Denholm Elliott
Series
Language
English
Description
The rich Duke Brothers wager on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and would a prig like Winthorpe turn to a life of crime if he were to lose it all.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. is launching a major naval operation in the South Pacific in the spring of 1942, and to ensure the battle plans remain secret, a Japanese radio installation must be destroyed. To accomplish this task, an American officer is ordered by his commander to join a squad of British misfits on a suicide mission against the facility.
6) Bleak House
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
"At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle,...
7) Zulu dawn
Publisher
Tango Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This story recounts the defeat of the British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army.
Publisher
Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location in a small Welsh village, this video celebrates the wonders of a childhood Christmas when on Christmas Eve, Old Geraint shares his heartwarming stories and memories with his beloved grandson, Thomas.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
12) The cruel sea
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Commander Ericson and his crew find they are fighting not only the Germans, but the age-old enemy, the sea, in this World War II action drama.
Series
Complete adventures of Indiana Jones volume chapter 25
Publisher
Paramount [Home Video]
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Harrison Ford dons his rumpled fedora for the third time as Indiana Jones, and Sean Connery joins the thrill-a-minute fun as Indy's feisty dad. The Joneses set out to find the mystically-empowered Holy Grail and encounter so many spectacular pursuits and narrow escapes that this movie is more than the culmination of Indy's exploits. Includes an interview with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Harrison Ford following the feature film.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In Raiders of the lost ark, archaeologist-cum-soldier of fortune, Indiana Jones gets pitted against Nazis hoping to locate and seize the Biblical Ark of the Covenant -- an artifact of immeasurable value and the reputed source of unlimited power. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, after barely escaping a raging Shanghai nightclub brawl, Indy crash-lands into the wilds of India where he undercovers a sinister scheme that has enslaved a remote...
15) The razor's edge
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The adaptation of the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham of a World War I veteran disillusioned by jazz-age values. A WW I veteran breaks off his engagement to Isabel and sets out on a journey that takes him through the trenches of WW I, the Himalayas of India, and Paris.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
17) Hard times
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
Ã2009.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
Publisher
Source One Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Laura Lansing slept here: "Katherine Hepburn stars as Laura Lansing, a world-famous novelist who faces crisis when her publisher claims she has lost touch with her readers. Faced with retirement, Lansing agrees to live with a typical family for seven days or give up writing forever."
Nobody's child: "Marlo Thomas portrays Marie Balter in this true story about the resilience of the human spirit. Abandoned as an infant, Balter endures abuse by foster...
19) September
Publisher
Orion Home Video
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
During late September, in Vermont, a group of people gather for a quiet week-end. But by the end of the week-end their hopes, dreams and fears are exposed, and the thin threads that hold their lives together are bared.