Jack Warner
1) Maneater
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Language
English
Description
Most hunts end in a death. This hunt begins with one--Lanelle Jackson's. A wild tiger has escaped its cargo truck and now roams the dense forests of the Appalachian Mountains. When deer and wild boar run out, the tiger turns its growing hunger towards man. Now it has a taste for easy prey. With a body-count on the rise and the media coming in, Sheriff Grady Brickhouse calls upon Jim Graham, a tiger hunter trained in India to end the man-eater's killing...
2) Jigsaw
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation, methodically following up leads and clues.
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Series
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM (1954): In Lewis Gilbert's memorable and gripping WWII saga, four Allied men struggle to survive in a lifeboat on the North Sea after their plane is shot down. One of the men carries secret documents that can save London from Nazi destruction. In a daring race against time, will their rescuers save them before Nazi U-boats, stormy seas, exposure, and enemy-mined waters kill them? ALBERT R.N. (1953): In this World War II...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Professor Marcus arrives to take lodgings at the home of delicate Mrs. Wilberforce. By evening he is visited by four friends, as weird and sinister as Marcus himself. So assembles the ugliest set of criminals one could wish to meet. They explain to the unsuspecting lady that they are members of a string quartet meeting to rehearse. The rehearsing, in fact, is for an armed robbery. The robbery over, Mrs. Wilberforce discovers the truth. Therefore she...
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English
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Description
An immensely popular British crime film, THE BLUE LAMP was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B. Clarke (The Lavender Hill Mob) and directed by the great Basil Dearden (Dead of Night). This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. A veteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde, The Mind Benders) and Spud (Patric Doonan, The Man in the White Suit). Rookie cop Andy Mitchell...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
English
Description
Googie Withers stars as Rose Sandigate, a Bethnal Green housewife whose Sunday is turned upside down by the re-appearance of an old flame who is now an escaped convict seeking protection from the police. IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY shares rare glimpse into life in London's East End post WWII. *"The drama is managed without condescension and with enormous skill." - Peter Bradshaw, **Guardian*** *"Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the...
8) High Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
This film was made at the height of the Great Depression when it was popular to attack Capitalism and America's free market economy. But this film shows how Capitalism can be fun and how the free market creates new jobs. Mr. A plays a shoe manufacturing tycoon who sees his chance to take over a rival's business. Complications ensue and Mr. A ends up competing with his own company.
10) Virginia City
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four hours out of San Francisco, submarine captain Cassidy unseals his top-secret orders and reads two fateful words: Destination Tokyo. Set during the second World War, depicts the story of a submarine and its crew as they sail to Tokyo, Japan to sink Japanese warships.
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Language
English
Description
In an age of legends and glamour Jack Warner reigned supreme. From humble beginnings, he and his brothers founded Warner Bros. studios. For over fifty years he held the crown made movie history-from flickering silents to wide-screen color epics. An insider's account of the man that Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and Bugs Bunny called "boss."