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Recalls the adventures of Katharine Hepburn, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall during the grueling, on-location filming of The African Queen which prove to be as entertaining and unforgettable as the film classic itself. Includes 45 behind the scenes photos. Hepburn recalls her experience of making this popular film, revealing her emotional highs and lows during the filming, her competitiveness, and her insecurities.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (1059 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
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Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hepburn hosts this glorious salute. Featuring clips from Captains Courageous, Bad Day at Black Rock, Adam's Rib and other Tracy hits alongside reminiscenses from Frank Sinatra, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor and more great stars. The Spencer Tracy Legacy follows Tracy's stellar career.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
10) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Norman Thayer, a cranky but loveable old man, is preoccupied with death, afraid of losing his faculties, & emotionally distant from his daughter.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1956 autobiograpy, this film depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating under drug addiction, alcoholism, and imminent death.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A famous political commentator and a crass sports reporter at the same newspaper can't stand each other, until they fall in love.
14) The Trojan women
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
"After their ten-year siege, the victorious Greek army seeks to curse those Trojans whom fate has yet spared. Separated from their children, denied their mourning and destined for slavery the women of fallen Troy huddle within the parched wreckage of their once glorious city. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately...
15) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does -- with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
16) Pat and Mike
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman athlete of enormous promise in the worlds of both tennis and golf is pursued by a shady promoter, who hopes to make her famous and make some money in the process.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Behind the great stone walls of an English castle, the world's most powerful empire is in crisis. Three sons struggle to win their father's favor and his crown. King Henry II and his queen, Eleanor, engage in a battle of royal wits that pits elder son Richard against his brothers John and Geoffrey. At the same time, the cunning King Philip of France takes advantage of the internal fracturing in his bid to destroy their kingdom
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agnes, as domineering and sarcastic as her husband Tobias is equivocating and guarded, finds her empty nest invaded by her alcoholic sister, their divorced daughter, and friends who are terrified of being alone for unknown reasons.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
20) Adam's rib
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
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