Virginia Grey
Series
Complete Thin man collection volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They're just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional bon vivants Nick & Nora Charles. And now there's a new hood: parenthood."--Container.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A neighborhood is disturbed when truck driver Rosario is killed by the police. One day, his wife learns Rosario was having an affair; and a new carefree, handsome Italian truck driver enters her life. Winner of the Best Actress (Anna Magnani), Best Cinematography and the Best Art Direction Awards at the **Academy Awards.** Winner of Best Actress Award at the **Golden Globes** and the **BAFTA Awards.** *"That fine Italian actress Anna Magnani...has...
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and country-club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America"--Container....
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Kathy Ferguson is an extraordinary woman, trapped in a decade that worships the ordinary. She's smart and witty, and an ace at her job. She's an advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name on billboards all over town. But Kathy makes a big mistake, she falls in love. After marrying Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, somewhere between the olive dip and the shiny waxed floors, she begins to realize that Bill wants nothing more than...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.
Series
Criterion collection volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former prostitute, hoping to fit into mainstream society, moves to an all-American suburb, but her past comes back to haunt her.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A Marine sergeant stationed overseas falls in love with a woman only through correspondence. On the train back home, he meets a beautiful young doctor who's starting a new practice in the same small town. Once in town, he finds his pen pal's place of residence, but to his surprise he only finds the girl's mother living at the old mansion with her servant - the old woman informs him that her daughter has gone away and will return shortly, but asks...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A servant, Eliza, flees the security of a Kentucky plantation when her young son and her dignified protector, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her experiences culminate in her arrival at the swampy lair of the murderous Simon Legree.
Publisher
Apprehensive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Photographer Ted Osborne is obsessed with the idea of photographing actual prehistoric monsters. When the opportunity arrives, he drags his beautiful bride to be to an island of long forgotten dinosaurs, giant gorillas and other Jurassic terrors. Will they survive their battles with the monsters of Unknown Island or will they become a fossil for future adventurers to discover?
13) Back street
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A quintessential tearjerker in which a couple meets and falls in love but is unable to marry due to impossible circumstances.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Taking an assumed name to hide his real identity, Adam rents a house from Rosemary Howard, the only single woman in a paradise filled with lonely housewives and workaholic husbands. There's trouble in Paradise when Adam begins advising the wives on their sex lives while their husbands grow increasingly jealous and indignant.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
Eliza is a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)....
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The film follows a rube, played by Henry Morgan, on a journey as he uses his recently obtained inheritance to take a trip to 1910's New York with his wife and sister-in-law. Along the way, he encounters numerous eccentric characters including a drunken jockey, a sleaze ball millionaire and a devious stage actor, all scheming to court his sister-in-law in order to gain a slice of the inheritance.
17) Smooth as silk
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An attorney, engaged to an actress, gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An adulterous couple conspires to kill her tyrannical husband. Soon after the murder, the lovers in crime receive an anonymous letter that says only: "Dear Mrs. Cabot: Congratulations on the success of your murder."
19) Red Skelton whistling collection: Whistling in Brooklyn ; Whistling in Dixie ; Whistling in Brooklyn
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Whistling in the dark: a radio sleuth is kidnapped by crooks who want him to help devise the perfect murder.
Whistling in Dixie: Radio sleuth Wally "The Fox" Benton forgoes his honeymoon to help his wife's old friend solve a murder and hunt for Confederate gold.
Whistling in Brooklyn: The Fox is on the trail of a serial killer, and winds up on the mound at Ebbets Field.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Portrait in black: An adulterous couple conspire to kill the woman's tyrannical husband. Then an anonymous letter arrives advising them that someone knows their secret and their new life together begins unraveling.
Madame X: A woman is blackmailed by her mother-in-law into leaving her politician husband and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder where she is defended by her own son.