Michael Curtiz
1) Casablanca
Language
English
Description
Entering Casablanca is easy, getting out is much harder, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. At the top of the list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's...
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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"Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act, and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when [they] discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of"--Container.
Language
English
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"Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure begins when they discover that the inn is run by their old Army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff that dreams are made of"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Three convicts, Joseph, Albert and Jules, are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre, who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems, the convicts return to prison, convinced that the world is much too wicked.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. They discover that the inn is run by the fella's old army general who's now in financial trouble.
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter they join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The result is stuff dreams are made of.
10) The Sea Hawk
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film was stirringly topical in its day. When Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) exhorts her country to maintain fighting readiness against tyranny "now and forever," audiences knew forever had come: Hitler had launched his World War II air siege of England.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Francis Bernardone, son of a wealthy cloth merchant, after hearing the voice of Jesus speak to him, had a radical conversion from a worldly man of adventure to a life devoted to Christ lived in Gospel simplicity and service to the poor.
12) Virginia City
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.
14) Mildred Pierce
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
16) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
17) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high...
19) Jimmy the gent
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"James Cagney and Bette Davis star as a less-than-scrupulous private detective and the woman he loves--who has just left him for an even less scrupulous employer. Jimmy Corrigan (Cagney) is jealous when his operative and sweetheart, Joan Martin (Davis), goes to work for his seemingly upper-crust rival Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart). But Corrigan discovers that Wallingham is just as crooked as Corrigan; he's just better at concealing it. Now--even...
20) Life with father
Language
English
Description
"New York in 1883 is the setting for this classic family movie. Clarence Day (William Powell) a stockbroker attempts to run his household with the meticulous efficiency of his office. His wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne) is the real driving force behind the family by constantly out witting her husband"--Container.