God's Own Country - DVD

Noah Bryan is an up-and-coming country singer determined to become a country music star until his ego gets in the way and is left with custody of his son after a show. He agrees to meet the boy and realizes he must do the right thing to raise him.

Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Buddy Hackett, Aldo Ray. A Depression-Era Georgia farmer obsesses with the notion that his grandfather buried gold on his land during the Civil War. So while he spends the next 15 years digging for it (and not farming), his family life begins to disintegrate in this dramedy based on Erskine Caldwell's novel Forbidden Love in the Hot Georgia Sun. Directed by Anthony Mann. 1958/b&w/118 min/G/widescreen.

In Joseph Losey's stirring anti-war film, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer (Dick Bogarde) is assigned to defend a lowly private (Tom Courtenay) at his court martial. The private has been accused of desertion during battle. The lawyer, Captain Hargreaves is convinced this young man should fry. However, as the trial progresses and the strain of three horrible years endured at the Allied front is revealed, the more he is compelled to spare the youth from a firing squad. Winner of the British Academy Award for Best Picture of 1964. Courtenay won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival.