Ida Lupino
1) High Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
After a Prohibition-era gangster is released from prison, he longs for a simpler life, but he is lured back for one last heist by his old boss.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors ; Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c1999, c1953
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip decide to pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a killer. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by a psychopathic serial killer.
3) High Sierra
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
4) Road house
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roadhouse owner Jefty Morgan hires a singer from Chicago to sing in his club. He falls for her but she has eyes for Pete, who works for Morgan. Morgan frames Pete for stealing money from him and must face his murderous jealousy.
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
City cop goes to the countryside to help solve a brutal murder and falls in love with a blind woman who's brother is a suspect.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memories are shattered when he finds his family torn apart by his greedy brother and hard-drinking father. Now Juior must break the wildest bull in the West to bring his family together for one final moment of cowboy glory.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle has it all ... except a way out. When he tries to leave show business, his tyrannical studio boss Stanley Hoff blackmails him with a lethal, covered-up secret that could land him in jail. A loose-lipped starlet also knows too much, and when she starts talking, Hoff plans murder.
9) The bigamist
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A travelling salesman is caught between two spouses, one an upper-crust lady and the other a tough-talking waitress. A look at a lonely man who finds himself married to two different women.
10) Moontide
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bobo is a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny, a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna, who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two mischievous students turn a convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
13) Woman in hiding
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a woman learns that her new husband may have killed her father and is trying to kill her, she runs away and tries to start a new life while befriending a mysterious drifter.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Ask mother" says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story - if it bleeds, it leads - and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (466 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Description
A romantic Pre-Code comedy about two amorous Olympic athletes (he a swimmer; she a diver) brought in to run a health-and-beauty magazine. Don and Barbara are excited about their new venture, but they are completely unaware that the owners of the magazine are con artists who have different plans for the publication's future as a salacious "skin" rag. In the process of finding a way to resist the conspirators' schemes, Don and Barbara must fight to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
3 DVDS (518 min.) : sd., color, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[Hollywood Canteen]: A corporal wins a date with winsome Joan Leslie at the Hollywood Canteen club for GIs.
[Thank your lucky stars]: Young Hollywood talents hope for a big break.
[This is the army]: A father and son put on a show in which real-life GIs and Hollywood stars sing and dance to raise money for Army Emergency Relief.
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