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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English
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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
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (150 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. **Academy Award** nominee.
9) The Men
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...
10) Don Juan DeMarco
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway star with Johnny Depp in this romantic drama about a man who believes himself to be the legendary Don Juan—and who attempts suicide after the loss of his one true love. But placed under the care of a world-weary therapist, the patient begins to cure the doctor.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Shirley Maclaine (*The Apartment, Terms Of Endearment*) portrays an amazing array of characters over seven satirical vignettes that attempt to tackle the universal subjects of love and adultery. From a distraught widow dealing with amorous advances, a bored housewife becoming a hooker, suicidal lovers, naked poetry reading and psychotic socialites to a chance encounter on public transport that leads to a bittersweet, poignant conclusion. Michael Caine,...
12) One Eyed Jacks
Publisher
Stonecutter Media Ltd
Pub. Date
1961.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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. Marlon Brando directed and stars in this western classic. Based on the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award–winner Marlon Brando stars with Val Kilmer in this update of H.G. Wells's classic novel about a brilliant but deranged scientist who performs genetic experiments melding humans and animals—with horrific results.
15) Julius Caesar
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Marlon Brando, Sir John Gielgud, and Greer Garson star with James Mason and Deborah Kerr in this exceptional film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of honor, heroism, loyalty and the fear of tyranny.
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.
19) The Godfather
Series
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.
20) 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.