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In 1943, a lead platoon of the Texas Division lands near Salerno, Italy, and pushes inland toward a farmhouse and a bridge six miles away. With its officers dead and Sergeant Porter cracking under the strain, Sergeant Tyne takes command and leads the men through sniper fire, patrols and doubt toward their objective.

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Product Description Battle of the Bulge (BD) Amazon.com The German offensive in December 1944 became the basis for this all-star Hollywood take on the Battle of the Bulge. Henry Fonda is an officer who predicts the assault, Robert Ryan and Dana Andrews are Army brass skeptical of his intuitions, and Robert Shaw (his hair dyed yellow and his eyes glinting with malice) is a German officer leading the tank attack. Shaw is certainly the most compelling thing about the film, especially in his philosophical debates with ambivalent underling Hans Christian Blech. Elsewhere, the movie jumps around to sidebar stories (cowardly James MacArthur becomes a leader, wheeler-dealer Telly Savalas falls in love) while messing around with the historical facts of the battle. There are interesting episodes, such as the Malmedy massacre of American POWs and the Germans' use of English-speaking spies, but overall Battle of the Bulge has the feeling of having been patched together from different scripts. On the physical level the movie comes up short, with the Spanish locations rarely suggesting the wintry misery of the battle, and the use of models and studio sets highly inadequate. A number of war films from this era are compelling on their own terms, but in the wake of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, this one looks antique. --Robert Horton

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After director Fritz Lang vaulted to prominence with such masterpieces of German cinema as Metropolis and M, he brought his art to Hollywood films, including Fury, Ministry of Fear, The Woman in the Window and more trenchant tales of innocents caught in a web of seeming guilt. His last U.S. movie is this intriguing film noir about a novelist (Dana Andrews) out to expose the injustices of capital punishment. Working with his fiancee's (Joan Fontaine) father, a newspaper publisher (Sidney Blackmer), he frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost and that's only the first twist in a brilliantly layered plot ideally suited to Lang's talents.

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From Jacques Tourneur, the legendary director of Out of the Past, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Flame and the Arrow, comes this visually stunning actioner that combines all the elements of the classic western: gunfights, barroom brawls, gambling, gold prospecting, Indian attacks, romance and the great outdoors. Among the pioneers of the untamed Oregon Territory of the 1850s are pack-mule express owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews, The Ox-Bow Incident), light-fingered banker/gambler George Camrose (Brian Donlevy, The Great McGinty), Camrose’s fiancée Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward, Rawhide), a villainous outlaw named Honey Bragg (Ward Bond, Singing Guns) and gunfighter Johnny Steele (Lloyd Bridges, Wichita), the friend of a man Camrose has killed. Hoagy Carmichael (To Have and Have Not) with mule and mandolin meanders through the action, singing four of his hit songs, including “Ole Buttermilk Sky.” These vibrant characters collide in Tourneur’s rich Technicolor panorama of frontier life.

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A commercial artist torn between two men — a married attorney she loves and an unmarried veteran — lands in a dangerous love triangle when she marries the veteran.

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From Ted Post, the acclaimed director of Hang ’Em High, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Magnum Force, Go Tell the Spartans and Nightkill, comes the explosive martial arts classic Good Guys Wear Black. In the role that launched him into stardom, the legendary Chuck Norris (A Force of One, Code of Silence) is John T. Booker, an ex-Vietnam commando whose war actions have landed him at the top of the CIA’s hit list. Aided by a beautiful Senate investigator (Anne Archer, Narrow Margin), Booker unravels a devious scheme of treachery and intrigue in this stunt-filled, action-packed thriller, filmed against the backgrounds of championship auto racing, the ski slopes of Squaw Valley and the backrooms of Washington, D.C. Co-starring James Franciscus (The Greek Tycoon), Lloyd Haynes (The Greatest), Dana Andrews (The Satan Bug), Jim Backus (TV’s Gilligan’s Island), Soon-Tek Oh (Missing in Action 2) and featuring the first screen appearance by Norris’ brother Aaron Norris (Lone Wolf McQuade). Special Features: -Brand New 2K Master -NEW Audio Commentary by Action Film Historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema -The Making of GOOD GUYS WEAR BLACK (8:34) -Interview with Director Ted Post (19:14) -TV Spot -2 Radio Spots -Theatrical Trailer -Optional English Subtitles

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A police detective investigating the murder of a beautiful society woman becomes obsessed with her as he studies her portrait and reconstructs her life, falling in love with the dead woman.

