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(0)Leslie Banks
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
2) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man.
6) Jamaica Inn
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Maureen O'Hara's first film is the brooding story of a nobleman who leads a cutthroat ship-looting band of men. Charles Laughton is a magnificent villain and Hitchcock glories in the moody atmosphere.
7) Jamaica Inn
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Near Cornwall, a bank of smugglers and cutthroats lure incoming ships to a rocky inlet where they are dashed to pieces and then raided. An undercover officer joins the band with hopes of thwarting them, but they soon discover his real identity.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Captain Calamity, Bill Jones, commander of the South Seas vessel Marigold, agrees to take an Australian fellow to Tapillo in exchange for a Spanish doubloon. Jones in turn gives the coin to a trader for supplies, who believes that Jones has discovered pirate's treasure. Soon Captain Calamity has a real calamitous situation on his hands. In The black pirate, when a young nobleman's father is mercilessly killed by pirates, he vows that one day he'll...
9) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sanders of the river: Commissioner Sanders, representative of the British Crown, puts down a bloody rebellion and re-establishes harmony for the pro-British river people in this tale of adventure in Nigeria. Jericho: An African American soldier flees to the African desert during WWI after he accidentally causes the death of his sergeant and is sentenced to death for murder. True pioneer: In 1928, Paul Robeson moved to Londan and during the next...
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