Peter Finch
1) Network
Formats
Description
A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The young bride accompanies her husband to his plantation called Elephant Walk, and falls for the overseer. This love triangle is soon dwarfed by a cholera epidemic and a drought that brings herds of elephants to the plantation in a thundering stampede.
Series
Criterion collection volume 629
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirty something divorcee who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist. A revelation in its day, this may be the 1970s most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships; it is keenly acted and sensitively directed, from a penetrating screenplay.
Description
A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A downed airplane is a motley group of men's only protection from the relentless desert sun, in this psychologically charged disaster epic, one of the all-time great survival movies. James Stewart is the veteran pilot whose Benghazi-bound plane--carrying passengers played by an unshaven ensemble of screen icons including Richard Attenborough, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Dan Duryea, Peter Finch, and George Kennedy--crash-lands in the remote Sahara....
9) Lost horizon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Description
In this musical remake of the Frank Capra classic, a group of passengers survives a plane crash in the Himalayas and ends up in the mystical world of Shangri-La, an idyllic oasis where art, culture and the knowledge of the world are treasured.
Publisher
ITV Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This set, crackling with suspense and drama, includes ten of the most prominent examples of British filmmaking. Appointment with Venus: at the outbreak of WWII the British realize they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realizes that a prize cow, Venus, is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. The wind cannot read: Love that was forbidden ... but could not be denied! Operation Amsterdam: during WWII,...
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"Two weeks after the start of WWII, a powerful German pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, sails the South Atlantic, destroying Allied merchant ships at will. Captained by one of Germany's most brilliant naval officers, the Graf Spee, with her superior speed and artillery, appears and disappears, sinking ship after ship. When the Allies are finally able to pinpoint its location a trap is set, pitting British Intelligence against a wily and powerful military...