Don Defore
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one is inside that boarded-up mansion on Manhattans ritzy Fifth Avenue, right? Wrong. Its secret inhabitants include a philosophizing hobo and some GI families who are unable to find apartments during the post-World War II housing crunch. They set up residence in the posh brownstone while the owner, the second richest man in the world, winters in Virginia. Except the owner is not in Virginia. He is there in disguise and discovering a lot about...
Series
Killer classics volume Disc 5
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A bickering couple finds a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea -- and she'll do anything to realize it.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Long before wisecracking maids Alice (Brady Bunch), Florida (Good Times) or Florence (The Jeffersons) there was Hazel! Based on Saturday Evening Post cartoons. This popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. George Baxter is the head of the family which consists of his wife, Dorothy and their son, Harold. It's very clear that Hazel runs the household and often preempts George's authority in very amusing...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Long before wisecracking maids Alice, Florida, or Florence, there was Hazel. Based on Saturday Evening Post cartoons, the popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. George Baxter is the head of the family which consists of his wife, Dorothy, and their son, Harold. It's very clear that Hazel runs the household and often preempts George's authority in very amusing ways.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on Saturday Evening Post cartoons, the popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. George Baxter is the head of the family which consists of his wife, Dorothy, and their son, Harold. It's very clear that Hazel runs the household and often preempts George's authority in very amusing ways.
7) Dark city
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A stranger's suicide and a gambler's murder are both linked to an uncashed cashier's check won at a crooked card game.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When their spouses are unable to join them on a planned group trip, longtime friends, Larry Gilbert and Kitty Weaver find themselves thrown together and falling in love under the sun in beautiful Acapulco. With their vacation coming to an end, both Larry and Kitty find themselves torn between feeling guilty about the affair and whether or not to end it.
10) The Stork Club
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Hat check girl Betty Hutton mysteriously becomes wealthy in this fanciful music-comedy.
11) Ramrod
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Veteran cowhand Dave Nash [is] hired by Connie Dickason, a strong-willed daughter of Ben Dickason, a ranch owner who has become the toady of a powerful local cattleman, Frank Ivey whom Ben once wanted Connie to marry. Connie has inherited a sheep ranch from her ex-husband and is determined to run the ranch with the help of her new Ramrod and his crew of anti-Ivey locals despite the opposition of Ivey and her father. The resulting bloody range war...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An author is looking for a man to play the leading role in the film version of her book when she meets a returning World War II Marine pilot on a train, and she is determined to turn him into the needed character. The stumbling block is that he thinks her books are ridiculous.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It happened on 5th Avenue (115 min.): GI families spend Christmas in an abandoned New York City mansion when the post-World War II housing crunch hits them. The shop around the corner (99 min.): Bickering store clerks have no idea they are secret penpals.
14) Battle hymn
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"As a WWII fighter pilot, Colonel Dean Hess accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight ... and face the past once again!"--Container.
Publisher
Peter Pen Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009, 1958]
Language
English
Description
Amid the devastating ruin of burnt out Germany during the dying days of World War Two, Private Ernst Graeber finds his town destroyed by Allied bombing. Frantically searching for his parents, Ernst encounters his childhood friend Elizabeth Kruse, the daughter of a doctor who has been removed to a concentration camp. In spite of the horror of their surroundings and their close proximity to death, Ernst and Elizabeth find hope in their love for one...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
A Christmas carol: "Holiday humbug Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future"--Container packaging.
Christmas in Connecticut: "A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column had better get some fast: her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero to her home for Christmas"--Container packaging.
It happened on 5th Avenue: "GI families hit by...
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend, the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson...
19) The male animal
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009, 1942]
Language
English
Description
"His fangs are bared, his hackles raised, his gin bottle nearly empty. The Male Animal is out of his lair, storming battle-of-the-sexes bulwarks, skewering college athletics and speaking his mind when folks of a narrower hat size seek to stop him. Bookish Prof. Tommy Turner [is] struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star once, perhaps still, fancied by Turner's...
20) Ramrod
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Connie Dickason has inherited a sheep ranch from her ex-husband and is determined to run the ranch with the help of her new Ramrod and his crew of anti-Ivey locals despite the opposition of Ivey and her father. The resulting bloody range war is much to the dismay of Dave, who wants to resolve Connie's problems with Ivey legally.