DVD Talk Forum - The Seventh Annual Historical Appreciation Challenge List Thread

DVD Talk Historical Challenge 2016

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Monday, May 30, 2016

1) DESTINATION TOKYO (1943/U.S., 135 min., b&w, war drama/Warner Bros.) DVD
Dir.: Delmer Daves. Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Dane Clark, Alan Hale, William Prince.
A U.S. sub sneaks into Tokyo Bay to gather information for a top-secret mission. Interspersed are vignettes of life among the crew of a long-range submarine in World War II.

2) BACK TO BATAAN (1945/U.S., 95 min., b&w, war adventure/RKO) DVD
Dir.: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli.
An American officer leads a unit of Filipino guerrillas in a campaign against the Japanese army occupying the Philippines.
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3) Japan’s War in Colour (2005/UK, 95 min., color, TV documentary) DVD (narrated in English)
Prod.: TWI. Dir.: David Batty. Narrator: Brian Cox.
Color footage of Japan before, during, and after the war, and many key military operations in the Pacific.

4) Japan’s War in Colour DVD Extras
THE LAST BOMB (1945/U.S., 35 min., color, documentary) DVD
A blow-by-blow depiction of the planning and execution of the final bombing raids on Japan in 1945, including the dropping of the atomic bombs.
Montages: Iwo Jima (5:19), After the Bombs (3:59), Postwar Japan (5:14)

May 31, 2016
5) GUNG HO! (1943/U.S., 86 min., b&w, war adventure/Universal) DVD
Dir.: Ray Enright. Cast: Randolph Scott, J. Carrol Naish, Alan Curtis, Sam Levene, Rod Cameron, Robert Mitchum.
A specially-trained Marine Raiders commando unit goes on a secret mission to take back Makin Island from the Japanese.

June 1, 2016
6) WAKE ISLAND (1942/U.S., 89 min., b&w, war adventure/Paramount) DVD
Dir.: John Farrow. Cast: Brian Donlevy, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Robert Preston, William Bendix.
The marines on Wake Island put up heroic resistance to a Japanese invasion fleet in December 1941.
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7) TOWN TAMER (1965/U.S., 89 min., color, western/Paramount) Seen on Amazon Prime.
Dir.: Lesley Selander. Cast: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Bruce Cabot, Lon Chaney, Richard Arlen, Pat O'Brien, Lyle Bettger.
Andrews plays a lawman hired by the railroad to clean up a western town run by an evil saloon owner who'd had Andrews' wife killed in a previous town. All-star cast of old-time stars.

8) The Virginian (1962-1971/U.S., color, 90-min. western) DVD
Stars: Lee J. Cobb, James Drury.
“Throw a Long Rope” (Season 1 / #3, aired Oct. 3, 1962)
Dir.: Ted Post. Guest cast: Jack Warden, John Anderson, Ted Knight.
The Virginian gets caught in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and "nesters."

June 2, 2016
9) The Untouchables (1959-63/U.S., b&w, hour-long crime series/Desilu) DVD
Stars: Robert Stack, Jerry Paris, Abel Fernandez.
“The George ‘Bugs’ Moran Story” (Season 1 / #4, Nov. 5, 1959) Director: Joe Parker. Guest stars: Lloyd Nolan, Jack Warden.
With Al Capone in jail and Eliot Ness in Washington, Bugs Moran tries to take over a truckers union in Chicago.

10) THE GOLDEN SEAL (1971/Hong Kong, 84 min., color, historical adventure/Shaw Bros.) R3 DVD (in Mandarin with English subs.)
Dir.: Tien Feng. Cast: Wang Ping, Tsung Hua, Ku Feng, Tien Feng.
In Old China, the son and daughter of murdered martial artists seek out the rival clan leader who killed their parents.

11) GUADALCANAL DIARY (1943/U.S., 93 min., b&w, war drama/Fox) DVD
Dir.: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn, Richard Conte, Richard Jaeckel.
The marines launch an attack on Japanese-held Guadalcanal. Based on war correspondent Richard Tregaskis’ best-selling account of the battle.
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June 3, 2016
12) KIT CARSON (1940/U.S., 96 min., b&w, western/UA) Seen on Amazon Prime.
Dir.: George B. Seitz. Cast: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Ward Bond.
Kit Carson and Capt. John C. Fremont lead a wagon train of settlers in a bid to find the shortest route to California, fighting Shoshone Indians along the way and encountering violent opposition from the Mexican authorities in California.

