Max Steiner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.
3) 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.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
5) King Kong
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to Skull Island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape named Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II rages across the Pacific and Lieutenant Commander Duke E. Gifford (John Wayne) is in the thick of it. He evacuates children from enemy-held islands ; oversees the research and development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor ; and prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish, hoping for a chance to aim his improved "tin fish"--Torpedoes at the hulls of the enemy fleet.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Remastered ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Married to a gangster at 15, widowed by the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, remarried to a playboy, forsaken, and left to raise her baby alone: Mary Donnell leads the kind of three-hanky life just made for a prestige '30s melodrama.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid of her, but with love and patience they finally manage to integrate her into the family. Just then Anne invites another orphan, the aggressive handicapped Jimmy-John, to their...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, and world traveler. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a mighty adventurous life himself. Traced here is Twain's remarkable life.
12) Of human bondage
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Philip Carey, a young medical student in Edwardian London, becomes infatuated with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress, an affair which leads them both into mutual destruction.
13) A stolen life
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Davis plays identical twins-- one good, one evil-- who are both in love with the same man.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, and Natalie Wood star in a moving, romantic drama about a soldier, previously thought lost in action, who returns years later to find his wife remarried.
15) Dark victory
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
16) Distant drums
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location in and around the Everglades National Park, Raoul Walsh's film is a rare example of the exotic "Florida Western" Gary Cooper stars as Cavalry Captain Quincy Wyatt, who leads a charge upon an old Spanish fort taken over by Seminole gun-runners and kidnappers. After liberating the prisoners, Wyatt, pursued by the vengeful Seminoles, flees into the gator-infested swamps and settles his fate in a spectacular underwater fight with the...
17) The great lie
Series
Bette Davis collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tempestuous and ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen and her little boy, Pete. Sandra's chic New York friends can't imagine what the two women have in common. What they don't know is that Pete is Sandra's son - the son of the heroic aviator both women love.
18) Fort Dobbs
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A western in which a fugitive from the law guides a woman and her son through Indian territory to safety in Fort Dobbs.
20) 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.