Sterling Hayden
3) Suddenly
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Three hired gunmen set themselves up to assassinate the President in a California town, where he is secretly scheduled to transfer from a special train to a car. They seize a strategic location in a private residence, and proceed to terrorize the occupants.
Description
A group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals manage to initiate an "accidential" nuclear apocalypse. Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper, order a bomber squadron to attack the USSR. This triggers a Soviet secret weapon called the 'Doomsday Machine.' The weapon is a diabolical retaliatory missile system. In an attempt to advert this catastrophe, British Captain Lionel Mandrake becomes the only person...
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Jim Vesser, a former U.S. Cavalry Officer, now in charge of getting the Denver and Rio Grande tracks across the Rockies first to secure a right-of-way. Standing in his way is the less scrupulous and more ruthless McCabe who's trying to lay his Canyon City and San Juan tracks first. The conflict between the two men turns into guerilla warfare between the two outfits.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Suddenly: The small quiet town of Suddenly is in an uproar preparing for the President's schduled arrival. Thinking they are ready for any surprises, John Baron manages to take over Ellen Benson's house for his cunning ambush. Now it is up to the sheriff and his gang to outwit the outlaws and save the day.
At war with the army: Two soldiers at an army base create havoc.
Royal wedding: Brother-sister dance team, Ellen and Tom, go to London to open...
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
Pub. Date
c2005, 1982
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster, and a suitcase of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, he soon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceit--only to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous-- friendship is murder.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Suddenly: a trio of assassins, led by a cold-blooded psychopath, hold a family and a local sheriff hostage while waiting for their target. The man with the golden arm: fresh out of prison for heroin possession, a professional card dealer struggles to become a jazz drummer while his gambling boss, neurotic wife, and villainous dope dealer all conspire against him. Fear in the night: a young man has a horrific nightmare wherein he commits a murder,...
11) Winter kills
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A fictional president of the U.S. is assassinated and his brother uncovers the conspiracy behind the murder several years later.
Series
Criterion collection volume 847
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme"--Container.