Roland Young
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
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Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003, 2001]
Language
English
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
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Language
English
Description
A sophisticated screwball comedy, rife with smart dialogue, the Philadelphia Story centers on the society event of the season: the second marriage of icy, judgmental, moneyed socialite Tracy Lord to nouveau riche George Kittredge. Her first husband, suave and devilish C.K. Dexter Haven, complicates matters by finagling wedding invitations for incognito reporter Mike Connor and his photographer Liz Imbrie, to do a tell-all exposé. But Haven's motives...
10) No, no Nanette
Publisher
Synergy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Broadway musical comes to the screen featuring Carlson as the financially strapped uncle propped up by his adoring niece, Nanette.
Series
Language
English
Description
The Carleton family will do anything for money, except work. They meet a lonely old woman who decides to take them into her home. George-Anne Carleton, the savvy and cynical baby of the family, hatches the perfect plan: pretend to be decent hardworking people in the hopes that the old woman rewrites her will in their favor! How long can you play a role before you actually become it?
Series
Language
English
Description
Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert in hopes of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. Worried about her father, Kathy persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him. After surviving the desert they are found by natives and brought to their chief, Twala. Umbopa reveals himself to be the true heir to the tribal throne, having been exiled years earlier by Twala...
Publisher
Cheezy Flicks Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A bored group of celestials decide to give an "ordinary little fellow" the power to work miracles. Timid British department store clerk George McWhirter Fotheringay receives the special gift and after experimenting with conjurer's tricks, he soon realizes that his powers attract everyone except Ada Price, a young woman he admires from afar.
16) Topper returns
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thorne Smith's famous character turns amateur detective as the ghost of a beatiful, murdered girl enlists him to try and find her killer in an eerie old house.
17) Let's dance
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The great Fred Astaire (Blue Skies) puts on his dancing shoes and says Let's Dance to ebullient Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) in this Technicolor treat from the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical. Hutton plays a war widow who, with the help of her song-and-dance partner Astaire, fights a desperate legal battle to gain custody of her son. Mirthful musical numbers highlight the heartwarming story, including "Oh, Them Dudes," a wildly...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as 'Colonel' Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
Publisher
BCI Eclipse Co
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
Lemon drop kid: "Sidney Melbourne [is] a conman who offers a friendly 'sure thing' horse tip to the girlfriend of mobster Moose Moran at the race track. When the horse loses and Moose's original pick wins, Moose gives Sidney until Christmas to pay back the money he lost or his thug Sam the Surgeon will 'open' Sidney after Christmas"--Container.
Road to Rio: "To avoid being charged with arson after burning down a circus, Hot Lips Barton and Scat Sweeney...