June 4, 2016
13) WHEN THE REDSKINS RODE (1951/U.S., 78 min., color, historical adventure/Columbia) Seen on Encore Western.
Dir.: Lew Landers. Cast: Jon Hall, Mary Castle, James Seay, John Ridgely. Jon Hall plays Prince Hannoc, an Americanized Indian who accompanies Colonel George Washington (James Seay) on a mission to confront the French who are building forts on English land in a lead-up to the French-and-Indian War. Uses footage from an earlier film on the subject, NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940).

14) BATAAN (1943/U.S., 114 min., b&w, war drama/MGM) DVD
Dir.: Tay Garnett. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, George Murphy, Robert Walker.
As soldiers and civilians move down the Bataan Peninsula to flee the advancing Japanese, 13 American and Filipino volunteers blow up a bridge and hold their positions to delay the Japanese as long as possible.

15) Bonanza (1959-73/U.S., color, hour-long western/NBC) DVD
“Gift of Water” (Season 3 / #21, Feb. 11, 1962) Dir.: Jesse Hibbs. Writer: Borden Chase.
Guest cast: Royal Dano, Majel Barrett, James Doohan.
During a drought, the Cartwright brothers help a small rancher dig a well 100 feet deep to find a new source of water. Meanwhile, Ben Cartwright opposes the efforts of the big ranchers on high ground to form a vigilante committee to keep out the water-poor small ranchers.

June 5, 2016
16) POSSE (1975/U.S., 92 min., color, western/Paramount) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: Kirk Douglas. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, Luke Askew, James Stacy.
An ambitious marshal running for the senate from Texas brings in the state’s most wanted outlaw only to find the tables turned on him at a crucial stage.

17) THE STORY OF SUE SAN (1964/Hong Kong, 107 min., color, Huangmei Opera/Shaw Bros.) DVD (in Mandarin with English subs.)
Directors: King Hu, Li Han-hsiang. Cast: Betty Loh Ti, Chao Lei, Yang Chi-ching, Kao Pao Shu.
Operetta about a love between a wealthy heir and a world-class prostitute in Old China and the rise and fall of their fortunes, culminating in a life-or-death court case.
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June 6, 2016
18) Maverick (1957-62/U.S., b&w, hour-long western series/Warner Bros.) Stars: James Garner, Jack Kelly. Seen on EWST-HD.
Season 1 / #11: “The Wrecker” Originally aired Dec. 1, 1957. Dir.: Franklin Adreon. Guest cast: Patric Knowles, Karl Swenson.
Bart Maverick goes to sea to find a scuttled ship with a valuable cargo. The onscreen title of the episode is “Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Wrecker.” It’s based on a Stevenson novel.

19) LUST FOR LIFE (1956/U.S., 122 min., color, historical drama/MGM) DVD
Dir.: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Niall MacGinnis.
Biopic of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890).

20) THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN (1969/U.S., 115 min., color, WWII adventure/UA) DVD
Dir.: John Guillermin. Cast: George Segal, Ben Gazzara, Robert Vaughn, Bradford Dillman.
The Nazis are ordered to blow up the last bridge over the Rhine before the Allied advance reaches it, but the Major in charge wants to hold it so that fleeing German troops can get across.

June 7, 2016
21) BATTLEGROUND (1949/U.S., 118 min., b&w, WWII drama/MGM) DVD
Dir.: William A. Wellman. Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, James Whitmore, Ricardo Montalban, Marshall Thompson.
Follows a squad of infantrymen during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
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22) SONS OF GOOD EARTH (1965/Hong Kong, 107 min., color, historical drama/Shaw Bros.) R3 DVD (in Mandarin with English subs.)
Dir.: King Hu. Cast: Betty Loh Ti, Peter Chen-ho, Li Kun, Tien Feng, Kao Pao Shu.
A tight-knit community in a provincial town in northeast China is disrupted when the Japanese army arrives and begins its occupation in 1937.

June 8, 2016
23) FORT UTAH (1967/U.S., 84 min., color, western/Paramount) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: Lesley Selander. Cast: John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady, John Russell.
Legendary gunman Tom Horn meets up with an Indian agent and together they lead a group of wagon train survivors of an Indian attack in an effort to defend an abandoned fort against both the Indians and a band of marauders led by a murderous army deserter.

