Lionel Barrymore
Series
Language
English
Description
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year was 1944. Overseas, the war raged. Back home, a war-torn population suffered the loss of loved ones. Along came A Guy Named Joe, a fanciful, heart-warming tale based on the legend that pilots never die but return to guide fledgling airmen, and the public welcomed it with open arms.
6) Camille
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A splendid version of Charles Dickens' most autobiographical work. After young David Copperfield's father dies, his new stepfather soon sends him to London to earn his own living, where he meets a variety of unforgettable characters.
8) Lone star
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will Texas be independent or a U.S. state? Ex-President Andrew Jackson recruits cattleman Devereaux Burke to travel through hostile Indian land, find Texas hero Sam Houston and persuade him to support annexation. In exchange, Burke will gain a contract to sell beef to U.S. forces during the war with Mexico sure to follow statehood.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (146 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mad love: A famed surgeon adores an actress, but when she turns to him to repair her pianist husband's severed hands, he replaces them with the hands of a murderer.
The devil-doll: A Devil's Island escapee poses as a toy shop worker, using secrets of miniaturizing human beings to do his bidding and exact his revenge on those who sent him to prison.
10) On borrowed time
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about the Sycamores, an eccentric family of free spirits, and the problems that arises when Alice, the one stable member, falls for her boss's son.
12) A Yank at Oxford
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Arriving in England to attend Oxford's Cardinal College, cocky American athlete Lee Sheridan soon learns his boasts have earned him more enemies than mates. Dating Molly Beaumont, his rival Paul's lovely sister, Lee becomes BMOC when her brother is wrongfully accused of striking a proctor's assistant. Determined to make amends and show he's a jolly good sport, Lee hides Paul's paramour in his room, a scandalous act that could cost him his girl, get...
13) Mata Hari
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Garbo is mesmerizing as the dancer-turned-German secret agent in a wartime Paris seething with secrets and betrayal. With the world at war, love was her weapon. The only men she couldn' t seduce were the 12 in the firing squad that ended her life.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (324 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Flesh and the devil: Best friends love the same woman and resort to a duel.
The mysterious lady: Garbo plays an alluring Russian spy who falls in love with her "target."
The temptress: An unhappy wife falls in love with a Spanish engineer. When it is revealed that Elena is not only married, but has also been the mistress of a banker, Robledo returns to South America. Years later Robledo returns to Paris and runs into Elena.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Eadie's not easy, but she'll get her man! ... Just point her in the direction of New York's millionaires! Fresh from Missouri, plucky and ambitious Eadie Chapman ... intends to bag a rich hubby without abandoning her virtue. Just act like a lady, she tells gal pal and fellow huntress Kitty ... at a swanky soirée. 'If they wanted ladies, ' Kitty says, 'they'd be home with their wives.'"--Container.
16) Treasure Island
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The classic tale of Long John Silver's quest to obtain Jim Hawkin's treasure map.
17) Grand Hotel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Special edition; full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Publisher
Passport International Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (675 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From her early days in funny but flimsy Mack Sennett two-reelers through her more substantial roles under the tutelage of Cecil B. DeMille and on into the sound era of romantic comedies, here is Gloria Swanson at the height of her powers and popularity, alongside such fellow legends as Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, and even Charlie Chaplin."--Container.
19) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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. He holds at gunpoint 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
[2012]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dark passage: 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.
Key Largo: 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...