Classic Award Winners [Box Set] DVD

More Details

Description

Includes the following films:
All About Eve
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The cunning Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and causes turmoil in the lives of all around her.

Gentleman's Agreement
One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-seminitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance.

How Green Was My Valley
Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy (Roddy McDowall) in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgans, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.

The Grapes Of Wrath
Following a prison term he served for manslaughter, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns to find his family homestead overwhelmed by the weather and the greed of the banking industry. With little work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land - California. But the arduous trip and harsh living conditions they encounter offer little hope, and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face.

Zorba the Greek
On the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy, inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba (Quinn), a boisterous, gregarious peasant with an astonishing love for life. When Zorba agrees to work at Basil's abandoned mine, it is the beginning of a lesson for the young man as he gradually moves from an observer of the world to a participant. This acclaimed classic co-stars Irene Papas and Lila Kedrova in an Oscar-winning performance.