24) Shadow Warriors (1980/Japan, color, hour-long ninja adventure series/Toei) DVD (in Japanese with English subs.)
Star: Sonny Chiba.
#15: “Mysterious Priest, Inviting Hell” (originally aired in Japan, July 8, 1980) Dir.: Yuuji Makiguchi.
#16: “Don’t Get Involved with Dangerous Women” (originally aired July 15, 1980) Dir.: Oota Akikazu.
The adventures of Hattori Hanzo and the Iga ninja in 17th century Japan.

June 9, 2016
25) PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI (1955/Japan-Hong Kong, 87 min., color, historical drama) R2 DVD.
Dir.: Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, So Yamamura, Isao Yamagata.
In 8th century China, the widowed Emperor Xuan Zong falls for his newest concubine and makes her his wife. When her relatives are given high posts, their corruption is so egregious that it leads to civil war.
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26) JUBAL (1956/U.S., 101 min., color, western/Columbia) Seen on TCM-HD.
Dir.: Delmer Daves. Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Charles Bronson.
A cattleman’s wife takes an interest in the new foreman, leading to jealousy, complications, and manslaughter while a wagon train filled with worshippers seeking a “promised land” tries to make it across the cattleman’s territory.

June 10, 2016
27) THE SEARCHERS (1956/U.S., 119 min., color, western/Warner Bros.) Blu-ray
Dir.: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood.
A Civil War veteran and his nephew search the west for a family member taken by Comanche Indians.

28) DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012/U.S., 165 min., color, historical adventure/TWC-Sony) DVD
Dir.: Quentin Tarantino. Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson.
Two bounty hunters in the late 1850s, one black and one white, use the proceeds from a season of capturing and killing wanted men to search for the black bounty hunter’s wife, who was sold to a plantation in Mississippi.

June 11, 2016
29) YOU KNOW MY NAME (1999/U.S., 94 min., color, western TV movie/TNT) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: John Kent Harrison. Cast: Sam Elliott, Arliss Howard, R. Lee Ermey, James Gammon, James Parks.
A rare film about a truly legendary figure in the old west, Oklahoma lawman Bill Tilghman. Here he is called out of retirement in 1924 to clean up a wild town going through an oil boom during Prohibition.
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June 12, 2016
30) MARTIAL ARTS OF SHAOLIN (1986/China, 90 min., color, martial arts adventure/Shaw Bros.) DVD (in Mandarin with English subs.)
Dir.: Lau Kar Leung. Cast: Jet Li, Huang Qiuyan, Hu Jianqiang, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu.
In 17th century China, Shaolin students from North and South unite to seek vengeance on the tyrannical lord who killed their parents.

June 13, 2016
31) ART BASTARD (2015/U.S., 82 min., color, documentary/Concannon Productions) Seen at Village East Cinemas, Manhattan.
Director: Victor Kanefsky.
Overview of the career of an outsider artist, Robert Cenedella, who painted action-packed panoramas of not-so-fanciful New York street scenes.

32) DE PALMA (2016/U.S., 107 min., color, documentary/A24) Seen at Angelika Film Center, Manhattan.
Directors: Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow.
Long interview with film director Brian De Palma interspersed with clips from his entire career, from his early shorts and counterculture satires to his most recent film, PASSION.

June 14, 2016
33) RAW EDGE (1956/U.S., 76 min., color, western/Universal) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: John Sherwood. Cast: Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday, Neville Brand.
In 1842 Oregon, Montgomery, a corrupt lumber king, rules the territory with an iron hand until a gunman comes to town looking for his brother who’d been lynched by the lumber king and his posse after a false accusation.
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34) ELEPHANT BOY (1937/UK, 82 min., b&w, adventure/London Film) VHS
Directors: Robert Flaherty, Zoltan Korda. Script: John Collier. Cast: Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Wilfrid Hyde-White.
Based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. In 19th century India, a boy who serves as an elephant driver joins a large expedition to find a rumored herd of elephants in Mysore, India.

June 15, 2016
35) DAKOTA INCIDENT (1956/U.S., 88 min., Trucolor, western/Republic) Seen on Amazon Prime.
Dir.: Lewis R. Foster. Cast: Dale Robertson, Linda Darnell, John Lund, Ward Bond.
En route to Laramie, six passengers, including a U.S. senator, survive a stagewreck only to get pinned down in a dry creek by a band of Indians.

