Franz Waxman
1) Stalag 17
Language
English
Description
Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A slovenly housewife is coping with her drunken ex-chiropractor husband when both their lives take a dramatic turn when the take in a charming, youthful boarder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A respected doctor fakes his death, deserts his family, throws away his career and drives himself to the edge of madness, all for the love of saloon singer Nora Prentiss.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drama about the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's heroic struggle with polio and his attempts to re-enter politics after a crippling attack.
9) Rear window
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries, becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors while confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg. When he suspects that a salesman may have murdered his nagging, invalid wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his stunning socialite girlfriend to investigate the suspicious chain of events.
10) Dark passage
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Standard format ; single sided.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
11) The unsuspected
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband." -- container.
12) Mr. Skeffington
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the prelimanary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fanny clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
13) Rear Window
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], ©1954
Edition
Collector's ed., widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. booklet.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events ... Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
16) Sunset Blvd
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad,...
17) Three comrades
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A poignant love story centered around the lives of three young, disillusioned returned soldiers caught up in the turmoil of post-World War I Germany. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis
18) Peyton place
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
19) Sayonara
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1957
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American Air Force major on leave in Japan after the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese actress. When they declare their love openly, they find themselves scorned equally by both the Japanese and Americans.
20) Chiller
Author
Publisher
Telarc
Pub. Date
℗1989
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None