Charles Laughton
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Charles Laughton gulps beer and chomps on mutton, in his first of many iconic screen roles, as King Henry VIII, the ultimate anti-husband. Alexander Korda's first major international success is a raucous, entertaining, even poignant peek into the boudoirs of the infamous king and his six wives.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An unsung comic triumph from David Lean, Hobson's choice stars the legendary Charles Laughton as the harrumphing Henry Hobson, the owner of a boot shop in late Victorian northern England. With his haughty, independent daughter Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) decides to forge her own path, romantically and professionally, with none other than Henry's prized bootsmith Will (a splendid John Mills), father and daughter find themselves head-to-head in a fiery...
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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.
4) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Bud and Lou, the most incompetent pirates ever to sail the Spanish Main nearly drive the notorious Terror of the Seven Seas, Captain Kidd, out of his mind when they accidentally find the Captain's secret treasure map.
7) Young Bess
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Story of England's memorable 16th century monarch, Elizabeth I and her tumultuous rise to power.
8) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A dramatized account of the slave uprising led by laborer-turned-gladiator Spartacus, against the combined forces of the late Roman Republic. After escaping from a gladiator training ground, Spartacus convinces his fellow escapees to join him in an attempt to free all Roman slaves, and becomes the head of a massive revolt that threatens to overwhelm the power of Rome.
10) Jamaica Inn
Series
The Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 1 disc 4
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Maureen O'Hara's first film is the brooding story of a nobleman who leads a cutthroat ship-looting band of men. Charles Laughton is a magnificent villain and Hitchcock glories in the moody atmosphere.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1789, the English ship H.M.S. Bounty begins a two-year mission. The ship travels to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit plants that will provide cheap food for slaves in the West Indies, the Bounty's final destination. The captain is William Bligh, a vicious taskmaster who doesn't flinch at giving two dozen lashes to any malcontent on board, for the most minor of infractions. The first mate is Lt. Fletcher Christian, who despises Bligh but has somehow...