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©2010
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2 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Action in the North Atlantic based on a story by Guy Gilpatric
Action in the North Atlantic (1943) (127 min.) / directed by Lloyd Bacon ; screen play by John Howard Lawson ; produced by Jerry Wald -- Passage to Marseille (1944) (109 min.) / directed by Michael Curtiz ; produced by Hal B. Wallis ; screenplay by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt -- To have and have not (1944) (100 min.) / produced and directed by Howard Hawks ; screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner -- The big sleep (1946) (114 min.) produced and directed Howard Hawks production ; screen play by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett & Jules Furthman
Action in the North Atlantic: World War II drama about the Merchant Marine and Navy gun crews who did battle with enemy submarines and risked their lives to deliver supplies and munitions to allied troops
Passage to Marseille based on the novel "Men without country" by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall
Passage to Marseille: The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer
To have and have not based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
To have and have not: World-weary Harry Morgan is not about to help the Free French. But he and his sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Since WWII is raging all around them, business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the French resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Harry and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days
The big sleep from the novel by Raymond Chandler
The big sleep: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister
Action in the North Atlantic special features: featurette "Credit where credit is due" ; Warner Night at the Movies ; 1943 short subjects gallery ; vintage newsreel, musical short "Cavalcade of dance" ; classic cartoon "Greetings bait" ; theatrical trailers ; audio-only bonus: Radio show with George Raft and Raymond Massey
Passage to Marseille special features: Warner Night at the Movies 1944 ; featurette "The free French, unsung victors" ; trailers ; studio blooper reel
To have and have not special features: featurette "A love story: the story of 'To have and have not'" ; Classic cartoon "Bacall to arms" ; Lux Radio Theater production with the 2 stars ; theatrical trailer
The big sleep special features: "'The big sleep' comparisons 1945/1946" documentary ; theatrical trailer
Action in the North Atlantic: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Dane Clark, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene
Passage to Marseille: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michele Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greensteet, Helmut Dantine, Peter Lorre, George Tobias
To have and have not: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael
The big sleep: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Not rated
DVD ; region 1 ; standard presentation ; Dolby Digital mono
English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Action in the North Atlantic; Passage to Marseille; To have and have not: In English ; subtitles in English, French, and Spanish
The big sleep: In English ; subtitles in English and French