Goldcrest Films International.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours,...
2) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min. [i.e. 87 min.]) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Description
A comic, poignant story of WWII as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy. Bill is stuck at home with his mother, aunts and bratty sisters while epic battles are raging within earshot of his home.
6) Matewan
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index (1 sheet ; 19 cm.)
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
Series
Formats
Description
Set in 1939 New Orleans, this colorful, song-filled story centers on Charles B. Barkin (voice of Burt Reynolds), a roguish German Shepherd with the charm of a con man and the heart of a marshmallow. Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, a Pit Bull known as Carface, Charlie finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie whose ability to talk to animals leads this unlikely pair on an adventure packed with thrills,...
8) Dark horse
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
9) The dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.