Oscar Homolka
4) Ball of fire
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
5) Ball of fire
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
6) Sabotage
Series
Language
English
Description
London theater owner Carl Verloc is a quiet man who would not hurt anyone, or maybe not. As the city is rocked by terrorist attacks, Carl's wife begins to suspect that her husband is not who he seems. As she edges closer to the truth, Scotland Yard moves in and a mysterious package is entrusted to an innocent boy. This sets the stage for terrifying destruction.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 1
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A movie theatre cashier suspects her mild-mannered husband is a traitor who is terrorizing London.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Secret agent Harry Palmer is blackmailed into working for MI5 again on his wildest and most dangerous assignment yet. An insane oil billionaire, intent on destroying Communism by starting a new world war, is close to achieving his goal with the help of the world's largest and most powerful computer. Harry is the only man who may be able to stop him, but as he races from London to Finland to Latvia to Texas and back, he must determine who of his supposed...
11) The long ships
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Viking adventurer and his brother take on raging seas and storms, a mutinous crew and a Moor and his troops to find the legendary "Mother of Voices, " a solid gold bell as tall as three men.
12) Comrade X
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter "Mac" Thompson is hunky and self-confident. Together, in pre-World War II Russia, the two share an adventure involving secret identities, a marriage of convenience, hairbreadth escapes and a thrilling tank-chase as Mac tries to help Theodore leave for the USA one step ahead of the corrupt secret police.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...
Language
English
Description
Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Rich and strange: Adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma, and Val...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Harry Palmer, ex-army corporal, who unwillingly serves as a spy for Her Majesty rather than serve a long stint behind bars. Palmer is sent to Berlin, where he is to extricate a Russian general who wants to defect. He arranges for an escape plan, which includes a fake funeral, but unfortunately, the wrong body is transported out of Russia. Palmer keeps his cool and there's plenty of scenery as he wanders about Berlin and in and out of the arms of some...
Publisher
Diamond Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A fully restored and enhanced digitally mastered collection of Hitchcock's early works. It includes thirteen films on five discs.
The lady vanishes: "When a kindly old lady disappears on a train, an acquaintance searches for clues to the missing woman's disappearance"--Container.
Sabotage: "A woman who works at a movie theater suspects that her quiet husband might be the terrorist planting bombs around London"--Container.
Blackmail: "The story...
17) Sabotage
Publisher
Starry Night Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades ... or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Academy Award winner Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop, Litvinov,...
20) Boys' night out
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Bowling? Nope. Another round of beers? Yawn. Three married men and their divorced buddy want to try something more intriguing on their boys' night out: a boy's night in with a blonde tootsie in a secret love pad. Unknown to them, the tootsie is really a doctoral student researching the love life of the suburban male. And she proves her smarts by keeping all four relationships strictly platonic, despite the boys' boasting to the contrary"--Container....