36) ATTACK! (1956/U.S., 108 min., b&w, war drama/UA) VHS
Dir.: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin.
As American forces advance through France and Belgium after D-Day, a lieutenant vows vengeance on a cowardly captain who failed to send back-up during a crucial engagement.

June 16, 2016
37) THE WILD AND THE INNOCENT (1959/U.S., 84 min., color, western/Universal) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: Jack Sher. Cast: Audie Murphy, Sandra Dee, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland.
A young trapper comes to town with a mountain girl looking for a job and the two are initially awed by life in the “big city” of Casper, Wyoming in the 1870s.
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June 17, 2016
38) Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman (aka Zatoichi Monogatari, 1974, color, Japanese live-action historical TV series) DVD (in Japanese with English subs.) Star: Shintaro Katsu.
Ep. 1: “A Challenge of Chance” (46 min.)
Ep. 2: “The Flower that Bloomed with the Lullaby” (47 min.)

June 18, 2016
39) THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (1965/U.S., 122 min., color, western/Paramount) DVD
Dir.: Henry Hathaway. Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, Michael Anderson Jr.
In 1898 Texas, a widow dies and her four sons show up for the funeral and ask questions about their father’s death and the loss of their ranch.

June 19, 2016
40) “An American in Paris” (2015/Broadway musical) Seen at Palace Theater, New York.
Director: Christopher Wheeldon. Stars: Garen Scribner, Leanne Cope. Book: Craig Lucas. Music and Lyrics: George & Ira Gershwin.
An American G.I. stays in Paris after the war and falls in love with a French girl.

June 20, 2016
41) ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO (1967/U.S., 104 min., color, western/Universal) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: Arnold Laven. Cast: George Peppard, Dean Martin, Jean Simmons, John McIntire.
A renowned marshal and his ex-deputy try to operate a stage line in a town run by a former lawman-turned-tyrannical town boss.

42) OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (1945/U.S., 142 min., b&w, war adventure/Warner Bros.) DVD
Dir.: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull.
American paratroopers embark on a dangerous mission behind Japanese lines in Burma.
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June 21, 2016
43) BLACK SPURS (1965/U.S., 81 min., color, western/Paramount) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
Dir.: R.G. Springsteen. Cast: Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Terry Moore, Scott Brady, James Best.
A bounty hunter decides to bring crime and vice to a peaceful Kansas town as part of a get-rich-quick plan involving the railroad, but soon has a change of heart.

44) THE CIMARRON KID (1952/U.S., 84 min., color, western/Universal) DVD
Dir.: Budd Boetticher. Cast: Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Dugay.
Murphy stars as outlaw Bill Doolin who leads a robbery gang in Oklahoma after the Dalton brothers are killed.

45) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956/U.S., 232 min., color, historical epic/Paramount) DVD
Dir.: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek, Debra Paget.
The story of Moses and his deliverance of the people of Israel from bondage in Egypt.

June 22, 2016
46) THE PROUD ONES (1956/U.S., 94 min., color, western/Fox) DVD
Dir.: Robert D. Webb. Cast: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Brennan, Robert Middleton.
A marshal finds his peaceful town under assault by a new saloon owner and his henchmen trying to milk the town dry.

June 23, 2016
47) ZATOICHI: THE FESTIVAL OF FIRE (1970/Japan, 96 min., color, historical adventure/Daiei) DVD (in Japanese with English subs.)
Dir.: Kenji Misumi. Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Reiko Ohara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Ko Nishimura.
Blind swordsman Zatoichi runs afoul of a blind yakuza leader who recruits a beautiful woman to lure Zatoichi into a trap.

48) Wagon Train (1957-1965/U.S., b&w, hour-long western series/Revue) Seen on Encore Western-HD. Star: Ward Bond.
“The Colter Craven Story” (Season 4 / #9, November 23, 1960) Dir.: John Ford. Guest cast: Carleton Young, Anna Lee, John Carradine, Paul Birch (as Ulysses S. Grant).
Major Adams tells a war story about General Grant to inspire an alcoholic doctor who’s lost faith in his abilities. John Wayne makes a cameo appearance as General Sherman in the flashback.
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June 24, 2016
49) OVERLAND TELEGRAPH (1951/U.S., 60 min., b&w, western/RKO) DVD
Dir.: Lesley Selander. Cast: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Gail Davis, Hugh Beaumont, George Nader, Robert Wilke.
A cowboy and his sidekick come to the aid of a telegraph construction crew plagued by sabotage.

