Charles Lang
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
In order to escape retaliation after they witness a gangland murder, two unemployed musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band headed to Miami. En route, one falls for the band's lovelorn singer, who thinks she loves an aged playboy. Their cover is blown by his love interest and by a mob boss, who refuses to fall for their hoax.
2) Sabrina
Language
English
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Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
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Description
The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues. In 1951, there was no 24-hour cable news, and the Albuquerque...
4) Charade
Series
Language
English
Description
Regina finds herself pursued through the streets of Paris by several men in search of the fortune that her murdered husband stole from them. As her world becomes entangled with suspense, murder and plots twists, she finds herself leaning on a suave, charming stranger whose motives are unclear.
6) Blue Hawaii
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley, plays an ex-GI returning home to Hawaii. His mother wants him to climb the corporate ladder, but his work plans focus on being a tour guide.
Series
KL studio classics volume 6
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, a young widow moves with her daughter into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
Series
Criterion collection volume 677
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
11) A star is born
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judy Garland had no better showcase of her singing and acting talent than as the title 'star' of this moving, memorable classic directed by George Cukor. Shortened after its 1954 premiere, the film was famously reconstructed to near its original length in 1983 under the leadership of film historian Ronald Haver. Using cutting-edge digital restoration tools, this timeless movie has been meticulously preserved and restored from the original camera negative,...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Richard Benson (William Holden) has a script due in three days. When he asks secretary Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots in this classic romantic comedy.
13) The big heat
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
14) A foreign affair
Language
English
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Description
Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
15) One-eyed Jacks
Series
Criterion collection volume 844
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including Karl Malden and Pina Pellicer) nuanced depictions of conflicted...
16) Rope of sand
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After a two-year hiatus, Mike Davis, returns to the same African city where he was tortured and left for dead at the hands of a sadistic police commandant. Originally innocent of all charges, Davis is back to claim the diamonds he had supposedly stolen two years ago. He enlists the help of an alcoholic stranger, and the doctor who had helped him get his health back. The diamond syndicate head recruits a nightclub temptress to seduce and betray Davis...
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...
18) Copper Canyon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the early days after the Civil War, Johnny, a vaudeville sharpshooter, tries to outrun his past as a hero in the Confederate Army. But when some ex-Confederate miners need protection from Unionists and corrupt lawmen who run Copper Canyon, Johnny decides to fight for justice. Along the way he wins the heart of a local beauty.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Veteran Army scout Sam Varner agrees to escort a former Apache captive and her half-Indian son to safety across desert wastelands and imposing mountains. But shadowing their path is a renegade killer dead set on getting the boy back. Events tighten around Varner, his charges and his best friend like a noose. The stage is set for a final, violent showdown between hunter and hunted.
20) Sudden fear
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
On a train headed home to California, Myra Hudson falls in love with and marries actor Lester Blaine, whom she has just fired from her most recent New York play. Back on her San Francisco estate, something evil appears to be lurking beneath the surface of the couple's idyllic life.