Douglas Sirk, the Universal Years - 14-Disc Box Set ( Thunder on the Hill / All I Desire / Magnificent Obsession / Sign of the Pagan / Captain Lightfoot / There's Always Tomorrow / All That Heaven Allows / Never Say Goodbye / Written on the Wind / Battle Hymn / Interlude / The Tarnished Angels / A Time to Lo )

Douglas Sirk, the Universal Years - 14-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

$187.99

Original Title: Thunder on the Hill / All I Desire / Magnificent Obsession / Sign of the Pagan / Captain Lightfoot / There's Always Tomorrow / All That Heaven Allows / Never Say Goodbye / Written on the Wind / Battle Hymn / Interlude / The Tarnished Angels / A Time to Lo
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Mono )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
1800 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1951-1959 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Douglas Sirk
Jerry Hopper

Written By:
Oscar Saul
Andrew Solt
Charlotte Hastings
James Gunn
Robert Blees
Gina Kaus
Carol Ryrie Brink

Lloyd C. Douglas
Wells Root
Sarah Y. Mason
Victor Heerman
Finley Peter Dunne
Oscar Brodney
Barré Lyndon
W.R. Burnett
Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Ursula Parrott
Peggy Thompson
Edna L. Lee
Harry Lee
Luigi Pirandello
Bruce Manning
John D. Klorer
Leonard Lee
Charles Hoffman
George Zuckerman
Robert Wilder
Charles Grayson
Vince Evans
Daniel Fuchs
Franklin Coen
Inez Cocke
Dwight Taylor
James M. Cain
William Faulkner
Orin Jannings
Erich Maria Remarque
Eleanore Griffin
Allan Scott
Fannie Hurst

Actors:
Claudette Colbert ..... Sister Mary Bonaventure
Ann Blyth ..... Valerie Carns
Robert Douglas ..... Dr. Edward Jeffreys
Anne Crawford ..... Isabel Jeffreys
Philip Friend ..... Sidney Kingham
Gladys Cooper ..... Mother Superior
Michael Pate ..... Willie
Barbara Stanwyck ..... Naomi Murdoch
Richard Carlson ..... Henry Murdoch
Lyle Bettger ..... Dutch Heinemann
Marcia Henderson ..... Joyce Murdoch
Lori Nelson ..... Lily Murdoch
Maureen O'Sullivan ..... Sara Harper
Richard Long ..... Russ Underwood
Jane Wyman ..... Helen Phillips
Rock Hudson ..... Bob Merrick
Agnes Moorehead ..... Nancy Ashford
Otto Kruger ..... Randolph
Barbara Rush ..... Joyce Phillips
Gregg Palmer ..... Tom Masterson
Jeff Chandler ..... Marcian
Jack Palance ..... Attila
Ludmilla Tchérina ..... Princess Pulcheria
Rita Gam ..... Kubra
Jeff Morrow ..... General Paulinus
George Dolenz ..... Emperor Theodosius
Eduard Franz ..... Astrologer
Rock Hudson ..... Michael Martin, aka Capt. Lightfoot
Barbara Rush ..... Aga Doherty
Jeff Morrow ..... John Doherty, aka Capt. Thunderbolt
Kathleen Ryan ..... Lady Anne More
Finlay Currie ..... Callahan
Denis O'Dea ..... Regis Donnell
Geoffrey Toone ..... Captain Hood
Barbara Stanwyck ..... Norma Miller Vale
Fred MacMurray ..... Clifford Groves
Joan Bennett ..... Marion Groves
William Reynolds ..... Vinnie Groves
Pat Crowley ..... Ann
Gigi Perreau ..... Ellen Groves
Jane Wyman ..... Cary Scott
Rock Hudson ..... Ron Kirby
Agnes Moorehead ..... Sara Warren
Conrad Nagel ..... Harvey
Virginia Grey ..... Alida Anderson
Gloria Talbott ..... Kay Scott
William Reynolds ..... Ned Scott
Rock Hudson ..... Dr. Michael Parker
Cornell Borchers ..... Lisa Gosting
George Sanders ..... Victor
Shelley Fabares ..... Suzy Parker
Ray Collins ..... Dr. Bailey
David Janssen ..... Dave Heller
Helen Wallace ..... Miss Tucker
Rock Hudson ..... Mitch Wayne
Lauren Bacall ..... Lucy Moore Hadley
Robert Stack ..... Kyle Hadley
Dorothy Malone ..... Marylee Hadley
Robert Keith ..... Jasper Hadley
Grant Williams ..... Biff Miley
Rock Hudson ..... Col. Dean E. Hess
Martha Hyer ..... Mary Hess
Dan Duryea ..... Sgt. Herman
Don DeFore ..... Capt. Dan Skidmore
Anna Kashfi ..... En Soon Yang
Jock Mahoney ..... Maj. Frank Moore
Carl Benton Reid ..... Deacon Edwards
June Allyson ..... Helen Banning
Rossano Brazzi ..... Tonio Fischer
Marianne Koch ..... Reni Fischer
Françoise Rosay ..... Countess Reinhart
Keith Andes ..... Dr. Morley Dwyer
Frances Bergen ..... Gertrude Kirk
Lisa Helwig ..... Housekeeper
Rock Hudson ..... Burke Devlin
Robert Stack ..... Roger Shumann
Dorothy Malone ..... LaVerne Shumann
Jack Carson ..... Jiggs
Robert Middleton ..... Matt Ord
Alan Reed ..... Colonel Fineman
Alexander Lockwood ..... Sam Hagood
John Gavin ..... Ernst Graeber
Liselotte Pulver ..... Elizabeth Kruse
Jock Mahoney ..... Immerman
Don DeFore ..... Boettcher
Keenan Wynn ..... Reuter
Erich Maria Remarque ..... Professor Pohlmann
Dieter Borsche ..... Captain Rahe
Barbara Rütting ..... Woman Guerrilla
Lana Turner ..... Lora Meredith
John Gavin ..... Steve Archer
Sandra Dee ..... Susie (16)
Susan Kohner ..... Sarah Jane (18)
Robert Alda ..... Allen Loomis
Dan O'Herlihy ..... David Edwards
Juanita Moore ..... Annie Johnson

