Montgomery Clift
Author
Formats
Description
Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, 1953
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
5) Red river
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Thomas Dunson, a tyrannical Texas rancher, is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
6) The heiress
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1949
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
"****!"--USA Today
7) Red River
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
HPL: And the Winner is...Oscar Winners and Nominees
Soldiers' Stories on Film (Bedford)
WML Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
HPL: And the Winner is...Oscar Winners and Nominees
Soldiers' Stories on Film (Bedford)
WML Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
10) Wild river
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Montgomery Clift stars as a government agent who must evacuate a small town to make way for a new dam. When an elderly matriarch refuses to leave, Chuck Glover falls in love with her granddaughter, played by Lee Remick.
11) The misfits
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
12) The young lions
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The story of World War II from the American and the German perspectives.
Publisher
Dreamline
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Beat the devil: Four international crooks are stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dunnreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.
The big lift: In 1948, the Soviet Union brings the entire city of Berlin under their control. A semi-documentary about the resulting...
15) The Young lions
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The story of World War II from the American and the German perspectives.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The desert rats: A small group of men hold off German Field Marshal Rommel's forces despite being outnumbered. Twelve o'clock high: A brigadier general takes over a struggling Air Force bomber group during World War II. Von Ryan's express: An escaped prisoner of war races for freedom with Nazi soldiers in hot pursuit. The young lions: A decent young German man ends up as a Nazi officer.
