Films with: Frankenheimer, John

American film theatre.

Collection of five film adaptations of contemporary 20th century plays produced by the American Film Theatre from 1973-1975.

DVD 1631

Birdman of Alcatraz the story of a real and living man-- /

The true story of a convicted killer who avoids the depths of despair by becoming a world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment.

DVD 1691

Burning season the Chico Mendes story /

Dramatized story of Chico Mendes, the activist who dedicated his life to saving the Amazon's rain forests and to alerting the world to the endangered status of these forests.

DVD 11648

Films of John Frankenheimer

Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, John Frankenheimer talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work.

DVD 2263

French connection I & II

I. Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France. II. Gene Hackman returns in the role of hard-hitting detective Popoeye Doyle who travels to Marseilles in prusuit of the heroin dealers who he hit, but failed to kill in New York.

DVD 1659

George Wallace

George Wallace was an infamous politician and segregationist. He had a lust for power and status that made him bedfellows with racists and became one of the most destructive and most hated American politicians of his time. Follows George from his early days as a state circuit judge to his presidential run, when he was paralyzed by a would-be assassin.

DVD 6350

Island of Dr. Moreau

Dr. Moreau is brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits the island laboratory he discovers experiments turning animal life forms into human-like beasts. The beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all mankind.

DVD 1690

Manchurian candidate

A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career.

DVD 425

Path to war

Beginning after his election to the Presidency, Lyndon Johnson's dreams for "The Great Society" and his vision for civil rights in America were overshadowed by the Vietnam War. Johnson watches the nation react to the deaths of young Americans overseas.

DVD 10842

Reindeer games

Upon release from a stint in prison, Rudy impulsively decides to pose as his old cell mate Nick in order to make time with Nick's beautiful pen pal Ashley. But Rudy's ruse blows up when he realizes that Ashley was doublecrossing Nick...and now he's inescapably part of an armed robbery plot being hatched by her evil brother.

DVD 1692

Ronin

A group of freelance intelligence agents work together to steal a mysterious package, only to have a doublecross throw things into confusion.

DVD 2192

Seconds

Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, an aging banker succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into a handsome, young man, he begins a jet-set existence among a shadowy community of similar "reborns." But his heady exhilaration spirals into a heart-stopping terror as he discovers that his newly purchased life carries a terrifying price.

DVD 1933

Seven days in May

A popular general attempts to take over the U.S. government.

DVD 633

Train

Members of the French Resistance vow to stop a train, laden with stolen French art treasures, before it reaches Berlin.

DVD 41