The Fast and the Furious

Wrongly imprisoned for murder, Frank Webster (John Ireland) breaks out of jail to try and clear his name. With the police in hot pursuit, he’s forced to take a beautiful young woman (Dorothy Malone) in a fast sports car hostage. Together they slip into a cross-border car race in an attempt to make it to Mexico before the police catch up.
Video Rating: 3 / 5

The Great Commandment public domain movie. Creative Commons license: Public Domain from www.archive.org. The Great Commandment – complete movie. An intelligent script, a solid cast and well-paced direction all make for an above average production. All of Judea is groaning under Emperor Tiberius and the outrageous taxes that the merciless Roman tetrarch Herod and governor Pontius Pilate are subjecting them to. In a small village near Jerusalem, the fanatic Zealots study their scrolls and predict the coming of a King from the lineage of David, who will save the Jewish nation from the yoke of Roman oppression. However, when news comes from afar that Jesus, the son of a Nazarene carpenter, is being proclaimed the awaited Messiah, the Zealots ridicule the notion. “Can any good come out of Nazareth?” asks head scribe Lamech . The Zealots want a fighting leader, and none more so than young and headstrong Joel who also happens to love the beautiful Tamar and hopes to marry her. His father Lamech, however, has other plans and arranges a marriage between Tamar and Joel’s brother Zadok . When the Roman centurion Longinus arrives in the village on the eve of the holy Sabbath to collect the tax, a few of the poorer one attempt to escape and are captured. A disillusioned Joel decides to go to seek the man Jesus and find out for himself if Israel has now got a king. Following her heart, Tamar wants to follow him – but Joel is thinking of greater issues than his own happiness now. He …
Video Rating: 3 / 5