Philip Merivale
1) The stranger
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Charles Rankin, responsible for unspeakable brutality in the Holocaust, is now living as a history professor in a small American town, with plans to wed Mary, the daughter of a local judge. When an old comrade escapes prison and comes looking for refuge, Rankin quickly sees that it's a plot to find him and kills the man.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you had it to do all over again, would you have married me?" Yes, gentlemen, there is a right answer. That's something David Smith learns the hard way when his bubbly and beautiful wife Ann queries him over breakfast... For three years, the Smiths have been blessed but battling. When a technicality voids their union, Mr. misses Mrs., orbiting the tale into the delightful confection of the screwball genre..." --Container.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Blake is the owner of a riverboat casino, but aspires to live a life of high society. Jack Morgan is her business partner and the two are in love, but Jenny decides to leave him and the business so she can marry socialite Alan Anderson for prestige. Her new in-laws are infuriated by this marriage and do everything in their power to ruin Jenny in the eyes of society.
4) The stranger
Series
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dark story about a Nazi who has escaped to a small town in America and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter.
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend, the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson...
6) Sister Kenny
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Could a simple country nurse possibly have found a treatment for polio when educated doctors have failed? This is the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse far out in the Australian bush, who follows her instincts to treat small children inflicted with the dreaded crippling disease.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Scarlet Street. Homely, henpecked would-be artist Chris Cross leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with the dangerously seductive young Kitty.
The stranger: A war crimes detective finds a monstrous Nazi official who's hiding out as a small-town American college professor, and is determined to expose him, even if it means endangering the Nazi's innocent wife.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead ; Mr. & Mrs. Smith: New York sophisticates David Smith and Ann Smith née Krausheimer have been lovingly and passionately married for three years, or so they believed. They are told individually that due to a technicality - an unresolved municipal and state...
Publisher
Film Chest
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Pitfall": John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has robbed a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. "The stranger":...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The woman in the window: An intellectual college professor is mesmerized by the painting of a beautiful woman in a gallery window. When he, by chance, meets the subject of the alluring painting, he becomes trapped in a murder plot and witnesses his own investigation. He must now protect the temptress.
The stranger: A notorious Nazi war criminal lives a secret life as a college professor living in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife....