight again, a factory worker named Cheng (Lee) does his best to put up with an abusive boss. But when Cheng's beautiful cousin is kidnapped by company thugs, he is forced to take matters into his own hands--and fists--to save her. The first starring role of legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee. Dubbed into English; soundtracks also in Cantonese and Mandarin with traditional and simplied Chinese and English subtitles; Closed captioned. 100 min. DVD 6853
- Burn! (Queimada)(Italy / France, 1969)
- Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Cast: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez, Renato Salvatori. Sir William Walker is sent to secure a plantation in a 19th century Caribbean Island. While there be befriends Jose and Teddy, and plants the seeds of revolution in their heads. Years later he must go back and stop the revolution that he helped begin. 109 min. DVD 4642; vhs 999:1205Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Celli, Carlo. Gillo Pontecorvo : from resistance to terrorism Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
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- The Call of the Wild (1935)
- Director, William Wellman. Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie. Jack Thornton is an adventurer who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog with the strength of his part-wolf ancestry, Jack's luck changes. Winning a $1,000 bet on Buck's stamina is only the first of the rewards that his friendship with the canine will bring. When the pair, along with Jack's friend Shorty, happen upon a woman who's lost her husband in the wilds they begin their greatest adventure yet in this rousing tale of camaraderie and adventure. Based on the story by Jack London. 81 min. DVD 5957 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Thomas, Tony. "Call of the Wild." In: The great adventure films Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, c1976. (PFA PN1995.9.A3.T5 1976)
- China Seas (1935)
- Directed by Tay Garnett. Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, C. Aubrey Smith. Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo : a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard! 83 min. DVD 5731 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Congo (1995)
- Directed by Frank Marshall. Cast: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, Tim Curry.
When a man goes into the Congo and disappears, a former CIA operative goes after him. Accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a professor looking for King Solomon's Mines), she sets out to rescue her former fiance encountering many dangers. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton. 108 min. DVD 9660 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Death Proof (2007)
- Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Cast: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoe Bell, Michael Parks.
A deranged stuntman stalks and kills victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of babes, all bets are off. These girls prove harder to get, and because of a combination of bad luck and Stuntman Mike's carelessness, the girls decide to turn the tables on their tormentor for revenge of their own. 127 min. DVD 1912 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Deliverance(1972)
- Directed by John Boorman. Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Bill McKinney, Herbert Coward. Four ordinary men traveling in two canoes descend a river they've only seen as a squiggly line on a map, determined to test themselves against a wilderness they only think they understand, only to find they must fight for their lives against some sadistic mountain men. 109 min. DVD 1912 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Elephant Walk(1954)
- Directed by William Dieterle. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch.
In this drama set in Ceylon, Taylor plays a newlywed who accompanies her husband to his tea plantation called Elephant Walk and falls for the overseer. The love triangle is soon dwarfed by other events, however, as a cholera epidemic breaks out, drought blights the land, and herds of thirst-maddened elephants devastate the plantation. 103 min. vhs 999:3849 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Emerald Forest(UK, 1985)
- Directed by John Boorman. Cast: Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Meg Foster, Rui Polonah. Bill Markham, an engineer building a dam on the Amazon, returns to the jungle year after year searching for his son, who had disappeared into the jungle. After ten years, Markham finds the man who had once been his boy, but now is a warrior from another world. 113 min. DVD 5005; vhs 999:598
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- Fireball 500 (1966)
- Directed by William Asher. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian, Chill Wills, Harvey Lembeck, Julie Parrish.
Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race. He is assisted by Jane Harris and Sonny Leander Fox. Soon Dave and Sonny begin a friendly rivalry for Jane.
92 min. DVD 8376
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- 48 Hours (1982)
- Directed by Walter Hill. Cast: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham. Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious copkillers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. This unlikely partnership trades laughs as often as punches as both pursue their separate goals: Nolte wants the villians; Murphy wants money. 97 min. DVD X1888; vhs 999:3563
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- Another 48 Hours (1990)
- Directed by Walter Hill. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross. Hard-nosed cop Cates and ex-con Hammond team up together again-- Cates to prove he's innocent of manslaughter in a drug bust gone wrong, and Hammond, who's just been released from prison, to fight those trying to take his life. 97 min. DVD X1888
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- Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
- Directed by John Ford. Cast: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven, John Carradine, Alan Hale, Barry Fitzgerald.
Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate to supply the rebels...then is found dead, an apparent suicide. To clear their father, the four sons must globetrot in a hazardous search for evidence, closely followed by Geoffrey's sweetheart. 86 min. DVD 9389
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- The General Died at Dawn(1936)
- Directed by Lewis Milestone. Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, William Frawley, Dudley Digges, Akim Tamiroff, Porter Hall.
O'Hara, an American soldier of fortune, tries to foil the ambitions of General Yang, a ruthless warlord who plans to take over the provinces of northern China. Exotic settings, captivating performances and extraordinary cinematography power this thrilling tale of double crosses. 99 min. DVD 4754
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- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(UK, 1984)
- Directed by Hugh Hudson. Cast: Sir Ralph Richardson, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm.
Tarzan, the ape-raised son of shipwrecked aristocrats is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke. Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot, after discovering Tarzan brings him home to his grandfather and the understanding Jane Porter in Edwardian England. Based on the story "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 137 min. DVD 9659
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- Hatari! (1962)
- Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gerard Blain, Bruce Cabot, Michele Girardon.
John Wayne heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa who capture the ferocious big game with strong ropes and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. 157 min. DVD 9666
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- Houdini, the Movie Star
- DVD 9731.
Terror Island (1920)
- Directed by James Cruze. Cast: Harry Houdini, Lila Lee, Jack Brammall, Eugene Pallette. A swashbuckling inventor steers his high-tech submarine to a forbidden tropical isle to rescue the father of the woman he loves. The plot, such as it is, involves a ship of sunken pearls, a South Seas trader held hostage for the return of the idol's eye, human sacrifice, and a most peculiar tribe of Polynesians, in which the men are all African Americans and the women are blondes. 55 min.
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseHaldane of the Secret Service (1923)- Directed by Harry Houdini. Cast: Harry Houdini, Gladys Leslie, William Humphrey. Heath Haldane is an undercover operative assigned to infiltrate a band of counterfeiters within the dark alleys of New York's Chinatown. Narrowly missing death several times, he must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage. Special feature: The grim game (fragment, 1919, 5 min.) / written by Arthur B. Reeve and John Grey ; directed by Irving Willat -- Filmed records of Houdini escapes (1907-ca. 1923); the illusion "Metamorphosis," performed by Houdini's brother Hardeen; 1914 audio recording of Houdini introducing his "Water Torture Cell;" "Slippery Jim" 1910 comedy short inspired by Houdini; image gallery; new film notes. 84 min.
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Man From Beyond (1922)- Directed by Burton L. King. Cast: Harry Houdini, Nita Naldi, Jane Connelly. Howard Hillary is a man frozen in the Arctic. He returns to civilization 100 years later to reclaim the love of his life, reincarnated in the body of a young woman. Filmed in large part at and about Lake Placid in New York, and Niagara Falls to the brink of which the stalwart Hillary is whirled in his efforts to save his lady love. 68 min.
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Master of Mystery(1922)- Directed by Burton L. King. Cast: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Jack Burns, Ruth Stonehouse, Charles Graham. A motion picture serial starring Houdini as government agent Quentin Locke who infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbared wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber. Special features: An examination of scenes deleted by the New York Censor Board; image gallery; new film notes. Chapter titles: Disc 1. (1) Living Death -- (2) The Iron Terror -- (3) The Water Peril -- (4) The Test -- (5) The Chemist's Shop -- (6) The Mad Genius -- (7) Barbed Wire -- (9) The Madagascan Madness -- (11) The Net -- (12) The Death Noose -- Disc. 2 (13) The Flash of Death -- (14) The Tangled Web -- (15) Bound at Last [or] The Unmasking of the Automaton. 238 min.
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- Indiana Jones
- Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)
- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott. Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-cracking archeologist assigned by the U.S. Government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazies can obtain it for their own evil use. 115 min. DVD 4610; also VHS 999:1284
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Ke Huy Quan. Indiana Jones, the daredevil archeologist, is out to find the famous Ankara Stone and to save hundreds of children who've been enslaved by a mysterious cult. 118 min. DVD 4611; VHS 999:1285
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseIndiana Jones Bonus Material- Presents over three hours of material documenting the making of the Indiana Jones trilogy. 187 min. DVD 4613
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover. Harrison Ford dons his rumpled fedora for the third time as Indiana Jones, and Sean Connery joins the thrill-a-minute fun as Indy's feisty dad. Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas make sure this father-son duo never lack for adventure. The Joneses set out to find the mystically-empowered Holy Grail - and encounter so many spectacular pursuits and narrow escapes that this movie is more than the culmination of Indy's exploits. 126 min. DVD 4612; VHS 999:1286
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent. Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure. 122 min. DVD X385
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- Directed by Tom Tykwer. Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, Brian F. O'Byrne.
Summary Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, their investigation takes them on a high-stakes chase across the globe. Their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as the bank will stop at nothing, including murder, to continue financing terror and war. 118 min. DVD X1716 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Into the Wild (2007)
- Directed by Sean Penn. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook.
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story. Special features: "Into the wild: the story, the characters" featurette; "Into the wild: the experience" featurette; theatrical trailer. 148 min. DVD 9477
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- Isle of Forgotten Sins(1943)
- Director, Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Frank Fenton, Rita Quigley, Veda Ann Borg, Rick Vallin. In this South Seas adventure, divers searching for millions in sunken gold must cope with treacherous currents, a full blown monsoon and a crooked ship captain. Based on the story by Edgar G. Ulmer. 81 min. DVD 6455 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
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- Jaws (1975)
- Directed by Stephen Spielberg. Cast: Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton. When a man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast the police chief, a young ichthyologist and a shark fisherman join together to hunt and destroy it. 125 min. DVD 2326; vhs 999:1044 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- JCVD(Belgium / Luxembourg / France, 2008)
- Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff, Anne Paulicevich, Liliane Becker. JCVD, an out of luck actor, returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible for the crime. As the events are played from different perspectives, JCVD finds himself protecting the hostages, as well as serving as their negotiator. JCVD is forced to accept responsibility for crimes he didn't commit, as well as the life mistakes that he did make. 97 min. DVD X1618
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- Jewel of the Nile (1985)
- Director, Lawrence Teague. When bored author Joan gets an offer from a certain Omar to come write up his pending coronation, she takes off for the Middle East...and winds up in prison. Meanwhile, her friend Jack decides to hunt down a jewel in Omar's neck of the desert accompanied by his old nemesis Ralph. While Joan and a Holy Man are escaping from prison, Jack and Ralph head their way, and soon all four are making a run through uncharted sands in the African desert to save their lives. 106 min. 999:2059 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Judex: A Serial in Twelve Episodes (France, 1917)
- Directed by Louis Feuillade. One of cinema's first 'superheroes,' the mysterious Judex in these early silent films is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker Favraux, who had earlier wronged his family, and his secret love of Favraux's daughter, Jacqueline. This framework is the basis of a series of extraordinary and engaging incidents involving Judex's brother, the evil Diana Monti and her accomplices, the detective Cocatin, and the charming Licorice Kid. Disc 1: Prologue -- 1. The mysterious shadow -- 2. The atonement -- 3. The fantastic dog pack -- 4. The secret of the tomb -- 5. The tragic mill -- Disc 2: 6. The Liquorice Kid -- 7. The woman in black -- 8. The underground passages of the Chateau-Rouge -- 9. When the child appeared -- 10. Jacqueline's heart -- 11. The water goddess -- 12. Love's forgiveness. Features a newly recorded score by Robert Israel. Also included: The music of Judex, an 18 minute featurette in which Robert Israel discusses scoring Judex and an essay by film historian Jan-Christopher Horak. 315 min. DVD 6178
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- King Solomon's Mines(UK, 1937)
- Director, Robert Stevenson. Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, Anna Lee.
Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert in hopes of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. Worried about her father, Kathy persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him. Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard. 80 min. DVD 9661
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- King Solomon's Mines(1950)
- Directors, Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore.
Filmed in Tanganyika, Uganda Protectorate, Kenya Colony and Protectorate, and the Belgian Congo.
Adventurer Allan Quatermain is hired by an Englishwoman to lead the hunt for her missing husband who disappeared in an uncharted region of Africa while in search of King Solomon's legendary treasure. Quartermain isn't keen on having a woman on the expedition and he and Elizabeth quarrel regularly, but she and Quatermain eventually fall in love. Visually, the film is gorgeous, packed with great shots of the African country and wildlife, also capturing indigenous music and rituals of African tribes. Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard. 103 min. DVD 9665; vhs 999:3868
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- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life(2003)
- Director, Jan De Bont. Cast: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Noah Taylor, Ciaran Hinds, Djimon Hounsou, Til Schweiger, Christopher Barrie. Archaeologist and explorer Lara Croft journeys to a temple in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on Pandora's Box, and fulfill the desire of the Queen. 130 min. DVD 4389 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Last Action Hero(1993)
- Director John McTiernan. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae, Tom Noonan, Robert Prosky, Anthony Quinn, Mercedes Ruehl, Austin O'Brien. What happens when a magic ticket blasts a 12-year-old boy out of his theater seat into the movie and what happens when the movie hero comes off the cinema screen to become involved in real life? The answers are to be found in this fast-action thriller in which a young boy's movie hero comes to life. 131 min. DVD X863; vhs Video/C 999:1508
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- Lawrence of Arabia (UK, 1962)
- Director, David Lean. Cast: The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obsurity. 216 min. DVD 666; VHS 999:382Credits and other information from Internet Movie Database
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob) (France / Italy, 1973)
- Director, Gerard Oury. Cast: Louis De Funes, Marcel Dalio, Suzy Delair. Victor Pivert, a blustering, anti-Semitic French factory owner en route to his daughter's wedding, unwittingly stumbles on a group of Arab terrorists. After Victor is captured and escapes, he hides himself by dressing up as a rabbi, leading to one madcap situation after another. 100 min. DVD 2478 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Mogambo (1953)
- Directed by John Ford. Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea. Clark Gable portrays Victor, a safari guide, in this remake of Gable's 1932 "Red Dust". Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable Eloise, and Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye. 115 min. DVD 5737 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel. Cast: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemento, Dutch Hendrian. A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man. When a cabin cruiser is shipwrecked off the coast of his island he invites the survivors to stay... with a sinister motive. 83 min. DVD 4954
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- North West Frontier (UK, 1959)
- Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More, Herbert Lom, Ursula Jeans.
