Warren William
Series
Criterion collection volume 1167
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Imitation of Life explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship—attuned to America’s bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington—that lends...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 571 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Collection of films directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Experience the breathtaking dangers and delights of ancient Rome in "The sign of the cross"; trek through a perilous jungle with "Four frightened people"; thrill to the passion, suspense and intrigue of "Cleopatra"; journey back in time with the glorious story of "The crusades"; and see how the West was really won in the explosive "Union Pacific."
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate.
4) Cleopatra
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Egypt, 48 B.C. Cleopatra is facing palace revolt in her kingdom. She decides to embrace the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Roman rule. When Caesar is led astray by Cleopatra and is killed, she transfers her affections to Marc Antony. She does all that she can to dazzle Marc on a barge fit for a king. But her trick may not work this time around. A web of royal deception and betrayal.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 blu-rays (510 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tortured man is transformed into a deadly werewolf when the moon becomes full; after the wolf man frees Frankenstein from a block of ice, the two monsters fight each other; an evil scientist escapes from prison and encounters Dracula and other monsters; Dracula and the Wolf Man seek cures for their afflictions; two freight handlers encounter Dracula and other monsters; a doctor struggles to keep himself from turning into a werewolf during the full...
6) The Wolf man
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1941
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man who returns to the family estate to take over affairs there risks becoming a victim of the centuries-old curse of the werewolf.
7) Upper world
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy railroad magnate who is devoted to his family is neglected by his wife. He begins to spend time with a sympathetic showgirl. The showgirl's boyfriend tries to blackmail him; in the resulting melee, the showgirl is killed by the boyfriend, and the boyfriend is killed by the magnate, who then tries to cover up the crime.
8) Arizona
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tough pioneer woman stands up to attacks by business rivals and Indians but falls for a drifter.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
11) Lillian Russell
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (313 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The hatchet man: A Tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution.
Skyscraper souls: A financier stops at nothing to gain control of a 100-story office building and a naive young woman.
Employees' entrance: A tyrannical department store manager chases after profits and a young woman.
Ex-lady: An artist who doesn't believe in marriage reluctantly weds her lover only to discover he's seeing...
Series
Forbidden Hollywood volume 10
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (358 min) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...