Porter Hall
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-town girl goes overboard with war-time patriotic zeal and marries a soldier she's only met once. He disappears after one night, then she thinks she's pregnant... but she just can't remember her husband's name.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
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.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 54 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This stylish western skillfully interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.
5) Going my way
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and understanding.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
Description
1947: The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play the department store's Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
1994: Remake of the 1947 movie in which Kris Kringle (Attenborough), while working at Macy's, encounters an unbelieving child (Wilson) and goes on trial to prove he is Santa.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.