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The Glenn Miller Story [1953]

starring: James Stewart, June Allyson, Henry Morgan, Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date February 21, 2005
i fell in love with the glenn miller music when i was a 10yr old during the war and have remained one ever since, i must have watched this film about 15 times both on t.v. and on this brilliant dvd. jimmy stewart acted his part superbly but i think june allyson was absolutely amazing, in the final scenes when she was listening to the broadcast from paris after glenn was reported missing was one of the most emotional scenes in any film i have ever seen it even brought tears to an hard hearted so & so like me.

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Tin Star [1957]

starring: Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer, Anthony Perkins
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date August 13, 2007
i must admit i put this film in the dvd player and my heart sank because its black/white,it does not tell you that in the information about the film.but when you start watching the film it soon puts you back in a good mood,henry fonda has that touch of class about him thats hard to resist,anthony mann directs another classic western he was probabley the best in the business and that includes the great john ford.
fonda plays a bounty hunter who brings his prey in to collect the bounty,the young sheriff has just started the job and fonda can see that unless he is guided he will soon be dead,fonda shows the sheriff the ropes but declines an offer of a badge.its not long before trouble arrives for the sheriff ,will fonda help the sheriff or ride out ... Read More:

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Winchester '73 [1950]

starring: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Jay C. Flippen, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date June 04, 2007
Winchester `73 was the film that moved director Anthony Mann from the b-movies to the big league, rescuing James Stewart's floundering post-war career in the process by casting him as a conflicted hero (although since he inherited the project from Fritz Lang, maybe Lang deserves the credit for that). Both men would go to much darker places - Mann already had with the remarkably bleak Devil's Doorway, which remained shelved by MGM until the success of Broken Arrow convinced them to release it - but a movie about a man hunting down his own brother as the rifle of the title is handed from person to person along the trail before it ends up in one of the director's beloved mountainside shootouts is still stronger meat than you'd expect from the studio system. ... Read More:

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The Man From Laramie [1955]

starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date October 01, 2001
The last of the collaborations between James Stewart and director Anthony Mann, The Man From Laramie is the most ambitious even if it isn't always completely successful. On one level it's a standard revenge Western, with Stewart looking for the gunrunners who caused his brother's death, but his hunt takes in rancher Donald Crisp's powerful but dysfunctional dynasty and its divisions as well, and its through them that the film moves into almost mythically tragic territory. With foreman and almost adopted son Arthur Kennedy devotedly but thanklessly running the ranch for him and constantly trying to protect the old man from the feckless stupidity and sadism of his natural son Alex Nicol it soon becomes clear that not all the bad guys are that bad. Indeed, ... Read More:

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The Far Country [1955]

starring: James Stewart
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date June 04, 2007
The penultimate collaboration between director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart (excluding the few days Mann worked on Night Passage before parting company with the star under less than amicable circumstances), The Far Country belies its mainstream look to offer another portrait of an embittered man dragged unwillingly to his own redemption, fighting it every step of the way. This time he's a cattle driver whose response to labour problems - challenging troublesome cowhands to a gunfight at the end of the trail - results in his cattle being confiscated by John McIntire's larcenous judge of the Roy Bean school of law and order. Stealing them back and taking them across the Canadian border, he soon finds himself unwillingly drawn into the growing conflict ... Read More:

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The Heroes Of Telemark [1965]

starring: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date October 20, 2003
This is the story, true in essence at least, of the successful attempt by Norwegians working for the British special forces or secret services to destroy the "heavy water" the Germans wished to transport to the Reich for experimentation on a possible atomic weapon. At the time, the Western Allies thought that the Reich was neck and neck with the USA in developing atomic weapons, though in retrospect, of course, we know this was not so, mainly because most of the leading atomic specialists (Einstein, Szilard et al) were Jews who had emigrated to the USA or were born there (Oppenheimer et al). Their aim was to destroy Germany completely because it had to some extent turned on the Jews.

Despite starring Kirk Douglas, the film was made by Rank, a British ... Read More:

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El Cid [1961]

starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Genevieve Page, John Fraser
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date October 31, 2005
I'm afraid this movie was a bit of a pain for me. Too slow moving, wooden dialogue and historically incorrect.
However, having lusted after Sophia Loren from an early age, anything with her in it can't be all bad!
The Moors were not driven from Spain in 1099 as the movie suggests, but Moorish Kingdoms like Granada flourished until being expelled in 1492 (the year before Colon/Columbus "discovered" America )
The last Moors left in 1502.
There's nothing really wrong with the movie, but for me, not a lot is right.

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Quo Vadis [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
directed by: Anthony Mann, Mervyn LeRoy

Release Date November 11, 2008
I love it. From all the epics made in Hollywood it has the best script. I don't know another one that makes me laugh. This one truly has a good sense of humor and sarcasm. Not to forget the story about love, hate, courage - simply everything that makes a good movie. The actors are great - no one will forget Peter Ustinov's performance, and Robert Taylor - here he is not only as handsome as a man can be, his acting is also fine with a good sense of irony, great professionalism, topped by a very charming appearance.

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James Stewart - In The Frame Collection: You Can't Take It With You / Mr Smith Goes To Washington / The Man From Laramie / Anatomy of a Murder / Two Rode Together / Bell, Book and Candle

starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy
directed by: Frank Capra, Anthony Mann, Otto Preminger, John Ford

Release Date October 29, 2007
I love it. From all the epics made in Hollywood it has the best script. I don't know another one that makes me laugh. This one truly has a good sense of humor and sarcasm. Not to forget the story about love, hate, courage - simply everything that makes a good movie. The actors are great - no one will forget Peter Ustinov's performance, and Robert Taylor - here he is not only as handsome as a man can be, his acting is also fine with a good sense of irony, great professionalism, topped by a very charming appearance.

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Bend Of The River [1952]

starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson
directed by: Anthony Mann

Release Date June 06, 2005
james stewart was at his brilliant best in westerns,and this one should not be missed by any western fan.stewart plays a gunslinger who wants to change his ways and gets a job leading a wagon trail over the mountains,the people who he's helping know nothing of his past.
all goe's well until the settlers are not sent their supplies which they had paid for without these they will starve,so our jimmy rides back to the town to get them he manages to get it loaded onto the ferry and they head up river chased by a large posse from the town who were also sold the cargo at a much dearer price due to gold fever.there's bundles of action in this film and a cat and mouse chase right till the end ,the whole cast doe's a great job in this film and i highly recommend it to you all,its ... Read More: