Barton MacLane
Series
Language
English
Description
Amid 16th-century England₂s pomp and poverty, two lookalike lads, one a beggar and one young Edward VI, exchange identities for a lark. But their switch backfires and it₂s up to soldier of fortune Miles Hendon to turn the tables on a conspirator and return the correct lad to the throne.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Series
Essential classics. Dramas volume 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Private detective Don Gale is contracted by an old record shop owner to track down a young girl who used to live in his neighborhood and is in line for a fortune. But when an old man is murdered, Gale is accused, leaving him on an adventure filled with double-crossing, false identities, a valuable record collection and murder. Gale uses every trick in the book to solve the case, and not every way is legal." -- Container.
10) The geisha boy
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Struggling magician the Great Wooley and his lop-eared partner Harry Hare plan to dazzle audiences with magical feats during their USO tour of Japan and Korea. Jerry combines his trademark antics with a compassionate central story: an orphaned Japanese boy is drawn out of his shell by the magician's humor and caring.--Container.
11) Red light
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Torno thinks everything's "jake" thanks to the safe return of his brother Jess from a POW camp. But trouble is brewing in the form of his ex-employee, embezzling book keeper Nick Cherney, who's currently serving time for dipping his hand into Johnny's trucking company till. Cherney tasks fellow con Rocky with revenge delivery, and the deed sends Johnny out into the streets, desperately searching for a missing Bible and the meaning behind a...
12) Western Union
Language
English
Formats
Description
While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw, an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
13) Backlash
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hard-bitten wanderer Jim Slater rides the range seeking to avenge his father's death. Along the way he meets frontier widow Karly Orton. The unlikely duo endures various hardships as Slater comes to suspect his fatehr died from something more sinister than an apparent Apache ambush.
14) The mummy
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mummy (1932): "In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. One night a young member of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, and then goes insane, realizing that he has brought Im-Ho-Tep back to life. Ten years later, disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy...
15) The big street
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: The Maltese falcon: Some high-living lowlifes want to get their hands on a bejeweled falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why and find out who will take the fall for his partner's murder. The big sleep: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and ends up wearing out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.
Disc 2: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a blackmailer suddenly appears in her dressing room and threatens to expose her dark past, London stage star Stella Parish goes into hiding, boarding a ship for the States. Turning up at a New York hotel with her six-year-old daughter in tow. Stella is befriended by Keith Lockridge, a stranger she met on the boat. Hoping to keep the truth from her child, Stella confides her secret to Keith, unaware he's a reporter who's out for the story and...
18) The walking dead
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Boris Karloff stars in this classic horror film as John Elman, a man who comes back from the dead to seek revenge on the gangsters who framed him for the murder of the judge who first jailed him. After evidence proving Elman's innocence arrives seconds following his electrocution, officials allow Dr. Evan Beaumont to experiment with putting a mechanical heart into Elman. The device revives the dead man, but he has become a monstrous, white-haired,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Beasts roar, danger abounds and Johnny Weissmuller swoops into the last 6 of his 12 adventures as film's definitive Tarzan. The vine swinger provides World War II heroics in Tarzan triumphs and Tarzan's desert mystery. Next, he welcomes Jane (Brenda Joyce) home and champions a secluded female tribe in Tarzan and the Amazons. A deadly cult proves no match for the jungle lord in Tarzan and the leopard woman. And the Ape Man calls in elephants to deal...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
You and me: Projecting the message that "crime doesn't pay", a group of ex-cons works in a department store whose owner believes in rehabilitation. It's a romantic crime story, laced with comedy and social commentary.
Ministry of fear: En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi...