Samuel Goldwyn Collection Volume II (DVD)
6-FILM COLLECTION Stella Dallas (1937) True heroines dont always save lives. Sometimes theyre simply mothers with a powerful devotion to their children. Such is the case in Stella Dallas. Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas (John Boles) ends, irrepressible Stella (Barbara Stanwyck in an Oscar®-nominated performance) is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. And when it comes to her childs happiness, Stella will sacrifice everything. Dead End (1937) On the mean streets of New Yorks Lower East Side, Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. Vicious gangster Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart) has returned, looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave (Joel McCrea) for help. But can Dave stop Martin without becoming just like him? Nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture. The Westerner (1940) Walter Brennan, in his third Oscar®-winning* performance, is the legendary Judge Roy Bean, who dispenses a unique brand of justice. Oscar® winner* Gary Cooper is Cole Harden, a stranger accused of stealing horses who attempts to talk himself out of the hangmans noose. Each man wins the others grudging friendship...until Beans deadly scheming against the homesteaders provokes Harden into opposing him, no matter the cost! They Got Me Covered (1943) Robert Kittredge (Bob Hope) is an inept foreign correspondent whos fired after missing one of the biggest stories of WWII: the German invasion of Russia. Then he stumbles onto a scoop that could get him his job back: a nest of Axis spies working in Washington, DC. Kittredge and his girlfriend go underground to get the story, matching wits and wisecracks with knife-throwing Nazis, sexy saboteurs and the silliest spies you'll ever see. The Princess and the Pirate (1944) Sylvester the Great (Bob Hope) is a 17th-century entertainer with an act so atrocious hes exiled from England. Aboard a ship bound for America, he falls for the beautiful Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo), whos uninterested in his lousy one-liners. But when an evil band of pirates attacks the ship and captures the princess, her only hope is the cowardly comedian. Can Sylvester muster the courage to rescue his royal love? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) is an ace pilot gunning down the enemy and a courageous captain. A hero, a heartthrob, hes the stuff dreams are made of...until he wakes up to his humdrum reality. But when a mysterious blonde entangles him in a web of murder and conspiracy, Mittys multiple worlds begin to hilariously collide. Now the hopeless daydreamer must pull his head out of the clouds and find the courage to catch the killers.
