Howard Hawks
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (92 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet.
Description
Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (230 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A giddy heiress is determined to win the affections of a serious zoologist, until her dog steals his dinosaur fossil.
Series
Criterion collection volume 806
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A traveling entertainer decides to stay in a South American port town when she meets a daredevil pilot who lives and works there.
Series
Criterion collection volume 806
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
7) Ball of fire
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Great Pharaoh orders architect Vashtar to build him the highest pyramid in the world as his tomb. 15 years have passed and his treasury is dwindling, so he marries Princess Nellifer, but she is as ruthless as she is beautiful.
9) Hatari!
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (426 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philadelphia story: A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby: Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Woman of the year: In this hilarious excursion into the Battle of the Sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth...
12) Monkey business
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chemist discovers a potent rejuvenation drug that restores youth but with some hilarious results.
13) Air Force
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Flying Fortress Mary-Ann and its crew leave San Francisco for Honolulu on a routine training flight the day before Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Subsequently, the crew mans the Mary-Ann through action at Wake Island, the Philippines, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Australia. The B-17 seen in many of the scenes would later be lost in action with its crew over the Pacific.
16) El Dorado
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 9
Description
A gunfighter comes to the aid of a cattle baron, but switches sides when he meets up with his old friend, the alcoholic sheriff.
18) Bringing up baby
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (193 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A newspaper editor struggles to keep his ex-wife star reporter on the job by offering her a prison story scoop; a young newspaper reporter and his editor go to extremes to get a sensational story in a film about the newspaper business.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c1963.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ace fishing equipment salesman and renowned author on the subject can't stand the outdoors or fishing. A public relations representative for a major fishing tournament wants Rock to be the competition's star attraction. When he confesses he doesn't know the first thing about the sport, Prentiss and a con man attempt to give the expert a crash course on being a great outdoorsman.