Films with: Fonda, Henry

12 angry men

Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.

DVD 1654

Advise & consent

"A Senate subcommittee meets to confirm the President's controversial nominee for Secretary of State."

DVD 3538

Fail safe /

The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

DVD 13314

Fail-safe

A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.

DVD 2110

Fort Apache

In the old west, a military martinet has trouble with his family as well as the Indians.

DVD 4618

Gideon's trumpet

True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case, Gideon v. Wainright (1963), led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.

DVD 5359

Grapes of wrath

The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

DVD 4374

How the West was won

A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.

DVD 251

Jezebel

Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.

DVD 264

Lady Eve

"A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart."--Container.

DVD 1600

Longest day

Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

DVD 421

Meteor

Science fiction drama about a five-mile meteor on a collision course with the earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.

DVD 2376

Mister Roberts

A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.

DVD 306

My darling Clementine

A melodrama which tells of the adventures of Wyatt Earp as marshall of Tombstone, Ariz., and friend, Doc Holliday. The shoot-out at the O.K. Corral leads to the defeat of the Clanton gang.

DVD 85

On Golden Pond

While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.

DVD 441

Once upon a time in the West

A man preparing to welcome his new wife to his home is killed, along with his entire family.

DVD 3017

Ox-bow incident

An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.

DVD 3108

Preston Sturges : the filmmaker collection.

This collection pays tribute to seven of Preston Sturges finest and funniest films.

DVD 5072

Rollercoaster

A determined terrorist begins to turn America's amusement parks into battlefields. The tension mounts as affable safety inspector George Segal attempts to track down the saboteur who has targeted the country's most popular rollercoaster, and its riders, for senseless destruction.

DVD 874

Sometimes a great notion

A family bucks the close-knit timber community in which it lives in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike.

DVD 10373

Tin star

"A greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long ... and won't live to wear it much longer unless he gest some savvy help"--Container insert.

DVD 12687

Warlock

A sheriff is brought in to clean up the crime-ridden town of Warlock.

DVD 6610

Wrong man

The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.

DVD 5781

You only live once

Three time loser Eddie has had enough of life behand bars. Determined to make good after an early parole from prison Eddie finds devoted sweetheart Joan waiting for him. Fate then deals the young couple a cruel blow when Eddie is convicted of bank robbery and murder all the while proclaiming his innocence.

DVD 12587

Young Mr. Lincoln

Classic biographical telling of the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his youth to his death.

DVD 4699