Synopsis:

Thunder on the Hill: Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer. All I Desire: In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival sets the whole town abuzz, wakes up old conflicts, and sets off new emotional storms. Magnificent Obsession: When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips, who dies as a result. Phillips had helped many people, and when Merrick learns Phillips' secret, to give selflessly and in secret, he tries it in a ham-handed way. The result further alienates Phillips' widow, Helen, with whom Merrick has fallen in love. Merrick's persistence causes another tragedy, and he must remake his life, including going back to medical school, in an attempt to make amends and win her love. Sign of the Pagan: Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. Captain Lightfoot: In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and is forced to flee into outlawry. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel 'Captain Thunderbolt' and becomes his second-in-command, 'Lightfoot.' 'Tis a perilous life, with captures, turncoats, rescues, and romance. There's Always Tomorrow: Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Alone and depressed, he meets old flame Norma, and one thing leads to another. While their relationship is still fairly innocent, his son Vinnie sees them together and suspects the worst. It's time for tortured souls behind rain-streaming windows... All That Heaven Allows: Cary Scott is a widow with two grown children. She's been leading a quiet life since her husband died, socializing with a small circle of friends. Her children no longer live with her full-time but come home every weekend. She's not unhappy but also doesn't realize how bored she is. Her friend Sara Warren encourages her to get a television set to keep her company but she doesn't want that either. She develops a friendship with Ron Kirby who owns his own nursery and comes every spring and fall to trim her trees. Never Say Goodbye: Dr. Michael Parker (Rock Hudson) is a prominent surgeon, who unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife Lisa (Cornell Borchers), who he thought was dead. Victor (George Sanders), an artist (and his 'dead' wife's now boyfriend), berate Dr. Parker for killing her. This story is told in flashback to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake which may have cost him his family. Written on the Wind: On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites her to go to a conference with the alcoholic playboy and son of a tycoon Kyle Hadley. On the way of the meeting, he confesses that they had traveled from Houston to New York to satisfy the wish of the reckless Kyle, who is his best friend since their childhood, of eating a sandwich from club 21 and the meeting was just a pretext to Kyle's father Jasper Hadley. Mitch and Kyle immediately fall in love for Lucy, and Kyle unsuccessfully uses his money to impress Lucy; then he opens his heart and proposes Lucy. Battle Hymn: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others. But he finds that to protect his charges, he has to kill. Interlude: The story of a young woman, Helen Banning, who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance. The Tarnished Angels: In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a 'whatever happened to' story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne. A Time to Love and a Time to Die: In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed. While hopelessly searching for his parents, he meets lovely Elizabeth Kruse, daughter of a political prisoner; together they try to wrest sanity and survival from a world full of hatred. Imitation of Life: Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson, a homeless Black woman at Coney Island, and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 February, 2022.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

The Oscars 40' Collection - 5-DVD Set (DVD)

The Oscars 30' Collection - 5-DVD Set (DVD)