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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. This film is the portrait of a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support and defiance.
4) 12 angry men
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2008, c1957
Language
English
Description
The case against a Puerto Rican boy accused of murder looks open and shut, but passions ignite and prejudices emerge in the cramped, sweltering jury room as one man holds out for acquittal.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1996
Language
English
Description
Myrlie Evers has fought for years to see the man who murdered her husband, African-American civil rights worker Medgar Evers, brought to justice. Yet, after two hung juries and 30 years, justice has not come. Finally, in the 1990s, a brave lawyer reopens the case to fight for the conviction of the murderer.
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