Gregory Peck
1) Yellow sky
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A gang of outlaws enters what seems to be the ghost town of Yellow Sky where they meet a prospecter and his granddaughter who falls in love with the gang's leader.
Formats
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Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch -...
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Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Anna Karenina: A married woman finds true love in a man who isn't her husband.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A young man dreams, after reading Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, that he himself travels to King Arthur's court.
Tale of two cities: A British barrister falls in...
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In the Arizona Territory of the 1870's, Marshal Sam Mackenna is the only living person who knows the tortuous route to the fabulous "Cañon del Oro". During his journey, Mackenna is captured by Colorado, a brutal Mexican bandit who has long sought his death. But, if Mackenna is to lead the cutthroat gang to the lost treasure, Colorado must keep him alive.
6) Moby Dick
Series
Pub. Date
1956.
Description
A skipper of a 19th century whaling boat is obsessed with the idea of harpooning the whale that is responsible for the loss of his leg.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Das Boot : "It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic: to harass and destroy English shipping."
From Here to Eternity : "Passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near."
The Bridge on the River Kwai : "When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it."
The Guns of Navarone :...
8) Moby Dick
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A skipper of a 19th century whaling boat is obsessed with the idea of harpooning the whale that is responsible for the loss of his leg.
9) Arabesque
Description
An Oxford language professor is asked by Middle East Oil magnates to decipher a hieroglyphic and soon finds himself marked for murder.
10) The purple plain
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Gravely wounded on a hunting trip, writer Harry Street thinks back to lost oppurtunities and lost loves. Though successful, Harry cannot reconcile the commercial concessions made in his writing and the personal costs expended in the pursuit of the great American novel. Only with the love of Helen, his current wife, can Harry begin to look at the more positive aspects of his life and regain the will to live.
13) The bravados
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
An expert tracker and gunman is anxious to see justice exacted upon four violent men whom he believes raped and murdered his wife.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
Series
Studio classic volume 39
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A young priest, Father Chisholm, is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese.
17) Roman Holiday
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
A modern-day princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.
19) Pork Chop Hill
Pub. Date
1959.
Description
A re-enactment of the U.S. Army King Company's high-casualty offensive to capture the crucial hilltop in the Korean War.