Humphrey Bogart
Author
Language
English
Description
Writer/Director John Huston's Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances among them. The last of six collaborations...
Author
Language
English
Description
Writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz gives us a bitter tale of stardom won and wasted in "The Barefoot Contessa," a film à clef about a Rita Hayworth-style Spanish dancer (Ava Gardner) who becomes an international movie star. Her sympathetic guide is Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), a nearly-has-been writer/director trying to restart his career. Edmond O'Brien won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® playing the public relations lackey of a Howard Hughes-like...
3) Sabrina
Author
Language
English
Description
Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work, Holden's all playboy. But when Sabrina (Hepburn), daughter of the family's chauffeur, returns from Paris, the stage is set for some family fireworks.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was inspired by an actual event, The Desperate Hours is the prototypical "family-trapped-by-criminals" drama. Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact with their money supply, deliberately choose the suburban home of Fredric March and his family. The cold-blooded Bogart wants no trouble with the police,...
5) Casablanca
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1942.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
6) Dead End
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
[Standard version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Starring screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, THE AFRICAN QUEEN tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause - and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between Bogie’s river rat Charlie Allnut and Hepburn’s missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war-torn East Africa. Directed by **Academy Award** winner John...
10) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(230 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's wild young daughter from her own indiscretions and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her older sister.
11) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
12) We're No Angels
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....
13) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what...
14) 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
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 573 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fall in love with these classic love stories. Titles included: Pride & Prejudice, Casablanca, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility and To Have and Have Not.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two hard-luck drifters and a grizzled prospector seek gold in the mountains in Mexico. They start off as friends, but after they discover the lode, the greed and paranoia set in.
18) Sahara
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small group of Allied soldiers try to defend themselves from Germans in the Sahara desert outside of Tobruk.
Series
Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters volume 1
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest, sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
Publisher
Castaways Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charles, a hardened river trader, and Rose, a prim missionary, are forced to take an adventurous river expedition together in Africa during World War I.