Shelley Winters
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear...
5) Harper
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
Language
English
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Description
Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old daughter. She writes about the remarkable account of their...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and Stewart's own murderous brother.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005, 1968]
Language
English
Description
A crusty, frontier-wise fur trapper loses his hard-earned cargo of pelts to a band of "friendly" Kiowas in exchange for a runaway slave they have captured. The educated, city-bred runaway is as determined to get his freedom as the trapper is to get his furs back. Enter a band of marauding scalphunters and all hell breaks loose.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
The Night of the Hunter -- incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed -- is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
12) Alfie
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Alfie is what you'd call an unrepentant womanizer. He is a limo driver working in New York City, which, of course, provides him ample opportunity to continue his womanizing ways. That is until reality slaps him in the face. His carnality eventually gets in the way, and he decides to change his wondering ways.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frosty's winter wonderland: Frosty the Snowman's marriage is threatened by jealous Jack Frost. 'Twas the night before Christmas: Albert Mouse calls Christmas "a fraudulent myth" and intercepts letters to Santa Claus.
15) Jury duty
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Pauly Shore stars in this comedy of disorder in the court as a jobless freeloader who gets appointed to a sensational murder trial and will stop at nothing to keep deliberations going as long as possible.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For the job only, he'll put his racism...
17) The tenant
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Somebody up there likes me, is the inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Cool hand Luke has prison loner Luke Jackson wining the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
In Harper, hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
In The Mackintosh man, Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's...
19) The big knife
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle has it all ... except a way out. When he tries to leave show business, his tyrannical studio boss Stanley Hoff blackmails him with a lethal, covered-up secret that could land him in jail. A loose-lipped starlet also knows too much, and when she starts talking, Hoff plans murder."--Container.
20) Pete's dragon
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A 9-year old boy and his pet dragon (invisible to all but him) run away from his foster parents.