Montgomery Clift
1) Wild River
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English
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A 1930s Tennessee Valley Authority Agent is sent to oversee the completion of the Tennessee River Dam and encounters opposition from locals who do not want to leave their homes.
2) The Misfits
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English
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Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe -- in their last screen roles -- star with Montgomery Clift in this piercing drama about contrasting attitudes and lifestyles set against the brawling backdrop of a Reno rodeo.
3) The Big Lift
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English
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Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
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English
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Winner of Two Academy Awards® including Actor in a Leading Role (Maximilian Schell), "Judgment at Nuremberg" is considered by many as one of the greatest films of all time. American judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy, "Inherit The Wind") presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing...
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
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"The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williamss elegiac masterpiece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this 'memory play' have made it one of Americas most powerful, timeless, and compelling plays. The introduction by Tony Kushner sparkles with the kind of rich, unique insight that only a fellow playwright...
8) The misfits
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English
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Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather- beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
9) I confess
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Father Michael Logan hears a killer₂s confession. Eyewitness point to a priest as the murderer, and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out , even in his own defense, when circumstantial evidence targets Logan as the prime suspect.--
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. As graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
12) Red river
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Criterion collection ; 709
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Thomas Dunson, a tyrannical Texas rancher, is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
13) The search
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survivied Auschwitz wanders alone -- feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then-unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near-documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble-strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human...
14) The young lions
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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The story of World War II from the American and the German perspectives.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career." --
16) The heiress
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English
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"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
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Paramount presents ; 22
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English
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George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear...
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Criterion collection ; 974
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
19) Red River
Series
Criterion collection ; 709
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Thomas Dunson, a tyrannical Texas rancher, is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden and Karen Holmes tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on...