Pat O'Brien
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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.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
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.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
10) Bombardier
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Action-packed excitement when the U.S. Air Force tangles with the Japanese over the Pacific--and an ace fighter pilot tangles with the head of bombardier school over the same woman.
11) Riffraff
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooter woos a singer and foils a crook while searching Panama for an oil map.
12) The fireball
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Rooney is the me-first kid who knocks the banked-oval world of roller skating on its kiester and later rediscovers his humanity when life decks him with a hard-right called polio.
13) The front page
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Earle Williams, a convict about to be executed, escapes, throwing the Criminal Court Building into chaos. Newspaper reporters attempt to "scoop" the story by holding Williams in a roll top desk in the press room.
14) Ring of fear
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes to the scene to solve the cases.
15) Hell's house
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder Matt Kelly, who impresses the young man with his boastful swagger and alleged political connections, although in reality he's a bootlegger. The boy's life is disrupted when, as one of Kelly's hired hands, he refuses to identify his boss during a police raid and is sentenced to three years of hard labor in reform school.
16) Torrid zone
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Steve Case knows only one man who can shape up his troubled banana-republic plantation--fireball foreman Nick Butler. However, Nick is a little distracted when he meets a woman who can hold her own at a card table, especially if she's dealing.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Screen legends Claudette Colbert and Fredric March star in [this] intense romantic drama from trailblazing female director Dorothy Arzner. An office flirtation turns deadly when secretary Julia Traynor's jealous husband questions the nature of her relationship with her former boss"--Container.
18) Virtue
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This fast-paced comedy-drama features Pat O'Brien as an honest, enterprising cab driver and Carole Lombard as Mae, a prostitute he mistakes for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Mae's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair that she tries to hide from her husband."--Container.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States; the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time; Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist; the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California; and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight.
Over-the-Hill Gang: With the help of three "over-the-hill"...
Series
Language
English
Description
A young child sits quietly at the police station, unwilling to answer questions about himself or how he lost his hair. But when he finds out that his parents are killed in an air raid, his hair turns green. While the townspeople label him as an outcast, fellow war orphans stand behind him, encouraging Peter to turn his green hair into a symbol of the futility of war.