A young Hindu prince is rescued by his governess and a British captain moments before his father's palace is captured by rebels. The group must then travel through 300 miles of hostile Muslim territory in northwest India in their attempt to reach safety in Delhi. 125 min. DVD X287 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison, Bernie Mac, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner, Julia Roberts. Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it. 116 min. DVD 5771
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- Ocean's Eleven (1960)
- Directed by Lewis Milestone. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson.
The place is Las Vegas. The time: Midnight, New Year's Eve. Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and 10 of his ex-commando buddies get ready to rob the vaults of 5 casinos simultaneously! Special features: Feature-length audio commentary by Frank Sinatra Jr. and Angie Dickinson; interactive "then and now" Las Vegas map casino vignettes; excerpts from the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson featuring guest host Frank Sinatra and Angie Dickinson; interactive menus; cast/filmmaker profiles; 2 theatrical trailers; scene access. Based on a story by George Clayton Johnson & Jack Golden Russell. 127 min. DVD 7899
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- Ocean's Twelve (2004)
- Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts. Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting. 125 min. DVD 5772
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- Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
- Director Steven Soderbergh. Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Al Pacino, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck, Eddie Jemison, Scott Caan, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner, Eddie Izzard, Michael Mantell, Ellen Barkin, Andy Garcia. Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and are composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring Willy Bank and everything he's got down. Even if it includes hiring help from one of their own enemies, Terry Benedict. Special features: Additional scenes ; "Vegas: an opulent illusion" : Las Vegas' influential design sense ; Jerry Weintraub walk and talk : the producer takes us on a casino tour. 122 min. DVD 9160
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- Old San Francisco (1927)
- Directed by Alan Crosland. Cast: Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anna May Wong, Anders Randolf, Angelo Rossitto. In this romance set in the days when 'Frisco was the Paris of America, the action careens from rancho to saloon to secret dungeon with a recreation of the earthquake of 1906 as the finale. 89 min. DVD X2085
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- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell. 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. 121 min. DVD 6635Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Papillon (1973)
- Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Anthony Zerbe, Don Gordon. Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, a petty criminal who was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony on Devil's Island in French Guiana, South America. He is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with resulting recapture and incarcerations in solitary confinement. 150 min. DVD 5081Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Perils of Pauline (1914)
- Directors, Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie. Cast: Pearl White, Crane Wilber, Paul Panzer; Exploits of Elaine: Pearl White, Arnold Daly, Creighton Hale. When Pauline inherits a vast fortune her "perils" begin when a rogue named Koerner plots to separate her from her money. He goes on to employ all kinds of deadly devises as he attempts to kill her, but Pauline, a self-reliant and ever-so-modern woman, successfully survives them all. 127 min. 999:1231Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Sarris, Andrew. "The Auteur Theory and the Perils of Pauline." Film Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4. (Summer, 1963), pp. 26-33.
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- Pierrot le fou (France / Italy, 1965)
- Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Part love story, part gangster thriller, Pierrot le fou combines romance, adventure, and violence with allusions to art, literature, and cinema to create a colorful French version of the Bonnie and Clyde story. 90 min. DVD 119; VHS 999:448 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Road to Morocco (1942)
- Directed by David Butler. Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn. The lone survivors of a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean, our heroes find themselves in the company of a Moroccan Princess Shalimar (Lamour), who has purchased Bob and plans to make him her husband. This would be swell except for the jealousy of nasty Sheik Mullay Kassim. This is the third "Road" picture of the Hope and Crosby comedy team. 82 min. 999:2039
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- Cohan, Steven. "Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby." In: Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film / edited by Ellis Hanson. pp: 23-45. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1999. Series Q (Main Stack PN1995.9.H55.O88 1999)
Mielke, Randall G. Road to box office : the seven film comedies of Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, 1940-1962 Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997. (PFA : PN2287.C76 M53 1997)
- Road to Utopia (1946)
- Directed by Hal Walker. Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, Jack LaRue, Robert Barrat, Nestor Paiva.
Narrator: Robert Benchley.
Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour. 82 min. DVD 7606
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- Cohan, Steven. "Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby." In: Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film / edited by Ellis Hanson. pp: 23-45. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1999. Series Q (Main Stack PN1995.9.H55.O88 1999)
Mielke, Randall G. Road to box office : the seven film comedies of Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, 1940-1962 Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997. (PFA : PN2287.C76 M53 1997)
- Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
- Directed by Gordon Douglas. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Barbara Rush, Victor Buono, Hank Henry.
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. A lighthearted gangster spoof spirited along by guns, gags, tunes, and bootleg gin. 123 min. DVD 7900 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Rock (1996)
- Directed by Michael Bay. Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe.
A retired U.S. Marine general seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert and a former Alcatraz escapee team up to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out. 136 min. DVD 2241
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- Romeo Must Die (2000)
- Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Cast: Jet Li, Aaliyah, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, DMX, Delroy Lindo. In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, gravity-warping martial arts, cool visual effects and an all-star music track combine in a revved-up action movie. Rough-and-ready Han shares an attraction with Trish O' Day (Aaliyah) even though their families are rivals in a fierce Oakland turf battle. The two also share plenty of danger as they try to find the real cause of the blood feud. 115 min. DVD 6141 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun (UK / USA, 1969)
- Directed by Irving Lerner. Cast: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Michael Craig, Andrew Keir, William Marlowe, James Donald, Alexander Davion, Leonard Whiting.
Fueled by promises of gold, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his explorers venture across the treacherous Andes Mountains to Peru. There, Pizarro captures King Atahuallpa, Inca's godlike monarch, and promises his freedom upon the deliverance of gold. But friendship and respect develop between the two leaders and when the King is sentenced to die, Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor for the King. Based on the play by Peter Shaffer. 97 min. DVD 6953 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Scream of Stone (Schrei aus Stein) (1991)
- Directed by Werner Herzog. Cast: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Stefan Glowacz, Donald Sutherland. A mountaineering expert and a free climber have a rivalry going over who is the better climber. Their antagonism toward each other blows up when they realize they have the same love interest. A journalist decides to exploit their hate by pitting them against each other in a climbing race. Cerre Torre, known for its bad weather, is to be the sight for this media event. PAL format DVD. 102 min. DVD 3106 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Shanghai Knights (2003)
- Director, David Dobkin. Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Donnie Yen, Aidan Gillen, Fann Wong, Tom Fisher, Kim Chan, Gemma Jones. Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon travel to England to find out who killed Chon's father. The killer steals the Chinese Imperial Seal that Chon's father was protecting. While they are in England, they stumble upon a conspiracy to murder the entire British royal family. Only with the help of Chon's beautiful, but deadly sister, can the trio stop the assassination and return the Imperial Seal to its rightful owners. 114 min. DVD 1757
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- Shanghai Noon (2000)
- Directed by Tom Dey.Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Roger Yuan. Two cultures collide when East meets West in this stunt-filled, action-adventure comedy. Chinese Imperial Guard Chan goes West to rescue the beautiful kidnapped Princess Pei Pei. There he meets up with laid-back outlaw cowboy dude Roy O'Bannon: the best mismatch ever made in the rough and tumble Old West. 110 min. DVD 726 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- She (1912)
- Directed by George O. Nichols. Cast: Marguerite Snow, James Cruze, Viola Alberti, William C. Cooper. Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard this is a very early film featuring many elements found in the not-yet-invented adventure/fantasy serial genre. 25 min. DVD 5864
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- She (1935)
- Directed by Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel. Cast: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Gustav Von Seyffertitz. A group of explorers sets out on a dangerous mission in search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality. The perilous journey takes them north to the heart of a remote glacier, where they are captured by the beautiful She, an independent, powerful, and fearsome woman who rules a fantastic, subterranean kingdom. Filmed with art deco sets, gorgeous costumes, Busby Berkeley-style choreography and backed by Max Steiner's score. 102 min. DVD X670
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- The Sheik(1921)
- Directed by George Melford. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Adolph Menjou. A desert sheik kidnaps an English girl and holds her captive. Later an evil Arab abducts her. When the sheik rescues her, she admits that she loves him and they are married. Based on the novel by Edith M. Hull; adaptation by Monte M. Katterjohn. 79 min. DVD 1283; vhs 999:1969
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- Alarcon, Daniel Cooper. "Deadly Desires: Cinema, Seduction, and Racialized Masculinity." In: Sharpened edge : women of color, resistance, and writing / edited by Stephanie Athey.
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Hansen, Miriam. "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship"
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Shohat, Ella. "Gender in Hollywood's Orient."
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Studlar, Gaylyn. "Discourses of Gender and Ethnicity: The Construction and De(con)struction of Rudolph Valentino as Other."
Film Criticism, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 18-35, Winter 1989
Studlar, Gaylyn. ""'The Perfect Lover'?: Valentino and Ethnic Masculinity in the
1920s." In: The silent cinema reader London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
- Directed by John Cromwell. Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Elsa Lanchester, Kay Johnson, Roddy McDowall, John Carradine.
Set in the 19th century, the illegitimate son of a British aristocrat, Benjamin Blake, is forced into servitude by a wicked uncle. As a rebellious young man, Benjamin falls for a beautiful aristocrat and is beaten as punishment. Fleeing his tyrannical uncle, Benjamin stows away on a ship and lands on an idyllic South Pacific island. There he romances an exotic native beauty and earns a fortune diving for pearls with a fellow shipmate. But Benjamin's enchanted paradise becomes his prison as he yearns for revenge. When a ship arrives, bound for England, Benjamin steps aboard, heading home to seek the title and inheritance that are his. 98 min. DVD 8306
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- The Son of the Sheik (1926)
- Directed by George Fitzmaurice. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett, Montague Love, Karl Dane, Bull Montana, Binunsky Hyman. A sheik's son is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl, they fall in love, and ride off into the sunset together. 68 min. DVD 1283
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- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
- Directed by Sam Wanamaker. Cast: Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton. Sinbad, daring sailor and Prince of Baghdad, sets out to do battle with a Minaton, a bronze colossus, a giant troglodyte and other assorted creatures in a quest designed to win the hand of a beautiful princess. 114 min. DVD 3396
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- S.O.S. Iceberg (Germany / USA, 1933)
- Directed by Arnold Fanck and Tay Garnett. Cast: German language version: Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Ernst Udet. English language version: Rod La Rocque. Explorer Karl Lorenz is stranded on a steadily eroding iceberg. A rescue crew reaches him only to become stranded themselves. When his pilot wife arrives, she crashes her plane and is stranded too. Surrounded by polar bears they battle the elements, and each other, while hoping for a miracle. 86 min. DVD 4764 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Soldier of Fortune (1955)
- Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry. An expatriated American, undisputed ruler of Hong Kong's waterfront, a man with a checkered past and a shady present, helps a woman in the search for her photo-journalist husband who has recently disappeared in China. 96 min. DVD 5956 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Spiral Road (1962)
- Directed by Robert Mulligan. Cast: Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Geoffrey Keen.
When an opportunistic physician (Rock Hudson) travels to the jungles of Java, a shocking meeting with a black magic witch doctor forces him to re-evaluate his selfish past. 70 min. DVD 2036
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- Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
- Directed by John Ford. Cast: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire, Stepin Fetchit.
When riverboat captain Doctor John Pearly learns that his nephew Duke has killed a man in self-defense, he urges Duke to turn himself in. But Duke's only chance for freedom is the testimony of a half-crazed witness, New Moses, who has disappeared upriver. 81 min. DVD 9390
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- Storm Over Mont Blanc (Stürme über dem Mont Blanc) (Germany, 1930)
- Directed by Arnold Fanck. Cast: Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet. In a mountain outpost a scientist lives with little contact with the outside world. Through telegraph, he communicates with an astronomer and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot. Then in the middle of a fierce snowstorm, he loses his station and is battered by the elements. Suffering from frostbite, he sends a desperate S.O.S. hoping that he can be rescued. 86 min. DVD 4763 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- [Tarzan] Adventures of Tarzan (1921, silent)
- Directed by Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney. Cast: Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine, Scott Pembroke, Frank Whitson, George Monberg. Fifteen chapters of a silent motion picture serial adapted from the concluding chapters of Burroughs' The Return of Tarzan. Tarzan travels to the city of Opar to foil the evil Rokoff and save Jane. The scene of Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln) fighting and killing the lion was a real one. The lion attacked Lincoln, who was forced to fight for his life and manged to kill the animal after stabbing it several times. The scene was left in the film. 186 min. 999:3784 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
- Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Cast: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Cheetah. The Lord of the Apes sweeps Jane Parker into his life. 99 min. DVD 2724 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
- Directed by Cedric Gibbons. Cast: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Cheetah. In the sensual pre-Code Tarzan and his mate, the tale includes the sacred elephant graveyard. 104 min. DVD 2724 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Henderson, Clara. "'When Hearts Beat Like Native Drums:' Music and the Sexual Dimensions of the Notions of 'Savage' and 'Civilized' in Tarzan and His Mate, 1934" Africa Today, Winter2002, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p90, 35p UC users only
- Tarzan Escapes (1936)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Cheetah. Tarzan escapes when a vile bwana aims to exploit him as a sideshow freak. 90 min. DVD 2724 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Cheetah. A rift over how to raise Boy divides the treehouse when Tarzan finds a son. 82 min. DVD 2724 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Cheetah. "Civilized" folks clash over gold, a metal not worth a coconut to the Ape Man. 81 min. DVD 2724 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Cheetah. A different jungle awaits in Tarzan's New York adventure. 71 min. DVD 2724
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- [Tarzan] The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
- Director, Edward A. Kull. Cast: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Frank Baker, Don Castello, Dale Walsh, Harry Ernest, Lew Sargent. In this 1935 motion picture serial Tarzan must go to Guatemala to help a friend find a lost jewel-covered statue. Hostile natives and the evil machinations of Raglon, a ruthless mercenary who wants the idol for his own sinister purpose, threaten the safety of the explorers and the very life of the mighty Tarzan as he valiantly attempts to retrieve the idol and save his companions. Chapter 1. A new adventure -- Ch. 2. Crossed trails -- Ch. 3. Devil's noose -- Ch. 4. River perils -- Ch. 5. Unseen hands -- Ch. 6. Fatal fangs -- Ch. 7. Flaming waters -- Ch. 8. Angry gods -- Ch. 9. Doom's brink -- Ch. 10. Secret signals -- Ch. 11. Death's fireworks -- Ch. 12. Operator 17. DVD 7301
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- Tempest (1928)
- Directed by Sam Taylor. Cast: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, George Fawcett, Ullrich Haupt.
