Van Heflin

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.

미국 링컨국제공항의 매니저인 멜 베이커스펠드(버트 랭카스터 부)는 두 가지 난관에 봉착해있다. 하나는 애정이 완전히 식어버린 아내와의 불화이고, 또 하나는 이착륙이 불가능할 정도의 폭설이다. 방금 비상착륙하던 비행기 하나가 활주로 한쪽을 막고 있다. 이런 공항을 무대로 그랜드호텔식 이야기가 펼쳐진다. 스튜어디스를 임신시킨 비행기 조종사 버논(딘 마틴 분)은 악천후를 뚫고 이륙을 하려고 한다. 승객 가운데에는 무임승차를 밥 먹듯이 하는 할머니와 괴로운 표정을 한 실직 폭파전문가도 포함되어 있다. 할머니는 끊임없이 수다를 떨며, 실직자는 비행기가 이륙한 후 폭파시켜 아내에게 거액의 보험금을 안겨줄 생각뿐이다. 눈은 끊임없이 오고, 활주로를 막아선 비행기를 치우는 것도 힘겹기만 하다.

A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?

The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.

This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in gold from a remote Southwestern mine without falling prey to each other's bullets.

Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded a Russian defector. The embittered ex-agent combines forces with another operative to deliver a top Russian secret police official for a price. Before he can deliver the Russian, a trail of corpses and double crosses changes his plans. When his partner who concocted the scheme is murdered, MacLean returns the check to the CIA. They offer him his old job back, but the proud man refuses.

A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gun-slinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.

The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.

Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer David Wolper. It concerned the world of pro football.

Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.

Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.

왕의 운명을 타고 난 아이를 찾아 나선 세 명의 목자들이 동방으로부터 이스라엘로 온다. 별의 인도를 따라 이스라엘까지 온 그들은 헤롯왕에게 미래의 지도자를 찾아왔다고 말한다. 수 백년 전 이사야는 “베들레헴에서 태어난 자가 이스라엘을 지배할 것이라”고 예언했었다. 긴 여정 끝에 그들이 머문 곳은 베들레헴. 허름한 마구간에서 동정녀 마리아와 목수 요셉의 아들 예수가 태어난다. 그들은 구세주의 탄생을 찬양하고, 계속 그들을 미행해 왔던 헤롯왕의 부하는 왕에게 이 사실을 고한다. 예수 탄생 후 그 일가는 헤롯왕의 박해를 피하여 이집트로 떠나지만 이 사실을 모르는 헤롯은 자신의 권세를 위해 베들레헴의 모든 어린아이들을 죽이도록 명령한다. 세월이 흐르고, 요단강에서 세례자 요한을 만난 예수는 성령의 인도로 광야에 나가 40주야의 단식기도를 하면서 악마로부터 시험을 받는다.

During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.

"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

1916년 판초 빌라를 대장으로 한 무장한 멕시코 반란군들이 미국 국경을 넘어 뉴 멕시코의 콜럼버스를 습격해서 미국 시민들과 군인들을 살상하기 시작했다. 이에 미국 정부는 판초 빌라를 토벌하기 위해 기병대 1개연대를 파견한다. 이때 전투에 참가했던 표창 심사 장교인 쏜 소령(Major Thomas Thorn: 게리 쿠퍼 분)은 연대장인 드로즈 대령(Colonel DeRose: 에드워드 플랫 분)의 표창 상신을 거부한 탓에 이미 표창 상신이 됐던 파울러 중위(Lieutenant William Fowler: 탭 헌터 분)와 쵸크 상사(Sergeant John Chawk: 반 헤프린 분), 트루비 하사(Corporal Milo Trubee: 리차드 콘티 분), 헤더링턴 일병(Pvt. Andrew Hetherington: 마이클 캘런 분), 렌지하우젠 일병(Private Renziehausen: 딕 요크 분) 그리고 적에게 협조한 죄로 보호 중이던 미국 여인 아즐레스를 동반하고 호위 병력도 없이 판초 빌라의 점령지역을 지나 코두라 기지까지 호송을 명받는다. 이것은 자신의 부탁을 거절한 쏜 소령에 대한 악의적인 감정을 갖고 있던 드로즈 대령의 보복적인 처사로 불충분한 보급품을 가지고 접전 지역에 뛰어드는 자살행위였다. 거기에다 설상가상으로 헤더링턴 일병이 장티푸스에 걸려 쓰러지고 그를 들것에 실어 운반하던 병사들간에 불만이 쌓이게 된다. 그리고 사람을 살해하고 군대에 입대해서 숨어있던 쵸크 상사의 계획적인 방해와 선동으로 반란이 일어나게 된다.

A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.

A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.

버터필드(Butterfield: 로버트 엠하드트 분)는 승객들과 함께 마차를 타고 가다가 웨이드(Ben Wade: 글렌 포드 분) 일당을 만나 갖고 있던 금을 빼앗기고 마부는 살해당하고 만다. 아들 매튜(Mathew: 배리 커티스 분), 마크(Mark: 제리 하틀레벤 분)와 함께 소몰이를 나섰던 댄(Dan Evans: 밴 헤플린 분)은 멀리서 이 광경을 목격하지만 돕지 않고 바라보기만 한다. 자신의 말까지 빼앗긴 댄은 아들과 함께 집으로 돌아오고 이 사실을 알게 된 부인 앨리스(Alice Evans: 레오나 다나 분)는 남편이 강도 짓을 하는 걸 보고만 있었다는 사실에 실망한다. 3년째 가뭄이 들어 남아있던 소들의 생명마저 위태로운 상태에서 댄은 마을로 돈을 구하러 떠난다. 한편 웨이드 일당은 마을 보안관을 찾아와 강도 짓을 하는 일당을 목격했다고 말한다. 보안관 일행이 웨이드의 말을 믿고 떠난 뒤, 웨이드는 술집 웨이트레스와 사랑을 나눈다. 웨이드 일당에게 속았다는 사실을 깨달은 보안관 일행은 술집으로 찾아와 웨이드를 체포한다. 보안관은 웨이드를 유마행 3시 10분 기차에 태우기로 결정하고 두 무리로 나누어 웨이드 일행을 유인하기로 한다. 댄은 처음엔 망설였지만 2백달러를 주겠다는 버터필드의 말에 웨이드의 후송을 맡는다. 댄이 돈 때문에 자신의 후송을 맡았다는 사실을 눈치챈 웨이드는 계속해서 돈으로 그를 유혹한다. 댄은 7천 달러를 주겠다는 웨이드의 말에 망설인다. 기차역 호텔에 진을 치고 기차를 기다리는 댄 일행. 한편 웨이드의 부하들은 웨이드의 거처를 파악하고 호텔로 몰려오는데...

