Films with: Walsh, Raoul

Birth of a nation

This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history.

DVD 1205

Dark command

Set in pre-Civil War Lawrence, Kansas where tensions about slavery ran high, this film tells a fictionalized version of the story of the raider William Clarke Quantrill. Bob Seton runs for Federal Marshall of Kansas and defeats William Cantrell. Cantrell responds by stealing Seton's girl and manipulating her into marrying him. Seton later exposes Cantrell and his band of guerillas who have been raiding both Union and Confederate lines.

DVD 798

High Sierra

A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side, a side that will ultimately be his downfall.

DVD 8524

Regeneration

"Based on the autobiographical novel by Owen Kildare, Regeneration follows the rise of a child of the slums from impoverished orphan at age ten to successful Bowery hoodlum at twenty-five. On the vice-ridden streets of New York, however, he rediscovers his forgotten innocence through the encouragement of Mamie Rose, the proprietress of a downtown mission, but must resist the influences of his colleagues to whom he is bound by criminal codes of honor."--Container.

DVD 1804

Roaring twenties

A World War I veteran (Cagney) returns to New York, innocently becomes involved in bootlegging, builds up an empire and dies in a gang war. Set against a background of newsreel-like montages and narration.

DVD 6362

They died with their boots on

Classic accounts of Custer's final days and the battle of Little Big Horn.

DVD 4493

Thief of Bagdad

Ahmed The Thief is happy to be a vagabond rogue until he falls in love with the beautiful Princess. He must prove himself worthier of her hand than his rival, the evil Prince of the Mongols, who has come to seize the Princess, and Bagdad, for his own.

DVD 827

White heat

In his last role as a heartless gangster, James Cagney embarks on the prison break of a lifetime in this chilling tale that features one of the most riveting finales in movie history.

DVD 5385