Cedric Gibbons
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Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as are his buddy, prospective ladylove, and shrewish costar. Rediscover the musical masterpiece in dazzling, restored high definition, featuring an all-new documentary special feature that salutes not just the all-time favorite, but also the musical legacy of its producer, songwriter Arthur Freed. Golden Globe Winner Best Musical/Comedy...
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English
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Jerry Mulligan is an ex-G.I. and a struggling American painter in Paris. He is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist. Romance between Jerry and Lise becomes complicated.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
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Criterion collection volume 847
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English
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A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian...
6) Grand Hotel
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English
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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...
7) Gaslight
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English
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A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
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Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora Charles find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate, supported by Nora and Asta.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". From 1907, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. Eventually, Ziegfeld abandons Anna in favor of other beauties. Ziegfeld comes to realize that his new romance with Follies-girl Audrey Dane, is all wrong,...
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Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Tarsan the ape man. The first teaming of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan sets a high adventure standard and includes a sequence of elephants rescuing Tarzan and Jane from pygmy captors.
Tarzan escapes. A dastardly hunter has Tarzan caged and ready to ship to England for display as a sideshow freak. Can steel bars hold the ape man?
Tarzan and his mate. Tarzan subdues a rhinoceros, wrestles a crocodile and rescues Jane as she's besieged...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"Johnny Weissmuller [and] Maureen O'Sullivan. He Tarzan, she Jane -- the most memorable pair ever to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero and heroine. All six of the stars' vine-swinging teamings are in this four disc set"--Container.
Tarzan the ape man (1932 ; 100 min.): "A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes"--IMDb.com.
Tarzan and...
15) Anna Karénina
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life.
16) Lady in the lake
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
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Publisher
! Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, !
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan ; adaptation by Cyril Hume ; dialogue by Ivor Novello ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; directed by W.S. Van Dyke.
Tarzan and His Mate with Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan ; screenplay by James Kevin McGuinness ; adaptation by Howard Emmett Rogers and Leon Gordon ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; directed by Cedric Gibbons ; produced by Bernard H....
18) Border incident
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder.
19) La bohème
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Mimi, a poor seamstress, and Rodolphe, a struggling playwright, fall in love. When Mimi attempts to help Rodolphe get his play produced, he suspects her of infidelity and she leaves him. Later, a severely ill Mimi returns to the now successful Rodolphe and dies.
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Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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A dramatic portrayal of the romance of the poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning that begins in London in 1845. The semi-invalid poetess finds her life transformed after falling in love with the famous poet and elopes with him against the wishes of her tyrannical father.