Robert Stack
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For over ten years, [Colonel Jason] Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information, Rhodes takes matters into his own hands. With financial backing of a Texas oil tycoon ... and the help of his son's five Marine buddies, Rhodes prepares to carry out a daring mission. After weeks of grueling training, the courageous veterans leave for...
4) Airplane!
Formats
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Drama of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his nymphomaniac sister."--Container.
Formats
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way.
8) 1941
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs. 26 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
Series
Fox film noir volume 4
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Sandy Dawson has assembled a platoon of ex-Army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his beautiful mistress. But Spanier's behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion high above the ancient city of Tokyo."--Container
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
11) Caddyshack II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The members of the Bushwood Country Club still insist that only a privileged few are permitted to walk miles in the sun while wearing silly pants and whacking a little ball from hole to hole. Blue-collar millionaire Jack Hartounian is concerned more with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (261 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In The naked gun, Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. In Top secret, an American rock star teams up with the daughter of a scientist to find the scientist before he creates the ultimate weapon, in this spoof of war epics and Elvis films. In Airplane, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as...