Markov, a peasant soldier, becomes an officer in the Imperial Russian Guard and falls in love with Princess Tamara, who scorns him and has him stripped of his rank and thrown in prison. Markov becomes an important Red official with the advent of the Revolution and saves Tamara from execution. Together, they escape from Russia. Based on the story by V.I. Nemirovich-Dantchenko. 111 min. DVD X1705
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- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- Directed by Ridley Scott. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel. Unhappy housewife Thelma and her wise-cracking waitress friend Louise decide to take a break from their lives. They embark on a trip that leads to a tragic incident at a roadside honky tonk. In an instant, their weekend getaway becomes just that as they flee across the American southwest with the police a step behind. 130 min. DVD 2505; VHS 999:961
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- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- Directed by Raoul Walsh. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Julanne Johnston, Sojin, Snitz Edwards, Anna May Wong. Silent with musical accompaniment. A carefree pickpocket meets and falls in love with a beautiful princess, and competes with the most wealthy and eligible princes of the the Orient for her hand. There's magic in many of the effects that were created for this film, a milestone for its day. 138 min. DVD 114; VHS 999:1721
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- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan. Cast: Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram, Miles Malleson, Morton Selten. When the mischievous scoundrel Abu helps the rightful King of Bagdad escape from prison, he finds himself involved in an incredible series of adventures. 106 min. 999:1720
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- Thunder Alley (1967)
- Directed by Richard Rush. Cast: Annette Funicello, Fabian, Diane McBain, Warren Berlinger, Jan Murray.
Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident and he gets thrown off the circuit. He shows Pete's daughter Francie and her boyfriend Eddie Sands everything he knows about driving. Eddie takes up with Tommy's girl Annie Blaine after winning the first time out. They become fierce rivals by the next race, during which Tommy remembers driving over his brother with a go-kart and Eddie hits the wall. 89 min. DVD 8376
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- Tom Horn(1980)
- Directed by William Wiard. Cast: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Slim Pickens, Billy Green Bush.
Credits A recreation of Horn's latter-day career in the turn-of-the-century West. A renowned former army scout, he is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old West. Based on Life of Tom Horn: Governement Scout and Interpreter. Written by Himself. 98 min. vhs 999:3882
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- Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947)
- Directed by John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane. Two hard-luck drifters and a grizzled prospector seek gold in the mountains in Mexico. They start off as friends, but after they discover the lode the greed and paranoia set in. 126 min. DVD 2040; vhs 999:55
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- Vera Cruz (1954)
- Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Sarita Montiel, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Morris Ankrum, Charles Bronson, Jack Lambert, Jack Elam, James McCallion, James Seay, Archie Savage, Charles Horvath, Juan Garcia. In Mexico in the 1860's, two American adventurers sign up to escort a carriage from the palace of Maximilian in Mexico City to the seaport of Vera Cruz. Aboard the carriage is a beautiful French countess and a treasure of three million dollars in gold coins. The trail is fraught with danger, betrayal and murder as they find themselves caught up in a revolution and at odds with one another. 94 min. vhs 999:3881
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- Vanishing Point (1971)
- Directed by Richard C. Sarafian. Cast: Barry Newman, Dean Jagger, Cleavon Little, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo.
Kowalski is a man who's tried to live by the rules, but experience has left him believing that the pretentions of the world offer no salvation and no freedom. Trying to transcend the limits of life, he takes a Dodge Challenger and bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours. With the police soon in pursuit, he attempts to beat the odds, along the way recalling episodes from his past and encountering a supporting cast of characters who assist him, including Super Soul, a blind DJ who describes Kowalski's progress on the air and soon turns him into a cult hero. Side 1: U.S. version (98 min.) -- Side 2: U.K. version (105 min.)
Special features: Full-length audio commentary by the director; original theatrical trailer, tv spots. 110 min. 999:2410 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur) (France / Italy, 1952)
- Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. A study of courage and cowardice in the face of almost insurmountable odds. After establishing the characters of the protagonists in a long prologue, director Clouzot follows them as they transport a cargo of nitroglycerin over a primitive mountain road to a conclusion of high suspence and final irony. 148 min. DVD 431; VHS 999:683
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- Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
- Directed by Edward Ludwig. John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara, Luther Adler.
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch. 106 min. DVD 9199; vhs 999:3855
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- War, Inc. (2007)
- Directed by Joshua Seftel. Cast: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Bellany.
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growning demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check. 107 min. DVD X433
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- White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die Weiß Hölle vom Piz Palü) (Germany, 1929)
- Directed by Arnold Franck and G.W. Pabst. Cast: Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Petersen, B. Spring, Ernst Udet. A prime example of the German "mountain film" genre, notable for its impressive photography and uniquely Germanic combination of terror and idealism, about a man who sets out with two companions to conquer an Alpine peak that has already claimed his wife. A rescue attempt is begun on foot and by air when the climbers are trapped on the mountain by avalanches and a sudden storm. 93 min. DVD 4765; also vhs 999:2448
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- Airplane (1980)
- Directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker. Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves. In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal. Now, it is up to him to land the airplane safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion to piloting is a serious psychosis, which needs to be cured--right now. 87 min. DVD 4976
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- Airport (1970)
- Directed by George Seaton. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Barry Nelson. The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner. 137 min. DVD 4630
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- Airport 1975 (1974)
- Directed by Jack Smight. Cast: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Geoge Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, HElen Reddy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Linda Blair, Dand Andrews, Roy Thinnes, Nancy Olson. A private plane hits a 747 in midair. The chief stewardess must act as the blinded pilot's hands and eyes to take control of the plane and land it or die trying. 107 min. DVD 4630
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- Airport 1977 (1977)
- Directed by Jerry Jameson. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Haviland, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee, George Kennedy, James Stewart. Passengers aboard a luxurious 747 must be rescued after the plane crashes into the ocean in the Bermuda Triangle and are trapped underwater. 114 min. DVD 4630
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- Airport 1979: The Concorde (1979)
- Directed by David Lowell Rich. Cast: David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge, Martha Raye, Avery Schreiber, Cicely Tyson.
A jet-setting TV reporter puts everyone on board a Moscow-bound Concorde in jeopardy when she becomes the target of her former lover, a traitorous arms smuggler. 114 min. DVD 4630
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- The China Syndrome (1979)
- Directed by James Bridges. Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Richard Herd, Peter Donat, Scott Brady.
It started as just another assignment. Reporter Kimberly Wells and cameraman Richard Adams were covering the daily routine at an Los Angeles power plant when the unthinkable occurred: a nuclear accident that could have wiped out Southern California. And Richard caught it all on tape. When their TV station refuses to air the footage, Wells and Adams recruit plant supervisor Jack Godell to expose the terrifying truth: the facility is a ticking bomb. But with millions of dollars at stake, company officials cannot let the story break. When the trio attempts to broadcast live from the plant's control room, the utility company does everything in its power to silence Godell permanently, as the world watches. Special features: Two exclusive documentaries featuring new interviews with stars Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas ; deleted scenes ; filmographies ; previews. Associate producer, James Nelson ; executive producer, Bruce Gilbert. 122 min. DVD 8912 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Palmer, William J. "Feminism: The China Syndrome." In: The films of the seventies : a social history / by William J. Palmer. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1987. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S6.P341 1987; Moffitt PN1995.9.S6.P34 1987)
Rose, Brian. "Mass Mediated Images: The Force of Television in 'The China Syndrome'." Journal of Popular Film and Television 8:3 (1980:Fall) p.2 UC users only
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
- Directed by Roland Emmerich. Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita.
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature. 123 min. DVD 7478 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- "Beware of false prophets - The Day After Tomorrow." Geology Today; Mar/Apr2005, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p50-51, 2pUC users only
Branston, Gill. "The Planet at the End of the World." New Review of Film & Television Studies; Aug2007, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p211-229, 19p UC users only
Lowe, Thomas; Brown, Katrina, et al. "Does tomorrow ever come? Disaster narrative and public perceptions of climate change." Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 15, No. 4, 435-457 (2006)
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Miller, Blair. ""What you see is happening right now." Thermaggeddon and a Search for Tomorrow."
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Nisbet, Matthew. "Evaluating the Impact of The Day After Tomorrow:
Can a Blockbuster Film Shape the Public's Understanding of a Science Controversy?" Science and the Media, June 16, 2004
Perkins, Sid. "What's Wrong with this Picture?" Science News; 10/16/2004, Vol. 166 Issue 16, p250-252, 3p
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Wolff, Ellen. "Step by Step: "The Day After Tomorrow": The Big Freeze."
Millimeter - The Magazine of Motion Picture and Television Production 32:5 (May 2004) p. 40-41
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- Deep Impact (1998)
- Directed by Mimi Leder. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall, Maximilian Schell, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, James Cromwell.
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or diverted before it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her. Special features: Commentary with director Mimi Leder and visual effects supervisor, Scott Farrar, preparing for the end, making an impact, creating the perfect traffic jam, parting thoughts, photo gallery, trailer. 120 min. DVD 7662 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Earthquake (1974)
- Directed by Mark Robson. Cast: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Genevieve Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Walter Matthau. When the most catastrophic earthquake of all time rips through Southern California, it levels Los Angeles and sends shock waves through the lives of all who live there. 123 min. DVD X947 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The High and the Mighty (1954)
- Directed by William A. Wellman. Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling. A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller. 148 min. DVD X1032 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- A Night to Remember (UK, 1958)
- Directed by Roy Baker. Cast: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum, Tucker McGuire, John Merivale, Frank Lawton, Laurence Naismith, George Rose.
This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter Lord. The film covers the life and death of the huge vessel from its launching celebration to that fateful night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Special features: Audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall; the making of "A Night to Remember" (1993), a 60 minute documentary featuring William MacQuitty's rare behind-the-scenes footage; includes original theatrical trailer. 123 min. DVD 8185; also DVD X287
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- Geduld, Harry. "Nearer My Wreck to Thee."
Humanist; Jul/Aug87, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p45-45, 1p
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Howells, Richard. "Atlantic Crossings: Nation, Class and Identity in Titanic (1953) and A
Night to Remember (1958)." Historical Journal
of Film, Radio & Television, Oct99, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p421-438, 18p
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- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Directed by Ronald Neame. Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Eric Shea, Leslie Nielsen.
One of the most gripping disaster films of all time follows ten survivors as they struggle to reach safety after an ocean liner is capsized in mid sea by a tidal wave. Suspenseful terror, combined with the victims' intimate stories, results in compelling and heart-stopping drama. 117 min. DVD 4367
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- Garry III, John P. "Poseidon and The Poseidon Adventure." Bright Lights Film Journal, Nov2006 Issue 54, p26-26, 1p UC users only
- San Francisco (1936)
- Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph. Blackie Norton is proprietor of the Paradise Saloon on the infamous Barbary Coast of San Francisco. Into his den of high-flying low life walks Mary Blake looking to pursue a singing career. Norton hires her, but soon their professional relationship develops into something far warmer. Just when their emotions reach a fever pitch the whole of San Francisco comes down about their heads in the earthquake of 1906. 116 min. DVD 5729; vhs 999:2180Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Goldhurst, William.
"Regeneration through Disaster: San Francisco." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 45-62, Winter 1985.
- Snakes on a Plane (2006)
- Directed by David R. Ellis. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson, Keith "Blackman" Dallas, Lin Shaye, Bruce James, Sunny Mabrey.
