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Yul Brynner
1) Futureworld
Author
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Westworld," two reporters are invited to Futureworld, a 'Disneyesque' resort for adults, to see what changes have been made since the early model robots went haywire and killed some guests. Once there, they discover a grandiose scheme to replace the leaders of the world's most powerful nations with robot clones.
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Yul Brenner stars in this taut espionage thriller as a CIA agent lured to the Austrian Alps by the death of his teenage son... only discover that the death was not an accident, but part of a diabolical plot to replace him inside the CIA with a surgically altered Soviet agent-The Double Man.
3) Death Rage
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A retired hit-man decides to take one last job to avenge the murder of his brother by a mafia gang. An eager would-be mobster helps him.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, pirates led by Captain Kongre (Yul Brynner) try to capture a lighthouse on Cape Horn. They kill two keepers, but the third (Kirk Douglas) escapes and carries on the battle against the pirates. This adventure story was adapted from Jules Verne's classic 1905 novel *The Lighthouse at the End of the World*.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
New Orleans is the target for the final thrust of the British in the War of 1812. General Andrew Jackson's (Charlton Heston) dependence on the help of pirate king Jean Lafitte (Yul Brynner) to repel the British is complicated by the Governor's daughter. This spectacular production supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, tells in sweeping action the little-known story of how a pirate turned the tide in America's favor in the War of 1812. Nominated for Best...
7) Westworld
Language
English
Formats
Description
This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies - until something goes wrong with their circuitry.
15) Anastasia
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic tale of a suicidal amnesia victim chosen by Russian expatriates to impersonate Anastasia, the last surviving member of the Romanov dynasty and heiress to the Russian throne.
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Part fact, part fiction, Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1947-48 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, the film centers on the legendary David "Mickey" Marcus. Jewish-American general Marcus is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes.
19) Anastasia
Language
English
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
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English
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Description
To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out...
