Plunderers, The - DVD

When a plane went down in the Colorado Rockies, mountain ranger Jesse Hill (Rory Calhoun) and sketchy Army buddy Pete Corder (Ray Danton) hit the trail in search of any survivors. While four walked away, one casualty happened to be a T-man carrying a quarter million in cash-and Corder's greed might compromise the party's hope of safe descent. Long-demanded adventure saga also stars Julie Adams, Thomas Gomez, Frank Faylen, Russ Conway. 87 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary.

Plunder Road is a one-of-a-kind film noir beautifully shot in scope by the great cinematographer Ernest Haller (Gone with the Wind, Mildred Pierce). on a dark rainy night, five men stage a well-planned U.S. Mint train robbery and walk away with ten million in gold bullion. To throw the cops off the track, the gang split up the massive haul into three concealed truckloads and go off to three different directions hoping for a perfect getaway. No big stars, just a great cast of character-actor greats; Gene Raymond, Wayne Morris, Elisha Cook Jr.., Stafford Repp and Steven Ritch. Soap opera legend Jeanne Cooper (The Young and the Restless) co-stars as Raymond's gun moll. Wonderfully directed by cult favorite, Hubert Cornfield (The Night of the Following Day).

The fateful encounter of the Monitor and the Merrimack, history's first-ever battle of ironclad ships, was not the U.S. Civil War's lone naval milestone. Desperate to break the stranglehold of the North's coastal blockade, the South built and sent into war the hand-powered submarine CSS Hunley. Armand Assante (as Lt. Dixon, the sub's skipper) and Donald Sutherland (as Gen. Beauregard, the Confederate commander at Charleston) star in thi