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1) Gung Ho
Series
Language
English
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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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch trader in the Caribbean is wrongly imprisoned by the Spanish governor and sentenced to hang for trespassing. But Van Horn stages a breakout with other unjustly incarcerated prisoners, resurfacing as the rakish Barracuda to command the pirate waterways, rescue fair Francesca from marriage to the governor and avenge the wrongs done to him.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Young stars as veteran journalist John Davis, who is covering the war with the British allies in London. When his pregnant wife Nora is injured in an air raid there, The couple is robbed of their chance of ever becoming parents - until John picks up on an assignment that changes their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min., 29 sec.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
7) Torpedo run
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A navel officer's insatiable thirst for vengeance puts his command at risk in the WWII action adventure.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Flamboyant circus owner "Hank Whiting "is in trouble. His enterprise is in need of a cash injection from the bank who only agree to a loan on the condition their employee "Randy Sherman " goes along to keep an eye on proceedings. When he engages a high powered PR woman, tension develops between the outsiders and the circus hard core. That is not the end of it however--there is sabotage to contend with, rain washes away much of the season, and a fatality...
Series
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat's School.
12) A stolen life
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Davis plays identical twins-- one good, one evil-- who are both in love with the same man.
13) 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.
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
Publisher
RKO Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nurse Anne Lee arrives at understaffed, underfunded Hepperton General Hospital with an eagerness to serve. Dealing with an epidemic, a multi-casualty bus accident and other emergencies, she'll find opportunities to do so again and again. She'll also find something else: redemption for a fatal past error for which she, although innocent, accepted the blame.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three young hopeful actors strive for stardom. Getting a break in a Broadway musical seems impossible until a leading lady walks out and someone has to slip on her dancing shoes and save the show.
19) 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.
20) 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.
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