John Huston
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's powers will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam, and Hen-Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all.
2) Annie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
4) Chinatown
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two hard-luck drifters and a grizzled prospector seek gold in the mountains in Mexico. They start off as friends, but after they discover the lode, the greed and paranoia set in.
Language
English
Description
John Huston adapts and directs this tale of fear and bravery from Stephen Crane's novella, patterned by cinematographer Harold Rosson after Civil War photos of Matthew Brady. Audie Murphy, America's most decorated World War II hero, plays the untested youth first running from and later facing his fears, and G.I. cartoonist Bill Mauldin is his wise, easygoing pal. Pin a badge of honor on this overlooked classic.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (214 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Deadly trakcers: After witnessing the brutal murder of his wife and son, a Texas lawman seeks revenge and relentlessly pursues the outlaws into Mexico where a deadly showdown awaits him. Man in the wilderness: Driven by revenge, Harris makes a 600 mile journey across the 1820's American Northwest facing every obstacle to find his attackers.
9) Moby Dick
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
10) Jezebel
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis on an epic scale, including the story of man's creation, his fall, his survival, and his indomitable faith in the future.
12) The misfits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather- beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
13) The hobbit
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Remastered deluxe edition; Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins the hobbit is asked to recover a fabulous treasure stolen from friendly dwarfs. All he must do is brave dark forests, towering mountains, hobbit-eating trolls, huge spiders, a fiery dragon, and more. Fun and amazement await, so join the quest!
14) The Cardinal
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Epic drama about the rise of a socially conscious Irish American priest through the ranks to Cardinal.
Publisher
Castaways Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charles, a hardened river trader, and Rose, a prim missionary, are forced to take an adventurous river expedition together in Africa during World War I.
16) The dead
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fifth and final of the Planet of the apes films, it is 2670 A.D., and a group of human mutants and a band of militant gorillas threaten to break the peace of the ape tribe and overthrow the leadership of the benevolent Caesar.
18) The unforgiven
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A family on the frontier adopts a young girl, but the Indians claim that the girl is one of them, and they want her back.
19) Prizzi's honor
Publisher
MGM Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson stars as a hit-man who falls in love with a free-lance killer hired by his bosses to eliminate a mutual foe.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130, 137 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chinatown: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Two Jakes: Set in 1948 Los Angeles, this is a sequel to Chinatown....