Peter Ustinov
1) Hot Millions
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith and Karl Malden star with Bob Newhart in this comic tale of a gentle con artist who goes high tech with a computerized scam to steal Hot Millions. Faced with the horror of working for a living, amiable swindler Marcus Pendleton (Ustinov-Spartacus, Death on the Nile) concocts a con game to fleece an Carlton J. Klemper's (Malden-Patton, On the Waterfront) corporation of millions by programming Klemper's...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humphrey Bogart plays one of his rare comedy roles in this jaunty excursion about three convicts - Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly, but inept Felix (Leo G. Carroll) and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre (Basil Rathbone), who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake....
4) Spartacus
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
5) Animal farm
Language
English
Description
This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm.
6) Robin Hood
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The animals have their own version of what really happened in Sherwood Forest. Robin Hood and his band of merry men outwit the greedy Prince John and his sniveling partner, Sir Hiss, as they put the tax squeeze on their poor, hardworking loyal subjects.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A married couple in Australia find themselves at odds when the wife wants to settle down on a farm of their own, but the husband finds settling down more than his untethered spirit can bear.
8) Topkapi
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trouble brews beneath the exotically curved towers of Istanbul when the equally exotic and equally curved Elizabeth Lipp recruits her former lover in a scheme to heist the pride of the city's Topkapi museum: a jewel-encrusted dagger. But the job soon turns into a high-tension, high-wire performance when the bumbling fall guy and other amateurs they've hired as help find they'll have to lift their prize while dangling from the museum's vaulted ceiling....
9) Quo vadis
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway....
10) Lorenzo's oil
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Set during the Cold War, this charming comedy based on Shakespeare's classic love story follows a tiny European country's President who holds the deciding vote in a United Nation's debate. Determined to remain neutral, he orchestrates a romance between the American ambassador's daughter and the Russian ambassador's son. If the two opposing world powers can't successfully join forces, there just may be a plague on both their houses!" -- Container....
13) The way ahead
Series
Publisher
[VCI Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The metamorphosis of a cross-section group of Britons from squabbling individuals into a top fighting unit in the final phase of the African campaign against Rommel.
14) Luther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) stars as Martin Luther, the brilliant man of God whose defiant actions changed the world, in this "epic, ravishingly beautiful" (The New York Times) film that traces Luther's extraordinary and exhilarating quest for the people's liberation. Regional princes and the powerful Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip on 16th-century Germany. But when Martin Luther issues a shocking challenge to their authority,...
15) Logan's run
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 23rd century, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5, a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carrousel, decides to become a Runner himself...
16) Topkapi
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The bachelor: Wandering eye and $100 million inheritance on the line, Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell) must get married - and fast! With the minutes counting down, and 1,000 willing brides, will Jimmie discover the true meaning of love? ; In love and war: Epic love story about Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece, A farewell to arms.
18) Robin Hood
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
40th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
England is at war and ruled by a phony king! Greedy Prince John and his slithering sidekick, Sir Hiss, are taxing Nottingham's residents to the limit.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The ghost of the legendary pirate Blackbeard materializes in a small New England town, cursed to wander in limbo until he performs a good deed. He gets his chance when he decides to help a local college track team.
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (382 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maintaining the perfect balance between religious fervor and realism, this film depicts the life of Christ from His birth through His resurrection. It is acclaimed exceptional for its thorough Biblical and historical research written in consultation with leading Anglican, Catholic and Jewish religious authorities.