Gary Cooper
Author
Language
English
Description
A drifter and soldier-of-fortune Mr. Morgan (Gary Cooper) washes up on a Pacific Island that is a small dictatorial state under the puritanic rule of Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones), a missionary. They conflict big time, but Morgan stays on and carves out a cozy life after a lot of confrontations, fighting and more. A Gary Cooper Classic in Technicolor!
Author
Language
English
Description
A ravishing adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's legendary novel, A FAREWELL TO ARMS stars Gary Cooper (High Noon) as Lt. Frederic Henry, a young ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, more interested in chasing women than the enemy. When seeking cover during an air raid, he encounters Nurse Catherine Barkley (a radiant Helen Hayes), and the world shifts under his feet. They fall in love, but the war keeps wrenching them apart. These painful separations...
Author
Language
English
Description
Clint, a young frontier scout helps guide a wagon train heading across the country to California. Along the way, the group faces dangerous trails, crooked traders, and fighting tribes who plan an attack. Not everyone may survive the journey.
1931 Hollywood Pre-Code Classic
Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall)...
7) Ball of Fire
Author
Language
English
Description
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
12) The Westerner
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wandering cowboy rides into a Texas border town and alone faces the guns of the self-appointed, ruthless men who dispense justice, including the infamous "Judge" Roy Bean.
13) Man of the west
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the train he is on gets robbed, Link Jones finds himself unwillingly reunited with his old gang. Dock Tobin, the gang's sadistic, half-crazed patriarch, was like a father to Link some twenty years past and welcomes him back. To survive, Link must take up his old ways--his killing ways.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (192 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Farewell to Arms (1932): An American ambulance driver in the Italian Army in WWI falls in love with a British nurse. Meet John Doe (1941): Depression era story about a man down on his luck who is thrown into the public arena by unscrupulous forces.
15) The fountainhead
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, black and white. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lou Gehrig, the Yank's great first baseman and the son of poor immigrants, rose to heights of baseball fame -- only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable disease known as ALS.
18) The hanging tree
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Skull Creek, a 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just plain decent folks. As skilled with a six-gun as with a scalpel, Frail will need both.
19) Select anthems
Author
Publisher
CRD
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brigadier General Billy Mitchell is court-martialed after campaigning to build an armed Air Force against the will of his superiors in the Army Air Service. A true story of the most sensational military trial in America's history.