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat. Based on the novel by Leon Uris.

A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.

Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there's a price on his head; he becomes romantically involved with her in the course of a series of rescues and ambushes, leading up to Orozco's march on Ciudad Juarez.

1890년 초여름의 태양이 내리쬐는 어느날. 초록빛으로 물든 아름다운 와이오밍 고원에 한 사나이가 말을 타고 나타난다. 단정한 몸차림에 침착한 태도, 그리고 눈매는 온화하면서도 예리함이 번뜩이며 뜨내기 카우보이와는 다른 모습이다. 이곳엔 동부에서 이주해 온 개척민들이 살고 있다. 개간한 토지는 그들의 소유로 법률이 보장해 주었다. 수수께끼의 사나이는 개척민의 한 사람인 죠 스타레트의 집에서 물을 얻어 마시고 저녁 식사까지 초대 받는다. 사나이는 스타레트의 호의에 감사하는 마음으로 하룻밤 신세를 진다. 수수께끼의 사나이는 이름이 셰인이라고 자기 소개를 간단히 한다. 스타레트는 아내 마리안과 아들 조이, 단출하게 세 식구이다. 스타레트는 의지가 강인하고 그곳 주민들의 대변자이다. 그러나 스타레트는 이 지방에서 오래 전부터 목축업을 하고 있는 라이커라는 사나이 때문에 골치를 앓고 있었다. 라이커는 툭하면 개척민들을 못살게 들볶으며 이들의 모든 땅을 차지하려 한다. 스타레트가 부리던 머슴들도 라이커의 등쌀에 견디지 못하고 떠나버리고 만다. 그간의 사정을 말한 스타레트는 셰인에게 월동 준비가 끝날 때까지만이라도 머물러 달라고 한다. 그래서 스타레트의 일을 도와주기로 한 세인은 마을에 물건을 사러갔다가, 라이커 일당에게 곤욕을 치루지만 말썽을 일으키지 말라고 한 스타레트의 당부 때문에 묵묵히 참고 집으로 돌아온다. 마을 사람들은 스타레트 일당 때문에 마을에 갈 때는 단체로 가기로 한다. 이때 또다시 시비를 걸어오는 스타레트 일당과 싸움이 붙은 셰인은 물러서지 않고 싸워 이긴다. 하지만 적수가 많아 위기에 빠졌을 때 스타레트가 도와주어 모두 쓰러뜨린다. 이를 지켜보면서 자랑스러워하는 죠이. 총을 좋아하는 죠이는 셰인을 만났을 때부터 그의 반짝이는 권총에 관심을 갖는다. 결국 죠이의 간절한 요청에 셰인이 커다란 소리를 내며 사격 시범을 보이자 눈이 둥그래진다. 어머니 마리안은 셰인에게 점점 더 깊은 호감을 느끼고 셰인도 이를 느낀다.

Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.

작은 마을에 사는 제퍼슨 부부는 신앙심이 깊고, 투철한 애국심을 가진 미국의 보통 가족이다. 둘째와 셋째 아들이 입대한 뒤 얼마 후, 워싱턴에서 연방 정부 관련 일을 하는 장남 존이 오랜만에 부모님을 찾아온다. 그런데 부모님은 물론, 신부님도 함께 한 자리에서 존은 도발적인 발언을 쏟아 내고, 부모님과 마을 사람들은 존의 언행을 납득하지 못한다. 결국 존과 아버지가 언쟁을 하고 만다. 미국의 매카시즘이 절정을 향했던 시기에 만들어진 반공산주의 영화. (2018년 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 레오 맥커리 특별전)

Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

로스앤젤레스, 캘리포니아. 직업에 불만을 품고 업무상 문제를 남 탓으로 돌리는 경찰이 유부녀 집에 수상한 사람이 배회한다는 제보를 받고 수사하게 된다.

1866년, 금이 발견되자 미 육군은 이전 조약에 의해 수족에게 양도된 영토에 도로와 요새를 건설한다. 개척단원 짐 브리저(반 헤플린)는 블랙 케틀 추장의 딸이자 죽은 아내의 여동생인 수족 여인과 함께 일촉즉발 상태인 수족 추장 레드 클라우드와의 전면전을 막기 위해 애쓰는데...

A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump. The expedition was under the overall command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, no stranger to the Antarctic. This was a large undertaking involving 13 ships and over 4000 thousand men. The fleet departed from Norfolk, Virginia traveling through the Panama canal and then southward to their final destination. The trip through the ice pack was fraught with danger and forced the submarine that was part of the fleet to withdraw. The trip was a success meeting all of its scientific goals.

Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.

In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until they can meet up and be rescued. The pilot does almost everything wrong, and the rest of his crew does almost everything right. We learn, by both bad and good example, how to survive in the jungle.

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.

Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.

Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.