Bruce Davison
81) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Language
English
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Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
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English
Description
Out of the woods: A lawyer heads into the wilderness to check on his grandfather and is faced with a decision that will change his life forever.
Where there's a will: Richie, a failed con-man with debt to a merciless loan shark, receives an offer to look after his ailing grandmother--a woman he's never met.
Fielder's choice: Life is perfectly uncomplicated for promising advertising executive Philip Fielder until his sister unexpectedly dies, leaving...
83) War collection
Language
English
Description
The eagle and the hawk : World War I drama about rival pilots with opposing codes of honor and a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.
The last outpost : World War I drama about a British prisoner of war who is rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson.
Wake Island : Based on the true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
Bengal...