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Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection (The Flame and the Arrow / His Majesty O'Keefe / South Sea Woman / Jim Thorpe - All American / Executive Action) (1950)
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| Starring: | Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Joan Rice, Chuck Connors, Barry Kelley, Hayden Rorke, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter |
| Director: | Michael Curtiz, Byron Haskin, Arthur Lubin, Jacques Tourneur |
| Genre: | Drama, Sea Adventure, Swashbucklers, Sports Drama |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 472 minutes |
| Released: | October 23, 2007 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | Color, NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:
The Flame and the Arrow (1950, 88 min)
Fans of screen swashbuckling found a successor to the legendary Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Errol Flynn when Burt Lancaster brought a unique blend of exuberance and swagger to this exiting Robin Hood-like yarn. In medieval Lombardy, wily Dardo the Arrow (Lancaster) leads the peasantry in revolt against a vile Hessian warlord (Frank Allenby) and wins the hand of a lady (Virginia Mayo). Lancaster's former circus partner Nick Cravat plays Dardo's comical sidekick. Amid the Technicolor array of mammoth sets, elaborate costumes and vivid pageantry, the pair puts on a rollicking display of acrobatic roughhousing. They leave earthbound foes looking like 90-pound weaklings - and will leave you breathlessly dazzled.
Jim Thorpe - All American (1951, 105 min)
He did it all. And he did it better than anyone. Oklahoma Indian Jim Thorpe played pro baseball, almost singlehandedly put pro football on the map and won Olympic gold medals - yet knew nothing of organized sports before enrolling as a young man at Carlisle School for Indians. When selecting "the greatest athlete of the 20th century," American sportswriters really had only one choice: Jim Thorpe.
Under the direction of Michael Curtiz, Burt Lancaster brings dignity, determination and his trademark physicality to this exciting film loaded with thrilling sports action. And he brings dramatic power to his portrayal of Thorpe's greatest triumph: the climb back to a successful life after a bitter slide into obscurity.
South Sea Woman (1953, 98 min)
It's why the tropics are hot. In the early days of World War II, Marine Sgt. James O'Hearn brawls his way from China to a palm-fringed isle, from barroom to brig, from romance with a beautiful gal to rivalry with a leatherneck pal, and from tough-guy combat to wiseguy comedy in the spirited South Sea Woman.
As O'Hearn, screen icon Burt Lancaster flashes his million-dollar grin, flexes his muscular knack for heroics and delivers the kind of tongue-in-cheek adventure that made The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate such rousing crowd pleasers. With his Flame co-star Virginia Mayo matching him quip for quip and Chuck Connors matching him fist for fist, Lancaster turns the Pacific in to an ocean of action.
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954, 90 min)
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees! Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it!
Screen royalty Bur Lancaster is His Majesty O'Keefe in the last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbuckler genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeous Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Joe McDoakes Comedy Shorts
- So You're Going to Have an Operation
- So You Want to Know Your Relative
- So You Want to Be an Heir
- So You Want To Be A Paper Hanger
- Classic Cartoons
- Strife with Father
- I Gopher You
- Much Ado About Nutting
- Hare We Go
- Theatrical Trailers
This 5 disc set includes Executive Action (1973), and while it is sold as part of the set, it is not available for individual sale or rent at Classicflix.
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