Cedric Hardwicke
1) Rope
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder, " their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
2) Suspicion
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out...
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English
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To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out...
Language
English
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"This chilling adaptation of H. G. Wells' frightening novel [has] humans intrigued when a meteor-like object crashes to Earth but its occupants are definitely not friendly. The assault on Earth is underway, and the Martian machines -- hovering 'swan'-shaped vehicles of destruction' are both beautiful and terrifying as they cut a relentless path of annihilation"--Container.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1940s, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn allegiance, was destroying Germany, his ingrained sense of duty pushed him into a conspiracy against Hitler. An intimate look at one of the most respected military tacticians of modern times"--Container.
7) The Lodger
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A London family begins to suspect that their eccentric lodger is in fact Jack the Ripper.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder, " their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Romantic adventure set during the turbulent years of Colonial and Revolutionary America about a conservative bride and her democratic husband who are forced to choose between their love for each other and their political beliefs.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Combatants are captured and held in a POW camp after Nazi troops overrun France. A former cab driver is chained to a wall in solitary confinement because of his defiance of prison authorities. His will to fight is crushed by the torment of solitary confinement. But his passions rekindle when, after being smuggled out of camp as part of a POW escape, he witnesses courage of fellow escapees and resistance partisans in combat against Nazi troops.
13) Suspense
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Language
English
Description
Radio Spirits proudly presents 10 hours of Suspense broadcasts from the series' first decade on the air, featuring some of its classic voices, including Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Kearns as "The Man In Black." Joining the regulars at the Suspense microphone were an impressive array of Hollywood stars--from the masculine voices of Peter Lorre and Edward G. Robinson, to the female voices of Lillian Gish, Lana Turner, and child star Margaret O'Brien....
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Series
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English
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From H.G. Wells' shocking book comes one of the most lavish science fiction epics ever to hit the screen! It is the year 1940 and civilization has been torn apart by a global war–transformed from a place of order and progress into a nightmarish landscape of fear and disease. One small warring tribe struggles for its existence, when out of the sky comes a fantastic craft bearing a mysterious stranger who offers them a new path, one free of war and...
16) On borrowed time
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
17) Suspicion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Well-to-do wallflower Lina McLaidlaw is in love, perhaps in danger. She suspects that Johnnie Aysgarth, the playboy who swept into her life and married her, is a murderer and that she may be his next victim.
18) Wilson
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Woodrow Wilson moves from his position as the head of Princeton to the Governorship of New Jersey to the White House, where he eventually uses all of his efforts to end World War I"--Container.
Series
Language
English
Description
Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert in hopes of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. Worried about her father, Kathy persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him. After surviving the desert they are found by natives and brought to their chief, Twala. Umbopa reveals himself to be the true heir to the tribal throne, having been exiled years earlier by Twala...
Series
Criterion collection volume 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...