Jerry Wald
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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
3) Key Largo
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high...
8) Dark passage
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
10) Out of the fog
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Working-class dreamers Jonah and Olaf fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter, a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder.
11) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
13) Let's make love
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a wealthy bachelor who learns that he is to be parodied in an upcoming off-Broadway review.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Here are thirteen of Paul Newman's best films. This DVD tribute collection is accompanied by a book that traces the story of Newman's ascent in Hollywood, and includes a stunning array of photos, recollections of the making of each film, synopsis of the films, movie posters, and the legal and technical information on each of the thirteen films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1208
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
16) Queen bee
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A drama showing how a neurotic, insincere Southern woman brings unhappiness to her husband, family, and friends in an attempt to insure her own security and position of dominance.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The swashbuckling romantic lover Don Juan is sent back to Spain in disgrace, where he discovers the oppression of the people and wins the heart of the queen; set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring for a rebel against the king; Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian; in the days when England controlled...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Duchin is a talented pianist and bandleader who sets New York society on its ear in the 1930s and 1940s. Duchin arrives in Manhattan dreaming only of a 'red Stutz Bearcat and a bankroll as big as the Ritz.' He goes on to steal the heart of society girl Marjorie Oelrichs, who teaches him that love, not money, brings happiness. But then tragedy happens, it leaves Duchin alone with a newborn son and no will to live.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Accident? Or murder? A love-nest death is the focus of a headline-grabbing trial. But the real story may be going on in the jury room, where a colorful cross-section of American citizens quip and quibble their way through deliberations -- and where a single woman (Ginger Rogers) and a married man (Dennis Morgan) begin to fall in love"--Container.