Nelville Flynn is escorting a witness on a plane that is bound for Los Angeles. The problem is that an assassin is bent on killing the witness. The assassin releases a crate containing about 450 deadly snakes onto the same plane. Nelville finds out and he becomes bent on doing his job and getting the snakes back where they belong - on land. If the snakes won't cooperate with Nelville, he will just have to send the snakes on to snake heaven. Special features: Audio commentary Cast:director David Ellis, Samuel L. Jackson, and others; 10 deleted scenes; Easter eggs; "Snakes on a video" Cobra Starship featurette (includes music video); "Pure venom: making of 'Snakes on a plane'" featurette; "Snakes on a blog" featurette; "Meet the reptiles" featurette; "VFX" featurette; gag reel; music video; TV spot; theatrical trailer. 106 min. DVD 6833 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Titanic (1943)
- Directed by Herbert Selpin and Werner Klingler. Cast: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, E.F. Furbringer, Karl Schonbock, Charlotte Thiele, Otto Wernicke, Franz Schafheitlin, Sepp Rist. Building the Titanic has been a huge financial effort, and White Star Line president Bruce Ismay wants her maiden voyage to hit the headlines. It is at Ismay's urging that Capt. Edward J. Smith pushes for a record speed in their voyage to New York, and that eventually sows the seeds for later disaster. This Titanic features a number of rich, decadent British passengers and a handful of noble German peasants. Ends with the court tribunal acquitting Ismay of any wrong-doing for the sinking of the great ship. 85 min. DVD 2932
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- Titanic (1953)
- Directed by Jean Negulesco. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Richard Basehart, Audrey Dalton. Determined to remove her family from the superficial, high-society world in which her husband is engrossed, a woman flees to America along with her children on the R.M.S. Titanic. Learning of her plan her husband buys a steerage ticket in the hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate steps in, the family faces an unimaginable challenge and the possibility of separation from each other forever. Special features: Commentary by film critic Richard Shickel; commentary by Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton and cinematographer Michael Lonza; "Beyond Titanic" documentary; Movietone newsreels (1953); audio essay by Titanic historian Silvia Stoddard; still gallery. 98 min. DVD X1470
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- Titanic (1974)
- Directed by James Cameron. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Victor Garber, David Warner, Danny Nucci, Suzy Amis, Bernard Fox, Bill Paxton.
Two young lovers separated by social class are destined to find each other on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival! 195 min. DVD 2172
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- Anshen, David. "Out of the depths and through the postmodern surface." Cineaction n51 (2000): 23-29.
Arroyo, Jose. "Massive Attack." In: Action/spectacle cinema : a Sight and sound reader / edited by Jose Arroyo. London : British Film Institute, 2000. (Main Stack PN1995.A259 2000)
Chumo, P. N. "Learning to make each day count: time in James Cameron's Titanic." Journal of Popular Film and Television v. 26 no. 4 (Winter 1999) p. 158-64UC users only
Cull, Nicholas J. "Titanic." American Historical Review 103.n2 (April 1998): 634(2).
Dassanowsky, Robert von. "A Mountain of a Ship: Locating the Bergfilm in James Cameron's Titanic." Cinema Journal, vol. 40 , no. 4, pp. 18-35, 2001. UC users only
Davis, Todd F.; Womack, Kenneth. "Narrating the Ship of Dreams: The Ethics of Sentimentality in James Cameron's Titanic." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 42-48, Spring 2001.
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Hurley, James S. "Titanic Allegories: The Blockbuster as Art Film." Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture, and Politics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 91-120, May 2001.
Kendrick, James. "Marxist overtones in Three Films by James Cameron." Journal of Popular Film and Television 27.3 (Fall 1999): 37.
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Kramer, Peter. "Women first: 'Titanic' (1997), action-adventure films and Hollywood's female audience." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 18.4 (Oct 1998): 599(2).
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Putterman, T. L."Titanic Lovers, or How a Good Girl Pleased Her Man." Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 37, pp. (no pagination), August 2002
Rushing, Janice Hocker; Frentz, Thomas S."Singing over the Bones: James Cameron's Titanic." Critical Studies in Media Communication, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-27, March 2000.
Simpson, David. "Tourism and Titanomania." Critical Inquiry 25.4 (Summer 1999): 680.
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Womack, Kenneth (ed. and introd.). "Titanica." [Issue devoted to James Cameron's Titanic] Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-106, Fall 2003.
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"Traumatic Disaster and Titanic Recuperation: Popular/Historical Representations of the Titanic." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 125-31, Fall 2003. UC users only
- The Towering Inferno (1974)
- Directed by Jack Sher. Cast: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner. Elevators turn into crematoria, rooms explode into a living hell, and one by one, avenues of escape disappear. The celebrated opening of the world's tallest skyscraper turns into horrifying disaster as a holocaust leaps up and traps hundreds. A fireman and the building's architect lead the rescue efforts, but the protechnics remain the center of attraction. Based on the novels "The tower" by Richard Martin Stern and "The glass inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. Special DVD features: Disc 1: All-new audio commentary by film historian F.X. Feeney; all-new scene-specific commentary by Mike Vezina, special effects director and Branko Racki, stunt coordinator -- Disc 2: "Inside the tower: we remember" featurette; "Innovating tower: the SPFX of an inferno" featurette; "The art of towering" featurette; "Irwin Allen: the great producer" featurette; "Directing the inferno" featurette; "Putting out fire" featurette; "Running on fire" featurette; "Still the world's tallest building" featurette; "The writer: Stirling Silliphant" featurette; over 30 extended/deleted scenes; AMC backstory: "The towering inferno"; storyboard-to-film comparisons; Nato presentation reel; 3 interactive articles from American Cinematographer; Original "Making-of" featurettes; 1977 Irwin Allen Interview; still photo galleries (Shot compositions, publicity, behind-the-scenes, conceptual sketches, costumes); original teaser; original trailer. 165 min. DVD X1068; vhs 999:1291
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- Kaplan, F. "Riches from ruin." Jump Cut nr 6 (Mar-Apr 1975); p.3-4
- United 93 (2006)
- Directed by Paul Greengrass. Cast: Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin, Gary Commock, Nancy McDoniel, David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert. Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able to discern that this is no mere hijacking. While the real events that caused the ultimate crash of the plane can never be known, the events depicted would appear to be as might be expected. The scariest part of the film is the unpreparedness of the FAA and the military in dealing with the situation. 111 min. DVD 6134 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Cooper, Rand Richards. "Lost: 'UNITED 93'." Commonweal 133.11 (June 2, 2006): 21(2).
Hoberman, J. "Unquiet America." Sight and Sound 16.10 (Oct 2006): 20(4).
Lewis, Michael J. "Hollywood does 9/11." (United 93)(World Trade Center)(On Native Soil)(Critical essay) Commentary 122.3 (Oct 2006): p40(6). (3963 words) UC users only
Tubrett, Dion. "Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the domestic terror of pedophilia." CineAction 70 (Summer 2006): 51(8).
- When Worlds Collide (1951)
- Directed by Rudolph Mate. An empending collision with a runaway star signals the destruction of Earth. Private industrialists finance the building of a space ship which will carry a limited number of people to another planet to begin a new civilization. As doomsday approaches, they race against time and the panic of those who will be left behind. 81 min. 999:519
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- World Trade Center (2006)
- Directed by Oliver Stone. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pe~na, Maggie Gyllenhall, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Donna Murphy, Frank Whaley.
The true story of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, who volunteered for rescue duty and became trapped in the rubble of the Towers on September 11, 2001. The men became two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero. It is a story of the true heroes and of that fateful time in United States history, when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally from the ashes to inspire the entire human race. 128 min. DVD DVD 7105
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- Hoberman, J. "Unquiet America." Sight and Sound 16.10 (Oct 2006): 20(4).
Lewis, Michael J. "Hollywood does 9/11." (United 93)(World Trade Center)(On Native Soil)(Critical essay) Commentary 122.3 (Oct 2006): p40(6). (3963 words) UC users only
Tubrett, Dion. "Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the domestic terror of pedophilia." CineAction 70 (Summer 2006): 51(8).
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- [The Adventures of] Baron Muenchhausen (1988)
- Directed by Terry Gilliam. The amazing journeys of Baron von Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms with the object of saving a European city from the superior forces of a Turkish sultan. 126 min. DVD 8687; vhs 999:2045
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- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Directed by Michael Anderson. Traveling across two oceans, over five seas and through 16 countries, an Englishman in the 1870s tries to circumnavigate the world in eighty days to win a wager. 179 min. 999:834:1&2
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- Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
- Directed by Frank Coraci. Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile de France, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Ian McNeice, Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. 120 min. DVD 3164
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- Conan the Barbarian (1981)
- Directed by John Milius. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Max Von Sydow, Ben Davidson, Cassandra Gaviola, Gerry Lopez, Mako, Valerie Quennessen, William Smith. Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom. 129 min. DVD 4640
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- Conan the Destroyer (1984)
- Directed by Richard Fleischer. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Sarah Douglas. Conan the Barbarian vs. the evil Queen Taramis who has promised to bring his beloved back from the dead if he returns with a magic treasure. 101 min. DVD 4640
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- First Men in the Moon (UK, 1964)
- Directed by Nathan Juran. Cast: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries. Visual effect, Ray Harryhausen. As a team of United Nations astronauts prepares for a moon mission, they are confused by a man who claims he, his fiancee and a scientist journeyed to the moon 65 years ago and were attacked by grotesque, human-like forms that live in immense crystal caverns. From H.G. Wells' "Account of Life on the Moon". Special DVD features: Photo gallery ; This is dynamation ; Harryhausen chronicles. 103 min. DVD 3297
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- Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)
Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
- Directed by Gordon Hessler. Cast: Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw. Special visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. Sinbad the sailor finds a strange map and sets sail for a previously uncharted island where he crosses swords with an evil magician who brings inanimate objects to life to oppose Sinbad in his quest. Special features: "Mysterious island" featurette ; "3 worlds of Gulliver" featurette ; "Earth vs. the flying saucers" featurette ; vintage advertising ; theatrical trailer ; talent files ; interactive menus ; production notes ; scene selections. 105 min. DVD 3397
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- Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)
Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81
- Hercules (Le Fatiche di Ercole) (Italy / Spain, 1959)
- Director Pietro Francisci. Cast: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Ivo Garrani.
Hercules, the half-god superhero, travels to the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus in order to tutor Iphitus, son of King Pelias, in the art of combat. Dubbed in English. 107 min. DVD 8196
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- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- Directed by Don Chaffey. Jason is a fearless sailor and explorer, who returns to the kingdom of Thessaly after a 20-year voyage to make his rightful claim to the throne. But to do so, Jason must first find the magical Golden Fleece which is guarded by a 100-foot bronze giant, the venomous Hydra, and an army of skeletons. 104 min. DVD 3394; vhs 999:1301
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- [Jules Verne's] Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
- Directed by Henry Levin. Cast: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker.Based on the Jules Verne science fiction novel, a daring scientiest leads an expedition into the interior of the Earth, where fierce dinosaurs and an intelligent reptilian race battle a primitive human civilization. 129 min. DVD 4632
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- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- Directed by Peter Jackson. Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-Earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. 178 min. DVD 1254
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- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Directed by Peter Jackson. Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis. Follows Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of the Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Black Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all. 175 min. DVD 1843
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- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Directed by Peter Jackson. Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble. Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth. 200 min. DVD 2773
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- Mysterious Island (1961)
- Directed by Cy Endfield. Cast: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Beth Rogan, Herbert Lom. Visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. In this sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", escapees from a Confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island. Based on the story by Jules Verne. Special features: "The making of Mysterious Island"; "The Harryhausen Chronicles"; and "This is Dynamation" featurette. 100 min. DVD 3295
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- Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)
Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81
- The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- Directed by Nathan Juran. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher, Richard Eyer. Special visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. Sinbad a bold sailor and prince of Baghdad, sets out for the mysterious island of Colossa where he hopes to obtain the egg of a roc--a fierce, giant bird. The egg will help restore to normal size the Princess Parisa who has been reduced to the size of a man's thumb by the evil magician, Sokurah. On Colossa, Parisa liberates the Genie of the magic lamp and together, Sinbad, Parisa and the Genie battle a man-eating cyclops, a two-headed roc, a fire-breathing dragon and a skeleton brought to life by Sokurah. All of these creatures must be defeated before Parisa can be restored. Special DVD features: Documentary "Ray Harryhausen chronicles" (58 min.) ; original theatrical trailer ; scene access ; production notes ; interviews ; "A look behind the Voyage" and "Jason and the Argonauts" ; SFX featurette. 94 min. DVD 3395; vhs 999:3632
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- Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)
Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
- Directed by Sam Wanamaker. Cast: Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton. Special visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. Sinbad, daring sailor and Prince of Baghdad, sets out to do battle with a Minaton, a bronze colossus, a giant troglodyte and other assorted creatures in a quest designed to win the hand of a beautiful princess. Special features: Ray Harryhauen chronicles ; this is dynamation featurette. 114 min. DVD 3396
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- Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)
Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81
- Star Wars Films See Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
- Directed by Jack Sher. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson, Gregoire Aslan. Special visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. A doctor sets sail for the East Indies but finds adventure, romance and danger instead in Brobdingnag and Lilliput, the infamous lands of the great and small. Special features: This is dynamation featurette ; Harryhausen chronicles featurette. 98 min. DVD 3398 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)
Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- Directed by Richard Fleischer. Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia, J.M. Kerrigan. A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate and are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine. 127 min. DVD 1698
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- Maertens, James W. "Between Jules Verne and Walt Disney: Brains, Brawn, and Masculine Desire in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea." Science-Fiction Studies. 22(2):209-25. 1995
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- The Adventures of Don Juan(1949)
- Directed by Vincent Sherman. Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Raymond Burr, Romney Brent, Alan Hale, Ann Rutherford, Robert Warwick, Jerry Austin, Douglas Kennedy, Jeanne Shepherd, Mary Stuart, Helen Westcott.
Errol Flynn's farewell to big-budget swashbuckling has him playing the legenday Don Juan, the Spanish lover who fights to save the Queen Margaret and her King from the treacherous machinations of her minister, Duke de Lorca. 111 min. DVD 8050
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- The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)
- Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Cast: Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Eugene Pallette.
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicating his life to fighting against tyranny by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Special features: Documentaries of the movie's making and the Technicolor process ; audio commentary ; outtakes ; music-only audio track ; Leonard Maltin hosts Warner night at the movies 1938, with trailer, newsreel, musical short and cartoon ; Robin Hood through the ages ; home movies ; more vintage cartoons, short subjects and studio blooper reel ; galleries of art/photo/publicity materials and Errol Flynn trailers ; audio-only extras: Radio show and Korngold scoring session.
