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Bonnie And Clyde [DVD](1967) DVD "They're young, they're in love, they rob banks!" Arthur Penn's dramatic (if not totally accurate) depiction of the famed '30s criminal pair ushered in a new era in screen realism. Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman and Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons star; look for Gene Wilder. 111 min. Widescreen (Enhanced) and Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby mono, French mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; production notes; trailer.
The French Connection [DVD](1971) DVD Five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director and Actor, were copped by William Friedkin's fast-moving, fact-based cop drama. Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider are the New York detectives who reluctantly work with federal agents to crack a multi-million-dollar heroin ring. The harrowing car chase scene is a film classic. With Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco. 104 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Surround, French mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary by Hackman, Scheider, Friedkin; BBC "making of" documentary; behind-the-scenes footage; deleted scenes; photo gallery; trailers.
The Poseidon Adventure [DVD](1972) DVD Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Jack Albertson and the buoyant Shelley Winters head the all-star cast in Irwin Allen's highly-charged drama of a capsized ocean liner and the efforts of a group of survivors to escape. 117 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish; theatrical trailer; scene access.
Bite The Bullet [DVD](1975) DVD Rousing Western adventure about a grueling 600-mile horse race at the turn of the century. Colorful performances by Gene Hackman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Candice Bergen and Ben Johnson and non-stop action highlight this sagebrush saga. 131 min. Widescreen (Enhanced) and Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby mono; Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai; scene access.
Superman (Special Edition) [DVD](1978) DVD Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Christopher Reeve is Clark Kent/Superman, going up against notorious criminal Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman). Margot Kidder is Lois Lane. You'll believe a man can fly! Marlon Brando, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty co-star. 151 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese; audio commentary; "making of" featurettes; screen tests; isolated music score; outtakes; deleted scenes; theatrical trailers; DVD-ROM content; scene access.
Unforgiven [DVD](1992) DVD Four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director and Supporting Actor, went to director/star Clint Eastwood's superb revisionist western about a gunslinger-turned-rancher who joins his old partner and a young sharpshooter to capture a pair of cowhands responsible for mutilating a prostitute. With Gene Hackman as a cruel sheriff, Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman and Frances Fisher. 131 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; filmographies; production notes; scene access.
Crimson Tide [DVD](1995) DVD As renegade forces seize control of nuclear weapons in Russia, the submarine USS Alabama sails into dangerous waters. When communications with the Pentagon are lost, the situation gets even more tense, prompting a riveting face-off between egomaniacal captain Gene Hackman and officer Denzel Washington over whether the Alabama should launch its missiles against Russia. 116 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: Spanish; scene access.
The Quick And The Dead [DVD](1995) DVD Director Sam Raimi's off-the-wall, darkly funny sagebrush drama stars Sharon Stone as a lovely and lethal gunslinger who enters a frontier town's deadly quick-draw competition as part of her search for the man who killed her father. Gene Hackman shines as the villain who controls both contest and town; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen. 105 min. Widescreen and Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Surround, French; Subtitles: English, French; trailer.
Heartbreakers [DVD](2001) DVD Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt are a mother/daughter con artist team who use their charms to trick money out of wealthy men in divorce settlements, after Weaver "catches" Hewitt seducing her new husband. Their plans to take down their latest mark, tobacco tycoon Gene Hackman, may be dashed, however, when Hewitt falls for local bartender Jason Lee. Ray Liotta co-stars. 122 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; documentaries; deleted scenes; audio commentary by Weaver, Hewitt; theatrical trailer.
Runaway Jury [DVD](2003) DVD This intense adaptation of John Grisham's thriller boasts John Cusack as a juror on a high-profile civil case in New Orleans in which the widow of a murdered man sues the manufacturer of the gun used in her husband's death. But Cusack concocts a scheme with accomplice Rachel Weisz, offering his influence on the rest of the jurors for $10 million to both Dustin Hoffman, the widow's attorney, and defense teammates Bruce Davison and high-powered consultant Gene Hackman. 122 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; deleted scenes; featurettes; more.
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