Director: D. W. Griffith. Cast: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Helen Freeman, Henry B. Walthall, Frank Campeau, Hobart Bosworth, Jason Robards Sr., Francis Ford. Description: A dignified but forceful performance by Walter Huston in the title role distinguishes this otherwise stodgy biopic, which documents Lincoln's life from birth through assassination, including his alleged affair with Ann Rutledge, his early lawyer days, the decision to declare war on the south, and more. D. W. Griffith's first sound film. Produced by Griffith and Joseph M. Schenck. Written by Stephen Vincent Benet. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 97 mins. Item #2286 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: J. Walter Ruben Cast: Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan, Theodore Newton, Ralph Bellamy, William Cagney, Frank Conroy, Nella Walker, Anderson Lawlor, Joe Sauers, Arthur Jarrett. Description: Out to prove his bravery, an American sculptor becomes a pilot in France during WWI and undergoes a complete personality change. Though set in WWI, all of Elizabeth Allan's clothing and hairstyles are strictly 1933, the year the film was produced. Some flying sequences incorporate footage from Howard Hughes's 1930 film, Hell's Angels. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 76 mins. Item #5119 $14.99Format: VHS Format: VHS Unit
Director: William H. Pine. Cast: Chester Morris, Richard Arlen, Lita Ward, James "Jimmy" Lydon, Dick Purcell, William "Billy" Benedict, Robert Mitchum, Jeff Corey, Barbara Pepper. Description: Fast-moving B film reunites frequent co-stars Chester Morris and Dick Arlen. While recuperating from injuries, an Air Force pilot thinks back to his recruitment before the war, and to the mission that landed him in the hospital. Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 78 mins. Item #3426 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Charles Crichton. Cast: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis, Andre Morell. Description: Exciting, well-mounted war film. Specially trained British spies parachute into Nazi-occupied Belgium to destroy a records office. When a member of the group is captured, a retrieval is planned, but one of the rescuers is a traitor. Produced by Michael Balcon. Written by T.E.B. Clarke and J. Elder Wills. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 96 mins. Item #1525 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Robert Barrat, Tommy Cook, Jack Elam, Tom Ewell, Robert Patten, Tyrone Power, Micheline Prelle (aka Micheline Presle), Juan Torena. Description: An American naval officer (Power) leads a guerilla band of American soldiers stranded in the Philippines against Japanese invaders in this historical WWII drama directed by Fritz Lang and based a novel by Ira Wolfert. The officer develops an interest in the French widow (Prelle) of a colonial plantation owner. Robert Barrat plays a convincing Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Filmed entirely in the Philippines. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 105 mins. Item #3778 On Sale!Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $13.99 (was $14.99) DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: George More O'Ferrall. Cast: Jack Hawkins, John Gregson, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq, Veronica Hurst, Geoffrey Keen. Description: Well-made WWII drama focusing on the "Battle of Britain" follows a rookie pilot who joins the Royal Air Force to fight against the German Luftwaffe. Produced by John W. Gossage and Derek N. Twist. Written by Derek N. Twist. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 97 mins. Item #2333 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Philip Leacock. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dinah Sheridan, Bryan Forbes, Ian Hunter, Bill Kerr, Anne Leon, William Sylvester, Michael Ripper. Description: Hotshot flyer, determined to make 90 bomb runs before being consigned desk duty, is grounded after his 89th by his commander. When another flyer is wounded, he goes against orders and takes the injured man's place. Produced by Aubrey Baring and Maxwell Setton. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 96 mins. Item #3417 Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $14.99 DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: Waris Hussein Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence, Joyce Blair, Richard Pasco, Alexander Davion. Description: Paris on the eve of World War II. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) has the misfortune of meeting a mysterious woman (Lesley Anne Down) who will soon penetrate his heart and mind in ways he has not imagined. Providing safe haven for hundreds of Jews, will Dr. Ravic's love for this mysterious woman jeopardize all he has worked for and the lives he has saved? With the Nazis closing in, the fate of the innocent lies in the hands of Dr. Ravic. Remake of Arch of Triumph (1948). Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 95 mins. Item #5280 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Carlos Vander Tolosa, William H. Jansen Cast: Linda Estrella, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Teddy Benavides, Bimbo Danao, Mona Lisa, Fernando Royo. Description: War at it's most raw and savage. Detailed docu-drama depicting the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Watch as the everyday Filipinos band together and combat the invading forces of the Japanese. The systematic torture and rape of the innocent shown here to preserve a part of history that todays world has forgotten. Originally released as Outrages of The Orient and presented here under it's re-release title Atrocities of The Orient. English and Filipino Language Version. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 80 mins. Item #5247 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Giuseppe De Santis Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenoko, Peter Falk, Tatyana Samojlova, Raffaele Pisu, Valeri Somov, Nino Vingelli. Description: World War II, The Good People of Italy are betrayed by the Germans and deserted on the battlefield against the unstopable forces of The Soviet Union. Outnumbered and outgunned the Italian forces take a heroic last stand against the Soviets in an attempt to overthrow there enemies and turn the tide of the war in favor of the Axis. Heroism is tested on a bloodstained battlefield. Hell on earth as all hope is swallowed alive and the giant war machine marches on. English Language Version. