Hal B. Wallis
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
3) G.I. blues
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elvis plays an Oklahoma singer who gets out of the army and wants to open a club.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (2 hr., 26 min.; 2 hr., 12 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning materpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Mary Queen of Scots: The battle between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England comes alive in this epic film.
5) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
6) 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.
7) True grit
Series
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest.
8) Blue Hawaii
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elvis Presley plays an ex-GI returning home to Hawaii. His mother wants him to climb the corporate ladder, but his work plans focus on being a tour guide.
9) The stooge
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
p2004, c1953
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dean Martin stars as Bill Miller, a struggling 1930s vaudeville singer whose small act could use a big-time boost. Help arrives in the form of fall-down-funny comic Ted Rogers (Jerry Lewis). Teamed together, Miller and Rogers climb to the top of the showbiz heap, but as their success grows, so does Miller's ego.
10) The Rainmaker
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood.
11) 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.
12) Sergeant York
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chuck Martin is going straight when he gets out of the big house - straight back into a life of crime. In lockup or out in the civilian world, he knows that he will forever wear a con's invisible stripes. Martin's ex-Sing Sing yardmate Cliff Taylor, vows to walk away from crime and be a role model for his kid brother. What awaits Taylor are suspicion, public disdain and joblessness. He turns to a fellow con for help. Crime doesn't pay, but it does...
14) The rose tattoo
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, c1955
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this troubling time.
15) Rooster Cogburn
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter.
16) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
18) King Creole
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
19) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 v. (267 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
20) Romance
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (487 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the regid respectability of the town they live in.
Love in the afternoon: A middle-aged playboy, Frank Flannagan, who is smitten by Ariane, the daughter of a detective hired by a man who believes Frank is having an affair with his wife.
Mogambo: Victor Marswell, a safari guide who captures wild animals...