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Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1944, [p2009?]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One day in 1872, Susie Graham is making beds at her mother's Leaping Rock, Nevada, boarding house. The next day, she's a millionaire's wife. That millionaire is Major Augustus Parkington, a dashing financial buccaneer who sweeps Susie away to a Fifth Avenue mansion and a life of privilege and power. The story begins with Susie as the 84-year-old family matriarch and flashes back to decades of passion, breakups, reconciliations, losses, laughs, schemes...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1959
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abel is a political fugitive seeking gold in South America to fund his revenge against his father's assassins. Imprisoned by natives, he's told to enter the forbidden forest & kill Rima, an innocent whom the Indians think is an evil spirit. Abel & Rima are drawn to each other & start a quest of their own, but destiny awaits them.
Series
Language
English
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blow"), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown"), and the legendary Jerry Lewis ("The King of Comedy," "Cinderfella"), headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town. Fleeing personal problems to pursue their dreams, they come to learn something about themselves and their relationships with the others around them. The New York...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen version.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.
6) Deathtrap
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
After seeing his latest play fail on opening night, Sidney Bruhl receives a promising manuscript from one of his students, Clifford Anderson. Sidney and his wife Myra lure Clifford to their East Hampton home for the weekend where they plan to murder him and steal his manuscript.
Series
Language
English
Description
The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funnyside up when mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith are on a caper. Vinnie's got smooth moves, a swank wardrobe and a mean dance step. His identity, home and lawn mower are new, but he's still the same: a guy with an eternal scam. That makes overseer Barney a guy with a huge headache.
10) Nothing sacred
Language
English
Description
An over-eager newspaper reporter hot on the trail of a story ends up falling in love with his subject. But when her story turns out false, everyone goes beyond simple truth-bending to save face!
11) Born to be wild
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A short nature documentary that examines the lives of orphaned orangutans and elephants because of poaching and habitat encroachment and follows the efforts of individuals who work to rescue, rehabilitate, and return these animals to the wild. Originally produced as a documentary film for IMAX in 2011.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1904 Morocco, European powers desire a foothold in the Arab world -- and [desert chieftain] Raisuli is determined to stir up tribal fury against them. So he kidnaps an American widow ... and her children, igniting a chain of events that include President Theodore Roosevelt ... wielding the big stick of foreign policy"--Container.
13) Stage fright
Series
Language
English
Description
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help.
15) Demon seed
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a scientist and his wife separate so he can work on a biological supercomputer, the computer takes over his house and his wife. Follow Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor.
17) The good earth
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A western remake of the 1941 film noir High Sierra. Joel McCrea plays veteran outlaw Wes McQueen (Humphrey Bogart in the original) who escapes from jail and hopes to pull off one last big train robbery. McQueen doesn't care for his new partners -- except perhaps Colorado Carson (Virginia Mayo), a dance-hall girl who may be the only person who genuinely cares about his well-being. McQueen, meanwhile, also has eyes for Julie Ann (Dorothy Malone), who...
19) The abdication
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sweden's Queen Christina shares a forbidden love with a cardinal and abdicates her throne when she converts to Catholicism.
20) Beat the devil
Series
Publisher
American Pop Classics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a steamer needs to be repaired, six people are stranded en route to Africa where they are secretly trying to buy land with uranium deposits.
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