Videodisc release of the original 1938 feature film. Based on ancient Robin Hood legends. 102 min. DVD 2039; vhs 999:588
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- Aberth, John. "Splendid to spandex: Robin Hood Films." In: A knight at the movies : medieval history on film / John Aberth. New York : Routledge, 2003.
(Main Stack PN1995.9.M52.A24 2003; PFA PN1995.9.M52.A24 2003)
Behlmer Stephen. "Robin Hood on the Screen: From Legend to Film." In: Robin Hood : an anthology of scholarship and criticism / edited by Stephen Knight. Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1999. (Main Stack PR2129.R62 1999)
Leitch, Thomas.
"Adaptations without Sources: The Adventures of Robin Hood." Literature Film Quarterly, 2008, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p21-30, 10p
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Robin Hood in popular culture : violence, transgression, and justice / edited by Thomas Hahn.Cambridge, UK; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2000. (Main Stack PR2129.R65 2000)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood(TV, 1955)
- Director, Robert Day. Cast: Richard Greene (Robin Hood), Bernadette O'Farrell, Patricia Driscoll, Eddie Byrne, Alexander Gauge, Archie Duncan. Robin Hood, leader of his band of Merry Men, operated out of Sherwood Forest, robbing from the rich to give to the poor, with the aid of his true love, Maid Marian but his efforts were continuously hampered by Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. In Goodbye Little John, his second in command, Little John, leaves the band because of turmoil over leadership rivalries among Robin's Merry Men. In Checkmate, Maid Marian and Robin rescue young men who have been unwillingly conscripted as soldiers. 27 min. each installment. Video/C 6784
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- The Beloved Rogue (1927)
- Directed by Alan Crosland. Cast: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Henry Victor, Mack Swain.
Summary A rich historical romance starring John Barrymore as the swashbuckling poet Frances Villon who battles to save his country from the devious Duke of Burgundy and nasty King Louis the XI in 17th Century France. Special feature: Filmed introduction by Orson Welles. 98 min. DVD X1704
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- The Black Pirate (1926)
- Directed by Albert Parker. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Anders Randolf, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse.
The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers, poses as the Black Pirate to recover the ship and its treasure, and to rescue a captive princess. Special features: 19 minutes of rare outtake footage ; audio commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer ; original 1926 orchestral score by Mortimer Wilson, recorded in digital stereo, conducted by Robert Israel. 90 min. DVD 3696
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- The Black Rose (1950)
- Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cecile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie, Finlay Currie, Herbert Lom, Mary Clare.
A Saxon youth is run out of England during the Crusades, and goes with his loyal retainer to adventures in China where they become entangled in the intrigues of the court of Kubla Kahn. Special features: "Tyrone Power family reunion" featurette; still gallery; interactive pressbook gallery; original theatrical trailer. 121 min. DVD 8305
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- Braveheart (1995)
- Directed by Mel Gibson. Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack. A sumptuously produced historical epic based upon the life of William Wallace (c. 1270-1305), a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation in the 14th century. 103 min. DVD 509
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- Canitz, A. E. Christa. "'Historians... Will Say I Am a Liar': The Ideology of False Truth Claims in Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Luc Besson's The Messenger." In: Postmodern medievalisms / edited by Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan.
Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2005. (Main Stack CB351.S78 v.13)
Dvorak, Ken.
"Braveheart: A Distant Hero for a Post-Modernist Audience?" Film & History , Feb-May1995, Vol. 25 Issue 1/2, p59-59, 1p
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Ewan, Elizabeth. "Braveheart directed by Mel Gibson / Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones." The American Historical Review. Washington: Oct 1995. Vol. 100, Iss. 4; p. 1219 UC users only
Keller, James R.
"Masculinity and marginality in Rob Roy and Braveheart."
Journal of Popular Film & Television. Winter 1997. Vol. 24, Iss. 4; p. 146 (6 pages) UC users only
Kennedy, Harlan. "Kiltspotting: Highland reels." Film Comment. Jul/Aug 1996. Vol. 32, Iss. 4; pg. 28, 5 pgsUC users only
Morgan, Sally J. "The ghost in the luggage: Wallace and Braveheart: post-colonial 'pioneer' identities." European Journal of Cultural Studies; Sep99, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p375, 18p
Ray, Sid.
"Hunks, History, and Homophobia: Masculinity Politics in Braveheart and Edward II." Film & History Sep-Dec1999, Vol. 29 Issue 3/4, p22-31, 10p
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Ross, Andrew. "Wallace's Monument and the Resumption of Scotland." Social Text; Winter2000, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p83, 25pUC users only
- The Captain from Castille (1947)
- Directed by Henry King. Cast: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Gomez.
Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortez on his dangerous expedition to conquer Mexico. As the young couple fall deeply in love, Pedro's great courage brings his leader honor and glory, even as an evil officer threatens the success of the entire expedition. Notable for deft swordplay and thrilling battle sequences. 141 min. DVD 8300; vhs 999:3223
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- Gladiator (UK / USA, 2000)
- Directed by Ridley Scott. Featuring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris. In the year 180, after the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Maximus, one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals is stripped of his rank and sold ito slavery, as Marcus's devious son, Commodus, ascends to the thrown. Forced to become a gladiator, Maximus is determined to avenge himself and eventually gets the opportunity, when Commodus decides to put his own fighting mettle to the test by squaring off with Maximus in a battle to the death. With special features. 155 min. DVD 399
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- The Golden Blade(1953)
- Directed by Nathan Juran. Cast: Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans, George Macready, Kathleen Hughes, Steven Geray, Edgar Barrier, Alice Kelley.
"Harum (Rock Hudson) is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan (Piper Laurie), a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the Caliph. She gives Harum a golden sword which, in his hands, makes him invincible. Harum uses the sword in the name of justice and is doing quite well until a duplicate sword is placed in his scabbard during one of his off-guard moments, and he winds up in chains." [Internet Movie Database] 81 min. DVD 8144
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- The Iron Mask (Silent, 1929)
- Directed by Allan Dwan. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite de la Motte. In this drama (Fairbank's final farewell to the swashbuckling silents) the true dauphin is kidnapped and imprisoned, but the villains fail to take into account D'Artagnan and the three musketeers. 103 min. DVD 4952
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- The Lady and the Highwayman (UK, TV, 1989)
- Directed by John Hough. Cast: Cast: Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Christopher Cazenove, Lysette Anthony, Hugh Grant, Michael York.
In 1700 England during the reign of Charles II, an English aristocrat is forced to become a highwayman and falls in love with a young girl he has sworn to protect after her brother is beheaded by Cromwell. Based on the novel by Barbara Cartland.
90 min. 999:3487
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- The Legend of Zorro (2005)
- Directed by Martin Campbell. Cast: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund. This time, the legendary Zorro fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and she soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe that there's more to Armand than meets the eye. Zorro becomes intent on finding out what that is. Little does he know, there are others working to uncover certain truths as well.
129 min. DVD 5628
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- The Mark of Zorro (1920)
- Directed by Fred Niblo. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite de la Motte, Noah Beery. Don Diego de la Vega is the son of a wealthy Spanish Californian rancher, but in reality, he is the dashing masked-and-caped Zorro, who wages a one-man war to rescue his fellow citizens from the tyrannical Captain Juan Ramon. 80 min. DVD X1995
- The Mark of Zorro (1940)
- Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg, Montagu Love. Disguised as Zorro, a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black, Don Diego Vega works to restore his father, the deposed Alcalde, back to power and return tax money stolen by the villanous tyrant--while finding time to romance the tyrant's beautiful niece. Based on the story: The curse of Capistrano / by Johnston McCulley. 93 min. DVD 6690; vhs 999:1968
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- Williamson, Catherine. "'Draped Crusaders': Disrobing Gender in The Mark of Zorro." Cinema Journal, vol. 36 no. 2. 1997 Winter. pp: 3-16.
- The Mark of Zorro (1920, silent)
- Directed by Fred Niblo. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite de la Motte, Noah Beery, Robert McKim, George Periolat. As the famous Mexican Robin Hood, Don Diego springs into action as Zorro, the crusader for the rights of the Mexican people. Through the Zorro character, Fairbanks ushered in the legendary cycle of adventure films and established the genre of the American action film. In the closing climax of this film Zorro (Fairbanks) leads Governor Alvarado's men on a cyclonic chase across the rooftops, haystacks, prison, homes and church of a picturesque Old California village. Based on the story: The curse of Capistrano / by Johnston McCulley. 90 min. DVD 6730; vhs 999:1436
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- The Mask of Zorro (1998)
- Directed by Martin Campbell. Cast: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Stuart Wilson, Matt Letscher. A sweeping tale of love and horror, tragedy and triumph set against the Spanish conquest of Mexico. After twenty years as the legendary Zorro, Don Diego must transform a troubled drifter into the fearless hero he once was. 137 min. DVD 5629
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- Prince of Foxes(1949)
- Director, Henry King. Cast: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane, Katina Paxinou, Felix Aylmer.
Cesare Borgia and his treacherous sister Lucrezia have plans to conquer central Italy. They send Andrea Zoppo, an accomplished commoner and Lucrezia's lover on a mission to take over Citta del Monte, ruled by Count Marc Antonio Verano. But he meets Camilla, the young wife of the count, and things change. 107 min. DVD 8301
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- The Princess Bride(1987)
- Director, Rob Reiner. Cast: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Carol Kane, Billy Crystal. A bent fairy tale, complete with fencing, fighting, chases and escapes. Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named...Buttercup? 98 min. DVD 974
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- Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- Directed by John Cromwell. Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point. 101 min. DVD 7371
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- Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone, Robert Douglas, James Mason. "English trout fisher Rudolf Rassendyll is about the only tourist not coming for the coronation of Central-European King Rudolf V at Strelsau, but happens to be a distance relative and is approached on account of their canning resemblance to stand in for the drunk king, in order to prevent his envious half-brother Michael, who arranged spiking his wine to seize the throne when the reputedly less then dutiful Rudolf stays away. The ceremony goes well, and he gets acquainted with the charming royal bride, related princess Flavia, but afterward the king is found to be abducted; he must continue the charade and once the hiding place, the castle of Zenda, is found is involved in the fight between political parties for control over Rudolf V, his the throne and his bride, for which a formidable third candidate, Michael's disloyal co-conspirator Rupert of Hentzau, was waiting in the curtains." [Internet Movie Database]
96 min. DVD 7371
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- Rob Roy (1995)
- Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox.
When a harsh winter threatens the majestic Scottish Highlands, Robert Roy MacGregor (1671-1734) is forced to borrow money from the less-than-noble Marquis of Montrose to provide for his clan. But when Montrose's evil henchmen conspire to take the wealth for themselves, they thrust Rob into the most challenging battle of his life... one that escalates into a bloody, exhilarating climax. 133 min. vhs 999:3820
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- Ewan, Elizabeth. "Braveheart directed by Mel Gibson / Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones." The American Historical Review. Washington: Oct 1995. Vol. 100, Iss. 4; p. 1219 UC users only
Keller, James R.
"Masculinity and marginality in Rob Roy and Braveheart."
Journal of Popular Film & Television. Winter 1997. Vol. 24, Iss. 4; p. 146 (6 pages) UC users only
- Robin and Marian(1976)
- Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Nicol Williamson, Richard Harris. The legend of Robin Hood continues when Robin and Little John return from the Crusades under the command of King Richard the Lionheart. But when Richard is accidently slain, the mad King John assumes the throne and Robin regroups the members of his old Sherwood Forest band. 107 min. 999:3180
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- The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934)
- Directed by Harold Young. Cast: Leslie Howard, Joan Gardner, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Anthony Bushell, Nigel Bruce. An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy in which a dashing dandy of the English court tries to defend innocent aristocrats from the violence of the French revolution. 95 min. DVD 4634
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- Scaramouche (1923)
- Produced and directed by Rex Ingram. Cast: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham, Julia Swayne Gordon.
A law student (Novarro) vows to fight against the aristocracy when his friend Philippe is killed in an unfair duel. Andre joins a local circus troupe, hiding behind the guise of Scaramouche, a clown, while training in the art of fencing with a master. Based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini. 101 min. DVD X1949
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- The Scarlet Pimpernel(TV, 1982)
- Directed by Clive Donner. Cast: Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, James Villiers, Eleanor David, Malcolm Jamieson. A twisted suspenseful romance set during the French Revolution. While men, women, and children fall under the merciless blade of the guillotine, one foppish gentleman, alias the Scarlet Pimpernel, bravely rescues aristocrats from the jaws of death. In the midst of his rescue, he meets and falls passinately in love with Marguerite, France's most celebrated actress. 136 min. DVD 4634
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- The Sea Hawk(2003)
- Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale. Geoffrey Thorpe, a dashing, patriotic pirate, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to attack the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for its planned attack on England when Thorpe suprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword. 127 min. DVD 4018
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- The Three Musketeers (1948)
- Directed by George Sidney. Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Anglea Lansbury, Frank Morgan, Vincent Price, Keenan Wynn, John Sutton, Gig Young. A young man joins the Musketeers to foil an evil cardinal's plot to seize control of France. 126 min. DVD 7368; vhs 999:3744
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- The Three Musketeers (1974)
- Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Fay Dunaway, Georges Wilson, Nicole Calfan, Sybil Danning, Gitty Djamal, Simon Ward, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Charlton Heston. The Three musketeers: The young ambitious D'Artagnan arrives aspiring to join the Musketeers, proves he is worthy, and with the others sets off to help save the honor of their Queen. 107 min. DVD 4598
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- The Four Musketeers (1975)
- Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Fay Dunaway, Georges Wilson, Nicole Calfan, Sybil Danning, Gitty Djamal, Simon Ward, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Charlton Heston. Picks up where the Three Musketeers left off with the Four Musketeers defending the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter. 107 min. DVD 4598
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- Treasure Island (1934)
- Directed by Victor Fleming. Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce, Charles "Chic" Sale. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. 103 min. DVD 6396
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- When a Man Loves (1927)
- Directed by Mel Damski. Cast: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam de Grasse, Holmes Herbert, Stuart Holmes, Bertram Grassby, Tom Santschi, Marcelle Corday, Charles Clary.
