Elizabeth Taylor
Language
English
Formats
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
2) Cleopatra
Series
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire. Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon face certain doom.
Language
English
Description
The collie is sold by her impoverished family. Priscilla, played by 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, understand Lassie more than adults do and helps her escape kennel captivity. Braving storms, hunger and peril, Lassie makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
5) Little women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Major Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose career is languishing in the monotony of postwar Georgia, becomes obsessed with a private who is, in turn, obsessed with Penderton's frustrated and sensual wife Leonora.
8) Ivanhoe
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages. Also includes a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and a swashbuckler movie trailer gallery.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A freewheeling, headlong slide into the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by years of hatred and humiliation.
10) National Velvet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
12) The sandpiper
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
14) These old broads
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three aging divas and their agent all hate each other, but since they are all desperate for money they agree to reunite for a television special.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (439 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
National Velvet : A young English girl who wins an unruly horse in a raffle goes on to enter him in the Grand National Steeplechase -- International Velvet : A young girl and her horse go overseas -- Black Beauty : A horse is passed through the hands of many masters prior to returning to his original young master and a happy retirement -- The Story of Seabiscuit : A fictionalized account of an underdog bay colt who became one of the greatest thoroughbreds...
16) Giant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Two-disc special edition; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife, and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and nouveau-riche oil tycoons.
17) A date with Judy
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judy Foster (Jane Powell) is a young woman determined to attend the big school dance with an impressive date. Judy and her lifelong friend Carol (Elizabeth Taylor) fall out when they both fall for a suave older man. A high-spirited teen, Judy manages to unintentionally make a hash of her friends and family's love lives.
18) Butterfield 8
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust.
19) The Flintstones
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 31 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an aptitude test mix-up, Fred Flintstone trades his job as bronto-crane operator for a vice presidency. But there's trouble brewing in Bedrock: an evil executive and his sinister secretary are now plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Petruchio, a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona, journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After a honeymoon of mutual insults, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. But has Kate found a better way to dominate her husband?