Golden Years Collection (1939) (Blu-ray) p {margin:.5em 0 .5em 0} 1939 was the Golden Year of Cinema – often described as “the greatest year in the history of Hollywood”. Hollywood movies produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age and the year 1939 saw the premieres of an outstandingly large …
True Grit (1969) (BD)In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life perfo rmance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marsh all, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murder ed her father and fled with the family savings. When …
Gold in the hills, avarice in the hearts of men. Two hard-luck drifters (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) and a grizzled prospector (Walter Huston) discover gold. Then greed and paranoia set in. John Huston won Academy Awards for his direction and screenplay. And his dad took the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Without awards, but with enduring acclaim, is …
A visionary critique of American expansionism, Heaven’s Gate, directed by Oscar winner Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter), is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star) brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who has relocated all the way to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned …
Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the first-ever U.S. home videorelease of the greatest Spaghetti Western you’ve never seen – SergioSollima’s widescreen epic THE BIG GUNDOWN. The legendary Lee Van Cleefstars as a relentless bounty hunter on the trail of Cuchillo (Euro-filmsuperstar Tomas Milian), a savage Mexican outlaw accused of the rapeand murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Written …
Shane (1953) (BD)Acclaimed director George Stevens’ legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award® nominations and one win* and made Shane one of the classics of American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack …
Clint Eastwood: The Universal Pictures 7-Movie Collection [Blu-ray]
Cool, tough and always classic, Clint Eastwood is a true American icon whose career has spanned more than seven decades. No decade impacted his growth more as an actor, director and legend than the pivotal years he spent at Universal Pictures between 1968 and 1975 when he made seven movies that laid the foundation for his superstardom. Clint …
Fifteen years after they starred together in The Dirty Dozen, Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin team up in an exciting action film that will keep you on the edge of your seat!Lone trapper Albert Johnson (Bronson) shoots and kills a man in self-defense at his remote Yukon cabin. A few days later, lawman Sgt. Edgar Millen (Marvin) reluctantly …
From western legend Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) comes a rollicking shoot-`em-up! Young, ambitious gunman Nobody (They Call Me Trinity’s Terence Hill) sets his eye on his idol, gunslinger Jack Beauregard (Once Upon a Time in the West’s Henry Fonda), who’s intent on sailing off into retirement. Deciding his hero should go out with …
KILL AND PRAY! Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, The Hills Run Red) and with a superb soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Day of Anger, Cannibal Holocaust), Requiescant – Latin for ‘Rest in Peace’ – ranks among the finest Spaghetti Westerns. Alex Cox named it the one film to prove that the Italian Western was not solely …