Cecil Kellaway
Series
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter who lands at a roadside gas station owned by jolly old Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) and his young, blonde wife Cora (Lana Turner). In a matter of minutes, Frank and Cora fall in love, and plot to murder Nick. Eventually wedding bells ring, the body count rises, and the gavel slams-of course, nothing ever goes as planned. Part of what makes the film noir is watching the characters react, as their plans are...
Series
Studio classics volume 32
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Hollis has been closeted in her mansion since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster's relatives and friends apper to rally behind her, but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumors of the last forty years appear to be coming true. On hand are cousin Miriam, Dr. Drew Bayliss, Jewel Mayhew, and the scariest inhabitant of all, loyal...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog...whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program! The first live-action comedy Walt Disney produced.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Soon after arriving in France on a music scholarship, young Australian Marjorie takes the opera world by storm. Exhilarated by her achievement, she garners worldwide fame and is heralded as one of the greatest singers of her time. But tragedy strikes in the form of a crippling paralysis ...
6) The letter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
Series
Criterion collection volume 676
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, a charmingly vengeful blonde bombshell sorceress with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them -- a prospective governor about to marry a spoiled socialite"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 19th century India, Errol Flynn is the dashing horse-trader and secret British agent who enlists the aid of Kim O'Hara (Dean Stockwell) to help thwart enemy forces rising against England. Kim launches a series of perilous experiences as a courier and a spy.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte was a Southern belle preparing to elope with her married lover-- until he was murdered. Now, 37 years later, she lives alone in her mansion, slowly going mad as she is haunted by the memory of the unsolved crime and tormented by the local townspeople who believe she killed him. But when her cousin comes to visit, the skeletons begin to tumble out of the closet-- and that's when the terror really begins.
10) Unconquered
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Peace-loving Chris Holden [is] a militiaman who buys and then frees beautiful indentured servant Abby Hale. When a supplier of illegal firearms covets Abby for himself, he sparks a vicious battle between an Indian tribe and a few brave colonists.
11) Easy to wed
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The "Morning Star" has a big problem. J.B. Allenbury is a rich and mighty man who will sue the paper for $2 million because of an article which says that his daughter, Connie, is nymphomaniac and only after married men. Reporter Bill Chandler is sent after Connie to prove that the story is true. The only problem Bill has is that he's not married, at least not yet.
12) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
15th century French peasant girl, Joan, rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an Army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. When a new king is crowned, Joan's influence grows and makes him wary of her power, ultimately betraying her to martyrdom.
Publisher
Critics Choice Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The proud rebel (1958): Ladd is a Southerner on his way north in search of a doctor to cure his boy, who was rendered mute by the shock of seeing his mother killed in the Civil War. Along the way they find a new home on an Illinois farm run single-handed by de Havilland, and learn that violence does not always end after a war is over when she is victimized by a one-armed sheep herder and his two sons.
Committed (12/5/54): TV episode of General Electric...
Series
Franchise collection volume 1
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Francis the talking mule: A talking mule adopts a second lieutenant as his master in the Burmese jungle during World War II.
Francis goes to the races: Peter and Francis go to stay on a horsebreeding ranch. Peter is smitten by the owner's granddaughter, and Francis enjoys the easy life. But a debt has come due that threatens the ranch, and Francis uses connections with his equine friends to come up with some winners.
Francis goes to West Point:...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
cc2009.
Language
English
Description
Jealousy, loyalty, and a family feud between two brothers are all at play in this story. Can the two join together or are the families destined to repeat the mistakes of the past and live out the curse of their ancestors?
18) Harvey
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood's obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in the side of her plans to marry off her daughter. When Veta Louise decides to put Elwood in a mental hospital, a hilarious mix-up occurs and she finds herself committed instead. It's up to Elwood to straighten out the mess with his kindly philosophy, and his 'imaginary'...
20) Mrs. Parkington
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Susie Graham was working in her mother's boarding house when she met millionaire Augustus Parkington and became his wife. Now the 84-year-old family matriarch, Mrs. Parkington looks back on the decades of her family's ups and downs.