In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Sig navnene Tomas Milian og Lee Van Cleef, og så ved man, den står på rendyrket spaghetti-western. I denne 1966-produktion med dens danske biograftitel Manden med de Sorte Støvler spiller Van Cleef en effektiv revolvermand, der er blevet stueren og foreslås som kandidat til en post som senator. Men da han hører om en mexicansk bandit, der har voldtaget og myrdet en 12-årig pige, stiller han de politiske ambitioner i bero.
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Pioneren Lin McAdam forsøger at spore sin fars morder og sin unikke riffel, Winchester ’73, som går fra hånd til hånd mellem en række desperate mænd – bl.a. en skør stratenrøver, en skrupelløs våbensmugler, en brutal ung indianerhøvding samt McAdams egen mordlystne bror.
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
I en for Hitchcock atypisk dokumentarstil fortæller mesterinstruktøren om en mand, der anklages for en forbrydelse, han ikke har begået. Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) er musiker og bor i New York. Da han opsøger sit livsforsikringsselskab for at låne penge til medicin til sin kone (Vera Miles), bliver han arresteret, fordi tre af de ansatte mener at kunne genkende ham som den person, der nogle dage forinden begik et røverisk overfald på stedet.
Viceadvokat Adam Bonner elsker sin kone Amanda, men har ikke meget tilovers for forsvareren i en sentationel mordsag - men hans modstander i retssalen er tilfældigvis Amanda, der også er advokat. Sagen handler om en kvinde, der er anklaget for at have skudt sin utro ægtemand, og det bliver en feministisk mærkesag for Amanda.
John Wayne havde sloges med sine bare næver, skudt desperadoer, kæmpet junglekrige og været pilot. Men The Cowboys gav ham en af hans saftigeste roller som en læderhals af en rancher, der bliver svigtet af sine faste mænd, og derfor hyrer 11 grønne skoledrenge til at drive kvæg over 400 modbydelige mil. Da støvet havde lagt sig, havde John Wayne spillet en af sine bedste film.
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
I 1976 kæmper en lavere middelklasse teenager for at klare at leve med sin neurotiske familie af nomader i udkanten af Beverly Hills.
Der bliver sendt bud efter en ny sherif, men han er faktisk kun blikkenslager, men hedder Marshall og får derfor jobbet.
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
Talbot Blake er en af USA's værste massemordere. Da det lykkes den unge politimand Nick Styles at pågribe Blake, Bliver han hele nationens store helt. I løbet af ingen tid kender alle Styles. Også Talbot. I syv år af iskold had kortlægger han Styles' liv i mindste detalje for at kunne udføre sin djævelske og raffinerede hævn. Når han iværksætter sin hævn skal hele nationen rase over Styles. Styles' liv bliver et mareridt... Men det bliver værre. Det lykkes Talbot at flygte fra fængslet og han iscenesætter sin egen død. Men det er bare bluff. Hvordan skal Styles kunne forsvarer sig mod en morder, som han allerede tror er død?
In 1948, immediately before a ceasefire takes effect, four volunteers fighting for Israel are ordered to take Hill 24, overlooking the road to Jerusalem.
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.