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LEWIS MILESTONE, ACADEMY AWARD ® BEST DIRECTOR WINNER FOR ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) DIRECTS THIS COMPELLING DRAMA OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN COMBAT DURING THE ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY IN SEPTEMBER 1943. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, and Norman Lloyd head a stellar ensemble cast comprising the lead platoon of Texas Division of the U.S. Fifth Army. This eclectic group of citizen-soldiers are thrust into a life-or-death mission to blow up an enemy bridge while attempting to capture a strategic farmhouse heavily garrisoned by German troops. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress. Who will rise to the occasion or crumble under pressure? Robert Rossen's literate script dramatizes the narrative from the perspective of the infantryman whose mundane routine of service-related ennui is interspersed with heart-pulsing action amid the ever-present specter of sudden death. Once seen, it is never to be forgotten. The superb camera work by six-time Academy Award ® nominee Russell Harlan is supported by the titular ballad written by Millard Lampell and Earl Robinson and performed by renowned African-American operatic singer Kenneth Spencer. A Walk in the Sun was named as one of the year's top films by the National Board of Review, was nominated for Best Film by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was added to the National Film Registry in 2016 for its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance. Once seen, it is never to be forgotten. DISC 1 - BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: 4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm photochemical restoration Commentary by Alan K. Rode DISC 2 - DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox Living History: Norman Lloyd on Saboteur and A Walk in the Sun (2014) The Battle of San Pietro - Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels Theatrical Trailer

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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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On the brink of the First World War, fifteen-year-old Anka is sent from her Slovakian village to work as a maid in a wealthy Prague household. Once there, the insecure newcomer is charged with looking after Resi, the family’s difficult daughter, enduring episode after episode of cruelty and humiliation at her hand. Soon, Anka begins to see cracks in Resi’s tough surface, uncovering hidden family secrets. As war shatters the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the two women find solace in each other amid a world ruled by patriarchy and conflict, forging an intimate bond simmering with love and desire which transcends the two women’s class divide. Bonus Features: 1. Making of featurette 2. Booklet with essay by film critic Nadine Whitney Top Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews Chambermaid [Blu-ray] Chambermaid

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film in 4K, an audio commentary by Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth, author of Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi, and the trailer. Sheila Morris hires Vietnam veteran Mark Butler to help find her sister Diana, who has vanished into the jungles of New Guinea after joining a religious cult. Their search leads them to the sect's jungle compound, where the charismatic leader Jonas holds his followers in thrall with ritual, drugs and terror. Between the fanatical cultists and the cannibal tribes haunting the surrounding jungle, Sheila and Mark face a rescue mission that may cost them their own lives.

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