Hugh Griffith
2) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
3) Tom Jones
Series
Language
English
Description
Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Tom Jones is an orphan raised by the village squire who grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison!
4) Ben-hur
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Side A, The abominable Dr. Phibes: Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness-- and surgical wit! Side B, Dr. Phibes rises again!: Vicent Price breathes life back into one of his most perfect horror villains.
10) Exodus
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
A selection of stories from Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Shot in England, it offers an earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride, to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is a work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini's portrayal of...
14) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"1787. HMS Bounty sets out on a journey through perilous seas to a tropical paradise, and into history as the one of the most ill-fated vessels in naval lore. The gripping story centers on first officer Fletcher Christian, a dandy transformed into a man of action, and Captain William Bligh, uncompromising in his command or his cruelty"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the 18th century two sets of twins are mis-matched at birth only to be reunited on the eve of the French Revolution. The problem is that the twins are members of both the peasant and aristocratic classes. Their meeting, their mixup and the mistaken identities would ultimately constitute one of the most tumultuous events in modern history.
17) Joseph Andrews
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country servant struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country lad struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
18) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fielding's canonical 18th-century novel, boisterously chronicling the misadventures of the foundling of the title, whose easy charm seems to lead him astray at every turn from his beloved, the wellborn Sophie Western"--Container.
19) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Oscar-winning epic based on Lew Wallace's novel. Set in imperialist Rome, two friends become sworn enemies due to their religious convictions.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Master of the World: Robur has at his fingertips an assortment of whiz-bang 19th-century whatchamacallits including the Albatross, a fantastic flying machine that's at once part zeppelin, part whirlybird, part resort hotel and completely lethal with its overwhelming combination of see-you-later speed and bombs-away firepower that can blast the armies of the world to their knees. Crafty Robur guides the Albatross over the continents, humbling nations...