Beyond the Forest 1949  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Regis Toomey, Dona Drake
A greedy woman, Rosa (Bette Davis), marries a small-town doctor (Joseph Cotten) with little money and then lives unhappily ever after–until she finds a new, fateful love interest. Bette Davis mutters, "What a Dump!"
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The Damned Don't Cry 1950  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Morris Ankrum, Richard Egan, Eddie Marr, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle, Jacqueline deWit
Tough broad Ethel Whitehead (Joan Crawford) leaves husband Roy (Richard Egan) and becomes involved with gangster Nick Prenta (Steve Cochran). When Nick is gunned down, Ethel returns to her husband's home in order to escape Nick's killer (David Brian).
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The First Traveling Saleslady 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, Clint Eastwood, James Arness, Robert F. Simon, Frank Wilcox, Dan White, Harry Cheshire
In this weak comedy, Rose Gillray (Ginger Rogers) finds love when she sets off to deal with rough cattlemen. Keep on the lookout for a very young Clint Eastwood.
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Flamingo Road 1949  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George, Fred Clark, Gertrude Michael, Virginia Huston, Alice White, Tristram Coffin, Sam McDaniel, Tito Vuolo, Iris Adrian, Pierre Watkin, James Flavin
Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy (Joan Crawford) is stranded in a small, Florida town where she gets a job as a waitress. She falls in love with Deputy Sheriff Fielding Carlisle (Zachary Scott), but Sheriff Titus Semple (Sidney Greenstreet), who will have none of their romance, frames Lane on a prostitution charge and sends her to jail. Later, after being released from prison, Lane returns to town and seeks revenge against the sheriff–an act that will bring death or destruction to all.
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 The High and the Mighty 1954  G, 147 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Newton, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Sidney Blackmer, Ann Doran, David Brian
Passengers' emotions rise to the surface when their airplane is in danger of crashing into the Pacific Ocean. All of the "Airplane" comedies resulted from this, the first airplane disaster film. The film won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score and had four other nominations, including Best Director and two for Supporting Actress (Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor).
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Inside Straight 1951  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gerald Mayer
Cast: David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge, Paula Raymond, Lon Chaney Jr., Roland Winters, Claude Jarman Jr., John Hoyt, Barbara Billingsley
A poker game, set up by Rip MacCool (David Brian), is the vehicle for telling MacCool's history through flashbacks.
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Intruder in the Dust 1949 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Juano Hernandez, Claude Jarman Jr., David Brian, Elizabeth Patterson, Porter Hall, Charles Kemper, Will Geer, David Clarke, Dan White, Harry Hayden
This is the film adaptation of William Faulkner's novel in which Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is a black man in Oxford, Mississippi. Beauchamp narrowly escapes lynching for a crime he did not commit when the corpse is exhumed as evidence to clear him.
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The Rare Breed 1966 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., David Brian, Charles Lampkin
In the 1880s, Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) strives to introduce a new breed of short-horned Hereford cattle to the ranges of Texas. She gets help–finally–from Burnett (James Stewart).
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Springfield Rifle 1952 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr., Philip Carey, Martin Milner, Alan Hale Jr., James Millican, Fess Parker
Major "Lex" Kearney (Gary Cooper) develops a scheme in which he poses as a traitor to uncover espionage involving the supply of needed horses for the Union during the Civil War.
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Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 26 (Episodes 51&52) 1968 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Ralph Senensky, Vincent McEveety
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, Diana Muldaur, David Brian
Two episodes from the second season are presented in this DVD. "Return to Tomorrow" (aired 2/9/1968, stardate 4768.3)-An Enterprise landing party on a dead planet finds three living entities that have no bodies, but only show as lights within a globe. The entities want to "borrow" the bodies of Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Mulhall so they can build androids to house themselves. One reverts to his old ways of being an enemy to the other, poisons Kirk's body, and refuses to give Spock's body back. How will the crew handle this fine kettle of fish? "Patterns of Force" (aired 2/16/1968, stardate 2534.0)-During a routine visit to the planet Ekos, the Enterprise is fired on with a nuclear missile–a technology that the inhabitants were not expected to have. Kirk and Spock are beamed down and find a planet of Nazis led by a zealot who intends to expand his influence to a nearby, peaceful planet. A tough assignment for the Enterprise crew!
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This Woman Is Dangerous 1952 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb, Philip Carey, Ian MacDonald, Sherry Jackson, Mari Aldon, George Chandler, Douglas Fowley
When criminal Beth Austin (Joan Crawford) undergoes an operation to prevent impending blindness, she falls in love with her doctor (Dennis Morgan).
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| 1. Beyond the Forest (1949)
2. The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
3. The Destructors (1968)
4. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
5. Flamingo Road (1949)
6. The High and the Mighty (1954)
7. Inside Straight (1951)
8. Intruder in the Dust (1949)
9. The Rabbit Trap (1959)
10. The Rare Breed (1966)
11. Springfield Rifle (1952)
12. Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 26 (Episodes 51&52) (1968)
13. This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
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