Henry Fonda
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It is five days after D-Day. The majority of the American army believes that the German army is broken and in disarray. The Germans, however, feel differently and launch a massive attack on the Allied troops in the hopes that ground action will buy enough time to bring in their new jets.
2) The lady Eve
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
3) Midway
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda lead an all-star cast in this film, interweaving the dramatic personal stories of the men who fought one of the most important battles of World War II. Just six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battle of Midway sounded its furious thunder in June 1942, which became the turning point of the Pacific for the United States. The film conveys the powerful reality and epic sweep of a nation₂s defining battle....
4) Fail safe
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
6) Jezebel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
12) Rollercoaster
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A determined terrorist begins to turn America's amusement parks into battlefields. The tension mounts as affable safety inspector George Segal attempts to track down the saboteur who has targeted the country's most popular rollercoaster, and its riders, for senseless destruction.
13) The wrong man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nightclub musician Manny Balestrero is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
14) Jesse James
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Tyrone Power stars as the daredevil bandit who galloped out of the Ozarks and into American folk history with his guns blazing. Jesse James is forced outside the law after ruthless agents for the coming transcontinental railroad kill his mother and steal his family's land. Together with his brother Frank, Jesse forms a gang of masked outlaws to strike back at the railroad company and the banks that swindle oppressed farmers.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Young, ambitious gunman Nobody ... sets his eye on his idol, gunslinger Jack Beauregard ... , who's intent on sailing off into retirement. Deciding his hero should go out with guns blazing, Nobody sets him up for a showdown with a pack of the deadliest bad guys in the West"--Container.
16) The Lady Eve
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 3
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
17) 12 angry men
Series
Criterion collection volume 591
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom...
18) On golden pond
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norman Thayer, a prickly retired professor visits his Maine summer home with his loving wife Ethel. Soon after they are joined by their daughter Chelsea, her fiancée Bill, and his son Billy. The cantankerous Norman's unlikely bond with young Billy provides the framework for an emotional summer in which the Thayers' strained familial relationships are finally allowed to heal and take wing.
20) "Mister Roberts"
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during the waning days of World War II. In the Navy Register it is listed as 'The Reluctant, ' but to its crew it is known as 'The Bucket.' The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked...