Olive Films have added up three more titles to their April slate: Bernard Vorhaus'
Three Faces West (1940), starring John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, and Charles Coburn, Fred Zinnemann's
The Men (1950), starring Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, and Everett Sloane, and Hal Hartley's
The Unbelievable Truth (1989), starring Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, and Chris Cooke.
The Unbelievable Truth
Audry (Adrienne Shelly) is a Long Island teenager beset with worries - college, parents, nuclear war - and frustrated by small-town life. When mysterious Josh (Robert Burke) arrives and goes to work as a mechanic for Audry's father, she feels overwhelmingly attracted to him, despite town rumours that he's a murderer. Director Hal Hartley's debut. Street date; May 27th.
Special Features:
- Tut & Its Consequences - The Making of "The Unbelievable Truth"
- Opera No. 1 – Short Film by Hal Hartley with Adrienne Shelly and Parker Posey
The Men
Marlon Brando set the mark for a brilliant career in Stanley Kramer's "The Men", his motion picture debut. As a war veteran paralyzed in combat, he returns home to face the torturous ordeal of rehabilitation. The courage and strength of the soldier are betrayed by the fear and insecurity of the man when he learns he will never walk again.
Embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Fighting the wishes of her parents, the coldness of a guilt ridden society and her own self-doubts, it is she who must force him to confront the reality of his condition and break his physical and emotional confinement. When feeling starts to return to his legs, it could be his last hope .....or his final downfall.
Three Faces West
John Wayne stars in this romantic drama packed with action, suspense and intrigue. He plays John Phillips, an upstanding American guiding an Austrian family to Oregon. The family, consisting of the eminent surgeon, Dr. Karl Braun (Charles Coburn), and his lovely daughter, Leni (Sigrid Gurie), are refugees fleeing from the Nazis in Austria and resettling in an American dust-bowl community. Leni is hopelessly in love with the romantic vision of Eric (Joseph Schildkraut), the soldier who helped her and her father escape from a Nazi concentration camp. John romances Leni and eventually as they plan to marry word is received that Eric is alive and well. Who will Leni choose - John or Eric? Three Faces West will keep you in suspense wondering what will happen until the last possible moment.