Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital Surround, English, Spanish, French Subtitled
This Collection includes Advise and Consent, The Americanization of Emily, Bad Day at Black Rock, Blackboard Jungle, A Face in the Crowd, Fury and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.
Bad Day At Black Rock: Folks In Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box...
Blackboard Jungle: Richard Dadier is a man eager to make a difference. Or, some might say, he's a believer in lost causes. Dadier is a new teacher at inner-city North Manual High. Racial and sexual tensions. Violence. Gangs. Apathy. What Blackboard Jungle tackled 50 years ago are still hot-button issues in schools. Glenn Fordias Dadier clings to his ideals and pays a price vying with teen misfits led by Vic Morrow and, in a star-making performance, a too-cool-to-cope Sidney Poitier...
Advise And Consent: The setting is familiar. A Senate subcommittee meets o confirm the President's controversial nominee for Secretary of State. A TV camera rolls. And the wolf is at the door
A Face In the Crowd: Meet Lonesome Rhodes: drifter, storyteller and guitar-picker. He's been in and out of jails aplenty but now he has reason to smile. He's just met his perfect match, a piece of talking furniture known as television....
The Americanization Of Emily: U.S. Navy honchos in World War II London have a humdinger of a war on their hands. Now they need a hero o got with it. They want the first American fatality of D-Day to be a sailor to glorify the navy's effort....
Fury: Joe Wilson, a wrongly jailed man thought to have died in a blaze started by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, is somehow alive. And dead to all he ever stood for and perhaps ever will be. Because Joe aims to ensure his would-be executioners meet the fat Joe miraculously escaped....
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang: World War I is over. Johnny has come marching home. But there's little fanfare and no meaningful work for one war vet. There's only the desperate life of an unjustly convicted fugitive. Twice he is sentenced to a chain gang. Twice he escapes. They can put his hands and feet in irons, but not his will to be free....
Editor's Note
Six CONTROVERSIAL CLASSICS are contained on this collection of films. Among them are THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY, BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, A FACE IN THE CROWD, THE FURY, and I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG. See individual titles for synopsis information.
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