Wallace Beery
1) Grand Hotel
Language
English
Formats
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
Oscar Krug is a working-class American who is persecuted for his German ancestry after war is declared. Driven by patriotism, Krug enlists and goes to sea. However, tragedy strikes when his wife sneaks aboard his ship and is captured following a German U-boat attack. Krug's single-minded quest for vengeance against the sadistic German submarine commander leads to the film's shocking and brutal climax.
5) Robin Hood
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Language
English
Description
"A big-screen spectacle that ranks as one of the monumental accomplishments of the era, 'Robin Hood' is a timeless story of romance and intrigue, staged on a herculean scale. Its sets were erected by an army of 500 carpenters and towered 90 feet in the air, covering ten acres of land, historically accurate to the smallest detail. Robin Hood recreates 'the chivalry of England in all its glory' as it unveils the conflicts and betrayals that threaten...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Language
English
Description
This MGM musical comedy, filmed in Technicolor, is typical wholesome family entertainment and is as a result, a corny and cheery story about teenagers. Based on a popular radio show which began in 1941, this merry outing follows the adventures of Judy Foster, a young woman determined to attend the big school dance with an impressive date. Judy and her lifelong friend Carol fall out when they both fall for a suave older man. A high-spirited teen, Judy...
7) The champ
Language
English
Description
The story of an ex-boxing champion managing to support his son while training for his comeback. He also fights a custody battle that continues until the Champ returns to the ring, where he wins--and loses.
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
9) China seas
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Collection includes: China Seas (1935); and Wife Vs. Secretary (1936).
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Widely regarded as one of the most visually inventive silent comedies ever made, Sherlock Jr. offers fast-paced slapstick as well as a brilliant deconstruction of the filmmaking process. Keaton stars as a movie theater projectionist who dreams of becoming a super-sleuth and, in one breathtaking sequence, literally steps into the screen to bring his fantasies to life.
Another comedy for film-lovers (that plays upon the conventions of cinema), Three...
11) Slave ship
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The skipper of an early slave trading vessel operating along the African coast attempts to get out of the business by getting rid of his crew and hiring a new one, only to find out that such a corrupt path is not so easily changed. Mutiny, swashbucklers, and a beautiful bride make this high seas adventure an unforgettable one.
12) The lost world
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast escapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on its head.
13) China seas
Series
Language
English
Description
"Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress China Doll and his refined fiancée Sybil are aboard! Highlights include a raging typhoon, a battle with bloodthirsty Malay pirates, and China Doll's drinking contest with bluff villain Jamesy, who wants the gold and the platinum blonde"--Container....
14) This man's Navy
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two combat pilots form a friendship which is tested when a mission ends in disgrace.
15) Viva Villa!
Series
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The sometimes heroic, sometimes infamous deeds of legendary Mexican bandit and patriot Pancho Villa are brought to life. Young Pancho, driven to repulsion of the Diaz regime when he witnesses one of its soldiers kill his father. Pancho turns against the government, becoming one of the most ruthless bandits ever known to Mexico, but eventually helping to put the honorable Francisco Madero to power. After Madero's assassination, Pancho himself is called...
16) Tugboat Annie
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. & Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tugboat Annie pilots her beloved Narcissus around Puget Sound, constantly on the lookout for the shenanigans of her drunken husband.
17) Hell divers
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Once friendly rivals, Naval airmen Windy Riker and Steve Nelson are now bitter enemies. Stationed on the USS Saratoga, the two battle over planes, dames and who's top gun in their squad. But when Steve crashes on a rocky island and badly shatters his leg, Windy risks his life to save his ex-friend, a rescue mission from which they may never return. Based on a story by Frank Wead and made with the full cooperation of the U.S. Navy, portions of the...
18) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...
19) Flesh
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Wallace Beery stars as a thickheaded waiter in a German beer garden who uses his muscles to clear out rowdy patrons. Beery channels his strength into a wrestling career, grappling his way up to the championship. His wife Karen Morley enjoys the creature comforts of Beery's success, but her heart belongs to her ex-lover Ricardo Cortez, and soon Karen is stepping out on her husband. Beery finds out and exacts a terrible revenge on Cortez--just minutes...