Blood Alley
Blood Alley is a 1955 propaganda seafaring adventure movie starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall set in China.
Plot
The ship of Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is seized by the Chinese Communists and he is imprisoned by them for two years in the vicinity of Amoy Island. Captain Wilder is helped to escape from prison, dressed as a Soviet officer. The huge Chinese who transports him to Chiku Shan village (Big Han) will not tell him why he has been broken out of prison.
Once they arrive at the village, the village headman, Mr. Tso, explains all to the captain. He has been recruited to take the people of Chiku Shan village in Red China to then-British Hong Kong. To do this, he has a small, wood-burning sternwheel riverboat not intended for oceangoing service, his memory of the coast, a handmade chart he draws himself, an unreliable magnetic compass to navigate with, and the determination of the people of Chiku Shan.
The villagers have been setting up this plan for more than a year, gradually raising the bottom of the channel into their village harbor with stones so that once the local patrol boat is lured inside, sinking some of the village sampans loaded with rocks will cause it to run aground and trap it there, thereby delaying word of their escape. They have also been quietly accumulating arms, ranging from .30 caliber Browning machine guns to Mosin–Nagant rifles and Model 1895 Nagant revolvers, against the day they make their break for freedom. They need to deal with the complication of a family of dedicated Communists in the village, the Fengs, who must be brought along despite their ideology. If they are left behind, they will either inform on the rest of the villagers or be shot for allowing them to escape.
True Justice
True Justice is a television series about undercover police officers starring Steven Seagal. Seagal stars as Elijah Kane, and heads a special task force in Seattle, Washington. On April 26, 2012, US broadcaster ReelzChannel renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes to air in 2012.
The series first aired on Nitro, a TV station in Spain, starting on May 12, 2011. It also aired in the UK on 5USA, with the first episode broadcast on 20 July 2011. 5USA also broadcast the 2nd season, starting on 4 July 2012, with the episode "Vengeance is Mine". The second season is sub-titled "The Ghost", the name of the villain that the main characters are pursuing.
Some episodes were made available in Poland on Cyfrowy Polsat VOD, between 30 September and 31 October 2011. The series started airing on Reelz Channel in the United States on March 30, 2012. The series is gradually being released on DVD and Blu-ray, two episodes at a time, edited into single "movies" (see below). A box set of the first season was released in Australia by Paramount Home Entertainment on December 8, 2011.
