Marlon Brando
1) Fan-Tan
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English
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Fan-Tan is a hugely entertaining, swashbuckling romp, from one of the greatest actors of our time: Marlon Brando. The story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate who sets out on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai, Fan-Tan follows the exploits of Anatole “Annie” Doultry, a larger-than-life character that Brando could have easily inhabited himself. When Annie saves the life of a Chinese prisoner in a Hong...
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Marlon Brando's only time as a Director, Rio (Marlon Brando) also called "The Kid", his mentor Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), & a third man called Doc, rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold in Sonora, Mexico. Mexican mounted police track them down & catch them celebrating in a cantina. Doc gets killed there in a shootout; Dad & Rio manage to escape & go on the run. Many plot twists along the way.
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After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured, but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.
Hollywood Classic
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Kid Rio, his mentor Dad Longworth, and a third man called Doc rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold in Sonora, Mexico in 1880. Mexican Rurales (mounted police)...
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English
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Academy Award winner Marlon Brando stars as the first mate who leads hisship's exploited and abused crew in the Mutiny on the Bounty. The SouthPacific, 1789. On the far side of the Earth from their home in England, the crew of the H.M.S. Bounty suffers under the sadistic leadership ofits captain, William Bligh (Trevor Howard). Months from its return toport, the ship's first mate, Fletcher Christian (Brando), realizes thatmany of the crewmembers will...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise -- and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.
10) The Godfather
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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
11) One-eyed Jacks
Series
Criterion collection volume 844
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rio, a bank robber, is bent on revenge against his one-time partner in crime.
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English
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Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.
14) Burn!
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sir William Walker is sent to secure a plantation at a Portuguese colony. While there be befriends Jose and Teddy, and plants the seeds of revolution in their heads. Years later he must go back and stop the revolution that he helped begin.
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Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : digital, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Horse thief Tom Logan has set his sights on the horses and daughter of rancher David Braxton. However, Braxton has hired the infamous Lee Clayton to make sure that his possessions are safe and that any horse thief is stopped in his tracks.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1972, c1974, c1990
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 730 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Description
Coppola paints a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. He masterfully balances the story between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
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English
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Vito Corleone is the aging don of the Corleone Mafia Family. Michael, his youngest son, has returned from WWII in time to see the wedding of his sister Connie to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for a family to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, he is morally against...
19) The score
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English
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Persuaded to help a desperate friend for a $6 million payday, an expert safecracker postpones his retirement to pull off one last heist with a novice thief. Their foolproof plan turns into a high risk gamble when a clash of egos threatens to bring them both down.
20) One-eyed jacks
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Rio, betrayed by his best friend, returns to seek vengence after serving five years in a Mexican prison. After years of obsessed hatred the film concludes with a blazing showdown.
Marlon Brando is sent to prision after being double crossed by his partner Karl Malden. After spending five years in jail Brando is finally released and sets out to get his revenge against his ex partner who is now a wealthy lawman.
