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Dardo, a Robin Hood like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors

During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend

High among idiosyncratic auteur Robert Aldrichs most powerful and intense dramas, Twilights Last Gleaming is a thunderous political thriller and race against time doomsday classic Burt Lancaster stars as the Air Force general Lawrence Dell who seizes control of a stockpile of nuclear missiles to force the US President Charles Durning to tell the truth about the Vietnam war As negotiations get ever

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation

During the early 1960s, U S military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior

A D A investigates 3 white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid

An armored truck driver and his ex wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack

A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O K Corral

During the Depression, a con man promises rain to a desperate drought ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit

A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the islands inhabitants

A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his remote 10th Century castle hoping a battle there against the advancing Germans will not lead to its destruction and all the heritage w

A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town

A man abused by a sadistic mining company cop before he could tell where on their desert property hed found diamonds decides to steal them instead

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes

A reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence

An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger

During the Riff War in Morocco, the French Foreign Legions outpost of Tarfa is threatened by Khalif Husseins tribes but Sergeant Mike Kincaid devises a plan of survival until the arrival of French reinforcements

On its way to Denver, a cargo of whiskey destined for the miners, is sought after by the Temperance League, the U S Cavalry, the local Indians and the miners themselves

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them

A U S sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew

A Kentucky widower bound for 1820s Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant

Refusing to let himself be re settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone

A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less gifted but beautiful Italian

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyones efforts to separate them

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things dont go as expected

Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator

An ex con, once a cop, now working as security in a college, decides to investigate the murder of one of the students, a daughter of a senator