June 25, 2016
50) RETURN OF THE CISCO KID (1939/U.S., 70 min., b&w, western/Fox) Seen on Fox Movie Channel On Demand.
Dir.: Herbert I. Leeds. Cast: Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull.
The Cisco Kid escapes death by firing squad in Mexico to take on a land baron in Arizona.

51) MISSION TO MOSCOW (1943/U.S., 123 min., b&w, historical drama/Warner Bros.) VHS.
Dir.: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, Eleanor Parker.
The story of Ambassador Joseph Davies’ tenure in the Soviet Union in the years leading up to World War II.

June 27, 2016
52) GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON (1963/Italy, 80 min., color, historical adventure/AIP) DVD (dubbed in English)
Dir.: Michele Lupo. Cast: Mark Forest, Giuliano Gemma, Mimmo Palmara, Piero Lulli.
Goliath leads a revolt by the people of Nephyr against their oppressors in Babylon.
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53) INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009/U.S.-Germany, 153 min., color, war adventure/Universal) DVD.
Dir.: Quentin Tarantino. Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender.
The "Basterds," an American commando team, works behind enemy lines in France to assassinate Germans. Meanwhile, a theater owner in Paris hatches a plot to wipe out the German High Command when they show up at her theater for a film premiere, little knowing that the Basterds plan to show up as well.

June 28, 2016
54) BATTLE HYMN (1957/U.S., 108 min., color/Cinemascope, war drama/Universal) DVD
Dir.: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, James Edwards, Martha Hyer.
The true-life story of Colonel Dean Hess, an American minister who trains pilots during the Korean War and undertakes a mission to evacuate hundreds of orphaned Korean children.

June 29, 2016
55) Bonanza (1959-73/U.S., color, hour-long western/NBC) Seen on Amazon Prime.
Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon.
“Desert Justice” (Season 1 / #23, Feb. 20, 1960) Dir.: Lewis Allen. Writer: Donald S. Sanford. Guest cast: Claude Akins, Wesley Lau, John Wengraf.
When a brutal marshal takes a worker at the Ponderosa prisoner, two of the Cartwrights decide to accompany them on the stage to Los Angeles to protect the prisoner.

56) The Rose of Versailles (1979/Japan, color, anime historical drama/TV series) DVD (in Japanese with English subs.)
Dir.: Osamu Dezaki.
#26: A Sought Encounter with the Black Knight!
#27: Even if I Should Lose the Light…
#28: André, a Green Lemon
#29: The Doll that Began to Walk
The adventures of Lady Oscar, Regiment Commander of the Royal Guards at the Palace of Versailles in the lead-up to the French Revolution.
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57) BLADE OF FURY (1993/Hong Kong, 104 min., color, historical adventure/Golden Harvest) DVD (in Cantonese with English subs.)
Dir.: Sammo Hung. Cast: Ti Lung, Yeung Fan, Cynthia Khan, Ngai Sing.
A Chinese patriot in the 1890s gets caught up in the reform movement, only to encounter betrayal and treachery.

June 30, 2016
58) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923/U.S., 136 min., b&w, silent, drama/Paramount) DVD
Dir.: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Theodore Roberts, Estelle Taylor, Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy.
The first 50 minutes dramatizes the spectacle of the Exodus, with Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt and through the parted Red Sea. The rest of the film is a modern story about two brothers, one poor but honest, who abides by the Ten Commandments, the other rich and hedonistic, who breaks all ten of the Commandments.

59) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938/U.S., 102 min., color, historical adventure/Warner Bros.) Blu-ray.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone.
Sir Robin of Locksley leads a revolt of Saxons against the tyrannical Prince John who has usurped the throne of England while his brother, King Richard, is away on the Crusades.

60) Random episodes:
Death Valley Days (1952-70/U.S., b&w, half-hour western anthology series) Seen on Encore Western-HD.
“Sego Lilies” Season 1 / #16 (originally aired Apr. 28, 1953) Cast: Robert Hutton, Sally Mansfield.

Terra X: The Mystery of Easter Island (1990/U.S.-France, 22:12, color, documentary/ DSC (Discovery Channel) VHS

D-Day, June 6, 1944 (1962, b&w) A&E/ David L. Wolper Presents. Seen on VHS.

History Channel: “My Lai” with David Hackworth, Prof. Randy Roberts and host Steve Gillon, aired on 3/16/98, 30th anniversary of My Lai. Seen on VHS.