Robert Wise
Series
Language
English
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version; fortieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to 7 children of an autocratic ex-naval captain. Her charm wins over the rebellious children and the unbending captain.
6) The haunting
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thriller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Star trek: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on.
Star trek II: Feeling that the future holds nothing close to what the past once did, Admiral James T. Kirk begins to believe that galloping...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to straighten out their lives together.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (143 min.) :MGM DVD : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cat People : A beautiful and mysterious bride fears an ancient hex will turn her into a deadly panther when she's in passion's grip. Includes commentary by Greg Mank with Simone Simon, and theatrical trailers.
The Curse of the Cat People: Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena.
12) I want to live!
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 2 hr., 1 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts to expose the truth and save her life against all odds....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (146 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
I walked with a zombie: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition, and learns about local voodoo practices in her search for a cure.
Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher: A surgeon and teacher of anatomy needs fresh cadavers for classroom demonstrations and pays a sinister cabman to supply them. When the cemeteries become more closely guarded,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Forty-fifth Anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray discs. (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this true-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain von Trapp and his seven children.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen ed. ; Director's ed.; [DVD version].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew return to the newly-transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to stop the alien intruder on its flight toward Earth.
17) West Side story
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1961
Edition
Collectors set, Special ed.; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks' leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
20) West Side story
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
50th anniversary ed.; Blu-ray+DVD combo.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray discs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.