Charles Laughton
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Dark journey (originally released in 1937, 77 min.) also stars Conrad Veidt and features Leigh as a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy during World War I.
Fire over England (originally released in 1937, 92 min.) also stars Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey and James Mason and features Leigh as an English courtier in love with a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I.
Sidewalks of London (a.k.a. St. Martin's Lane) (originally...
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Haunted by a secret past and tormented by an uncertain future, two lonely people are drawn together in Paris during the last desperate days of freedom before WWII. A surgeon flees to Paris to escape the Nazis' growing power. After falling in love with an unemployed cabaret singer and finding her a job, he is deported when unable to produce his passport. Things come to a crisis when war is declared.
8) Spartacus
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
The epic tale of the bold gladiator slave Spartacus (Douglas), the woman who believed in his cause, and the power-hungry Roman general who challenged his convictions.
10) Jamaica Inn
Pub. Date
2003
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.
12) Spartacus
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.