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Victor Mature
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Description
The glorious epic style of Cecil B. DeMille is exemplified in this story of the Bible's legendary strongman and the woman who seduces and betrays him. Victor Mature is the classic Samson, muscular and fearless in his barehanded battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, his struggle with a giant, and the spectacular Old Testament climax where he pulls down the pagan temple. The enormous cast and the splendor of...
2) The robe
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A Roman centurion, Marcellus Gallio, wins Christ's robe in a gambling match at the foot of the cross.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The story of 'the incomparable Annette Kellerman,' an Australian swimming champion and water ballet artist who ends up performing in New York's Hippodrome. When Annette is young, she is hampered by cumbersome leg braces. She starts swimming to strengthen her legs and before long, a star is born. She swims and dives her way through the show-biz ranks, struggling to support her musician father and fighting a woman's battle between love and career.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Flamboyant circus owner "Hank Whiting "is in trouble. His enterprise is in need of a cash injection from the bank who only agree to a loan on the condition their employee "Randy Sherman " goes along to keep an eye on proceedings. When he engages a high powered PR woman, tension develops between the outsiders and the circus hard core. That is not the end of it however--there is sabotage to contend with, rain washes away much of the season, and a fatality...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Way west: Story of a U.S. senator and his wagon train journey from Independence, Missouri along the Oregon Trail to the Northwest Territories.
Escort west: Lassiter is a former officer in the Confederate Army of the Civil War. As he travels westward with his daughter, he meets two distraught women who have just survived a violent assault by Native Americans. As he attempts to guide them safely to their ultimate destinations, more trouble ensues,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 732
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang