Charles Lederer
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy to an insurance salesman, but not without a fight. The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The plot snowballs as Williams' friend Molly Malloy, the crooked mayor, and his mother get tied up in Walter's web.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Danny Ocean like his chances. All he asks is that his handpicked squad of 10 grifters and cons play the game like they have nothing to lose. If all goes right, the payoff will be a fat $150 million. All the gang of associates needs to do is stage heists at three major Las Vegas casinos - Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand - simultaneously during a popular boxing event. The payoff, divided by 11, you do the math.
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
11) Wabash Avenue
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After being cheated out of a dance hall business, Andy Clark tries to get revenge by stealing its star performer, Ruby Summers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"1787. HMS Bounty sets out on a journey through perilous seas to a tropical paradise, and into history as the one of the most ill-fated vessels in naval lore. The gripping story centers on first officer Fletcher Christian, a dandy transformed into a man of action, and Captain William Bligh, uncompromising in his command or his cruelty"--Container.
15) Ocean's eleven
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
16) 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.
17) A global affair
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this screwball romantic comedy, Bob Hope stars as a department head in the United Nations, who finds himself in the unlikely role of "Dad" to an abandoned baby. The loveable but inept bachelor is then lured by a bevy of international beauties to offer up the child for an adoption & to a safe haven, away from him!
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Screen legend James Cagney, in his final musical performance, plays a lovable, larcenous longshoreman in this rapid-fire, song-filled spoof of union politics. Cagney sings and dances his way to the top of the heap as Jake MacIllaney, a combination Yankee Doodle Dandy and Robin Hood, who empties company and union coffers alike to become president of the stevedore₂s union. The sly MacIllaney also has his eye on his lawyer₂s beautiful wife and reaches...
19) Can-Can
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe Forrestier, a lovestruck young jurist who's determined to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Manhattan melodrama: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Evelyn Prentice: John Prentice is a successful Manhattan defense attorney. When his wife Evelyn ends an affair, her ex-lover blackmails her and he is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her.
Double wedding: A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's...