Paul Kelly
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A 1950 film noir directed by noir veteran Robert Siodmak. Barbara Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who seduces the married Assistant District Attorney and pulls him into a web of theft and murder. Her aunt's mansion is burglarized and the woman is murdered. Thelma calls the Assistant DA to help her cover up evidence that may incriminate her. When she emerges as the prime suspect, the infatuated Assistant DA tries to sabotage the prosecution....
3) Crossfire
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. 'Hate', Finlay says, 'is like a gun.' ... Finlay is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects and Montgomery [is] a vicious bigot, a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S."--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1208
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
6) Storm center
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
A librarian refuses to remove a book called The communist dream from the public library when the city council tells her to do so.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Chuck Martin is going straight when he gets out of the big house - straight back into a life of crime. In lockup or out in the civilian world, he knows that he will forever wear a con's invisible stripes. Martin's ex-Sing Sing yardmate Cliff Taylor, vows to walk away from crime and be a role model for his kid brother. What awaits Taylor are suspicion, public disdain and joblessness. He turns to a fellow con for help. Crime doesn't pay, but it does...
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty's persecution and trial in Hungary, this documentary/propaganda style film examines the Hungarian Communist regime which rose to power after Nazi rule. Cardinal Mindszenty is labeled a traitor by the regime subjugated by dictator Joseph Stalin. American correspondent Tom Kelly shows up in Budapest to investigate. False arrests and mysterious disappearances envelop the brave souls who dared follow...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A debonair lawyer is suspected in the murder of a nosy newspaper columnist. Aided by a classy, sassy and marriage-minded partner, he untangles the Manhattan maze of double-crosses, disguises, and misdirections all without disarranging his dinner jacket or bruising his gin"--Container.
Publisher
Critic's Choice
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The hitch-hiker: While on their way to a fishing trip, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer.
Detour: After he is picked up while hitchhiking, Al Roberts' samaritan dies of a heart attack. Afraid of being accused of the murder, he ditches the body, then takes the man's clothes, wallet, and car.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The public enemy: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war--www.imdb.com.
The roaring twenties: After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd...
Series
Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
Where the red fern grows : A boy growing up in the Ozarks of Oklahoma scrimps and saves to make his dream of...
18) Flight command
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"The night fog is like a soup you can stand your spoon in. But Alan Drake, en route to join the elite Navy Hell Cats fighter squadron, disobeys orders to abandon his aircraft and hit the silk. The headstrong maneuver doesn't sit well with the tightly knit squad. And the opinion of Drake will plunge further when he's suspected of romancing the unit commander's wife. This pre-war film with scenes of aerial training and readiness mirrored America's growing...
19) Ziegfeld girl
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Success and heartbreak are awaiting three young women chosen for the Ziegfeld follies.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...