Stanley Kubrick
Author
Language
English
Description
FEAR AND DESIRE is the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's PATHS OF GLORY (1957) and FULL METAL JACKET (1987), FEAR AND DESIRE follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and bind her to a tree, where she is tormented...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A struggling New York boxer, Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith), finds that his life is in danger when he protects a dance hall girl, Gloria (Irene Kane), from her vicious gangster boss, Vinnie Rapallo (Frank Silvera). The two then decide to leave the city and travel to Seattle for a fresh start. But Rapallo is a man who doesn't like to lose. Once he discovers their plans, Rapallo sends a few of his thugs to put an end to them in this dazzling film noir from...