Arthur Ibbetson
Language
English
Description
Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
2) Hopscotch
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
4) The bounty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Bitter about being forced into retirement, a colonel (wittily embodied by Jack Hawkins) ropes a cadre of former British army men into aiding him in a one-million-pound bank robbery, a risky, multitiered plan that involves infiltrating a military compound.
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man. He expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion from a traditional military family enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
7) Hopscotch
Series
Criterion collection volume 163
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being relegated to a desk job, CIA agent Miles Kendig writes a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate: he's having too much fun.
Publisher
[Kino Lorber]
Pub. Date
[2019?]
Language
English
Description
Screen legends Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare, The Night of the Iguana, Becket) and Sophia Loren (Two Women, Blood Feud, Marriage Italian Style) headline this 1974 remake of the 1945 David Lean classic, based on a play by Noël Coward and starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. A social worker (Loren) and a doctor (Burton) meet by chance in a railway station, but are almost instantly captivated by each other, although they are each already married....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory - Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
Hugo...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Battleground": A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. "The dirty dozen": During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. "Where eagles dare": Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner...