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1) Hatari!
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
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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***
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English
Description
Stryker (Wayne), a hard-nosed Marine sergeant prepares a company of recruits for combat in World War II's Pacific Theater. The new unit's training is soon put to the test in a full-scale battle against the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi is depicted near the film's conclusion.
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English
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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...
6) Rio Grande
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Language
English
Description
A Cavalry unit on the Mexican border in the 1880s conducts a campaign against marauding Indians.
8) True grit
Language
English
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Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
9) Dakota
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Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Brawling western saga with John Wayne battling land grabbers in the Dakota territory.
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Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The Duke leads a regiment of Kentucky riflemen through a French settlement, falls in love with a general's lovely daughter, and locks horns with a rival suitor who has a nefarious land-grabbing scheme up his sleeve. The courtship battle escalates into a full-scale frontier war.
11) In harm's way
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Language
English
Description
Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base.
14) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
16) McLintock!
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights with his estranged wife who wants nothing from him except a divorce. His daughter and the local political land-grabbers are fighting with McLintock as well. Along with taming the West, McLintock finally "tames" everyone who has been fighting with him.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Two classic films featuring John Wayne. El Dorado: An alcoholic sheriff (Mitchum) fights ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen" with the help of an old gunfighter friend (Wayne). Hatari!: Wayne's character heads a group of highly-skilled professional African game hunters who capture ferocious big game with strong rope, sturdy vehicles, and cameras for zoos and circuses.
18) Big Jim McLain
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers who are a worldwide terror ring headquartered in Hawaii.
19) Blood Alley
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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
20) Chisum
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A successful cattle rancher battles with corrupt government officials and their stooges in New Mexico's Lincoln County War.
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