The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving ones mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under ones command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect
The Executioners Song (1982)
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution
Tough Guys Dont Dance (1987)
Writer, ex con and 40 something bottle baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black outs, awakens from a two week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car, a blond womans severed head in his marijuana stash, and the new Provincetown
Town Bloody Hall (1979)
Infamously macho author Norman Mailer shares a 1971 NYC panel with an audience of intellectual women and famous feminists receiving a lively critique revealing the sophisticated political, literary discourse of early Womens Lib move