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A genuinely funny book is one of life's simplest pleasures, but finding the real stand-outs is never as easy.
1) Gung Ho
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their...
Series
Publisher
Warner Archive
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (214 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three rarely seen early Lucille Ball comedies. Go chase yourself: After bank robbers use her husband's camper, Carol Meeley sets out to prove her hubby is too stupid to commit a crime. Next time I marry: In order to claim her inheritance, heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming must marry a "plain American Joe." So, she does what any self-respecting debutante would do-she hires a husband. Look who's laughing: Fibber McGee tries to entice an airplane manufacturer...
Series
Language
English
Description
Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Smartest girl in town: "Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie [Ann Sothern] a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick Smith instead; he welcomes the confusion of identity and sets out to win her by force of personality alone. It's an uphill battle. Lots of wry repartee"--IMDb.
She's got everything: "A riches-to-rags debutante [Ann Sothern] faces...
8) Lost Angel
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A little girl named Alpha looks like a typical six-year-old. But to the professors she's an experiment: an orphan raised to be a genius. After newsman Mike Regan interviews the prodigy and gets her thinking about life beyond ivy-clad walls, Alpha flees her 'home' for adventure. The enterprising tot tracks Mike to a boxing match and soon gets involved with his job, his love life and, maybe, his future, if the irresponsible Mike ever realizes that what...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage, and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI's penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that's wacky, witty and completely wonderful.
11) The male animal
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
1942.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 Min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star... fancied by Turner's wife and the academic tussle that treatens the professor's tenure"--Container.
12) Joy of living
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy playboy attempts to loosen up a Broadway actress, who he is convinced is being pushed around by her money-grubbing family.
13) Rio Rita
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two stowaways endure a long ride, only to find themselves in the wrong town and mixed up with Nazi spies, old flames, new friends, and a secret code books.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traveling Saleslady finds Joan playing a toothpaste heiress who takes her "cocktail-flavored toothpaste" discovery on the road and to the competition, after her father decides that the office is no place for a lady. Glenda plays a drugstore proprietress and provides Joan's romantic competition, while Hugh Herbert plays a zany inventor.
Miss Pacific Fleet has the girls playing carnival hucksters, stranded and strapped for cash on the wrong coast....
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, 70 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The inventor of an unsinkable swimsuit, shipping clerk Joe Holt quits his job at the Armstrong Rubber Goods Corp. and moves to California. While on Catalina Island looking for work, Joe is mistaken by socialite Alice Brandon for a champion marathon swimmer, who is competing in a 21-mile race to the mainland, and Joe is shocked to discover he's expected to participate. Begged by Alice to show up her pompous ex-suitor, Ed, Joe agrees despite the fact...
16) Mary, Mary
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bob (Barry Nelson) is a divorced book publisher who wants to reduce his alimony payments to ex-wife Mary (Debbie Reynolds) so he can afford to marry his high-living fiancee Tiffany (Diane McBain). When a snowstorm traps Bob and Mary in his apartment, their all night discussions lead to an eventual reconciliation in this amusing comedy.
18) Merry Andrew
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Remastered ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Andrew Larabee tunnels below an English meadow, seeking a rare historical relic. His shoveling takes him back to the surface, and into the lions' cage during a circus act. Just like that, a star - or at least a Joey (clown), is born. The effusive star unleases his singing, swooning and jesting talents in this bright musical-comedy tale of circus extravaganza and romantic complications.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (136 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
T. S. Garp is a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, feminism, and eerie coincidences.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Basketball's Dr. J, Julius Erving, operates on the competition in this hoop-it-up disco-era fantasy about a team on a winning streak when it signs up motley players born under the zodiac's fish sign of Pisces. Will the Dr. in the house, trademark cloud-walking, net-shredding slam dunks are plentiful. More hoops excitement follows as the Harlem Globetrotters' Meadowlark Lemon handles the rock as if he had more arms than an octopus and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
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