| Steve Mcqueen Collection | |||||
| Warner Bros. (2005) | |||||
| Action, Drama, Thriller, Western | |||||
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| Barcode | 883904310358 |
| Release Date | 06/05/2014 |
| Purchase Date | 03/06/2015 |
| Purchase Price | $16.49 |
| Store | Amazon.ca |
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Product Description After honing his acting craft on television during the 1950s, Steve McQueen soon ignited the big screen and eventually became one of the top box-office draws of the ’60s and ’70s. Known for his rugged good looks and masculinity — and for doing many of his own action stunts on film — McQueen’s most memorable performances are now in one thrilling Blu-ray collection to satisfy the coolest movie fans around the world. Titles in this set Disc 1: The Great Escape Disc 2: The Magnificent Seven Disc 3: The Thomas Crown Affair Disc 4: The Sand Pebbles |
| The Great Escape | |
| Seen it: Yes 20/06/2015 @ CABHS 172 mins 1963 1. The Great Escape | |
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Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist-type prisoners-of-war (POW's) are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe.
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| The Magnificent Seven | |
| Seen it: Yes 20/06/2015 @ CABHS 128 mins 1960 2. The Magnificent Seven | |
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A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of 40 bandits who will arrive wanting food. An Americanization of the film, Seven Samurai (1954)
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| The Thomas Crown Affair | |
| 102 mins 1968 3. The Thomas Crown Affair | |
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Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown, a successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects it. Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in to recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew enough about the bank to have pulled the robbery and discovers Crown. She begins a tight watch on his every move and begins seeing him socially. How does the planner of the perfect crime react to pressure?
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| The Sand Pebbles | |
| 182 mins 1966 4. The Sand Pebbles | |
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Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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