Castle on the Hudson [Blu-ray]

Oscar-nominee John Garfield ("The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Air Force") plays a hardened crook behind bars who comes up against a reform-minded warden. Trouble erupts when Garfield's character encounters the man responsible for his imprisonment. Also starring Ann Sheridan ("Angels With Dirty Faces") and Pat O'Brien ("Some Like It Hot"). Directed by Oscar-nominee Anatole Litvak ("Anastasia," "The Snake Pit").

This drama chronicles the foundation of the real life Hudson's Bay Trading Company of Canada, and the fur trapper that somehow convinced King Charles to finance the entire operation. There were many obstacles for the trapper to overcome including impending war with the natives and treachery on the part of a deceitful aristocratic .

After German underground leader Kurt Muller arrives with his family in Washington, DC, he soon finds the tentacles of Nazi terror have a very long reach. Lillian Hellman's 1941 stage hit (adapted by Dashiell Hammett) retains its emotional and intellectual power in this suspenseful movie awarded the New York Film Critics 1943 Best Picture prize. Repeating his Broadway triumph, Paul Lukas gives a passionate Oscar -winning* performance as