Brute Force (DVD)
At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail;...

Ernest Hemingway's The Killers: The Criterion Collection (DVD)
Ernest Hemingway's gripping short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed 'The Killers', helping to define the 'film noir' style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in an archetypal masterpiece. In 1956, then-film student Andrei Tarkovsky tackled the story...

Moses The Lawgiver (UK) (DVD)
Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz) stars in the first-ever large-scale Biblical series especially made for television – Moses The Lawgiver. First broadcast in 1975 and filmed largely on or near the actual terrain where, some 33 centuries ago Moses led the Children of Israel to the Promised Land, this lavish drama was produced by Vincenzo Labella (the Emmy-nomina...

Valdez Is Coming (UK) (DVD)
Town constable Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) must confront evil double-crossing rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) after he`s duped into leaving a widow penniless. After an attempt on his life Valdez summons the courage and strength he learned in the army to plan a righteous and bloody revenge. Tension mounts when, after wounding one of Tanner`s henchmen, our hero sends him back to the land baron...

Lawman (UK) (DVD)
Michael Winner directs this tough Western. When Sabbath town-boss Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb) and his drunken ranch hands unwittingly kill an old man in Bannack, everyone knows it was an accident. Everyone, that is, except Bannack`s marshal, Jered Maddox (Burt Lancaster). A tough, no-nonsense man of the law, Maddox is determined to bring the killers to justice...

Scalphunters, The (UK) (DVD)
Fur trader Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) embarks on his own war to reclaim his "trade", embezzled from him by bountyseeking Scalphunters. Sydney Pollack`s comic Western, co-starring Telly Savalas and Shelley Winters, erupts into a final showdown which involves a runaway highly-educated black slave, the original Scalphunters, girlfriend of the gang leader and yet more indians to complicate matters –...

Judgement At Nuremberg (UK) (DVD)
Stanley Kramer`s powerful Judgement at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Oscars. American judge Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy) presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalising" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilisation and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision...

Kentuckian, The (UK) (DVD)
A rugged frontiersman and his son travel to Texas in search of a place where they can start a new life.

Unforgiven, The (UK) (DVD)
From director John Huston and screenwriter Ben Maddow, The Unforgiven is a thrilling Western starring Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn and Lillian Gish. The Zachary family and the other white settlers in their community are supposedly peace-loving, but behind their benevolent facade lies resentment and a deep hatred for the Indians caused by years of fear and violence between the two. Now the...

Scorpio (UK) (DVD)
In Michael Winner`s international thriller Scorpio, Burt Lancaster is Agent Cross, a C.I.A. operative with a shocking secret. Alain Delon is Scorpio, a French assassin with a hard-earned reputation for always getting his man. Both are experts in their field – brave, intelligent, and lethal. And when they`re thrust together by personal ambitions and political forces beyond their control, each man...

Trapeze (UK) (DVD)
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida star as a triangle of lovers in this powerful drama set against the magnificent background of a European circus. Filmed on location in Paris, Carol Reed`s Trapeze is one of the most spectacular and authentic circus movies ever made.

Conversation Piece (UK) (DVD)
In Luchino Visconti`s Conversation Piece, Burt Lancaster plays a retired American professor who lives alone in an ornate house. Into this well-ordered life comes a decadent matriarch (Silvana Mangano), her nubile teenage daughter, her husband, and her sometime-lover (Helmut Berger). They rent the upstairs apartment, and thus begins a series of intruiges, sexual involvements which provoke...

Elmer Gantry (UK) (DVD)
Featuring Burt Lancaster in a brilliant, Best Actor Oscar-winning performance, Elmer Gantry is an unforgettable screen drama by writer/director Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof). Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers that he can hustle money in a tent-show as...

Marty (UK) (DVD)
In 1955, America - and the world - fell in love with Marty, the first film to win both the Best Picture Oscar and the Cannes Film Festival`s Palme D`Or. Nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards, writer Paddy Chayefsky`s classic is a small wonder of intimate storytelling. "I`ve been looking for a girl every Saturday night of my life," says Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine). Yet, despite all his...

Hallelujah Trail, The (UK) (DVD)
A comedy-Western tale which follows the fate of a wagon-load of whisky bound for Denver that is waylaid by Indians, temperance crusaders and the civilian militia.

Apache (UK) (DVD)
History books state that Geronimo was the last American Indian to surrender formally to the United States. But, in truth, there was one warrior who refused to go along with Geronimo. His name was Massai. He went on to fight a one-man war against the US Army. This is his story. As the lone Apache, Burt Lancaster cuts a fine figure...handsome, rugged and agile. Told against the great, sweeping...

Birdman Of Alcatraz, The (UK) (DVD)
How does bitter convict Robert Stroud cope with a lifetime of solitary confinement? The answer, in a sense, comes from above - in the form of a feeble sparrow he finds in the isolation yard. Stroud brings this newfound companion to his cell, nurses it to health and, from that point on, there`s no turning back. Despite having only a third grade education, and no hope of parole, Stroud becomes a...

Sweet Smell Of Success (UK) (DVD)
A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who`ll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating, compelling story crackles with taut direction and whiplash dialogue. Bristling with vivid performances by Curtis and Lancaster, this gutsy expose of big-city corruption is a timeless classic that cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It`s late at night in the...

Local Hero (UK) (DVD)
David Puttnams`s first production after `Chariots Of Fire` and director Bill Forsyth`s follow up to `Gregory`s girl`, this delightfully observed comedy looks at the conflict between Texas oil company and the canny residents of a Scottish fishing village whose land is needed by the Americans for their North Sea oil base. This warm and affectionate story is a comedy in the classic style with a...

Field of Dreams (UK) (DVD)
If you build it, he will come.` With these words, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is inspired by a voice he can`t ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife Annie (Amy Madigan), Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true, a baseball diamond. Along the way he meets reclusive activist Terence Mann (James...

Zulu Dawn (UK) (DVD)
This dramatic and true story recounts the breathtaking defeat of British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army in 1879. General Lord Chelmsford (brilliantly portrayed by Peter O`Toole) is the man responsible for the fatal decision to split up the troops based on faulty information provided by the fake Zulu prisoners. Colonel Durnford (Burt Lancaster) is...

Airport (US) (DVD)
Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin head an all-star cast in this classic disaster film from producer Ross Hunter, for which Helen Hayes received her second Oscar. On the ground, manager Mel Bakersfeld (Lancaster) juggles lover Jean Seberg and wife Dana Wynter while coping with a blizzard, aided by mechanic George Kennedy(who returned in all three sequels). In the sky, Capt. Vern Demerest (Martin)...