Karl Struss
Series
Language
English
Description
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 586
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laughton is a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Series
Masters of cinema volume no. 1
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
None
Description
In this tale of temptation and redemption, the pleasant and peaceful life of a naive country man is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive woman from the city. She tries to persuade him to drown his virtuous wife and come back to the city with her.
4) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tiger Kid is an up-and-coming boxer who's concentrating on the wrong kind of "knockout"--The electrifying Ruby Carter (West). When Tiger's manager tricks Ruby into leaving town, she travels to New Orleans to headline with Duke Ellington and his orchestra at Ace Lamont's Sensation House. But Ace has eyes for Ruby's diamonds and plots a robbery. As always, Mae outsmarts her adversaries and proves she has no intention of losing her jewels, or her man....
Series
Publisher
[Unedisa]
Pub. Date
D.L. 2007.
Language
Español
Description
Estados Unidos no había entrado todavía en la II Guerra Mundial, cuando Chaplin dirigió "El gran dictador", interpretando un doble papel como el dictador Hynkel y un humilde barbero judío que ignora que otra persona físicamente igual se ha eregido dictador del país.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This struggle between Christian and pagan in ancient Rome thrills on the grand scale. The half-mad Emperor Nero delights in burning the city and blaming the fire on the Christians so he can slaughter them. In the midst of this, Rome's Prefect has the misfortune to fall in love with a Christian maiden and to be desired by Nero's powerful Empress, whom he spurns. The stage is thus set for a spectacular enactment of some of the most chilling events of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie ... and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Newlywed novelist Steve Merrick has his hands full trying to finish his first masterpiece. While Steve's beautiful bride Ann dreams of a better life for them, their eclectic group of friends drop in and out as they please, keeping Steve up and away from his typewriter. Meanwhile, Louella, a beautiful Southern belle from next door, keeps meddling in their blissful lives. When Ann resumes her modeling career to allow Steve some freedom, housekeeping...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Tarzan's secret treasure": Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold. "Tarzan's New York adventure": Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus. "Tarzan and the Amazons": A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help...