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1) Hatari!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
3) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version; special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. Later, when Apache chief Vittorio captures Hondo, Angie tells the chief Hondo is her husband to save his life. In order to protect her, Hondo goes along with the lie...
Series
Language
English
Description
A sprawling, action-packed saga with John Wayne as the head of a construction company working at the building military sites for the Navy during World War II. After suffering the loss of many men after a Japanese attack, Wayne heads to Washington and helps establish the 'C.B.s' (Construction Battalions), units of armed builders
7) Rio Grande
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1950.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Language
English
Description
"Cmdr. Frank 'Spig' Wead was a pioneer aviator, renowned screenwriter (whose works included John Ford's They Were Expendable) and a man of war. The skies beckoned Spig to action; a crippling injury ultimately left him powerless to act, propelling him to discover the power of his pen. He was talented, driven, flawed, and a friend of Ford's--and the subject of this compassionate biography"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Involved in a bitter feud with the owner of the East Indies Trading Company, Captain Ralls deliberately sinks the richly laden Red Witch. His plan to salvage the wreck is thwarted by love for a woman.
10) Blood Alley
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
11) The sea chase
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound pursuit from the Germans and the British.
Language
English
Description
Ransom Stoddard is a successful, but aging U.S. senator, who along with his wife, Hallie, returns to a small western town. They are there to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. A young local reporter presses Stoddard for an interview about why he has come to Doniphon's funeral and Doniphon begins to tell a story. Years ago he came to town as young newly-graduated attorney. He was bullied by Liberty Valance, a local tough outlaw, a gunman employed...
13) The Green Berets
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
14) The searchers
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
16) Fort Apache
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Old West, the soldiers at Fort Apache are duty-bound to obey their glory-seeking new commander, even if it means almost certain disaster.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II rages across the Pacific and Lieutenant Commander Duke E. Gifford (John Wayne) is in the thick of it. He evacuates children from enemy-held islands ; oversees the research and development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor ; and prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish, hoping for a chance to aim his improved "tin fish"--Torpedoes at the hulls of the enemy fleet.
18) The cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version ; Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither Andersen nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
20) Chisum
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A successful cattle rancher battles with corrupt government officials and their stooges.
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