Michael Curtiz
Series
Language
English
Description
Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
4) Casablanca
Series
AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
"Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo ... whose only hope is Rick Blaine ... a cynical American...
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
My man Godfrey: A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
Life with father: Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800's.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Francis Bernardone, son of a wealthy cloth merchant, after hearing the voice of Jesus speak to him, had a radical conversion from a worldly man of adventure to a life devoted to Christ lived in Gospel simplicity and service to the poor.
Language
English
Description
In this historical drama, Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern cavalryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas where they must battle the abolitionist John Brown. This experience causes them to examine their personal feelings about slavery.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
16) The Sea Hawk
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1] Autumn sonata: A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
[Disc 2] Anastasia: An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
[Disc 3] Gaslight: Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband....
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connolly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jailhouse rock (b&w, 1957, 96 min.): A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. While behind bars he takes up singing and is helped in the record business by a beautiful young woman.
King Creole (b&w, 1958, 115 min.): A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
G.I. blues (1960, 103 min.): An Oklahoma singer gets out of...