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"Warner Night at the Movies 1940" short subject gallery: Vintage newsreel, Oscar-nominated short "Service with the Colors," classic cartoon Stage Fright, trailers of City for Conquest and 1940's the Fighting 69th
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Features: DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Mono - English Stereo - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Bonus Footage: "MovieTone News: Salt Lake City Premiere" Audio Commentary: James D'Arc - BYU Historian Behind the Scenes: Special Effects Text/Photo Galleries: Biographies: "Brigham Young Portrait" Essay: 1. Letter from Vincent Price 2. Script Excerpts Galleries: 1. Posters 2. Lobby...
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Ex-Golden Gloves fighter Danny Kenny has it all worked out. He'll turn pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to the teeming city where they both live: New York. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under Danny when he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout. James Cagney plays Danny in this heart-tugging melodrama co-starring Ann Sheridan, Anthony Quinn, film-debuting Arthur Kennedy and in a rare acting turn before becoming a director, Elia Kazan. Among...
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There's a fraud in town and it happens to be Dr. Christian's friend. Will he expose his old friend's scheme to the townspeople?
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City for Conquest DVD
Based on the novel by Aben Kandel, CITY FOR CONQUEST tells the heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny (James Cagney) and Peggy Nash (Ann Sheridan), two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives on the Lower East Side of New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer in a nightclub (with sleazy partner Murray, as played by the commanding...
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When a group of racketeers terrorize a city with their murderous ways, they make a grave error by killing a veteran police inspector in the vintage cop thriller POLICE ROOKIE. The rookie of the title is the deceased inspector's son, who joins the police force so he can legally mete out his own brand of revenge. But he discovers that the racketeers have some connections in high places, making his job more difficult than he expected. Also included here, the superlative 1940s crime caper MARKED MEN...
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City For Conquest
A New York truck driver goes from boxing contender to newsstand peddler after being blinded in the ring.
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It's nighttime in Malaysia. A full moon is shining. The camera glides along, from left to right, along the exterior of a plantation, past sleeping workers. In the background there is a white house. Suddenly a shot breaks the silence. A bird takes flight. Startled, a dog twists around. A man stumbles onto the veranda, followed by a woman. She holds a gun and keeps firing till she has no more bullets and the body is still. She shuts herself in her room and sends for her husband and the authorities...
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Features: DVD Features: Region [unknown] Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33
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Quality Reprint from the movie. Size is 11 x 17 for poster reprints and 11 x 14 for lobby card reprints
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Features: DVD Features: Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital - English
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Noted essayist Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play OUR TOWN is widely regarded as one of the highlights of American theater. Wilder was consulted throughout preproduction, and the result is a depiction so true that viewers might feel for a short while as if they are residents of the small town depicted, which was the precise intent of Wilder. Frank Craven, who played the stage manager in the Broadway version, sparkles as the talkative town pharmacist who narrates the action, stitching...
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A drama for the Christmas season which tells the story of three millionaires who return from the spirit world to help a young couple.
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Contraband (1940) - DVD in Movies: Dramas
Director Michael Powell (PEEPING TOM) made this criminally overlooked comic thriller in 1940, when WWII had ravaged much of England. What makes this remarkable is that the film is set in 1939 during a blackout and yet Powell makes the film a lighthearted thriller even though his country was still in the midst of a horrible war. However, this is not what makes the film so remarkable. A Hitchcockian brew of international intrigue, lengthy chase scenes, and virtuoso cinematography, the film follows...
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Ralph Byrd, best known for his work portraying comic book character Dick Tracy, stars here as Foreign Legionairre Paul Dumont. En route to Morocco to take up a post as advisor to the Legion's newly-formed parachute troop, he meets the beautiful Helene (Lorna Gray, who later went by Adrian Booth). The two share a mutual attraction, but when Dumont discovers that the lovely lady is none other than his best friend's fianc�e, he demurs. In the meantime, his friend and fellow officer, Raoul (Peter George...
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Kitty Foyle (1940) - DVD in Movies: Dramas
Based on the novel by Christophe Morley, KITTY FOYLE stars Ginger Rogers in an Academy Award-winning performance. Centered on the high society of Philadelphia's Main Line and those who wish to marry into it, the film addresses issues of class in America. Having grown up on the wrong side of the tracks, Kitty eventually becomes a successful executive in a New York fashion house. However, she still carries the torch for her former husband, Wyn, whose wealthy family couldn't accept her working-class...
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Features: DVD Features: Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Mono - English Stereo - English Subtitles - Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Comparisons: Restoration Text/Photo Galleries: Biographies: Lillian Russell - 19th/20th Century Actress
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Exploitative gritty drama about a gigolo-chasing mom trying to steer her delinquent daughter clear of the fast lane.
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In this pulpy crime drama, a murder stirs up trouble at London's Cotton Club, threatening the livelihood of its controlling owner. When Steve Marco (Jack LaRue) kills a club employee who was blackmailing him, he also steals a valuable string of pearls. Scotland Yard jumps on the case, and recruits club beauty Ruby Lane (Sandra Storme) to try to retrieve the pearls. However, the club's goons see the exchange, and the result is so surprising that no one could have predicted it! Notable talent in this...
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This excellent screen adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel follows a provincial family's struggles to marry off five daughters in 19th-century England. Greer Garson (MRS. MINIVER) stars as heroine Elizabeth Bennett, while Laurence Olivier (REBECCA) plays Mr. Darcy, the new arrival who attracts both Elizabeth's interest and her ire. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE earned an Academy Award nomination for Best (Black-and-White) Interior Decoration.
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A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, GONE WITH THE WIND. This psychological thriller, however, derives its grandeur from Hitchcock's careful cultivation of the title character's haunting legacy. Joan Fontaine takes the starring role and narrates...
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CITY FOR CONQUEST Cast overview, first billed only:
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Atlantic City (1980) - DVD in Movies: Dramas
The legalization of gambling in Atlantic City radically changes the life of Lou (Burt Lancaster), an aging small-time numbers runner. Infatuated with his waitress neighbor Sally (Susan Sarandon), Lou still holds on to the dream that he will one day be a high stakes player in organized crime. But when Sally's ex-husband turns up with a large amount of high quality cocaine in his possession, then is quickly murdered, Lou finally gets his chance to become involved with big money and the mob--getting...
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CITY OF ANGELS: Based in part on Wim Wenders's 1988 film, WINGS OF DESIRE, this is the story of Seth (Nicolas Cage), an angel who wanders the Los Angeles area invisible to humans. As someone's death approaches, he spends time near that person and becomes visible while acting as traveling companion during the trip to the great hereafter. His discovery of a distraught heart surgeon, Maggie (Meg Ryan), inspires him to forego his immortality and exist on earth with her as a feeling and mortal entity...
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