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PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The story takes place in 1916 France, as the French command orders an exhausted unit to wrest control of an anthill from the Germans--expecting a casualty rate of 60 percent. The battle--during which the Germans are never seen, indicating that the French are their own worst enemy--turns into a bloody massacre. Looking for a scapegoat, General Mireau (George Macready) orders Colonel Dax (a never-more-intense Kirk Douglas) to select three of his men to face a court-martial and possible firing squad for the troops' cowardice. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, PATHS OF GLORY, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobbs, is a gut-wrenching, unforgettable drama. Every scene is awash in grays, covered in doom. Kubrick marvelously contrasts the ornate palace where the generals sip their cognac with the ramshackle trenches where injured men stumble about, demoralized and shellshocked. Douglas gives a tough, gritty performance; his tense sparring with the high command features sharp, biting dialogue. The entire cast is outstanding; watching so many men die for no reason is maddening. Kubrick captured the Vietnam War in FULL METAL JACKET, the cold war in DR. STRANGELOVE, the Seven Years' War in BARRY LYNDON, and a slave uprising in SPARTACUS, but PATHS OF GLORY is his crowning achievement when it comes to depicting the devastation, both physical and psychological, that war wreaks on the individual--as well as the state.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33:1Additional Release Material: Original Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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In many ways a male version of Vidor`s STELLA DALLAS, THE CHAMP also works overtime on the tear ducts. Wallace Beery stars as Andy
Champ
Purcell, the former heavyweight champion, now down and out, who is kept alive by the devotion of his young son, Dink (Jackie Cooper). The champ is trying to make a comeback but continues to backslide into drinking and gambling in Tijuana dives, despite the efforts of Dink and his friends to save the boxer from himself. While gambling, the Champ does manage to win a horse, and while he and Dink are at the track, the boy runs into his mother, Linda (Irene Rich), although neither knows the other. When she speaks with the Champ, he agrees that the boy would be better off living with her and her wealthy husband, Tony (Hale Hamilton). Hiding his love behind a mask of indifference, the Champ convinces the boy to go to the country to live with his mother. But Dink can`t abide the separation and runs away to rejoin his father in time for the biggest fight of his career. An unusually understated and affecting performance by Beery along with good work by Cooper erase some of the triteness of the melodrama, which must have spoken powerfully to depression-era audiences whose numbers undoubtedly included more than a few
Champs
struggling to care for their children.
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The third volume of the BAD AZZ MUTHAZ COLLECTION features a trio of blaxploitation films from the 1970s and `80s that have influenced some of today`s biggest directors--from Quentin Tarantino to John Singleton--and stand on their own as monuments of an era. REAL SOULJA stars Woody Strode as a weary CIA operative on a final mission to assassinate a KGB agent. Fred Williamson contends with a notorious terrorist holding 350 schoolchildren hostage in BLACK COBRA 2. And martial arts legend Ron Van Clief battles an Indochinese drug and prostitution ring in WAY OF THE BLACK DRAGON.
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The complete collection of veteran BBC scribe Dennis Potter's surreal musical mystery mini-series, which finds hack writer P.E. Marlow adrift between reality and the world of his gumshoe magnum opus, The Singing Detective, as he suffers in hospital from a rare skin disease. Six episodes include Skin, Heat, Lovely Days, Clues, Pitter Patter, and Who Done It.DVD Features:Region 13-Disc SetFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Stereo 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Michael Gambon - Star, Jon Amiel - Director Featurettes (2)Text/Galleries: Stills/Photos
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