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Bonnie And Clyde (DVD)
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
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R76
Discovery Miles 760
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Adrift in the Depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too.
But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow.
Bonnie and Clyde turns brutal. We learn they can be hurt - and dread they can be killed.
Bonnie and Clyde balances itself on a knife-edge of laughter and terror, thanks to vivid title-role performances by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and superb support from Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons.
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Lucky Lady (DVD)
Burt Reynolds, John Hillerman, Liza Minnelli, Robby Benson, Gene Hackman, …
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R217
Discovery Miles 2 170
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Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds and Gene Hackman star in this comedy
drama set in Prohibition-era America. Young widow Claire (Minnelli)
joins rum-runners Walker (Reynolds) and Kibby (Hackman) on their
boat, the Lucky Lady, off the coast of San Diego to help with their
liquor smuggling operation. But the trio's romantic peace is
disturbed by an angry Coast Guard captain and the mafia, who send
out hitman McTeague (John Hillerman) to deal with the small-timers
who are infringing on their business operations.
GENE HACKMAN brings his richly diverse literary voice to a gripping
new thriller that pits a devoted police sergeant against a predator
who may cost her everything that matters.
""I'll say this for the last time. Take your hand off the
shotgun."" In a tense standoff with a shopping mall shooter,
Sergeant Juliette Worth has the suspect about to surrender--then in
a few explosive seconds, she takes him down.
Usually a by-the-book cop, Julie has too much at stake, raising her
daughter on her own, to break protocol--until the mall killer
pushes her over the line. Instead of kudos for saving his hostage,
the Missouri State Criminal Investigation Unit hands Julie cold
case duty. Among the forgotten files, she uncovers a disturbing
connection between disappearances from years ago--all pretty girls,
all presumed runaways. Now Julie's instincts have her hunting a
predator still very much in the picture. Someone who pulls Julie
into a harrowing chase--by abducting her own daughter. . . .
A new writing team--actor Gene Hackman and one of America's
leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Daniel Lenihan--have
combined their remarkable talent and experience to create a rousing
adventure saga of men and the sea, full of authentic historical and
nautical detail, including fascinating descriptions of underwater
diving and salvage operations of the early nineteenth century.
In 1805 seventeen-year-old Jack O'Reilly sets sail with his
parents from Salem, Massachusetts, aboard the Perdido Star. Jack is
full of high hopes at the prospect of a new life in his mother's
homeland of Cuba, but shortly after the family arrives, tragedy
strikes, and in a desperate escape, Jack rejoins the departing Star
as a member of the crew.
For the next three years Jack encounters storms, shipwreck,
hostile and friendly natives, and enemy vessels as he travels
around Cape Horn to the South Sea islands, the Philippines, around
the Cape of Good Hope, and finally back to Cuba. He becomes the
leader of a renegade group who call themselves the Right Honourable
Brotherhood of the Shipwrecked Men of the Star. But throughout his
adventures, his obsession to return to Cuba for revenge dominates
his life, and his daring actions become the talk of the men of
other vessels, who come to know him as "Black Jack" O'Reilly. Not
until Jack fears the loss of his two closest mates and attempts a
desperate rescue does he finally free himself from the chains of
his fury and vindictiveness.
Jack O'Reilly is a striking portrait in a long line of memorable
protagonists who come of age at sea; and he is surrounded by
equally memorable supporting characters: Paul Le Maire, the
aristocratic intellectual whose own misadventures bring him onto
the Perdido Star and into Jack's friendship; Quince, the first
mate, Jack's mentor and defender; Quen-Li, the mysterious Chinese
cook whose skills extend beyond the galley; Hansumbob, the ship's
poet, whose simplicity belies a wisdom born of the heart; Yatoo,
the leader of the native Belaurans, without whose help the
shipwrecked men of the Star could not have survived; and the greedy
and slippery Count de Silva, whose surface charm masks a murderous
soul.
The exploits of the Brotherhood of the Star must rank among
those in the long tradition of classic sea adventure novels, and
Jack O'Reilly provides a moving portrait of an adolescent
struggling toward adulthood as he learns the meaning of justice,
friendship, and survival.
Gran Torino
Retired auto worker Walt Kowalski fills his days with home repair, beer and monthly trips to the barber. The people he once called his neighbors have all moved or passed away, replaced by Hmong immigrants, from Southeast Asia, he despises. Resentful of virtually everything he sees, Walt is just waiting out the rest of his life. Until the night someone tries to steal his `72 Gran Torino. The Gran Torino brings his shy teenaged neighbor Thao into his life when Hmong gangbangers pressure the boy into trying to steal it. But Walt stands in the way of both the heist and the gang, making him the reluctant hero of the neighborhood - especially to Thao's mother and older sister, Sue, who insist that Thao work for Walt as a way to make amends. Though he initially wants nothing to do with these people, Walt eventually gives in and puts the boy to work fixing up the neighborhood, setting into motion an unlikely friendship that will change both their lives.
Flags Of Our Fathers
February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory.
Letters From Iwo Jima
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture,Letters from Iwo Jima is the powerful companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, telling the untold story of the Japanese soldiers who defended their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima itself, the unprecedented tactics of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi and his men transform what was predicted to be a swift defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. Their sacrifices, struggles, courage and compassion live on in this taut, gripping film.
Mystic River
Jimmy. Dave. Sean. Friends who grew up in working-class Boston, they drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter is coldly murdered. Dave is a suspect. And Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.
Working from Brian Helgaland's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, director Clint Eastwood shapes a masterwork. A brooding thriller built on family, friends and innocence lost.
Unforgiven
Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired, down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper, a colourful killer-for-hire called English Bob. And Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff who's brand of law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey.
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