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Stalwart "noir" directors and casts highlight these hard to find features"Address Unknown" (1944) dir/William Cameron Menzies, cst/Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck; "Escape in the Fog" (1945) dir/Oscar (Budd) Boetticher cst/Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright; "The Guilt of Janet James" (1947) dir/Henry Levin cst/Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar; "The Black Book" (aka "The Reign of Terror") (1949) dir/Anthony Mann cst/Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl; "Johnny Allegro" (1949) dir/Ted Tetzlaff cst/George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready; "711 Ocean Drive" (1950) dir/Joseph M. Newman cst/Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger; "The Killer That Stalked New York" (1950) dir/Earl McEvoy cst/Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop; "Assignment Paris" (1952) dir/Earl McEvoy cst/Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders; "The Miami Story" (1954) dir/Fred F. Sears cst/Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer - all in high definition presented in their original aspect ratios

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Stalwart noir directors and casts highlight these hard to find featuresAddress Unknown (1944) dir/William Cameron Menzies, cst/Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck; Escape in the Fog (1945) dir/Oscar (Budd) Boetticher cst/Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright; The Guilt of Janet James (1947) dir/Henry Levin cst/Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar; The Black Book (aka The Reign of Terror) (1949) dir/Anthony Mann cst/Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl; Johnny Allegro (1949) dir/Ted Tetzlaff cst/George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready; 711 Ocean Drive (1950) dir/Joseph M. Newman cst/Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger; The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) dir/Earl McEvoy cst/Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop; Assignment Paris (1952) dir/Earl McEvoy cst/Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders; The Miami Story (1954) dir/Fred F. Sears cst/Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer - all in high definition presented in their original aspect ratios.

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Stalwart noir directors and casts highlight these hard to find featuresAddress Unknown (1944) dir/William Cameron Menzies, cst/Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck; Escape in the Fog (1945) dir/Oscar (Budd) Boetticher cst/Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright; The Guilt of Janet James (1947) dir/Henry Levin cst/Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar; The Black Book (aka The Reign of Terror) (1949) dir/Anthony Mann cst/Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl; Johnny Allegro (1949) dir/Ted Tetzlaff cst/George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready; 711 Ocean Drive (1950) dir/Joseph M. Newman cst/Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger; The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) dir/Earl McEvoy cst/Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop; Assignment Paris (1952) dir/Earl McEvoy cst/Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders; The Miami Story (1954) dir/Fred F. Sears cst/Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer - all in high definition presented in their original aspect ratios.

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Two drifters passing through a Western town are swept into a posse formed when news arrives that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The posse finds three men in possession of the cattle and is determined to see justice done on the spot.

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Two drifters passing through a Western town join the posse that forms when word arrives that a local rancher has been murdered and his cattle stolen; when the posse finds three men in possession of the cattle, it is determined to see justice done on the spot rather than wait for the law.

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A robbery at a secret germ-warfare lab nets the thieves a supply of botulinus and a flask of the 'Satan Bug', a virus that could end all life on the planet. Recalled to duty, operative Lee Barrett races to recover the flasks before the extortionist holding them makes good on his threat.

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A violent detective tries to cover up an accidental killing and becomes ensnared in guilt and suspicion.

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“Ask mother,” says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene, written by an unidentified serial killer who preys on women. It’s a sensational story — if it bleeds, it leads — and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to any high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer. Fritz Lang (The Big Heat), whose early career expressionist works would strongly influence the film-noir genre, directs this stylistically understated noir that features an abundance of starpower rare for the genre: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino and other notables.