John Barrymore stars as an 18th-century swashbuckling hero who escapes from a French prison ship and risks everything for the love of a worthless woman. Based upon the novel,"Manon Lescaut", by Abbe Prevost. 112 min. DVD X2084
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- Yellowbeard (1983)
- Directed by Mel Damski. Cast: Cast: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong [i.e., Richard "Cheech" Marin, Tommy Chong], Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, John Cleese, Kenneth Mars, Spike Milligan, Susannah York.
Yellowbeard is the saga of an infamous pirate whose escape from prison after 20 years triggers a misguided treasure hunt for his buried booty. Complicating matters, the treasure map is tattooed on his son's head. 97 min. vhs 999:3264
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- Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
- Directed by John English and William Witney. Republic Pictures. Cast: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson. This 12-part motion picture serial places Don Diego in Mexico. Disguised as Zorro, he joins the conflict between the Mexican state and the Yaqui people. It seems a strange and mysterious figure in gold armor and mask is being worshipped by the Yaqui, who rally behind their new leader to steal gold shipments from their Mexican neighbors. Diego must find out who is behind the false golden god and expose him for the good of peace. Chapter 1. The golden god -- Ch. 2. The flaming "Z" -- Ch. 3. Descending doom -- Ch. 4. The bridge of peril -- Ch. 5. The decoy -- Ch. 6. Zorro to the rescue -- Ch. 7. The fugitive -- Ch. 8. Flowing death -- Ch. 9. The golden arrow -- Ch. 10. Mystery wagon -- Ch. 11. Face to face -- Ch.12. Unmasked. DVD 7299
Spies and Supercops
- Britton, Wesley A.
Beyond Bond : spies in fiction and film Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2005.
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Miller, Toby. Spyscreen : espionage on film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S68.M55 2003)
Price, Thomas J. "Spy Stories, Espionage and the Public in the Twentieth Century." Journal of Popular Culture Volume 30 Page 81 - Winter 1996
Stockwell, Stephen. "The Manufacture of World Order: The Security Services and the Movie Industry." M/C Journal 7.6 (2005). 11 May. 2006
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- Burn After Reading (2008)
- Directors: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt. When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo is intent on exploiting their find. When blackmailing fails, they decide to take the information to the Russian embassy. At the embassy, they hand the disc over to the Russians, promising that they will give them more information. Since they don't have any more information, they decide to break into the house of the CIA analyst who created the original disc. Special features: Finding the Burn; DC insiders run amuck; welcome back, George. 96 min. DVD X797
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- Cloak and Dagger (1946)
- Director: Fritz Lang. Cast: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg.
Manhattan Project physicist Alvah Jasper parachutes into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes - especially when his involvement with a mysterious woman, Gina, catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal, and murder. 106 min. DVD 8572
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- Contraband (1940)
- Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Phoebe Kershaw, Harold Warrender. Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish sea captain and his passenger are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. The plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters in one peculiar set of surroundings after another. Most of the story takes place under blackout conditions, in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth. 88 min. 999:3231
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- David Harding, Counterspy (1950)
- Directed by Ray Nazarro. Cast: Willard Parker, Aubrey Lang, Raymond Greenleaf, Harlan Warde, Alex Gerry, Howard St. John. Howard St. John is the Washington DC-based David Harding, head of a covert counter-espionage organization, charged with preventing top-secret scientific information from reaching the hands of America's enemies, and trying to convince a hell-raising radio correspondent to join the fight. 71 min. DVD X906
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- Die Hard(1988)
- Directed by John McTiernan. Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia. John McClane, a New York City detective newly arrived in Los Angeles, is waiting for his wife's office party to break-up when terrorists seize control of the building. While the terrorists round up hostages, McClane slips away unnoticed and armed with only a service revolver and his cunning, he launches his own one-man war. 113 min. DVD 1242
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- Willis, Sharon. "Mutilated Masculinities and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons." In: High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Sharon Willis. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; Compar Ethn PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; PFA PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997)
- Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
- Directed by Renny Harlin. Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald Veljohnson, Franco Nero, William Sadler, John Amos.
Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop John McClane who battles not only terrorists but an incompetent airport police chief, an anti-terrorist commander, and a snow storm. With an airport runway in the nation's capital littered with death and destruction McClane is in a race against time as his wife is trapped on a plane circling overhead, deperately low on fuel. 124 min. DVD 1243
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- Willis, Sharon. "Mutilated Masculinities and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons." In: High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Sharon Willis. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; Compar Ethn PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; PFA PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997)
- Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
- Directed by John McTiernan. Cast: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene. New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day. (131 min. DVD 1244
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- Willis, Sharon. "Mutilated Masculinities and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons." In: High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Sharon Willis. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; Compar Ethn PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; PFA PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997)
- Dishonored (1931)
- Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, Lew Cody, Barry Norton, Davison Clark, Wilfred Lucas, Bill Powell.
Marlene Dietrich plays the role of a spy, Agent X-27 who is recruited by the Austrian Secret Service to feret out secrets from the enemy and alters the course of the war until she meets up with the Russian agent Colonel Kranau. 87 min. DVD X2063
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- Five Graves to Cairo(1943)
- Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim. World War II drama set in the Sahara about a British spy who takes refuge in a hotel and assumes the identity of a dead manservant. Soon, General Rommel makes the inn his General Staff headquarters. Now, with the threat of discovery hanging over his head, the spy learns that the identity he has claimed owes a debt to the Nazis -- and they expect him to pay up. 97 min. 999:2705 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Foreign Correspondent(1940)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman. An intrepid American reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring. 120 min. DVD 3144
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- The House on 92nd Street(1945)
- Directed by George Fitzmaurice. Cast: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo. G. Carroll, Lydia St. Clair, William Post. When a young German American is solicited as a Nazi spy during WWII, he accepts the job after agreeing to go undercover for the FBI. Once he learns that his mission is to send atomic bomb secrets to the German government, the FBI chief works relentlessly to prevent this while not giving his agent's identity away. 89 min. DVD 4382 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- I Spy
- TV series (1965-1968) starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, SEE TV videography
- In Like Flint (1967)
- Directed by Gordon Douglas. Cast: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan. Superspy Derek Flint is on a mission to track down the criminal organization known as Galaxy. Special features include commentary by film historians Eddie Friedfeld and Lee Pfeiffer.
Derek Flint must save the day when the president of the United States is kidnapped and replaced by an evil imposter. Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own. Disc 1. Feature film (114 min.) -- Disc 2. Lost TV pilot: Our man Flint: Dead on target; Flint featurettes. 114 min. DVD DVD X966
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- James Bond
- Quantum of Solace (UK / USA, 2008)
- Directed by Marc Foster. Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, David Harbour, Jesper Christensen. Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply. Special features: Bond on location featurette; start of shooting featurette; on location featurette; Olga Kurylenko and the boat chase featurette; director Marc Forster featurette; the music featurette; crew files behind-the-scenes clips. 100 min. DVD X1643
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseCasino Royale(USA / UK / Germany / Czech Republic, 2006)- Directed by Martin Campbell. Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Isaach De Bankole, Jesper Christensen, Ivana Milicevic, Sebastien Foucan. Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status. "M", head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. "M" places Bond under the watchful eye of the Treasury offical Vesper Lynd. At first skeptical of what value Vesper can provide, Bond's interest in her deepens as they brave danger together. Le Chiffre's cunning and cruelty come to bear on them both in a way Bond could never imagine, and he learns his most important lesson: Trust no one. Special features: Becoming Bond, James Bond for real, Bond girls are forever (2006), Chris Cornell music video, trailers. 144 min. DVD 7221
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseDiamonds Are Forever (UK, 1971)- Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Bernard Lee. Smugglers are out to capture the world's glittering diamond market. Bond uses fast cars, hearses, jets, helicopters and moon machines in a perplexing search to find out why. Seductive smuggler Tiffany Case and millionaire recluse Willard Whyte do their best to deter Bond's efforts. Special features (Disc 2: DVD 6724): Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. 120 min. DVD 6724; DVD 5889 (single-disc version)
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseDie Another DayUK / USA, 2002)- Directed by Lee Tamahori. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosmund Pike, John Cleese, Judi Dench. While on assignment in North Korea, James Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world. 132 min. DVD 3532
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseDr. No(UK, 1962)- Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, John Kitzmiller, Zena Marshall, Eunice Gayson. James Bond, Agent 007, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a British Secret Service agent. This is the first James Bond film adventure. Special features: Top-level access; Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. Music, Monty Norman. 110 min. DVD 6779; DVD 5904 [single-disc version]; vhs 999:3145
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For Your Eyes Only(UK / USA, 1981)- Directed by John Glen. Cast: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover, Cassandra Harris, Jill Bennett, Michael Gothard, John Wyman, Jack Hedley, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn. James Bond is thrust into one of his most reveting adventures filled with outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. James has a lethal determination to infiltrate the Greek underworld and races against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines. Special features: Frame-by-frame digital restoration; never before released (newly recorded audio commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore); declassified: MI6 vault (deleted scenes; expanded angles; Bond in Greece; Bond in Cortina; Neptune's journey); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'For your eyes only'); mission dossier (audio commentry featuring John Glen and actors; audio commentary featuring Michael G. Wilson and crew; inside 'For your eyes only'; animated storyboards sequences; Sheena Easton Music video); ministry of propaganda (original trailers; TV spots and radio communications). 128 min. DVD 6767
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseFrom Russia With Love (UK, 1963)- Directed by Terence Young. Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Francis de Wolff, George Pastell, Nadja Regin, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn. A beautiful Russian girl is used as part of an international conspiracy to kill James Bond, Agent 007. The adventure leads him through Istanbul aboard the Orient Express. Desert Island discs; animated storyboard sequence); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'From Russia with love'; The complete special features library: Mission dossier (Audio commentary featuring director Terence Young and members of the cast and crew; Harry Saltzman: showman); Ministry of propaganda (Original trailers, TV spots, radio communications). 115 min. DVD 6770; DVD 5905 [single-disc version]
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseGoldeneye(UK / USA, 1995)- Directed by Martin Campbell. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker. When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond. Special features: Declassified: MI6 vault: Deleted scenes with introductions by director Martin Campbell; Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles; Building a better Bond: pre-production featurette; The return of Bond: the start of production press event; Driven to Bond: Remy Julienne; Anatomy of a stunt: tank versus Perrier; Making it in small pictures: Derek Meddings; On location with Peter Lamont; "GoldenEye": the secret files; Pre-title storyboard sequence with Martin Campbell; 007 Misson control: Interactive guide into the world of "GoldenEye"; Mission dossier: Audio commentary featuring Martin Campbell and Michael G. Wilson ; "The world of 007": original 1995 TV special hosted by Elizabeth Hurley; The "GoldenEye" video journal promotional featurette; "GoldenEye" music video performed by Tina Turner; Ministry of propaganda: Original trailers; TV spots; Photo gallery. 130 min. DVD 6766
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseGoldfinger((UK, 1964)- Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. Agent 007 takes on billionaire Auric Goldfinger, who plans to throw the world economy into a tailspin by contaminating the gold at Fort Knox with nuclear radiation. Special features (Disc 2: DVD 6723): Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. 110 min. DVD 6723; single-disc version DVD 1673
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseLicence to Kill(UK, 1981)- Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius W. Harris, Geoffrey Holder, David Hedison, Gloria Hendry, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell. James Bond battles the forces of black magic that hurtles him from the streets of New York City to Louisiana's bayou country. With charm, wit and deadly assurance, James takes on a powerful drug lord with a diabolical scheme to conquer the world. Special features: Frame-by-frame digital restoration; never before released newly recorded audio commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore; declassified: MI6 vault ("Bond 1973" the lost documentary; Roger Moore as James Bond, circa 1964; 'Live and let die' conceptual art); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'Live and let die'); mission dossier (audio commentary featuring Guy Hamilton; audio commentary featuring Tom Mankiewicz; inside 'Live and let die'; on set with Roger Moore); ministry of propaganda (original trailers; TV spots & radio communications). 122 min. DVD 6790
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseLive and Let Die(UK / USA, 1989)- Directed by John Glen. Cast: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe. Timothy Dalton portrays the superagent 007 who leaves the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter is brutally attacked by drug lord Franz Sanchez. 133 min. DVD 6790
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Living Daylights(UK / USA, 1987)- Directed by John Glen. Cast: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Joe Don Baker, Art Malik, John Rhys-Davies, Jeroen Krabbe. Timothy Dalton debuts as Agent 007. Armed with razor-sharp instincts and a licence to kill, James Bond battles diabolical arms merchants bent on world domination. 131 min. DVD 6790
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Man with the Golden Gun(UK, 1974)- Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Herve Villechaize, Clifton James. Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 and faces off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga. Features a wild car chase through Bangkok and Bond's stunning confrontation with an entire martial arts school. 125 min. DVD 6739
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseMoonraker (UK / France, 1979)- Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery. Roger Moore stars for the fourth time as Agent 007 and joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying all human life on Earth. 121 min. DVD 6781
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Never Say Never Again (UK / USA / West Germany, 1983)- Directed by Irvin Kershner. Cast: Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max Von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Edward Fox. From the luxury yacht the length of a football field, Largo oversees a master plan of mayhem involving stolen cruise missiles, nuclear extortion, deadly video games and all the other evils in SPECTRE'S arsenal. James Bond, Agent 007, goes into battle with a fabulous flying motorcycle and other ghastly gadgets, including a fountain pen that can write you off with a bang. 133 min. DVD 5870
