Leo McCarey
1) Going my way
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Going my way (127 min.): When old and fading St. Dominic's Church gets a new priest (Crosby), things are bound to change. For starters, young Father O'Malley meets the crusty old Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), who doesn't think much of him or his ideas. The two have their differences but O'Malley is able to inspire some neighborhood roughnecks to open their hearts and minds in a way the old priest simply could not do.
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2) Love affair
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building, until the hand of fate...
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Language
English
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Description
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help but meddle in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman, and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.
Series
Studio classic volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
5) Duck soup
Language
English
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Description
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx are at their very best in the political satire Duck Soup which is often regarded as the comedy legends' funniest and most popular film. After being appointed dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies are sent from neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared...
Series
Language
English
Description
Parish priest Father O'Malley is sent to revive the financially ailing parochial school. The easy-going O'Malley is immediately at odds with no-nonsense Sister Benedict on how to educate children. Beyond their delightful battle of wits lies a bigger problem. The skinflint businessman next door wants St. Mary's condemned. Only a miracle can save it now. How a devilish situation finds a heavenly solution remains to be seen in this captivating family...
9) Going my way
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Language
English
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Description
"Father O'Malley [is] a young priest new to an established but financially troubled parish. When his philosophies conflict with those of the curmudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the unflappable Father O'Malley perseveres, eventually winning over his gruff superior and the parish with his fresh, inspirational approach"--Container.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Father O'Malley is a priest on a mission to help revitalize the financially-strapped parochial school St. Mary's. O'Malley's assignment, to determine if St. Mary's should be abandoned due to its decline, soon has him butting heads with the school's headstrong manager, Sister Benedict. But their squabbles are rendered inconsequential with the arrival of Horace P. Bogardus, a skin-flint businessman set on seeing St. Mary's condemned to make way for...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A parish priest Father O'Malley is sent to revive a financially ailing parochial school and immediately finds himself at odds with no-nonsense Sister Benedict on how to educate the children. Beyond their delightful battle of wits lies a bigger problem-the skinflint businessman next door wants St. Mary's condemned, so he can build a parking lot for his employees. Only a miracle can save St. Mary's.
12) My son John
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A drama about a conservative religious couple that suspects their oldest son to be a communist. The arrogant and intellectual young man, a worker in a federal agency, returns home from a long absence spouting pro-communism doctrine and deriding the beliefs of capitalism and religion. Things become very serious when an FBI agent shows up to tell the horrified parents that their son may be an enemy spy.
14) Love affair
Series
Language
English
Description
In Love affair: Two people, each engaged to marry someone else, meet aboard a ship and fall in love. They agree to meet at the Empire State building in six months if they still feel the same way. In A star is born: A fading star meets and marries an aspiring actress. Her career continues to skyrocket while his continues to fade with tragic results.
16) Love affair
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A French man and American woman fall in love on a ship going from Europe to New York. They plan a meeting six months later atop the Empire State Building.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Harry Bannerman is a normal, if not unhappy, guy. His only problem is a wife too busy looking after the community to look after the bedroom. But his pent up troubles explode when a sultry and determined neighbor takes interest in their shared marital neglect. At the same time the Army decides to build a missile station in the town. Now, caught between his crusading wife and the temptress next door, Harry will have to get real busy real fast if he...
18) Love affair
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A man and a woman who are to marry other people meet on a ship, flirt, part, and discover that they are in love.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Cocoanuts"; Groucho as a hotel owner, Harpo and Chico as con men. "Animal crackers"; Loosely centers around a painting stolen during a house party. "Monkey business"; Running from the authorities the Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury liner where they encounter and become bodyguards for rival gangsters. "Horsefeathers"; Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College."Duck soup"; To rescue the small country...
20) Indiscreet
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A woman cannot bring herself to tell her fiance that she once had a love affair.