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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***
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tough civilian construction man and a navy officer organize a work force to repair installations close to Japanese lines in World War II. The story of the formation of the U.S. Navy's construction corps--the Seabees.
Publisher
Stonevision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies, a little Indian girl becomes heiress to land rich with oil. Her guardian, John Wayne, must get her father to sign the legal papers so that the money is hers. But Sam Black and his renegades have other ideas. They aim to get to the father first, and-- if necessary-- kidnap the little girl.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
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.
6) True grit
Language
English
Formats
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....
Series
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 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.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen ; special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
10) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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. 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. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A transport plane crashes on Labrador's frozen tundra. The pilot must keep his crew alive while waiting to be rescued. Based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three Civil War veterans team up with a train robber's widow to recover the loot from her husband's last job--a cool half-million in gold which is hidden somewhere south of the Mexican border. For backup they've got two nervous young gunslingers and a balky mule packing enough dynamite to blow up the Alamo.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (275 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two classic films featuring John Wayne. In harm's way: Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base. Donovan's Reef: A strait-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
14) Stagecoach
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common are stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
15) The cowboys
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
16) Fort Apache
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man, they're duty bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner Nathan Burdette. Nathan assembles a force of hired guns...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video and Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2007, 1933
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A villainous freighter is out to stop the country's first telegraph line. He enlists the aid of local renegades to carry out his plan, but John Wayne rides to the rescue.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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