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 140 mins. Item #5248 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: James A. Fitzpatrick. Cast: Andrew Cruickshank, Christine Adrian, Richard Ross, Doris Palette, Marian Spencer, Malcolm Graham, Jenny Laird. Description: Sincere but ingenuous biopic about Robert Burns, a Scottish poet who was regarded as a lazy good-for-nothing because he spent his time writing instead of breaking his back in the fields. Produced by James A. Fitzpatrick. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 72 mins. Item #3271 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: David MacDonald. Cast: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood, Sonia Holm, Linden Travers, Ernest Thesiger, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Archie Duncan. Description: On his death bed, George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, recalls his licentious ways, dreaming that he is pleading a case for his life in a heavenly court. Was he hero, genius, libertine--or all three? Decide for yourself after seeing the film. Produced by Aubrey Baring. Co-written by Terence Young. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 83 mins. Item #1696 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Adrian Brunel, Albert de Courville, Alexis Granowsky. Cast: Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey, Joan Gardner, Patricia Roc, Frederick Culley, Joe Cunningham, Charles Farrell. Description: Actually an English-language version of a 1936 French film, "Barbarian and the Lady" features a surfeit of sweeping action and grandeur. Sixteenth-century Ukraine is the setting, with the Cossacks being ruled by Poland. Rebellious son of Cossack leader Tarass Boulba travels to enemy territory in order to study them and learn how to defeat them in battle. Unfortunately, he begins to fall in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman. Produced by Charles David and E.C. Molinier. Written by Adrian Brunel. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 88 mins. Item #1184 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Umberto Lenzi (as Humphrey Longan) Cast: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Ray Lovelock, Edwige Fenech, Henry Fonda, Aldo Barberito, Rik Battaglia, Andrea Bosic, Michele Soavi. Narrated by Orson Welles. Description: An epic World War II film, depicting both sides of the battlefield in all it's suffering, glory and humanity. The stories and lives of both a family from Germany and a family from America are told as fathers and sons from both families are away fighting the second world war. A stellar all star cast with narration by Orson Welles and directed by the versatile Umberto Lenzi (credited as Humphrey Logan). English language version. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 97 mins. Item #5338 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Abel Gance. Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Leslie Caron, Vittorio De Sica, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Jean Marais, Pierre Mondy, Jack Palance, Orson Welles. Description: This colorful, extravagant sequel to Abel Gance's 1927 historical masterpiece "Napoleon" chronicles events leading up to the battle between Napoleon and the Austrian/Russian army. English dubbed. Produced by Alexander Salkind. Co-written by Abel Gance. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 118 mins. Item #3953 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Joel Rapp. Cast: Richard Devon, Ron Kennedy. Description: Two American GIs, a Christian and a Jew, are trapped by the Japanese on a small Pacific island. The two must overcome prejudice and work together to get off the island, which is scheduled for an atomic bomb test. Produced by Stan Bickman. Written by Joel Rapp. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 64 mins. Item #1239 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Calvin Jackson Padget (Giorgio Ferroni). Cast: Frederick Stafford, Ettore Manni, Robert Hossein, Michael Rennie, George Hilton, Ira Furstenberg. Description: This World War II yarn has plenty of action and an unusual point of view: a dramatization of the 1942 clashes between Axis forces and English battalions in the North African desert, it makes bad guys of the British and celebrates the Italians, who are depicted as uneasy allies of the Nazis. The show is stolen by the bravura performances of Hossein as General Rommel and Rennie as Field Marshal Montgomery. A must-see for fans of war movies. English Language Version. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 96 mins. Item #5337 $14.99Format: VHS Format: VHS Unit
Director: Felix E. Feist. Cast: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott, Lon Chaney Jr., Berry Kroeger, Roy Roberts, Katherine Warren. Description: An reasonably accurate account of an 18th-century white scout's attempts to promote a peace treaty between English Colonials and the Ottawa tribe, led by Chief Pontiac. Solid performance for former Tarzan Lex Barker. Produced by Irving Starr. Written by Jack De Witt. Music by Elmer Bernstein. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 75 mins. Item #3218 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Basil Dearden. Cast: Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Mervyn Johns, Philip Friend, Philippa Hiatt, William Hartnell, Finlay Currie. Narrated by Leo Genn. Description: Set in London's East End, this tragi-comedy tells the story of the Auxiliary Fire Service, a group of ordinary firefighters whose dangerous job is to keep the fires at bay during the WWII blitz. Fairly authentic yarn of wartime comraderie benefits from solid performances. Produced by Michael Balcon. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 89 mins. Item #3401 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: John S. Robertson, Edward H. Griffith. Cast: William Boyd, Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Lew Cody, Marion Shilling. Description: A tragic war of men forced to survive and those who were left behind. Four soldiers recollect the moments of their lives during the harrowing battle they chose to participate in. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 70 mins. Item #5391 $14.99Format: VHS Unit