In the mid nineteenth century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement Read More »
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The Devils Brigade (1968) Andrew V. McLaglen, William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
During World War II, a special fighting unit is formed that combines a crack Canadian Army unit and a conglomeration of U.S. Army misfits who had previously served time in military jails. Read More »
Travis McGee (1983) Andrew V. McLaglen, Sam Elliott, Gene Evans, Barry Corbin
Travis McGee is a world-weary private investigator trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation Read More »
Hellfighters (1968) Andrew V. McLaglen, John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage Read More »
Fools Parade (1971) Andrew V. McLaglen, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
In 1935, after 40 years in a West Virginia prison, three released convicts wish to open a legitimate business using the 25 thousand dollars earned in jail but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plan to defraud them. Read More »
Sahara (1983) Andrew V. McLaglen, Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Adventure, Drama
The Ballad of Josie (1967) Andrew V. McLaglen, Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Comedy, Western
Starring Doris Day, The Ballad of Josie is a rousing western-comedy about a feisty widow who is determined to make a better life for herself and her young son. Read More »
The Sea Wolves (1980) Andrew V. McLaglen, Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven
In March 1943, in the World War II, the Germans use the neutral harbor of the Portuguese colony of Mormugoa to transmit information to a U-Boat about the allied ships to sink them in international waters. In Calcutta, the British Intelligence assigns Colonel Lewis Pugh and Captain Gavin Stewart to spy in Goa and they discover that there are three German vessels anchored in the area and the famous spy Trompeta is based in Goa. They kidnap Trompeta to interrogate him but Lewis accidentally kills the spy after fighting with him in the runaway car. Meanwhile Gavin has one night stand with the gorgeous and elegant Mrs. Cromwell, who is the partner of Trompeta. They fail in their mission, but Lewis and Gavin convince their chief to use the veterans from Calcutta Light Horse led by the retired Colonel W.H. Grice to travel to Goa on board of the old ship Phoebe, pretending to be drunken businessmen on holiday.
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