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Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Phyllis Thaxter
Directed By: Robert Wise

Walter Hill's controversial 1979 drama was blamed for causing gang violence at theaters, but now it looks as highly stylized and pulpy as Hill (Last Man Standing) intended. The plot finds a New York gang having to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. A sort of urban Western with a comic-book pace, artificial colors, fable-like tone, and broad acting, the film ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, David Harris
Directed By: Walter Hill

This landmark 1939 Western began the legendary relationship between John Ford and John Wayne, and became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. It solidified Ford as a major director and established Wayne as a charismatic screen presence. Seen today, Stagecoach still impresses as the first mature instance of a Western that is both mythic and poetic. The story about a cross-section of ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Directed By: John Ford

In Road to Perdition, Tom Hanks plays a hit man who finds his heart. Michael Sullivan (Hanks) is the right-hand man of crime boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), but when Sullivan's son accidentally witnesses one of his hits, he must choose between his crime family and his real one. The movie has a slow pace, largely because director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) seems to be in love with ...

Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Directed By: Sam Mendes

Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Starring: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton (II), Joey Kramer
Directed By: Marty Callner, David Fincher

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Ciannelli, George Zucco
Directed By: Christy Cabanne

The screwball comedy was the definitive genre of the Depression, but as America edged toward war in the early '40s, it suffered some strange and wonderful mutations--none stranger than The Talk of the Town, directed by George Stevens from a script by novelist Irwin Shaw and frequent Capra collaborator (and future blacklist victim) Sidney Buchman. Cary Grant, awkwardly cast, is a small-town ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell
Directed By: George Stevens

Having created an instant classic the previous year with their superlative production of Wuthering Heights, producer Samuel Goldwyn, director William Wyler, and cinematographer Gregg Toland reunited for this classic Western from 1940, which earned Walter Brennan his record-setting third Academy Award. Gary Cooper reportedly hesitated to take his role, knowing that Brennan would likely steal ...

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Directed By: William Wyler

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie, Robert Strange
Directed By: John English, William Witney

Manufacturer: United American Video
Starring: Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Tom Tyler, Henry B. Walthall, Margaret Callahan
Directed By: Christy Cabanne