Victor McLaglen
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside, Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside, Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery...
Series
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
4) The Informer
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The scene is Dublin, 1922. Gypo Nolan stumbles through a foggy Irish night, his brain pickled in whiskey and his soul tormented by shame and fear. Gypo is an informer, a turncoat who betrayed his friend to the British police for 20 pounds. Now he can't spend the money fast enough, nor can he run from his treachery fast enough as he brawls, brags, swaggers and lies his way toward his fate.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A terse drama about British cavalryman lost in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I. They are pursued constantly by Arab sharpshooters. When the leader of the patrol is killed, McLaglen takes charge of the eleven ragged survivors. This film established John Ford's reputation as a director internationally.
7) Gunga Din
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Adventure story of three English soldier comrades battling the savage punjabs in India, and their lowly water-bearer, Gunga Din, who longs to be a soldier.
9) Whistle stop
Publisher
Critics Choice Video
Pub. Date
©1946.
Language
English
Description
A gangster story of love and intrigue in a small railroad town. Kenny is an unemployed loser and always has bee, but his old flame Mary can't stop loving him, that is until a local club owner turns her head. Kenny manages to clean up his act and win Mary back, only to be framed for murder by her jealous suitor. Will Kenny beat the rap and move to St. Louis with Mary as they've planned?
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Hangman's house: Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien (Hobart Bosworth), to marry a man she doesn't love.
3 bad men: When a trio of bandits discovers a young woman (Olive Borden) whose father was murdered by a ruthless gang, the "Three Bad Men" go from being partners in crime to comrades in chivalry.
Series
Fabulous forties ; 5
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Gung ho!: responsible for organizing a battalion to raid the Japanese-held Makim Island, Colonel Thorwald recruits his volunteers from the less-desirable prospects such as barroom brawlers, misfits and borderline psychos. Under his training and leadership, the battalion is forged into a tough fighting unit ready for the fierce battle.
The chase: an unemployed veteran returns a wallet and gets an unexpected job as the chauffeur to a tough mobster.
Whistle...
