Yarn [from a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall], dedicated to the Fighting French, unwinds in a series of flashbacks, as related by a French liaison officer (Claude Rains) to an American ...

Best extra: An Oscar-nominated musical short, “Jammin’ the Blues” (1944) with some of jazz’s best: Lester Young (sax), George “Red” Callender (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Illinois Jacquet (tenor ...

France, 1938. Journalist and opponent of the Munich Agreement, Jean Matrac, is deported to a penal colony in French Guiana. In the camp, Matrac teams up with several fellow inmates. They resolve to do ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.