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"The legend of Union Pacific is the drama of a nation, young, tough, prodigal and invincible, conquering with an iron highroad the endless reaches of the West." This stemwinder of a foreword strikes the pseudo-biblical/American Empire keynote for Cecil B. DeMille's "history" of building the transcontinent railroad. Only the bombast--and Arthur Rosson's second-unit direction--rises to the film's ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman
Directed By: Cecil B. DeMille

Gary Cooper plays the oldest of three brothers who join the French Foreign Legion to cover a mysterious theft, and are soon caught up in high adventures. The opening scene in a fort full of corpses sticks in the memory forever, and Brian Donlevy's role as a sadistic sergeant makes a striking impression as well. Director William Wellman (Wings), a veteran pilot of World War I, drew--as he ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
Directed By: William A. Wellman

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Da Silva
Directed By: John Farrow

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Directed By: Stuart Heisler

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Thora Hird, Gordon Jackson
Directed By: Val Guest

Command Decision (1949) takes on the kind of questions that Hollywood could never have raised during the war--questions about the cruel responsibilities of command, including the responsibility to spend a great many lives to save thousands more in the future. In 1943, from an American airbase in the English countryside, a campaign of daylight bombardment is being waged against aircraft ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
Directed By: Sam Wood

Marlene Dietrich purrs through sexy songs, and Jimmy Stewart succumbs to her sultry, androgynous ways in this seminal Western with more than a touch of comedy. He plays your average nice guy who turns out to have something special up his sleeve when confronted by a gang of bad guys. He tames the banditos and wins dance-hall girl Dietrich's heart with his nonviolent ways. You may think you have ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy
Directed By: George Marshall

During World War II, Hollywood's patriotic duty was to shoot stirring dramas and good-hearted comedies that celebrated America's brave soldiers and honored their loyal, virtuous wives and girlfriends. Which goes a long way toward explaining why this delirious Preston Sturges farce, filmed in 1943 at the height of the war effort (and of its director's powers), was delayed for a year while Paramount ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall
Directed By: Preston Sturges

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc, Ward Bond
Directed By: Jacques Tourneur

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, K.T. Stevens, Thurston Hall
Directed By: William A. Wellman