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Octopussy(UK / USA, 1983)- Directed by John Glen. Cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi. Roger Moore portrays the immortal action hero James Bond as he investigates the murder of a fellow agent who was clutching a priceless Faberge egg at the time of his death. 131 min. DVD 6782
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseOn Her Majesty's Secret Service(UK, 1969)- Directed by Peter Hunt. Cast: Geogre Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppar, Lois Maxwell, George Baker, Bernard Lee, Bernard Horsfall, Desmond Llewelyn. James Bond goes undercover in the treacherous Swiss Alps and becomes involved in artillery-laden ski pursuits, incredible stunts and thrills. James finds love with the beautiful and seductive Tracy Di Vicenzo. But first Bond must stop the evil genius Blofeld from realising a germ warfare plot could kill millions. Special features: Frame-by-frame digial restoration; Declassified: MI6 vault (casting 'On her majesty's secret service'; press day in Portugal; George Lazenby: in his own words; shot on ice - original 1969 Ford promo film; "Swiss movement" original 1969 featurette); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'On her majesty's secret service); Mission dossier (audio commentary featuring director Peter Hunt and memebers of the cast and crew; inside 'On her majesty's secret service'; inside Q's lab; "Above it all" original 1969 featurette; ministry of propaganda (original trailers; TV spots & radio communications). 142 min. DVD 6769
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Spy Who Loved Me(UK, 1977)- Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro. Roger Moore brings inimitable style to Agent 007 as he teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop the megalomaniac Stromberg from unleashing a horrific scheme for world domination. 126 min.DVD 6791
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThunderball (UK, 1965)- Directed by Terence Young. Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi. Agent 007 goes above the call of duty and to the bottom of the ocean to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust. 130 min. DVD 6787; DVD 5891 [single-disc version]
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseTomorrow Never Dies (UK / USA, 1997)- Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench. Pierce Brosnan returns as Agent 007, stepping in to prevent World War III when a ruthless media tycoon tries to destabilise the world economy by orchestrating a deadly standoff between world superpowers. 119 min. DVD 6783
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseA View to a Kill (UK / USA, 1985)- Directed by John Glen. Cast: Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Chistopher Walken. Roger Moore's Bond confronts Max Zorin, who has devised a plan to corner the world's microchip market, even if he has to kill millions to do it. Before Bond can stop the madman, he must confront Zorin's beautiful and deadly companion May Day. 131 min. DVD 6789
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseThe World Is Not Enough (UK / USA, 1999)- Directed by Michael Apted. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench. Pierce Brosnan returns as Bond, charged to protect a gorgeous billionaire heiress from the ruthless hands of a nuclear-obsessed terrorist who wants control of the world's petroleum supply. 128 min. DVD 6738
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseYou Only Live Twice (UK, 1967)- Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Charles Gray, Bernard Lee, Donald Pleasence. When U.S. and Soviet manned spaceships are hijacked in Earth's orbit, Agent 007 must race to prevent a nuclear war between the superpowers. His dangerous mission takes him to Japan, where he battles the evil SPECTRE organization and its diabolical leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Special features: Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. 117 min. DVD 6780; DVD 5890 [single-disc version]
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database - Directed by Marc Foster. Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, David Harbour, Jesper Christensen. Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply. Special features: Bond on location featurette; start of shooting featurette; on location featurette; Olga Kurylenko and the boat chase featurette; director Marc Forster featurette; the music featurette; crew files behind-the-scenes clips. 100 min. DVD X1643
- Juve contre Fantomas (Silent; 1913-14)
- Directed by Louis Feuillade. The Simplon Express disaster (23 min.) -- The haunted Villa (23 min.) Episodes of the Fantomas silent film serial about the adventures of Fantomas, the mysterious bandit in a black hood who is relentlessly tracked by Juve, the detective. Fantomas was an immense worldwide success and helped establish the advent of film serials in the United States. 47 min. 999:1926
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- Callahan, Vicki. Zones of anxiety : movement, Musidora, and the crime serials of Louis Feuillade Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (MAIN: PN1998.3.F48 C35 2005)
- The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; featuring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker. En route back to England by train from Switzerland,a young woman meets a charming old lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman to suspect a conspiracy. When she begins investigating, she is drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. Based on the novel "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White. Special features: Restored image and sound, additional audio track with commentary by film historian Bruce Eder. 97 min. DVD 53; VHS 999:561
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- Lethal Weapon (1987)
- Directed by Richard Donner. Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe.
The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
117 min. DVD 4564
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- Willis, Sharon. "Mutilated Masculinities and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons." In: High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Sharon Willis. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; Compar Ethn PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997; PFA PN1995.9.S47.W56 1997)
- Little Drummer Girl (1984)
- Director, George Roy Hill. Featuring Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski. Charlie is a repertory actress and Palestinian sympathizer thrust into the world of international espionage. The cunning head of an Israeli counterspy group sees Charlie's politics and romantic vulnerability as the perfect trap for their quarry, the elusive Palestinian terrorist Khalil. 130 min. 999:2164
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- The Living Daylights(1987)
- Directed by John Glen. Cast: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Joe Don Baker, Art Malik, John Rhys-Davies, Jeroen Krabbe. Timothy Dalton debuts as Agent 007. Armed with razor-sharp instincts and a licence to kill, James Bond battles diabolical arms merchants bent on world domination. 131 min. DVD 6738
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- The Man Who Knew Too Much(1934)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, George Curzon, Arthur Benjamin. An American couple vacationing in French Morocco are accidentally drawn into a series of mysterious adventures when they appear on the scene of a murder. 75 min. DVD 87; vhs 999:319
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- The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day. Story of an Englishman touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London. To insure their silence the spy ring kidnaps their son. 120 min. DVD 1036; vhs 999:83
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- Mata Hari(1931)
- Directed by George Fitzmaurice. Cast:Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone. Garbo is mesmerizing as the dancer-turned-German secret agent in a wartime Paris seething with secrets and betrayal. With the world at war, love was her weapon. The only men she couldn' t seduce were the 12 in the firing squad that ended her life. 89 min. DVD 4283
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- Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Directed by Fritz Lang. Featuring Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary ) Brooke, Percy Waram, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford. A man is released into World War II England after 2 years in an asylum, but the outside world does not seem so sane either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and does not quite know to whom to turn. 87 min. 999:1858
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- North by Northwest(1959)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau. Enemy agents mistake an unsuspecting New York City advertising executive for an American spy. In this thriller he becomes involved with a beautiful double agent with the action ranging from the United Nations building in New York to the faces of Mount Rushmore. 136 min. DVD 296; vhs 999:166
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- Notorious(1959)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Madame Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel.
Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction. 136 min. DVD 1032; DVD copy 2: DVD 365; VHS 999:2376; VHS copy 2: 999:139
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- Our Man Flint (1966)
- Directed by Daniel Martin. Cast: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare. Superspy Derek Flint is on a mission to track down the criminal organization known as Galaxy. Special features include commentary by film historians Eddie Friedfeld and Lee Pfeiffer.
When the intelligence agencies of the world find that their agents are being murdered at an alarming rate their leaders all write out the qualities an agent will need to succeed against the terrible crisis they are facing. Derick Flint is the only agent with all the qualities. When attempts on his life are made, Flint begins to search out the mad scientists who want to remake the world after taking over with the aid of their earthquake machine. Based on a story by Hal Fimberg. 108 min. DVD DVD X965
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- Our Man in Havana (UK, 1959)
- Directed by Carol Reed. Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow.
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service to become an unlikely agent in Cuba. As he has nothing to report, he invents facts, pretends to recruit agents and spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle. Based on the novel by Graham Greene. Special features: Original trailer; Martini minutes: "Secrets of seduction" and "How to travel in style." 111 min. DVD X1809
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- Pickup on South Street (1953)
- Directed by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter. Richard Widmark stars as Skip McCoy, thief with a record as a three-time loser. That doesn't stop him from pickpocketing a street-smart beauty who's carrying secret microfilm for a gang of communist spies. DVD 2709; vhs 999:516
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- The Secret Agent (1996)
- Directed by Christopher Hampton. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gerard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, Christian Bale. A quiet English shopkeeper, who's actually a spy for the Russian embassy, faces an unexpected test of allegiance when he's ordered to plant a bomb that will wreak havoc on the British public. 95 min. 999:2215
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- Spione (Spies) (silent, 1928)
- Director, Fritz Lang. Featuring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers. The first "modern" spy film. A power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty. 90 min. DVD 3172; DVD 662; VHS 999:339 (DVD also includes "M" and "Felix the Cat 'All Puzzled'")
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- O'Brien, Geoffrey. "Fritz Lang's 'Spies': Now and Forever." Film Comment v31, n4 (July-August, 1995):66 (4 pages).
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)
- Directed by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker.
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent. Based on the novel by John Le Carré. Special features: Interview with John Le Carré; selected-scene commentary with Oswald Morris; "The secret centre: John Le Carré" (2000), a BBC documentary; 1967 interview with Richard Burton from the BBC series "Acting in the 60s" with film critic Kenneth Tynan; audio conversation from 1985 between Martin Ritt and film historian Patrick McGilligan; gallery of set designs; theatrical trailer; essay by critic Michael Sragow. 112 min. DVD X1608
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- 39 Steps(1959)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft.
A young Canadian, R. Hannay, makes the acquaintance of an international spy. When he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across Scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring. 86 min. DVD 63; vhs 999:275
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- Three Days of the Condor (1975)
- Directed by Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman.
A CIA agent who is on the run from a mass slaughter in his research office suddenly finds himself the target of both his employers and the unknown killers of his associates.
117 min. DVD 9303 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Topaz(1969)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Danny Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Claude Jade, Michel Subor. In this spellbinding espionage thriller an American CIA agent hires a French operative named Deveraeux to go to Cuba and check out rumors of Russian missiles and a NATO spy named Topaz. In Havana his investigations leave behind a wake of shaken governments, murder, betrayal and suicide. But when he returns to France Devereaux's mission, as he moves in to expose the double agent, becomes even more dangerous. 143 min. DVD 745; vhs 999:2530 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- True Lies (1994)
- Directed by James Cameron. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere. Marital problems arise for an international spy, who works for a top-secret government agency while pretending to be a computer salesman. Together he, his wife and their daughter foil the nefarious schemes of Middle Eastern nuclear terrorists and rescue their marriage.141 min. DVD 8422; vhs 999:1929 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseMovie Review Query Engine
- "James Cameron." (Arab-Americans demonstrated against the director's film 'True Lies' because of its negative portrayal of Arabs) (Brief Article) Facts on File v54, n2822 (Dec 31, 1994):1015.
Knights and other Medieval Adventurers
- Aberth, John. A knight at the movies : medieval history on film New York : Routledge, 2003. (MAIN: PN1995.9.M52 A24 2003; PFA : PN1995.9.M52 A24 2003)
Aronstein, Susan Lynn. Hollywood knights : Arthurian cinema and the politics of nostalgia. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
(PFA : PN1995.9.A75 A76 2005; MAIN: MAIN: PN1995.9.A75 A76 2005)
Cinema Arthuriana : twenty essays / edited by Kevin J. Harty. Rev. ed. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2002. (Main Stack PN1995.9.A75.C5 2002)
King Arthur on film : new essays on Arthurian cinema / edited by Kevin J. Harty. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999. (Main Stack PN1995.9.A75.K56 1999; PFA PN1995.9.A75.K56 1999)
Olton, Bert. Arthurian legends on film and television Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2000.
(MAIN: PN1995.9.A75 O48 2000)
Popular Arthurian traditions / edited by Sally K. Slocum. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992. (Main Stack PN57.A6.P6 1992)
Race, class, and gender in "medieval" cinema / edited by Lynn T. Ramey and Tison Pugh. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (Main Stack PN1995.9.M52.R33 2007)
Umland, Rebecca A. The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film : from Connecticut Yankees to fisher kings Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
(MAIN: PN1995.9.A75 U44 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.A75 U44 1996)
- Excalibur(1981)
- Directed by John Boorman. Cast: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Nichol Williamson. A lush retelling of the legend of King Arthur, his Knights of the Round Table and the tale of the mythical sword Excalibur, and its passing from the wizard Merlin to the future king of England. A visually stunning film unflinching in its scenes of combat and black magic. 141 min. DVD X1080; vhs 999:3182
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- Bartone, Richard C. "Variations on Arthurian Legend in Lancelot du Lac and Excalibur." In: Popular Arthurian traditions / edited by Sally K. Slocum.
Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992. (Main Stack PN57.A6.P6 1992)
D'Heur, J. M. "Arthur, Excalibur and the Enchanter Boorman." In: Studia in honorem prof. M. de Riquer. Barcelona : Quaderns Crema, c1986.
(MAIN: PC14.R54 S77 1986)
Grindley, Carl James. "Arms and the Man: The Curious Inaccuracy of Medieval Arms and Armor in Contemporary Film." Film & History, May2006, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p14-19, 6p UC users only
Lacy, Norris J. "Mythopoeia in Excalibur." In: Cinema Arthuriana : essays on Arthurian film / edited by Kevin J. Harty. New York : Garland Pub.,
1991. (Main Stack PN1995.9.A75.C5 1991)
Purdon, Liam O. "Hollywood's Myopic Medievalism: Excalibur and Malory's Morte d'Arthur." In: Popular Arthurian traditions / edited by Sally K. Slocum.
Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992. (Main Stack PN57.A6.P6 1992)
Shichtman, Martin B. "Hollywood's New Weston: The Grail Myth in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and John Boorman's Excalibur." In: The Grail : a casebook / edited with an introduction by Dhira B. Mahoney. (Main Stack PN686.G7.G73 2000)
Whitaker, Muriel. "Fire, Water, Rock: Elements of Setting in Excalibur." In: Cinema Arthuriana : essays on Arthurian film / edited by Kevin J. Harty. New York : Garland Pub., 1991. (Main Stack PN1995.9.A75.C5 1991)
- Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (Ring of the Nibelungs)(Germany / Italy / UK / USA, TV, 2004)
- Directed by Uli Edel. Cast: Benno Furmann, Alicia Witt, Kristanna Loken, Julian Sands, Samuel West.
