Joseph Cotten
2) Niagara
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)( 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although the quaint motel overlooking the famed falls seems like the perfect honeymoon retreat, in fact, it's where the young and beautiful Rose Loomis plans to kill her husband George.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm, folded)
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
4) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1941]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (119 min., 113 min.) : sound, black and white, color with b & w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joseph Cotten stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
Publisher
Program Power Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Letterboxed full length theatrical version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min. (film : 89 min. ; special features : 42 min.)) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of the adventures and misadventures of a boy, a lovable old miner, and a free-spirited wild, shaggy donkey.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A southern belle finds out the truth about her husband's murder when her cousin reopens the case.
10) The third man
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime--and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agnes, as domineering and sarcastic as her husband Tobias is equivocating and guarded, finds her empty nest invaded by her alcoholic sister, their divorced daughter, and friends who are terrified of being alone for unknown reasons.
12) Soylent green
Publisher
Warner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen letterbox edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
21st century New York is teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent green. As police detective Thorn investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Double feature.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95, 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abominable Dr. Phibes: "After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities -- from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats--on his enemies."--Container.
Dr. Phibes rises again: "The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife -- which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and...
14) Gaslight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paula Anton is a beautiful and trusting 19th century English singer studying in Italy. She is slowly being tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspect is her devoted husband. But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen letterbox ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mother lode: It's Silas McGee's gold. He just hasn't found it yet, although he's searched for his mother lode for more than 30 years in the remote high country of British Columbia. Strangers with a similar bent for gold had best stay away: folks like that may never come out of McGee's mine alive.
Soylent Green: Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 1003 min. doublesided) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock presents several dramatized short stories. The stories are invariably surprising, often containing elements of horror, comedy, suspense, and the supernatural. All 39 episodes of the first season of the Emmy Award-winning murder-mystery series.
17) Tora!Tora!Tora!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.