Ava Gardner
1) On the beach
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama about a successful but disillusioned writer who, near death from a hunting wound in Africa, reviews his amorous intrigues and his experiences as hunter and world traveler.
3) On the beach
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
5) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After killing a man who seems resigned to the fact that he would die, the killers try to find out why they were hired and why the man did not run from his fate.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pandora Reynolds (Gardner) is a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, with whom all men fall hopelessly in love. But Pandora, never having known true love, is indifferent to her suitors' affections. Until, one evening, she swims out to a mysterious yacht and meets its captain--a Dutchman named Hendrick van der Zee (Mason).
7) Mogambo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clark Gable portrays Victor, a safari guide, in this remake of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable Eloise, and Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (427 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954, 102 min.): Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
All men seem hopelessly obsessed with Pandora, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, but she has eyes only for Hendrick, who has been cursed to sail the seven seas for all eternity in search of a woman who will sacrifice her life for him.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
Series
Femme fatales collection volume disc 1
Publisher
Allegro Corporation
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (266 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
Whistle stop: When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Algiers: Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
Dishonored lady: A beautiful, hard partying fashion editor, headed for a nervous breakdown, changes her identity and starts a new relationship when she becomes a murder suspect.
15) The bribe
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An incorruptible federal cop. And a woman who could make any man change his mind"--Container.
Publisher
TGG Direct
Description
Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Anna Karenina: A married woman finds true love in a man who isn't her husband.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A young man dreams, after reading Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, that he himself travels to King Arthur's court.
Tale of two cities: A British barrister falls in...
18) 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.
Publisher
TGG Direct [distributor]
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 535 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro. The last time I saw Paris: Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. Macbeth: The Scottish lord Macbeth chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power. Jungle book: A boy raised by wolves tries to adapt to human village life. Cyrano de...
20) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1946
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min., 94 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 program notes.
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.