The son of a simple swordsmith, Siegfried, is actually an orphaned prince and an heir to the throne. To save his kingdom, Siegfried engages in battle and slays an evil dragon that is guarding a cursed ancient and deadly ring. 132 min. DVD 9071
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- El Cid (Italy / USA / UK, 1961)
- Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Genevieve Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond, Hurd Hatfield, Massimo Serato, Herbert Lom, Ralph Truman.
Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, a Castillian knight who has been dubbed El Cid [El Cid Campeador "The Lord Champion"] by his followers, vows to free his country from the invader. This epic tale romanticizes the years of love, warfare, revenge, rivalries, as El Cid becomes a revered warrior. Much of the movie was shot on location in Spain - including the castles of Belmonte (Cuenca) and Peniscola (Castellon). Special features: Disc 1: Feature commentary with Bill Bronston (son of producer) and Neal M. Rosendorf, vintage radio interviews with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, still galleries; filmographies ; Disc 2: "Hollywood conquers Spain: the making of El Cid", "Samuel Bronston: the epic journey of a dreamer", "Behind the camera: Anthony Mann and El Cid", "Miklos Rozsa: maestro of the movies", "Preserving our legacy: Gerry Byrne on film preservation and restoration", trailer gallery. 188 min.DVD 9290
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- First Knight(1995)
- Directed by Jerry Zucker. Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross. This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of battles, courage, and of the undeniable love that brought an entire kingdom to its knees ... and the undying passion that made it live forever. 133 min. DVD 1009
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- Haydock, Nickolas A. "Arthurian Melodrama, Chaucerian Spectacle, and the Waywardness of Cinematic Pastiche in First Knight and A Knight's Tale." Studies in Medievalism, vol. 12, pp. 5-38, 2002.
Jenkins, Jacqueline. "First Knights and Common Men: Masculinity in American Arthurian Film." In: King Arthur on film : new essays on Arthurian cinema / edited by Kevin J. Harty. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999. (Main Stack PN1995.9.A75.K56 1999; PFA PN1995.9.A75.K56 1999)
Jewers, Caroline. "Hard Days Knights: First Knight, A Knight's Tale, and Black Knight." In: The medieval hero on screen : representations from Beowulf to Buffy / edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray ; with a foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland,
c2004. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H44.M44 2004; PFA PN1995.9.H44.M44 2004)
- Ivanhoe (UK / USA, 1952)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams. A vivid adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages. The story follows one brave knight's attempt to restore Richard The Lion-Hearted to the throne stolen by his evil brother, Prince John. The action is full scale and vigorous, boasting some of the most spectacular fighting sequences ever filmed with authentic jousting scenes. 107 min. DVD X1477; vhs 999:3191
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- Kilpi, Harri. "'When Knighthood Was in Flower': Ivanhoe in Austerity Britain." Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, vol. 7, pp. (no pagination), February 2007
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Directed by Ridley Scott. Cast: Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, Eva Green, Martin Hancock, Michael Sheen, Nathalie Cox, Eriq Ebouaney, Jouko Ahola, David Thewlis. Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight. 144 min. DVD 4488
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- A Knight's Tale (2003)
- Director, Brian Helgeland. Cast: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser, Christopher Cazenove, Berenice Bejo, James Purefoy. A peasant squire breaks all the rules when he passes himself off as a nobleman and takes the jousting world by storm. The only thing that stands between him and his dream of becoming the world champion is the bad boy of the sport Count Adhemar. The two rivals go lance to head at the world finals to determine who will be named the ultimate champion. 132 min. DVD 1008
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- Forni, Kathleen. "Reinventing Chaucer: Helgeland's A Knight's Tale." Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 253-64, 2003.
Haydock, Nickolas A. "Arthurian Melodrama, Chaucerian Spectacle, and the Waywardness of Cinematic Pastiche in First Knight and A Knight's Tale." Studies in Medievalism, vol. 12, pp. 5-38, 2002.
Jewers, Caroline. "Hard Days Knights: First Knight, A Knight's Tale, and Black Knight." In: The medieval hero on screen : representations from Beowulf to Buffy / edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray ; with a foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland,
c2004. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H44.M44 2004; PFA PN1995.9.H44.M44 2004)
Toumarkine, Doris. "A Screenwriter's Tale: Brian Helgeland Gets Medieval with Story of Jousting Champ." Film Journal International, vol. 104, no. 5, pp. 14-16, 68, May 2001.
- Knives of the avenger (I coltelli del vendicatore) (Italy, 1966)
- Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Elissa Pichelli, Fausto Tozzi, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Luciano Pollentin, Amedeo Trilli.
Described as an Italian Viking film, or a Viking Western, this is a story of a mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior who protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself. 85 min. DVD 7574
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- Lancelot of the Lake (Lancelot du Lac) (1974)
- Directed by Robert Bresson. Set in the last days of the doomed quest by Lancelot and the rest of King Arthur's knights for the Holy Grail, this is a tale of the end of the age of chivalry and the death of a dream. 80 min. DVD 2755; vhs 999:1206
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- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
- Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in this hysterical, historical tour-de-farce. Watch as the knights wage battle against the fierce Killer Rabbit. Can they pass the test of valor and cut down yon tree with herring? Or will they blow themselves to smithereens with the Holy Hand Grenade? 92 min. DVD 503Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Perceval le Gallois (1978)
- Directed by Eric Rohmer. A stylized film adaptation of Chretien de Troyes' 12th century Arthurian romance about Perceval of Wales, who leaves his widowed mother to become a knight. Once knighted by King Arthur, the naive and selfish Perceval must learn how to be a true knight. 140 min. 999:3190Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The 13th Warrior (1999)
- Directed by John McTiernan. Cast: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif. In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn Fadlan is appalled by the Vikings customs-- their wanton sexuality, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. And then he learns the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that slaughters the Vikings and devours their flesh. 103 min. DVD 5842; vhs 999:3632 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Vikings(1958)
- Directed by Richard Fleischer. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox.
The saga of the loves and lusts of the fierce Norse raiders who pillaged Britain over a thousand years ago. 116 min. DVD 5843
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- Beau Geste(1939)
- Directed by William Wellman. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, J. Carrol Naish, Donal O'Connor, James Stephenson.
Beau Geste and his two brothers join the Foreign Legion after their family's Blue Water sapphire disappears.
114 min. DVD 4754; vhs Video/C 999:752
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- Charge of the Light Brigade(1968)
- Directed by Tony Richardson. Cast: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings, Ben Aris.
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. The battle climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgement and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders. Based on the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. 131 min. DVD 9991 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Charge of the Light Brigade(1936)
- Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, Robert Barrat.
The events that instigated British involvement in the Crimean War are vividly painted against the rugged canvas of battle-scarred India. An army officer deliberately starts the Balaclava charge to even an old score with Surat Khan, who's on the other side. Based on the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson and inspired by history.
Special features: Warner night at the movies 1936 short subjects gallery: vintage newsreel; dramatic short "Give me Liberty"; comedy short, "Shop Talk with Bob Hope"; cartoon, "Boom Boom" ; trailers for Charge of the light bigade, and, 1936's Anthony Adverse. 115 min. DVD 8051 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Slotkin, Richard. "The Continuity of Forms: Myth and Genre in Warner Brothers' The Charge of the Light Brigade." Representations, vol. 29, pp. 1-23, January 1990 UC users only
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912)
- Directed by J. Searle Dawley. Cast: James Gordon, Richard Neill, Charles Sutton, Ben F. Wilson and the soldiers of the U.S. Calvary from Fort D.A. Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyoming. The third in a series of rare silent films from the early film-making period of 1911-1915. Retelling of the famous incident in the 1854 Crimean War when a British cavalry unit, because of a mix-up in orders, charged an almost impregnable Russian artillery position and was decimated. 93 min. DVD 8450
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- The Dawn Patrol (1938)
- Director, Edmund Goulding. Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp. Two British fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps stationed in France during World War I face the grim realities of war, and learn a great deal about friendship, heroism and patriotism in the process. DVD special features: Warner night at the movies 1938 short subjects gallery: vintage newsreel ; musical shorts The Prisoner of Swing, and, Romance Road; classic cartoon What Price Porky? -- Trailers for Dawn Patrol, and, Four's a Crowd. 103 min. DVD 8052; vhs 999:3215
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- The Four Feathers(USA / UK, 2002)
- Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Cast: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kris Marshall. After an admired British soldier stationed in Sudan leaves his regiment in disgrace, he sets out on a sweeping adventure to regain his honor, recapture his love and save the life of his best friend. 130 min. DVD 3325
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- Gunga Din(1939)
- Directed by George Stevens. Cast: Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine.
Adventure story of three English soldier comrades battling the savage punjabs in India, and their lowly water-bearer, Gunga Din, who longs to be a soldier. Based on Rudyard Kipling's poem, Gunga Din. Special DVD features: Commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer; making of documentary on location with Gunga Din; 1939 theatrical trailer; 1957 re-release trailer; Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon: The Film Fan. 117 min. DVD 8900; vhs 999:784 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Jacobs, Lea. "The B film and the problem of cultural distinction." Screen; 1992, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p1-13, 13p
Jaher, Frederic Cople; Kling, Blair B.
"Hollywood's India: The Meaning of RKO's "Gunga Din"."
Film & History 38:2 (Fall 2008) p. 33-44 UC users only
Thronley, Davinia. "Conceptions of Empire: Three Colonial War Films." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 107-17, Spring 2004UC users only
- Horatio Hornblower(TV, 1998)
- Directed by Andrew Grieve. Cast: Ioan Gruffud, Robert Lindsay, Dorian Healy, Michael Byrne, Robert Bathurst. A television miniseries based on Forester's novels of Horatio Hornblower, following his career from a reticent midshipman to a self-assured and courageous officer. Based on the Hornblower books by C.S. Forester. 13 hrs., 20 min. DVD 5050
- [Captain] Horatio Hornblower(1951)
- Directed by Raoul Walsh. Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, Stanley Baker, Christopher Lee.
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleanic Era, and outthought, outmanouvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman! Based on the Hornblower books by C.S. Forester. Special features: Vintage Oscar nominated short "My country 'tis of thee"; classic cartoon "Caption Hareblower"; audio-only bonus: radio show adaptation with Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo; theatrical trailer. 117 min. DVD 7370
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- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
- Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith. Always outnumbered. Never outfought. Follow Gary Cooper as the leader of the Bengal Lancers in their courageous quest to protect British India's Northwest Frontier from Islamic invaders. 110 min. DVD 4754 Credit and other information from Internet Movie Database
- Guha, Ranajit. "Not at Home in Empire." Critical Inquiry, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 482-93, Spring 1997UC users only
Thomas, Tony. "Lives of a Bengal Lancer." In: The great adventure films Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, c1976. (PFA PN1995.9.A3.T5 1976)
- The Lost Patrol (1934)
- Directed by John Ford. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, J.M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan. A tense drama about British cavalryman lost in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I who are pursued constantly by Arab sharpshooters. When the leader of the patrol is killed, McLaglen takes charge of the eleven ragged survivors. This film established John Ford's reputation as a director internationally. 72 min. DVD 5643 Credit and other information from Internet Movie Database
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
- Directed by Peter Weir. Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin, Max Pirkis, Jack Randall, Max Benitz, Lee Ingleby. During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain's friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. 138 min. DVD 4633
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- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Directed by Frank Lloyd. Cast: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Herbert Hundin, Eddie Quillan, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp. The time is in the late 1700's and Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on the high seas against the tyrannical disciplinarian Capt. Bligh when the underfed overflogged sailors can no longer take the brutality. DVD Special features: "Pitcairn Island today"--1935 MGM short; 'Mutiny on the Bounty' wins 1935 Academy Award (1936 newsreel); theatrical trailers. 133 min. DVD 4631; vhs 999:600 Credit and other information from Internet Movie Database
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- Directed by Lewis Milestone. Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn, Tarita, Percy Herbert. In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise--and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country. Special features: Alternate prologue and epilogue sequences not seen theatrically; New featurette "After the cameras stopped rolling: the journey of the Bounty"; 4 vintage featurettes: "Story of the HMS Bounty", "Voyage of the Bounty to St. Petersburg", "Tour of the Bounty", "1964 New York World's Fair promo"; New digital transfer from restored 65mm elements; Marlon Brando movies trailer gallery. 185 min. DVD 8107
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- Sahara (1943)
- Directed by Zoltan Korda. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Dan Duryea, Rex Ingram. Stranded in the African desert during World War II Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are all desperately in need of water. Filmed during World War II, this film was intended to be a propaganda piece for the U.S. government. 98 min. DVD 5875; vhs 999:3822
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- Three Kings (1999)
- Directed by David O. Russell. Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy, Mykelti Williamson, Cliff Curtis, Said Taghmaoui. Absurdly comic high kinetic tale set after the end of the Gulf War, when three American soldiers go off into the Iraqi desert to find millions in stolen Kuwait bullion and become involved in a democratic uprising. 115 min. DVD 573 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Zulu (1965)
- Directed by Cy Endfield. Cast: Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green; forward narrated by Richard Burton. In this drama based on the Zulu War of 1879 a handful of British engineers entrench themselves in an isolated outpost in Natal called Rorke's Drift and prepare to face a series of vicious assaults by more than 4,000 Zulu warriors. 139 min. 999:2721
- Zulu Dawn (USA / South Africa / Netherlands, 1979)
- Directed by Douglas Hickox. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Sir John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Anna Calder-Marshall, Ronald Pickup, Bob Hoskins.
This prequel to the motion picture "Zulu" recounts the true story of the defeat of the British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army. 113 min. DVD 9670
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