Films with: Anderson, Maxwell

All quiet on the western front

"This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war. . ." Title screens. 1914. War has broken out in Europe. A group of German college students are convinced to enlist after their teacher, Professor Kantorek, gives an impassioned speech about the honor of dying for their Fatherland. Paul Bäumer--sent to the Western Front where the fighting is most severe--is soon stripped of illusions about war being glorious. There is nothing but fear, pain, and the randomness of death. Paul is the sole survivor of his group and when he returns home, he denounces the war and his professor. Returned to the action, Paul tries to cope with the incessant fear that eats away at a soldier's insides, turning them hollow and empty.

DVD 74

Bad seed

A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old daughter harbors an innate desire to kill.

DVD 4409

Death takes a holiday

In this pre-code classic, Death, intent on entering the human world for a holiday, takes the form of a prince visiting a family of wealthy soclialites and encounters all of the pleasures and pains that go with a flesh-and-blood existence.

DVD 8577

Key Largo

A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.

DVD 267

Mary of Scotland

Historical drama about the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England.

DVD 5649

Private lives of Elizabeth and Essex

This period drama sets the tumultuous on-again, off-again affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the second Earl of Essex against Essex's powerful ambition to assume the throne of England.

DVD 4491

Rain

The unforgettable tragedy of a handful of human beings thrown together during a monsoon in Pago Pago. Rain dissects the elemental nature of tyranny under the guise of religious fervor. When a fanatical missionary and his equally zealous wife are marooned in a hut with a former prostitute during a week-long tropical storm, the conflict swells to explosive proportions--frightening in its intensity and realism.

DVD 476