Clark Gable
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English
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When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story.
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English
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Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
Publisher
Madacy Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Angel and the badman: After being wounded during a bank robbery, Quirt Evans falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the Quaker family who takes him in.
Abilene town: Based on the Ernest Haycox novel Trail town, deals with tension between homesteaders and cattle ranchers in post-Civil War Abilene, Kansas.
Under California stars: While Roy Rogers is about to perform a radio broadcast celebrating a decade in the movies, rogue horse traders kidnap...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This documentary juxtaposes newsreel footage, film clips and period music in an eye-opening look at the Great Depression. Many of the movies created in the 1930s featured strong social commentary, while others offered pure escapism and fed a fascination with a dazzling world out of reach to the everyday American. Through a contrast between the fantasy of film and the reality of everyday life, a fascinating perspective on the Great Depression and Hollywood's...
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English
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Description
In 1789, the English ship H.M.S. Bounty begins a two-year mission. The ship travels to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit plants that will provide cheap food for slaves in the West Indies, the Bounty's final destination. The captain is William Bligh, a vicious taskmaster who doesn't flinch at giving two dozen lashes to any malcontent on board, for the most minor of infractions. The first mate is Lt. Fletcher Christian, who despises Bligh but has somehow...
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Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A dramatized story of the 351st Bomber Group of the United States Army Air Forces, from its training in Colorado to a mission over Germany. Portrays the crews and gunners at a base in England and on a mission. Includes combat footage.
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
(Painted Desert) Two cowboys, Cash and Jeff, find a baby in a deserted camp. They proceed into a bitter feud over which of the two is going to raise the boy. Many years later, Bill, the boy, has grown up in the home of Cash, but he extends a peaceful gesture to Jeff, who has continued to harbor resentment over the baby. However, during a mining venture, the feud escalates, and Bill is forced to take sides. (MovieTime / C & C Television Corp., 1931).
(Hittin'...
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An expatriated American, undisputed ruler of Hong Kong's waterfront, a man with a checkered past and a shady present, helps a woman in the search for her photo-journalist husband who has recently disappeared in China.
11) San Francisco
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Blackie Norton is a gambler with a big heart, and Father Tim Mullin is Blackie's childhood friend. Nob Hill snob Jack Burley, vies with Blackie for the attentions of beauty Mary Blake.
14) The tall men
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Allison brothers, Ben and Clint, are ex-Confederate soldiers now trying their hands at robbery. But one attempt to get rich quick leads them into the company of Nathan Stark, a Texas cattle baron with a huge herd to get to market. Along the dangerous journey both bullets and fists are flying as these rough and ready cowpokes take on anything standing in their way, while Ben and Nathan compete for Nella's affection.
15) Boom town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In search of black-gold fortunes, two men will dream, scheme and team up to become rich. Things between the friends get rough, as one man steals the love of a woman from the other.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Thornton is an adventurer who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog with the strenght of his part-wolf ancestry, Jack's luck changes. A winning $1,000 bet on Buck's stamina is only the first of the rewards that his friendship with the canine will bring. When the pair, along with Jack's friend Shorty, happen upon a woman who's lost her husband in the wild they begin their greatest adventure yet in this rousing...
17) The Misfits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
18) Mogambo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Of course Linda Stanhope trusts her husband Van. Their marriage is based on love and respect. Who cares if Van's secretary has the face of an angel and the body of a chorus girl? Who says a blonde bombshell can't type and take dictation? But people are whispering. And when Linda calls Van's hotel room late at night during his solo business trip to Havana, guess who answers.--Container
20) Teacher's pet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A school-of-hard-knocks newspaperman who despises journalism schools is forced by his boss to visit a night school journalism class. Smitten by the course's lovely professor, he enrolls masquerading as a novice and soon becomes her prize pupil, all the while trying to make her his own prize.