Agnes Moorehead
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy widow falls in love with her much younger gardener and becomes the target of small town gossip.
Series
Criterion collection volume 457
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Feeling remorse for the accidental death of a woman's husband and then causing the woman to become blind, a playboy becomes a surgeon and tries to restore her sight.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
8) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sd., b&w, col. with b & w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
10) The big street
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
11) Fourteen hours
Series
Fox film noir volume 21
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of not being capable to make his girlfriend happy, keeps police at bay for fourteen hours while attempting suicide.
12) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Series
Criterion collection volume 457
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love....
14) Jane Eyre
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jane comes to Thornfield Hall as a governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life, Jane can't help but be attracted to the intelligent, vibrant, energetic Mr. Rochester, a man twice her age. But just when Mr. Rochester seems to be returning the attention, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram and her party to stay at his estates. Meanwhile, the secret of Thornfield Hall could ruin all their chances for happiness....
Publisher
Allegro Corp
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In House on Haunted Hill, a homeowner offers five strangers ten thousand dollars if they can last out the night in his house. In The Last Man on Earth, Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now ... or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims begin to leave their graves, part of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.