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Call Number: DVD00891

by:Robert Taylor; John Wayne; Anthony Quinn; Cary Grant; John Garfield; Franz Waxman; Miklós Rózsa; Robin Moore; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009].

Notes: Films Released between 1943 and 1968, (486 mins. Black and White & Color);

Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur’s retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant’s judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering last stand.

 

Back to Bataan: Colonel Joe Madden is an American soldier who stays behind to organize a ragtag guerrilla army in the forests and hills of the Philippines. At his side is Captain Andres Bonifacio, grandson of a legendary revolutionary martyred in the nation’s old war against Spanish colonialists. Joe, Andres, and their fearless irregulars sap the enemy’s resolve through hit-and-run missions. As time passes the locals wonder why America doesn’t return with troops and weapons.

 

Destination Tokyo: Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. After getting the information they need, they face the harrowing task of getting out of Japan once their presence is detected.

 

The Green Berets: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. Their first mission is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken over by the enemy. The second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese general.

Also see The Green Berets on DVD00897

 

OCLC #: 375827363

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: VHS00453

by Dore Schary; Adrian Scott; Edward Dmytryk; John Paxton; Robert Mitchum; Robert Ryan; Robert Young; Richard Brooks; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Turner Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [Smyrna, GA?] : Turner Home Entertainment, [1996]

Notes: Originally released in 1947 (85 mins.); Based on Richard Brook’s The Brick Foxhole; Edition includes behind-the-scenes retrospective of the making of Crossfire and an interview with director; Nominated for five 1948 Academy Awards;

Summary: A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews.

OCLC #: 35968681

Call Number: VHS00409 Copy 1

VHS00409 Copy 2

by Edward Dmytryk; Montgomery Clift; Elizabeth Taylor; Eva Marie Saint; Ross Lockridge; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Copy 1: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1997.; Copy 2: New York : MGM/UA Pictures, 1986.

Notes: Originally released in 1957 (173 mins.); Based on the novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr.; Nominated for four 1958 Academy Awards; edition contains the original theatrical trailer and the film on two videocassettes;

Summary: A beautiful young woman, who believes that she is the daughter of an adulterous affair between her father and a mulatto slave, is married to an idealistic young man in this drama set in the Civil War era South. With the war as background, the two young people must solve their problems and find a true meaning and purpose in their lives.

OCLC #: 38017984