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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),...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work. Bonus features include commentary, the story of The King and I, vintage stage excerpts, Movietone News, and much more.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
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An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides to hell with it all and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager-- his daughter's best friend.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of two English runners that were both driven by different means to win the Olympics. One used his faith in God, and the other his hatred of anti-Semitism. Features include: additional scenes, interviews, featurettes, director's commentary and more.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mike Sullivan is a mob hitman and a loving, devoted father. When his son witnesses a killing, another hitman is sent to kill Mike and his family. With his wife and one son dead, Mike and his other son are out for revenge. Set in Depression-era Chicago.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of sailors put on a musical during the war in the South Pacific. Bonus features include commentary, sing-along subtitles, documentaries, vintage stage excerpts and screen tests.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An epic that details the life of Pu Yi, crowned at the age of three as the last emperor of China before the Communist reign. Follow him from his childhood to manhood to fugitive to puppet ruler to party proletariat. Includes commentary and booklet.
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English
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"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
10) Being There
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chance is a pure-hearted gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon who mistakes his new protégé's mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife targets Chance...
11) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent’s tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
13) Key Largo
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy bread is hired as Macy’s department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit...except for his boss, Doris Walker, who’s raising her daughter to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane and put on trial, everyone’s faith is put to the test.
Bonus Extras include Feature...
15) Pulp Fiction
Publisher
Miramax Acquisition
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 231 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's household, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom.
17) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 222 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring and...
18) Braveheart
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English
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William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.
19) Rocky
Language
English
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Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. He works in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a meager wages so he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer. The promoters are touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed,...
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