Adolphe Menjou
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : ill. ; 19 x 12 cm).
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
3) Pollyanna
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. A blistering indictment of military politics.
6) Heartbeat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Aristide (Rathbone) runs a school for pickpockets and recruits reform school escapee Arlette Lafon (Ginger Rogers), who dreams of going legit, and realizes the best way is to marry. When asked to steal the watch of diplomat Pierre La Roche (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette falls for her victim, while Professor Aristide and a suave ambassador (Adolphe Manjou) manipulate her for their own wicked purposes.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gangsters when she's left as an IOU for a debt.
Now and Forever: Shirley Temple stars as a little rich girl whose father, a jewel thief, comes to claim her from his late wife's relatives.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter"--IMDb.com.
