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11th Annual LITA National Forum
October 16-19, 2008
Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, OH

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

Great music...if you like whistling...

Fat man and little boy were the names given to the first 2 atomic bombs built by "The Manhattan Project". This film is the true story of their creation, and the fascinating people involved.

Contributors: Bonnie Bedelia (Actor); John Cusack (Actor); Laura Dern (Actor); Tony Garnett (Producer); Roland Joffé (Director, Author of screenplay); John C. McGinley (Actor); Paul Newman (Actor); Bruce Robinson (Author of screenplay, Author); Dwight Schultz (Actor).

It's World War II. Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is hard on his marines. His subordinate Captain Carl Griffin thinks the Major is overdoing it, but Kirby proves that there is a method to his madness after all.

Howard Hughs production!

This strikingly realistic film follows a devoted platoon of Marines through the terrors of war in the South Pacific.

Contributors: William Bendix (Actor); Jerry Cady (Adapter); Richard Conte (Actor); Preston Foster (Actor); Bryan Foy (Producer); Lloyd Nolan (Actor); Anthony Quinn (Actor); Lewis Seiler (Director); Richard Tregaskis (Author); Lamar Trotti (Author of screenplay).

Dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States.

Contributors: James Coburn (Actor); Henry Fonda (Actor); Charlton Heston (Actor); Walter Mirisch (Producer); Donald S. Sanford (Author of screenplay); Jack Smight (Director); John Williams (Composer).

A musical about three sailors who have a 24-hour shore leave to enjoy New York. Chip tries but can't resist the advances of a lady cab driver; Ozzie gladly fills the role of a lovely anthropologist's "prehistoric man," and after much desperate searching, Gaby finds the model who isn't quite the glamorous celebrity he envisioned but nevertheless will do.

Contributors: Leonard Bernstein (Composer); Betty Comden (Author of screenplay, Author); Stanley Donen (Director); Arthur Freed (Producer); Betty Garrett (Actor); Adolph Green (Author of screenplay, Author); Gene Kelly (Actor, Director); Ann Miller (Actor); Jules Munshin (Actor); Frank Sinatra (Actor); Vera-Ellen (Actor).

The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.

Contributors: Claudette Colbert (Actor); John Cromwell (Director); Jennifer Jones (Actor); David O. Selznick (Producer); Max Steiner (Composer); Shirley Temple (Actor); Margaret Buell Wilder (Author).

Rollicking wartime story of a romance between a soldier headed off to WWII and a hostess at New York City's fabled canteen.

And Kate Hepburn too...

Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.

Cast: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Bobby DiCicco, Robert Carradine, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stephane Audran.

A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.

Contributors: Richard Attenborough (Director); Dirk Bogarde (Actor); James Caan (Actor); Michael Caine (Actor); Sean Connery (Actor); William Goldman (Author of screenplay); Joseph E. Levine (Producer); Richard P. Levine (Producer); Cornelius Ryan (Author).

Based on the actual experiences of World War II correspondent Lothar Günther Buchheim who follows the cruise of a German U-boat as it undergoes battle and attack to survive and return to port only to be destroyed in an air attack upon the subpens of New Rochelle in occupied France.

Contributors: Lothar Günther Buchheim (Author); Klaus Doldinger (Composer); Herbert Grönemeyer (Actor); Wolfgang Petersen (Director, Author of screenplay); Jürgen Prochnow (Actor); Günter Rohrbach (Producer); Klaus Wennemann (Actor).

Dramatization of a young girl's diary describing the lives of two Jewish families who hide in an attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis.

Contributors: Richard Beymer (Actor); Frances Goodrich (Author of screenplay, Author); Albert Hackett (Author of screenplay); Millie Perkins (Actor); Joseph Schildkraut (Actor); George Cooper Stevens (Director); Shelley Winters (Actor).

The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years and through 3 countries.

Contributors: Artur Brauner (Producer); Marco Hofschneider (Actor); Agnieszka Holland (Director, Author of screenplay); Margaret Menegoz (Producer); Shlomo Perel (Author); Zbigniew Preisner (Composer); Ashley Wanninger (Actor); André Wilms (Actor).

A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.

Notes: Based on the book by Paul Brickhill.
Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
"A commemorative 2 disc collector's set."--Container.
Special features include: disc 1. Audio commentary by director John Sturges; trivia track. Disc 2. Documentaries "The great escape: the untold story" and "The real Virgil Hilts: a man called Jones"; featurettes: "Return to the Great escape", "Preparations for freedom", "A standing ovation", "Bringing fact to fiction", and "The flight to freedom"; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer.

Cooler King!

Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

Contributors: Ken Annakin (Director); Richard Beymer (Actor); Richard Burton (Actor); Red Buttons (Actor); Sean Connery (Actor); Mel Ferrer (Actor); Henry Fonda (Actor); Maurice Jarre (Composer); Andrew Marton (Director); Robert Mitchum (Actor); Cornelius Ryan (Author of screenplay, Author); Robert Ryan (Actor); Rod Steiger (Actor); Richard Todd (Actor); John Wayne (Actor); Bernhard Wicki (Director); Darryl Francis Zanuck (Producer).

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

Contributors: Edward Burns (Actor); Matt Damon (Actor); Tom Hanks (Actor); Robert Rodat (Author of screenplay); Tom Sizemore (Actor); Steven Spielberg (Director, Producer).

More Bob Wills!

A forerunner to Texas Swing and Texas Blues, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys fiddled a commercial brand of down home favorites.