Hal B. Wallis
1) True Grit
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
2) Roustabout
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1964.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd. color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
5) G.I. blues
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays an Oklahoma singer who gets out of the army and wants to open a club.
6) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
8) Shoot out
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clay Lomax is a tough-as-nails ex-felon out to avenge an injustice in the rugged 1890s Frontier Territory. He finds himself the guardian of a beguiling six-year-old girl named Decky Ortega, a homeless urchin consigned to his care after the death of her mother, while trying to evade a trio of sadistic killers hot on his trail, killers sent by the double-crossing ex-partner Lomax has sworn to find.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (2 hr., 26 min.; 2 hr., 12 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning materpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Mary Queen of Scots: The battle between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England comes alive in this epic film.
12) High Sierra
Publisher
[Turner Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter.
14) Now, voyager
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
17) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
18) Virginia City
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
19) Sergeant York
Language
English
Description
Torn between religious pacifism and patriotism, Alvin York of Tennessee went on to become World War I's most acclaimed hero, capturing 132 German soldiers during the Battle of Argonne.
20) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.