Edward G. Robinson
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 1126
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
10) The little giant
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The era of bootlegging is over. But liquor runner Bugs Ahearn has a plan for what he will do now that Prohibition is over. He decides to mingle with the upper classes. His destination is California's posh, polo-playing Santa Barbara. Class and atmosphere are what Bugs wants. Swindlers, gold diggers and great fun is what he will get.
12) Soylent green
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charlton Heston plays a cop in this science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York in the year 2022, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely on a wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company,...
13) Key Largo
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
Publisher
Ditributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Publisher
FOCUSfilm Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (213 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The stranger: An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after WWII to lead the Allies to a notorious spy planning to revive the Third Reich. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder combine for a tense situation.
The trial: Portrays the experiences of Josef K as he is mysteriously arrested by agents of the police for an unspecified crime. Josef is then plunged into a nightmare world of an inescapable...
18) Scarlet Street
Series
Publisher
Kino On Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Clitterhouse wants to find out what makes a criminal tick. Eager to study the physical and mental states of lawbreakers, he joins a gang of jewel thieves. Rocks Valentine is an ice-blooded tough guy the doc calls "a magnificient speciment of pure viciousness," is part of the gang. Jo Keller is a savvy crime queen the doc hooks up with.