Robert Rossen
Publisher
Columbia Pictures/Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the 1916 war against Pancho Villa, Thomas Thorn, a career Army officer, is given the task of leading five Medal of Honor candidates to the military base of Cordura, Texas. Branded a coward during battle, Thorn hopes to learn what these men possess which he lacks. As the journey through the desert progresses, the "heroes" panic, attempting murder, mutiny and rape as the quest for survival reveals their true characters.
2) Marked woman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict a gang of racketeers, its czar, and his underlings.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Working-class dreamers Jonah and Olaf fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter, a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder.
5) The sea wolf
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Wolf Larsen is the tyrannical captain of a freighter, who would rather "reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." He lords over a roughneck recruit, two castaways and his crew in a cruel manner.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. 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.
8) The hustler
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
New York. Ames Billiards, with high ceilings and air of hushed concentration, is a church of pool. "Fast" Eddie Felson enters as an innocent con man and leaves with a taste of what the world can do, that talent alone will only get him so far, and that a man's search for "character," that hard-to-define quality that is simultaneously elusive and essential, could last a lifetime. Having come to take on pool legend Minnesota Fats, Eddie is soundly beaten...