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Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan melodrama: Two brothers, orphaned by a steamship disaster, grow up on different sides of the law. Evelyn Prentice: A woman, hurt by the inattention of her lawyer husband, begins a flirtation of her own, with disastrous consequences. Double wedding: A romantic comedy featuring Powell as a Bohemian artist who becomes involved with a would-be actress and her uptight, domineering sister. I love you again: a boring businessman recovers from amnesia...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and wears out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Lauren Bacall joins Bogart under Howard Hawks' brisk and atmospheric direction of ace adaptations of Raymond Chandler's novel.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (464 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick's cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick's life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver's are an English 'middle-class' family who, together, experience life in the first months...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Easter parade, Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him.
In Meet me in St. Louis, Tte well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York.
In Singin' in the rain, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954, 102 min.): Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (399 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]. In Arsenic and old lace, a drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family. In A night at the opera, a New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal-- to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
[Disc 2]. In The long, long trailer, newlyweds hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot trailer in tow....
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (384 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
[Widescreen and standard format].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (375 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of one man's disastrous attempts to harness the evil that...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen/widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209, 277 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur's retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant's judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (208, 266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper. -- The train robbers: Mrs. Lowe is a beautiful widow who wants to clear...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs ( 566 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kelly's heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot. The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing, including the search-and-rescue order just issued to them....
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (418 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gay divorcee: Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent--www.imdb.com.
Shall we dance: A budding romance between a ballet master and a tapdancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they're already married--www.imdb.com.
Swing time: A performer...
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cattle baron tries to protect his empire from a land-grabbing developer; Pat Garrett, now a sheriff, must capture his former partner, Billy the Kid; an Army scout helps a white woman to escape her Indian captors; a former sheriff is hired to deliver gold cross-country unaware that his partners intend to steal the gold.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (395 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
White Heat (1949): "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" Cagney's Cody Jarrett -- a psychotic thug devoted to his tough-as-nails mother -- is the searing centerpiece of this blazing, fast-paced thriller. City for Conquest (1940): Club fighter Cagney turns pro to bankroll his composer brother's dream of writing the great New York City symphony. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under them in an intensely moving saga co-starring Ann Sheridan. Each Dawn...
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