Pat O'Brien
1) Hell's house
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 71 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, Hell's house (1932) is a Pre-Code melodrama that captured Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they were catapulted to superstardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal system (not unlike I am a fugitive from a Chain Gang and The mayor of hell), Hell's house stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful...
Series
Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters volume 1
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 950
Language
English
Description
Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In order to save one of their former Texas Ranger comrades, the gang races to the rescue of former town sheriff "the Baltimore Kid." As the old boys recruit themselves as the sheriff's deputies, they must swap their old style muscle for a new style of wit and wisdom.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 328 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The big combo: The story of Leonard Diamond, a police lieutenant obsessed with mob kingpen Mr. Brown -- because he's in love with Brown's girlfriend Susan Lowell.
Johnny One-Eye: Martin Martin, a major league racketeer, barely gives the D.A.'s men the slip when they come to arrest him for a five-year-old murder he and his ex-partner Dane Cory committed. When Martin realizes that Cory must have bargained with the D.A., he sets up a meeting to talk...