Rock Hudson Collection DVD Box Set

Handsome, witty and extremely talented, Rock Hudson was the embodiment of the Hollywood leading man during his illustrious film career. Join this iconic actor as he lights up the screen with this 10-disc collection showcasing some of his most impressive films:

THE LAWLESS BREED: Released from prison after serving 16 years of a quarter-century sentence for murder, reformed gunfighter John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson) completes a written autobiography, hoping to convince his son (Race Gentry) not to follow a criminal path. In it, he shows how having left home as a young man against the wishes of his strict preacher father (John McIntire) and his first love (Mary Castle), he is hurled into the outlaw life when he shoots a man in self-defence during a card game in a saloon.

BATTLE HYMN: Haunted by a deadly mistake he made as a World War II bomber pilot, Reverend Dean Hess (Rock Hudson) re-enlists at the beginning of the Korean War despite the pleas of his faithful wife, Mary (Martha Hyer). In South Korea, Hess takes command of a training base where his easy-going old friend Dan Skidmore (Don DeFore) is among the officers. Amidst increasing danger from enemy bombardment, Hess and local woman En Soon Yang (Anna Kashfi) try to protect the area's growing refugee orphan population.

THE GOLDEN BLADE: A hero (Rock Hudson) uses the magic sword of Damascus to free a Baghdad princess (Piper Laurie) from a grand vizier and his son (Gene Evans).

HORIZONS WEST: After fighting in the Civil War, the Hammond brothers of Texas return to Austin and begin to drift apart. While Neal (Rock Hudson) commandeers the family ranch, courts local beauty Sally (Judith Braun) and becomes a marshal, Dan (Robert Ryan) turns to a life of crime and lusts after the wife (Julia Adams) of a prominent magnate (Raymond Burr). Their lives re-converge when Neal must choose between Dan and a group of ranchers terrorised by his brother's gang of cattle rustlers.

BLINDFOLD: When top-level scientist Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) suffers a nervous collapse, his military handlers fear he may be at risk of being kidnapped by a group of international terrorists who sell their victims to the governments of communist nations. Vincenti's psychiatrist, Dr Bartholomew Snow (Rock Hudson), and fractious sister, Vicky (Claudia Cardinale), are drawn into a web of intrigue alongside the mysterious Fitzpatrick (Guy Stockwell), who claims Vincenti may already be an enemy agent.

CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT: An Irish swashbuckler (Rock Hudson) woos a rebel leader's (Jeff Morrow) daughter (Barbara Rush) in 19th-century Ireland.

SHOWDOWN: A sheriff (Rock Hudson) tracks a train robber (Dean Martin) who used to be his friend, until a woman (Susan Clark) came between them.

TAZA, SON OF COCHISE: After decades of warfare between the Apaches and the U.S. military, a peace agreement is finally made. A few years later, the Apaches undergo a regime change, and the new chief, Taza (Rock Hudson), is determined to maintain positive relations between his people and the American cavalrymen. But Taza's fiery brother, Naiche (Bart Roberts), wants to rid the area of incoming white pioneers. Naiche teams up with Geronimo (Ian MacDonald), the leader of a violent nearby tribe, and a new war begins.

THE TARNISHED ANGELS: Heroic World War I pilot Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) is all but forgotten by the 1930's, but flying is all he knows, so he takes work as an air show stuntman. Roger's job is demeaning, low-paying and dangerous. Perpetually frustrated, he takes his anger out on his gorgeous wife, LaVerne (Dorothy Malone). Journalist Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson) chances upon the once-great pilot at one of his shows and becomes fascinated by Roger's undying devotion to flight-- and by the alluring LaVerne.

TOBRUK: In order to slow Rommel's advance on the Suez Canal, a group of Allied soldiers cross the Libyan Desert to destroy enemy fuel reserves and stop tanks dead in their tracks. The 90 men, a combination of German-born Jews and British commandos, employ disguise and cunning to outwit the German and Italian enemy forces that they encounter.