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Pub. Date
2018.
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The classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has never gone out of style. It has seen five film adaptations, but none compares to the 1954 version starring Judy Garland in her greatest role. But while it was the crowning performance of the legendary entertainer's career, the production turned into one of the most talked about in movie history. The story, which depicts...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax, " in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting, " in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks, " featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, " the classic tale of one man's disastrous attempts to harness the evil...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In Easter parade, Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him.
In Meet me in St. Louis, The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a nice position in New York.
In Singin' in the rain, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
[Disc 1]. In Arsenic and old lace, a drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family. In A night at the opera, a New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal-- to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
[Disc 2]. In The long, long trailer, newlyweds hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot trailer in tow....
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
White heat: Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma,' Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody, while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop, who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally, the stage is set...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The long, long trailer: Lucy and Desi play newlyweds who hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot trailer in tow.
Forever darling: A couple experiences difficulty in their marriage. Then a Guardian Angel appears with a few surprises to set them on the road to marital bliss.
Room service: A riotous romp about a cash-strapped theatrical troupe trying to nail down a backer for their new Broadway venture.
Du Barry was a lady: Their friendship is a perfect...
Pub. Date
2011, p1951
Description
Brando plays Stanley Kowalski to Vivien Leigh's Blanche Du Bois in a study of contrasting characters and value systems--new versus old: modern culture vs. the old South; Caesar returns from a triumphant battle to Rome only to fall into the assassination plot set by Brutus, Cassius, and Casca; a comedy about an interpreter sent to Japan after World War II; Southern Gothic based on an army base in Georgia about a sexually repressed army officer whose...
15) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A shy English woman begins to suspect that her new husband is a murderer; when two strangers seemingly agree to commit murders for each other, one of them goes through with it and begins stalking the other man; a priest becomes a murder suspect when he refuses to break the seal of confession; a man is accused of armed robbery when he goes to the office of an insurance company.
Pub. Date
[c2013]
Description
Somebody up there likes me, is the inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Cool hand Luke has prison loner Luke Jackson wining the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
In Harper, hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
In The Mackintosh man, Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
The Harvey girls: 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.
In the good old summertime: A musical version of "The shop around the corner" tells the story...