John Garfield
Author
Description
John Garfield is Johnny, a tough NYC boxer who becomes champ. He attends a drunken party where a reporter is murdered. The killer himself dies in a flaming auto wreck, but not before he successfully shifts the blame to Johnny. He flees the city & hides out at a boy's camp out west, populated by The Dead End Kids. All seems ok until a detective (Claude Rains) who was on the murder case, happens by.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1939.
Description
After boxing manager Doc Woods accidentally kills a reporter, he frames his champion fighter, Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield), who changes his identity and flees to Arizona. There Johnnie takes refuge at a ranch run by a kindly older woman known as Grandma (May Robson), who has also opened her home to delinquents the Dead End Kids. With the help of Peggy (Gloria Dickson), Johnnie and the Kids struggle to overcome their distrust, just as Detective...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
In this chilling drama, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) is a wealthy and frustrated spinster who invites a homeless boy into her apartment, offering him living quarters. As she becomes completely obsessed with him, he rejects her amorous advances, leading her to take him as a prisoner in her home. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1946.
Description
Lana Turner stars in this sexually charged classic film noir thriller about the illicit love affair between a drifter and the restless wife of a gruff, middle-aged roadhouse owner. Torn between a desperate need for each other and their desire for money, they plot a murder--which leads to shattering consequences.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
"Whirlpool" (98 min.) : A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
"Shock" (70 min.): A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitorium by the man whom she witnessed commit a murder.
"They made me a criminal" (92 min.): A boxer flees believing...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
10) Body and soul
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves.
11) The sea wolf
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The tyrannical captain of a freighter would rather 'reign in Hell than serve in Heaven' in this classic drama.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur's retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant's judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering...
16) Under my skin
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
John Garfield plays a crooked jockey, barred from American racetracks and now fixing races on European ones, in this potent crime melodrama.
17) Body and soul
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Charley Davis, a strong-willed young prizefighter whose ruthless quest for a shot at the title forces him to mortgage his humanity to a corrupt boxing syndicate. But when faced with the chance to regain his self-respect, Charley climbs into the ring one last time - in an unforgettable climatic fight scene.
18) Humoresque
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
A frustrated New Yorker decides to build a dream house out in the country ; a WW II drama about a submarine mission to Tokyo ; a playboy is sentenced by a judge to court her younger sister ; a lady explorer, gone for several years and believed dead, returns to find her husband recently remarried ; and a musical dramatization of the life of Cole Porter.