Hugo Friedhofer
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Formats
Description
An early look at the impact of mass media in the public arena, featuring the story of a cynical and manipulative journalist. When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, an amoral, down-on-his-luck reporter takes over and prolongs the rescue effort in order to make a name for himself.
2) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 48 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (396 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young woman named Laura is found murdered shortly before her wedding...
Publisher
SDS Studio Distribution Services
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (540 min.) : sound, color, black and white, sepia ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
charming film based...