Frank Tashlin
Author
Language
English
Description
There once was a happy little possum, the happiest animal in the entire forest, who always wore a great big smile. This jolly creature was content simply to hang by his tail from a tree until he was discovered by a group of picnickers. Mistaking the possum's upside-down smile for a frown, the people resolve to rescue him ― and they turn the little possum's world topsy-turvy. Strikingly illustrated in black-and-white, this memorable satire of cultural...
Series
Publisher
Brentwood Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man heads out west to claim his fathers inheritance, and teams up with a cowboy and his horse to get to the bottom of a gold shipment robbery. An attractive female outlaw must save the hapless hero along the way.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When colleagues think she's an espionage agent, a Girl Friday at a top-secret aeronautics think-tank chaotically sets out to clear her name.
5) The paleface
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid frontier dentist finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity Jane as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-time con artist, nicknamed for his favorite candy, gets in over his head when he swindles a tough gangster out of some gambling profits. The Kid concocts a scheme to pay back the money by Christmas, by tricking his pals into dressing up as Santas and collecting money for a made-up charity.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Struggling magician, the Great Wooley (Jerry Lewis) and his lop-eared partner Harry Hare plan to dazzle audiences with magical feats during their USO tour of Japan and Korea. Jerry combines his trademark antics with a compassionate central story: an orphaned Japanese boy is drawn out of his shell by the magician's humor and caring"--container.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Remastered ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color with a black and white sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend into a singing star.
11) Rock-a-bye baby
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Goofy TV repairman Clayton Poole becomes an unexpected father of three infant girls. The girls are children of his childhood sweetheart, now a famous actress, Carla Naples. She must temporarily give up the children to protect her career and star in a major Hollywood production. It's triple the hi-jinks, triple the fun and triple the laughs. Whether it's changing the diapers, warming the bottles or singing off-key lullabies, this in-over-his-head nanny...
Author
Language
English
Description
Poor Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis). He wants to be a doctor – but that’s not exactly the perfect career choice when you’re hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that’s guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches! The fun begins with Sammy Davis, Jr.’s rendition of the film’s title song and continues as the bumbling Jerome, a one-man disaster area,...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bumbling Jerome wants to be a doctor, but he is hopelessly squeamish, so he becomes an orderly at Whitestone Sanitarium. A one-man disaster area, Jerome triggers chaos every time he tried to lend a helping hand.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 339 min.) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Her husband's affairs: When a miracle hair removing cream turns out to be a hair growth cream, the ad-man is accused of murdering the inventor and the advertiser's wife must come to his rescue.
Miss Grant takes Richmond: A clueless secretary threatens the office owner's illegal bookmaking business.
The Fuller Brush girl: A bumbling door-to-door saleswoman is framed for a murder. She and her boyfriend flee from police to track down the real criminal.
The...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adman Rockwell P. Hunter must come up with a new idea to propel him one more rung up the corporate ladder in this satire on Madison Avenue, television and the cult of the movie star.
17) Say one for me
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. He guides a talented young parishoner as she pursues a career in entertainment, and tries to save her from the clutches of a wolfish nightclub owner.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dog walker Norman Phiffer is in love with Barbara Tuttle, an elevator operator in her parents' department store. Barbara's conniving mother, Phoebe disapproves of the young couple and is determined to break up her daughter's romance with the incompetent boob. With hidden ulterior motives, Phoebe hires Norman to work in her department store and despite the impossible requests of Mr. Quimby, the store manager; Norman manages to do an admirable job in...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (489 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pardners: Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. The ranch where Martin is foreman is in financial trouble, and with Lewis's unorthodox help, the good guys win out.
Hollywood or bust: Malcolm Smith is a movie buff who yearns to go out to Hollywood to meet Anita Ekberg. Steve Wiley is a gambler with some bad debts. They both...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (489 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pardners: Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. The ranch where Martin is foreman is in financial trouble, and with Lewis's unorthodox help, the good guys win out.
Hollywood or bust: Malcolm Smith is a movie buff who yearns to go out to Hollywood to meet Anita Ekberg. Steve Wiley is a gambler with some bad debts. They both...